An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by family and friends to get a family member, friend, or loved one to seek help for an addiction or other similar problems. When one has tried everything possible to inspire or convince their loved one that they need help, but they will not admit into a program, an addiction intervention program is a successful tool in helping you help your loved one escape from the grips of denial, rationalization and projection.
By approaching them from a place of love and compassion, with help facilitated by a addiction interventionist, you will be helping them understand the problem that they have and that a treatment program is needed. Using a professional interventionist will not only ensure that you have taken the appropriate approach, but will also give you peace of mind knowing that you have expressed your love and concern in a professional, impacting, and very effective manner.
Addiction Intervention Process
An intervention is a very strategic process that must be facilitated and properly executed by an addiction intervention specialist to ensure desired results. In order to effectively perform a substance intervention, an intervention team will be established and then thoroughly prepared with the information required for attaining success. All parties involved will understand the purpose, process and techniques of the intervention.
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- User, Abuser, and Dependent: What's the Difference?User, abuser, and dependent. You've heard these words before in the context of alcohol addiction, drug addiction, or gambling addiction. What are their differences?
- Addiction DefinitionAddiction is also classified as a progressive disease. This means that the habit will only intensify as time goes on if nothing or nobody intervenes with the addiction.
- Intervention FAQsHere are some of the most common questions that families often ask about an intervention, whether for drug, alcohol, or substance addiction.
I guess this website is only for teaching and not to give help. I’ve lived with my husband for almost 30 years and he’s been an alcoholic every one of those years but he’s always been a great provider…but now due to a medical injury I became a paraplegic and he has lost his job and refuses to find another job. He drinks from the time he wakes up until he goes to bed as well as other substance abuse.
I need help. My daughter just graduated from college and believe it or not, is a substance abuse counselor. But she can’t get involved in our case…she can’t counsel her family. She has tried though, we have both talked till we are blue in the face. I am unable to leave and leave him on his own. Because he will not work we are sinking financially and he won’t talk or help me. He walks away when I try to talk to him about it. Because we don’t have the money anymore I am lacking in medical equipment I need. I can not get the rehab I desperately need. If we had the income I could possibly be getting rehab that I need and could possibly be walking today. I also have major dental problems that needs attention but we don’t have the money.
I need help!!! He has a heart of gold and I know he loves me but something has to change. I cant see myself living like this for the rest of my life. It’s gotta change!
My name is Chelsie. I have recently broken up with my boyfriend because of his addiction. He is a very respected man. His name is Jon; he is a paramedic, EMT and CPR teacher. We live in South Dakota; on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. I am writing because he is an amazing man who has made great progress for his people. His addiction is keeping him from continuing on a positive path for him and his people. He is addicted to injecting pain pills. He has lied to me ever since we met, I have seen the scars and marks but he continued to lie. He has gone far enough to use other parts than just his arms. He needs this, his family needs this and so does his tribe. He is a very respected man and he has a lot to offer to the world. Way to intelligent to throw it all away. He helps people for a living and has seen some awful situations in his life; PTSD is a huge factor in his addiction. I’ve tried to help and his father won’t mention it to him because he doesn’t want to “rock the boat” (his words not mine). We need help up here. Email: cdeckard11@gmail.com.
how do i get the intervention team to intervene with my step father?
how do i get the intervention team to intervene with my step father?
My name is Jessica. I am writing in concern for my children’s father. I grew up with him in high school and never knew who he really was until we decided to get together. We have battled his addiction off and on for four years. When I found out he was abusing pills I never knew how really bad it was till about three times we tried to admit him in to rehab. Now we have been split up for almost three years and found out he was doing heroin and meth. He has disappeared for about a year before and is in and out of the kids life. Every time he decides to come back around he is always trying to say he is better but everyone knows he is not. He will fight with me and his family about how he is sober then find out he is not. I do not know what to do anymore. Our son is always wondering were he is and why he came for a day or so and disappears for awhile. I have battled with him with his addiction and now battled with our kids for him. I will never tell the kids why he is the way he is I always tell them he is working out of town or he is sick and does not feel good. I am so tired of my kids hurting not understanding and I will never tell them no matter how much they think it is my fault, they are way to young. I have no idea what to do anymore. When he comes back around he fights with me how he should take the kids or they should stay the night. Then he will ask them if they want to stay the night and of course they want to go because they miss him and he will make it seem like its my fault in front of the kids why they can not stay with him, then I have to deal with it when me and the kids go home. Sometimes I wish he would just stay out of the lkids life so he will stop hurting them but I know the need there dad. There dad can be a really good person he has just decided to go down the wrong path please help us!
