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The present work aims to understand the importance of Aftercare for families in the post-treatment of addicted people. Addiction is considered a chronic, progressive, disabling and sometimes fatal disease. The World Health Organization (2004) considers addicted people to be all those who compulsively consume alcohol, licit or illicit drugs, gambling addiction, among others. The treatment of addiction in a therapeutic community requires the existence of a multidisciplinary team, qualified and committed to developing a set of articulated actions of direct and indirect intervention with a psychotherapeutic and sociotherapeutic objective to stop the physical, psychological and social impoverishment that addicted people have been through. subject during periods of consumption. Therapeutic communities are specialized units that provide care to addicted people in long-term hospitalization. The teams that carry out their intervention in the therapeutic community are mostly made up of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, among others. In this process, the social worker has an extremely important role in terms of knowledge about the patients' life history resulting from the interventions carried out with the addict and the family during treatment. After treatment, the patient and his family go to the Therapeutic Community to participate in Aftercare, with the aim of preventing the patient's relapse and learning and discussing strategies for dealing with the recovering addict. Carrying out Aftercare is the responsibility of the social worker and is structured from a biopsychosocial view of addiction. In this sense, the dimension of the analysis of the problem in question is to know the importance that families attribute to Aftercare. To carry out this work, a qualitative methodology was chosen, resorting to semi-structured interviews and focus groups as a data collection technique to content analysis as a data analysis technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]