SHOULD AFTERCARE PROGRAMS BE IN DRUG ADDICTION SOCIAL REHABILITATION ?

Abstract

This study aims to provide answers to the high rate of relapse. The factors discussed so far regarding the relapse rate are interla factors, namely the client's self and external factors in the family environment that influence the client to return to using drugs after leaving the drug social rehabilitation center. The Therapeutic Community and Narcotic Anonymous models as well as aftercare programs that are studied as resident behavior changers are seen from behavioral psychology theory and the token economy theory (accumulating credit points) only forms a pseudo behavior change, where former users will only behave well if they feel supervised by counselors, workers social workers or assistants from social rehabilitation homes, and if there is no supervision, they will return to poor behavior using drugs/relapse. The research methodology is a phenomenology of qualitative descriptive research methods, the selection of informants is done by purposive sampling (consisting of key informants, main informants, additional informants), data collection is done by interviews and observations, data analysis techniques use content analysis. The results show that aftercare programs can be an alternative answer to the high number of relapse cases for drug addiction social rehabilitation centers that apply the Therapeutic Community (TC) model because the impact of the reinforcement it provides gives the impression of supervision that affects resident behavior.