Executive Burnout: How to Safeguard Against Addiction Relapse

executive burnout

When it comes to addiction, one of the biggest things that we struggle with is in our efforts to really focus on finding solutions and in finding peace of mind and abstinence from even the most difficult and unpleasant of addiction struggles. As it stands right now, drug and alcohol addiction and substance abuse, in general, is definitely getting worse and worse in our country. Finding peace of mind and abstinence from the habit that is addiction takes a lot of work indeed. In fact, studies show that substance abuse is even more of a difficult problem now in the 21st century than it ever has been before, as evidenced by constant studies from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Trust for America’s Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many other professional research organizations.

Consider some of the following data produced from the above organizations:

  • According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, our country constantly struggles with different kinds of addiction issues and problems. How we address this is very important. As it stands today, substance abuse seems to be getting worse and worse with little to no sign of it ever going down.
  • Ultimately this is bad news for all of us, whether we are connected to addiction or not. It shows that our problem has all but taken over to a certain degree. For decades prior to the turn-of-the-century substance abuse by and large stayed the same.
  • Some years it was worse than others and certainly, the 1970s saw an increase in substance abuse but nothing like what is occurring now. Unfortunately, substance abuse does seem to be growing and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health calculated what this problem will be like in the year 2050 if it is allowed to continue to grow as it has.
  • Statistically speaking, currently there are about twenty-three million people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol in the country today. So, physically speaking, anywhere from 70,000 to 90,000 people die from substance abuse every year according to the NSDUH. If allowed to continue to grow at the current rate, there will be more than 55 million people addicted to drugs and alcohol and more than a quarter of one million people dying from these habits every year by the year 2050.
  • Obviously, when you look at the problem like this it shows us that we need to take more action to address substance abuse now, so we can try to leave a better future for the next generation. One of the biggest things we need to work on is the factor of relapse, which is when a person creates and maintains a level of sobriety and abstinence from substance abuse, but then loses it during a momentary recidivism back to drug use or alcohol abuse.

Executive Burnout

When we look at what causes relapse to occur, we often see that executive burnout plays a pretty big part here. Executive burnout symptoms tend to come up in the form of an executive in recovery simply being overworked and stressed out too much.

This is not to say that hard work should be frowned upon by any means, but sometimes executives who work hard and get burned out may find themselves slipping back towards substance abuse, or at least might find themselves heading in that direction. When this happens, executives need to do things like:

  • Get support from an aftercare group of fellow executives in recovery.
  • Take a break and take an hour or two off each day to relax and wind down.
  • Engage in a hobby or activity of personal interest to the person.
  • Go for a walk, run, jog, bike ride, drive, or find some other way of getting out and about and enjoying nature.
  • Get exercise at the gym or in some other way to get the blood flowing and the muscles working.

All of these are viable methods and ways to avoid burnout and to thusly avoid relapse. However, if an individual does relapse and needs executive drug rehab, Narconon Ojai is here to help. Narconon Ojai possesses the tools and the technologies necessary for helping people to fully escape the rehab trap, and for helping people to branch out physically and mentally and truly find permanent abstinence from substances.

Reach out today for more information. No one should have to suffer from a relapse and then feel as though there is no way for them to get help and get free from their habit once and for all and for good. Call today to take the first step towards a much better life.

AUTHOR

Jessica Bradham

Jessica is a Registered Drug and Alcohol Technician with a desire to help others find real solutions to the ever-growing problems associated with addiction.

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