Chemical dependency. Guidelines for the treatment of recovering chemically dependent dental patients

It left untreated chemical dependency is a fatal disease. Those people who are recovering from this disease must continually work on their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. We should bear in mind that even though there are many who have walked miles in this new way of life, there will be those who are just learning to walk. They may be fragile and require more attention than the others. Recovering persons are responsible for their own recovery, but we should be careful that through ignorance on our or the patients part, that we do not participate in an iatrogenic relapse of the disease condition.