Recovery Coach Helps An Addict Resist Heroin's Lure [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/12/144:00 AM

Of patients addicted to heroin who are able to quit their habit, 40 to 60 percent relapse within the first year — often within the first weeks of finishing a treatment program, studies show.

Coaches in the Gosnold program get much more involved in the lives of the people they're mentoring than the typical sponsor in a Narcotics Anonymous program would.

The recovery coaches show patients "how to manage their emotions," says Wurzburg's coach, Kristoph Pydynkowski — "how to fill out job applications, how to go to meetings, how to take care of themselves, how to go back to school." Pydynkowski, who also calls himself a "cheerleader, a beacon of hope," quit using heroin seven years ago.

[For more of this story, written by Martha Bebinger, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/08/10/332352845/recovery-coach-helps-an-addict-resist-heroins-lure]

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