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Aftercare is the part of treatment with the most evidence behind it and the least attention paid to it. Here is what a real plan contains.

A field full of unevidenced wellness claims contains one approach with a real randomised trial behind it. What it found, and what it did not.

There is a name in the research for the assets that keep someone well, and it explains why two people leaving the same programme have such different years.

Travel strips out every structure at once and adds the events where drinking is most expected. What to plan before the trip is booked.

The practical, unglamorous business of the first months at home — what the household should expect, and what quietly determines whether it holds.

The dangerous period is not during treatment. It is the weeks immediately after, and there are specific mechanisms behind that which can be planned for.

The return to work reintroduces every stressor at once, in the period the research identifies as highest risk. What to plan before the first Monday.

More than one, and that is the ordinary case rather than a failure. What the population research found about how many tries it actually takes, and how many people get there.

A sponsor, a therapist and a sober companion do genuinely different jobs. The difference is not seniority or cost — it is presence, and when it is available.

Thirty days of structure end on a Tuesday morning. What replaces it is usually nothing, and that gap is where a large share of relapses happen.