7 Tips to Help You Stay Sober After Addiction Treatment

Dara Laine Murray
6 min readJan 9, 2023

Addiction treatment is meant to help you kick substance abuse and stay sober. However, many people find that after addiction treatment, they’re more likely to relapse than before they entered rehab. Even though you may have completed a 30-day program or even 90 days of inpatient rehab, it takes time for the brain and body to fully recover from years of drug use.

If you’ve been released from treatment or are thinking about going into recovery soon, there are steps you can take now to help increase your odds of staying sober long-term.

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Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety