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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- Intervention FAQsHere are some of the most common questions that families often ask about an intervention, whether for drug, alcohol, or substance addiction.
Need help with my brother and his addiction to drugs. We don’t know what to do any more I’m so scared for his life and my moms health too. He has stolen everything from my parents, there’s times when he gets to violent with my mom calls her every bad named there is. My dad blames everything on my mom and does nothing to help with my brother all he does is scream at my mom, my brother tells my mom if he kicks him out his going to kill himself and that is going to be her fault, there was a time when he slept with knives under his pillow. We don’t have founds to get someone to help us, my brother refuses to get help. Please help I don’t know what to do is affecting all of us in so many ways.
Hi! My name is Rachelle. I have been on some sort of pain medication since my accident in 1994. I started out on Vicodin, then went and got on Methadone from 1998 till 2000, I had to go and detox off 120mg a day, I survived, but thought I was really going to die, when released the Dr. told me to go get on suboxone , so I did, then the Dr. that was giving me that got shut down, so I did find another Dr. that put me on Oxycodone and Opana ER. I am still on that, I know I have Disc Degenerative Disease with 6 hern. disc, and I know I could be on something that is not a narcotic to control the pain, but I need help
Hello my name is Sarah Leaman. I am a recovering addict of pain pills. I have been clean for almost two years now. I recently had a baby boy in August of 2013. I am writing to get help for my mother. My mother is 55 years old and abuses pain pills. My mom has high blood pressure and problems breathing. I am afraid these health problems were caused from abusing pain pills. She doesn’t come over and see me or my child and we live in the same neighborhood 10 steps away. She use to be the ideal grandmother to my niece and nephews before she started using. She has to have a roommate to help with rent and bills because all of her money goes to pills. More than ever I am concerned with her health. My mother is so in-denial about her addiction that I don’t know know what to do anymore. Please please help me. I don’t know where else to turn.
Hi my name is skylar I have a little sister that is 17 and addicted to LSD pills alcohol and anything else she can get her hands on she will take I’m afraid of loosing her to this her and her boyfriend do them together please contact me at skylaradon@icloud.com or 5732539495 please help me before she gets in trouble again or ends up dead at a friends house of hers. she is violent when she’s drinking also black out and won’t remember anything the next day her boyfriend zack has punched her in the face has dumped gas on our passed away fathers stuff that was in the army I really need someone to back me up I can’t do this on my own again
Hi my name is Karina i am 20 and need help asap I am addicted to crystal meth and alcohol and have been for years now I’m tired of this lifestyle I wanna change n need help I’m tired of hurting my family
Did you ever get help? Meth is really hard to get off of, but it’s possible.
I am concerned about my sister. She has everything that life could offer but she is very depressed so she drinks and has become an alcoholic. She uses the phone when she is drunk curses all of her friends and family. She fights her husband and threatens to kill him. I have lost 5 siblings and I am afraid for her. She is a diabetic and goes on drinking sometimes 3 to 4 days a week. She takes depression pills but still drinks. My dad was an alcoholic, therefore none of us can drink socially. Three other siblings are/were alcoholics. What can I do to help her? Please help me so I don’t lose another sibling.
