When we talk about addiction intervention it is when we are helping someone with an addiction to drugs or alcohol and the problem is affecting the quality of their life and the emotions of their loved ones. To learn about addiction intervention it is important to understand that the problem with addicts and alcoholics is not necessarily drugs or alcohol, it is actually their solution. The problem is actually the person; drugs and alcohol become the
coping mechanism that becomes a problem. The purpose of addiction intervention is to get your loved one accountable for their addiction and off of drugs and alcohol so we can bring them to treatment. The primary focus of an addiction intervention is to get them to willingly accept help so the substance abuser can replace their solution of drugs and alcohol with a more positive and effective solution found in a residential treatment center. An addiction intervention does not teach addicts and alcoholics how to drink successfully, how to stop using drugs, or how to just quit, they are designed to get the substance abuser accountable for their actions, responsible for their behaviors, and willing to accept help from the family. Addiction intervention then delivers the substance abuser to a treatment center were they can begin working on themselves. Although your loved one will be changing by entering treatment it is as important that the family learn from the addiction intervention so they educate themselves on how to change their enabling behaviors so the substance abuser has a higher chance of success.
Addiction Intervention Program
It would be quite simple if an addiction intervention program ended with the substance abuser accepting help,going to treatment, and then everything went back to normal. It could be this simple if everybody followed the instructions of an addiction intervention program. The reality is, addiction is a family problem that affects all people involved. Remember, the addiction is not anything the family caused nor is it anyone in the families fault, however unless all people in the family agree to change direction, the cycle of insanity is more likely to repeat. Initially most families do not think about family addiction intervention program as something that they need. In reality an addiction intervention program benefits the family just as much if not more than the addict or alcoholic. The family gets well from education learned and closure provided by the addiction intervention, your loved one will get better in treatment. Our focus on the family day of the addiction intervention program is to bring all of the family on the same page and to start peeling back the layers of the unhealthy family system created by the addict or alcoholic. If families were all on the same page and all in exact agreement as to how to handle the substance abuser, addiction intervention would be much easier to perform. Addiction intervention is not as easy as some counselor coming in to inspire your loved one into treatment, you can have just about anybody do that. It is about getting the substance abuser to treatment and keeping them there. How many times have we seen a substance abuser look everyone in the eye and say “This time I am serious” only to see them fail a short time later. The sad reality is, at that moment in time your loved one actually means it.
About Addiction Intervention
Substance abusers sell families hope and at the same time sell themselves complacency. The reason a family must change through addiction intervention is so that no matter what happens, the family protects itself from being emotionally destroyed by their loved one again. How many times does an addict or alcoholic look the family in the eye and say “I will never drink again” and they do. How many times has a family let their loved one do their own form of treatment only because they were sincere when they said “I will go to meetings” or “I will go see someone” and it fails. Again, sometimes with the best of intentions the substance abuser is sincere, however not strong enough to beat the addiction themselves. Families need to consider addiction intervention not just for the substance abuser but for themselves. Addiction is the only problem that is 100% fatal and at the same time 100% treatable. If you are waiting for them to hit bottom because some uneducated counselor told you to do, that let us remind you that bottom for any substance abuser is jail, institutions, and death. When they tell you that you have to wait, that it is what you will be waiting for.