Parental support and its relationship to reducing relapse among recovering addicts

         Many social factors contribute to the occurrence of relapse and relapse into addiction, The more complicated and difficult the addict's life is, and it has many problems and full of quarrels and pressures, the greater the chances of drug relapse occurring after and during treatment. Therefore, stress factors should be avoided and a sufficient recovery period should be obtained. The study aimed to determine The relationship between parental support and reducing relapse of recovering addicts, and the study concepts were identified in (the concept of parental support, the concept of relapse, the concept of recovering addicts), this study belongs to the type of descriptive analytical studies, and the social survey approach was relied on by comprehensive enumeration of recovering addicts. Assiut Department of Mental Health, and the research sample was identified in (150) recovering addicts, The tools of the study were defined in a knowledge data sheet, the parental support scale (Abdel-Wahhab, 2007), the relapse scale (prepared by the researcher), and the study found the validity of the main hypothesis, which states that "there is a statistically significant positive relationship between parental support and reducing relapse among recovering addicts" at a significant level of 0.01.