Hi there I have a daughter that is on heroin she only 20 yrs old and is really in bad shape she has almost died on us we had to rush her to the hospital that was the most scariest day of my life. She is the youngest of 4 of my children, at this point we don’t know what to do, she has been done a detox and went to program and lasted almost 90 days, she was so happy the whole family was there for her, but she relapsed. She is doing so bad that we don’t know what to do anymore it’s breaking the family apart we all love her so much and want her to get help she is willing to but we don’t have the money to put her in a program that would be a long term and that would help her, she is a beautiful person and is willing to help anyone, outside the drug we just want help for my daughter before something happens to her. I don’t want to have to bury my daughter she’s suppose to bury me. She has a whole life ahead of her, she has a niece and a nephew that love her but she’s never around to able to enjoy them, she loves them very much. So we desperately ask for your help in getting my little baby girl back, Please help us. Thank You.
Hi. My name is Melinda and we seriously need an intervention for my 52 yr old brother. He is a last stage alcoholic and I need help. He has been living off of my 75 yr old mothr and myself for about 10 yrs in and out of jail. I have four little girls. He drinks multiple bottles of listerine and vodka daily. He will steal lie or cheat to get it. He has robbed us numerous times and without us is homeless. He was a master electrician at one time and has not hi ing but the clothes I on his back. He has had us evicted more than four times and mo one can help us get him help. He is mean and evil when he gets messed up on the listerine and has absolutely nothing left. Please help us. I dont km ow what else to do. My youngest daughter is special meeds and my mother who also lives with us has Alzheimer’s disease. I can m o longer deal with his addiction and my mother can not deal with it either. Please help us. We need an intervention that will work because he is slowly killing himself and we are sitting here watxhit him do it. Please help . Us.
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Hello, my name is Annette and I am writing in concern with my baby brother Anthony, he has revealed to one of my sisters that he is abusing cocaine and to me he has confessed using heroin. He is 26 years old and has his whole life ahead of him and we all fear for him due to the fact that he has lost 2 really good jobs in the course of less than 5 months due to his addiction, he has alienated himself from the family and at times speaks very ignorantly of leaving and not speaking to any of us again, he speaks obscenely to all of us and has even gotten physical with some of us in the past, we have reached out because we now fear for his life, he has threatened to kill himself and we fear he will hurt himself under the influence of the drugs, we would absolutely feel in debt with the shows producers if we could have you guys step in and help us with our brother, our economical statuses do not allow us to help him, we live in Puerto Rico but he moved to New Jersey to get his life together and it has just gotten worse, so we desperately ask for your help, we want our sweet little Anthony back, please help us!!
Hola, nada en la vida sería más maravilloso que pudiesen ayudar a mi hermano, el es adicto al alcohol, toma desde los 12 años y ya tiene 46, ha estafo en anexos y no le han ayudado, ha sido suspendido del trabajo muchas veces, tiene 3 hijos y el mayor se droga y no ha podido hacer nada co su vida…el mediano toma y vive co. El…ahora haces esas cosas juntos….me da mucha tristeza ver como ha sido su vida y le pido adiós le de una oportunidad más, mi padres se están consumiendo por su causa….los pone mal verle y saber que no hace nada por dejar esa adicción…el no acepta que tiene un problema…..no acepta que el alcohol le ha traído todas las desgracias que ha vivido. Mi hermano lo amo y lo extraño…ya que ahora es alguien completamente extraño a lo que conocía. Dios quiera y tenga suerte, sería tremendo poder darle una oportunidad…con la ayuda de Dios todo se puede. Muchas gracias y gracias por convertir corazones y dar esperanza de vida. Dios con uds.
Atte. Evely Ibarra