Relapse After Rehabilitation Among Substance Use Disorder: A Literature Review Analysis by Philosophy

Background: Substance use disorder is a global problem concern. Substance use disorders have a negative impact on individuals, family and societies. Many interventions have been carried out to overcome addiction. Rehabilitation is one of the measures to eliminate drug addiction, but relapse conditions are still high in drug users. Various recent studies explain factor causes drug use addiction and relapse substance use after rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to analyze factor contribution for relapse substance use disorder after rehabilitation.MethodThis study is a type of literature review research related to relapse substance use disorder obtained from databases: Sciencedirect, SAGE, Proquest, Scopus with keywords and booleans: "relapse prevention" AND group AND "substance use disorder", "self awareness" AND "substance use disorder", "self regulation" AND relapse AND "substance use disorder", "locus of control" AND relapse AND "substance use disorder". The articles in this review are limited to English - language articles from 2019-2024. PRISMA guidelines are used as a reference protocol and literature review evaluation. ResultThe results of the search found 11 articles that have been carried out by Literature Review with PICOS analysis, there are several factors that cause drug use disorders to become relapses, including internal and external risk factors, type of stimulant narcotic substances that have been used. The existence of risk factors and the protection obtained are categorized into three main domains: individual, family, and community factors.ConclusionThe high recurrence rate in drug user disorders is influenced by factors that exist in individual users and external factors that influence drug users to become relapses after the rehabilitation period. Further studies and alternative specific interventions are needed to inhibit the factors that cause drug user disorder relapse and strengthening protection factors so that they can remain in a healthy condition and abstain from using drugs after the rehabilitation period.