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Family Involvement
Back to the document's frontpageWhen present, family offers the strongest long term and aftercare support network to the recovering HIV or AIDS addicts, and the family benefits from inclusion into the rehabilitation process.
Because the community of HIV and AIDS patients may define family in a less traditional way, the inclusion of any people the addict considers to be family is appropriate.
Family education and therapy helps supporting family better understand the disease progression, the interaction of disease and substance abuse, and helps family to best support the addict in their goal of abstinence or harm reduction.
