The Families and Relative’s Effort in Supporting the Treatment and Rehabilitation of the Youth That Support the Relapse Prevention

The main objective of the study was to assess the factors leading to relapse of substance abuse among the youth after their rehabilitation in Tanzania. Specifically the study sought to identify the families and relative’s effort in supporting the treatment and rehabilitation of the youth that support the relapse prevention. The study employed mixed research design and used different methods of data collection which included questionnaires that used to collect the data from the youth who had the history of using the substance abuse and relapse , the in-depth interview used to the total youth who were relapsed at the time of data collection , and Focus group Discussion(FGD) was used to collect the data from the parents and relatives of the youth and the staffs working at the rehabilitation centre at Methadone Assistant Treatment and the sober house. The youth who had the history of relapsed were (n) 80 and the youth who were total relapsed were (n) 20 .The findings showed that parents, relatives and other people in the community did not have any knowledge on substance abuse and relapse. Youth re-used the substance abuse due to family conflict, mistrust by family members, and availability of the drugs and lack of job. Thus the study proposes that after-care-programs should be established and organized to support the after being discharged from treatment and rehabilitation services.