Why training is not optional in drug and alcohol rehabilitation
Joining from Ukraine. I work at a rehabilitation centre outside Kyiv where people recovering from drug and alcohol dependence live together for about a year, and I want to share something this community will recognise better than most.
Physical training is not a nice extra in rehab. It is one of the few tools that works in the first weeks, when talking does almost nothing. A person who used for years has no relationship with his own body left: he does not feel hunger properly, does not feel tiredness, sleeps badly, and has not had a single honest physical effort in a long time. Morning exercise, running and the gym give that relationship back faster than any conversation.
Three things we see repeatedly. First, the body recovers visibly within weeks, and for a man who lost everything else, seeing his own arms change is often the first evidence that anything…
For anyone who wants the detail: we wrote up how the physical side is organised across the year, the four directions we use and why none of it is compulsory, here: https://ninarkotikam.com/ru/sportivnaya-reabilitatsiya/ The page is in Russian, browser translation handles it fine.