One of the worst things that you can do during the initial period of alcohol recovery is not sleep. Insomnia, or even less than recommended sleep, is statistically correlated with greater relapse rates, and patients who report baseline insomnia before entering treatment are more likely to continue having sleep disturbance problems after treatment, and are far more likely to relapse back to alcohol abuse.
Sleep and recovery go hand in hand, and without appropriate sleep, the risks of relapse are high. This is problematic though, because a history of alcohol abuse can severely distort sleeping patterns, and there can be period of months or even years after abstinence during which your sleeping patterns are recovering from the legacy of alcohol abuse.
page last update Aug 05, 2010