Hi my name is Barbara and I am a recovering addict that has been clean now for a year of of heroin and prescription pain pills. I am looking to get help for my best friend Kelly who is addicted to heroin. She claims that she wants to get help but can not afford it and she does not have insurance. Although when the subject of her getting clean comes up she gets very defensive and also claims that she “needs” to get high because she has her fiancee’s mother and sick uncle (who are both addicted to pain killers) living with them and the only way that she can deal with them is to get high. A typical excuse for an addict considering most addicts don’t take responsibility for their addiction or actions. Most everyone in her family are addicted to heroin. I am so scared that she is going to kill herself or someone else. She gets high all the time and drives with her 4 year old daughter in the car while she is nodding out behind the wheel! She has gotten into a few car accidents where luckily no one was injured but I’m scared that the next one may take someone’s life. I have not really spent to much time with her in the last year because since I got clean I don’t want to be around the drugs or around her while she is high, but I also don’t want to give up on her! She really is a great person! I fear for her 4 year old daughters life for a couple of reasons but the biggest reason is that, Kelly uses in front of her daughter all the time. Last year before I stopped hanging out with her at her house, Kelly had put her heroin on a plate with a razor blade and a straw and placed it on her dresser unsupervised and went outside. When she went back in to get her next fix everything was gone, plate and all! She tore her room apart when she finally found the plate and razor and straw but her heroin was wet and out of a gram there was maybe enough for one line left. I was hoping that maybe it just spilled but after looking at her daughters face, she has heroin all over it and her nose!!! Kelly would not call 911 in fear that she would go to jail and have her daughter taken away! I was so scared for her daughter I was in tears! So after that day is when I stopped going over there because I could not watch her abuse herself and further more her daughter anymore! She is in desperate need of a wake up call and help but I can’t do it alone!!!! Please can someone help me before I have to bury my best friend or worse….bury her innocent 4 year old daughter!!!!! Thank you sincerely Barbara Miller
Call 911 if that little girl dies its on you. You enable by sitting back and watching that abuse. Call give her the wake up call please don’t allow an innocent child to live like that call your local child protective services. I have been through this with my own sister they choose to live like that that little girl did not choose this. I plead with you call you don’t want their death on your conscience!!
She will have to get rid of all of her friends and family to become clean first off! It took me years to learn this! I always tried to keep my drug addict friends and try to get clean and wondered why it was not working! Now I have been clean for two years and am not attracted to people that do drugs in any way and see that was one thing I should have done sooner! Me moving a couple counties away helped a ton also!
I did not see the bottom half of your letter! I would definitely rat her out for the sake of that child! You would be saving her life! She has no choice but her mother does and do not think it will not happen to her because it is a big possibility!
How about a person who I’d addicted…reaching and screaming for help to gain control over the addiction and personal growth? Oh…guess that wouldn’t make for a tv show. tatntude@gmail.com!
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My name is Billie I am so worried about my family. I feel like it has fallen apart. My oldest brother who is 35 is having problems with addiction. He has 3 beautiful kids and a wonderful wife. He had everything going for him college degree retired from air force wonderful home nice nice things now NOTHING. My brother started out taking loritabs now he is addicted to oxys. His wife and kids do not live with him anymore. My parents and family are done with him. He lies he steals he has pawned everything he owns to get money for pills. My mom has rhumitori arthritis so bad and he steals her medicine that she actual needs. She had hid them from him and he finds them every time. He is seriously killing her from all the stress. I also worry about my dad having a heart attack from the stress. On top of that my sister age 24 who still lives at home is also addicted to loritabs. She has two kid. She has been in and out of meth. She has a very bad addicted personality. Her attitude is horrible. Her and my brother are throwing everything away. I just feel for their kids. I am just so scared I feel like my parents are on their way to their death bed and it is not fair to me I have never done anything to stress my parents and I know have a baby girl who needs to grow up having her grandparents and I feel like with all the stress from my brother and sister it might not happen and it is killing me. My parents are both retired they should be enjoying it but they cant. My bother has stolen so much from them and both him and my sister has put them through hell.. PLEASE HELP my family. I need someone to help me with this. I just can’t stand to see this go on anymore. These last couple of years has been so horrible. Please someone help me and my family.
Hi. I am writing because I have an 18 year old brother who will be 19 in July who is on meth. Our whole family (the ones that know) are concerned and are so worried about him. He doesn’t talk to any of us. He is staying with some girl he barely even knows and no one ever sees him. None of us can help him by ourselves right now. I am so scared my brother is going to mess his life up. He has a 14 month old nephew (my son) who used to laugh and just love him , but he never sees him anymore. None of us do. Everyone has tried everything and we just can’t help him. I can’t help but get to tears when I think about this because I love my brother so much and I want him to be safe and live a good life. He got his GED then his welding certificate from college. He never got a job once he got out of college. He has been bumming off everyone and now he will not even ask any of us for money. And I think its because he doesn’t want us too see how bad he is. We want to stop this before its too late Please help…. God Bless