Here are a few tips that can help ensure that a drug intervention is smoothly carried out and expected results are carried out when someone who abuses drugs eventually subjects himself to drug rehabilitation.
Right of the family
The family has the right to seek drug treatment for their relative. Family members can create the right scenario for drug addiction treatment since intervention cannot be done alone. The persons to intervene must also have the capability to convince the person who abuses drugs so that argument does not happen or will be prevented.
Convincing power of family and friends
Family members and close friends are the best bet for telling the drug addict that his or her substance abuse has not only affected his life and health but also their lives which is considered a convincing reason or persuasion for the addict to enter rehabilitation.
Getting an expert
An expert or someone who has experience in drug and alcohol intervention can be contacted from a drug treatment facility to avail of his or her services and expedite sending someone addicted to drug for rehabilitation.
This person can be a certified counselor who can reliably deal with psychological conditions that may happen during the convincing process. The approach of an expert interventionist is usually effective since he or she is considered as a professional or strategist prepared for a specific plan to intervene.
The importance of giving moral support
Giving moral support to the patient is of utmost importance. Continued support should be given to the subject even after he or she agrees to go to the rehabilitation center. The persons giving moral support should see to it that the patient should enter the rehabilitation center as soon as possible after the subjects agrees to drug rehabilitation.
Here are other tips for drug treatment intervention. They are actually reminders so that the person addicted to drugs can be brought for rehabilitation successfully:
- Stop any rescue missions which will make the addict fully know the harmful consequences of his drug abuse
- Timing of confrontation is important. Talks with the drug abuser should be privately done when he is in his good senses or is calm
- Listen attentively to the drug abuser when he is explaining his or her side.
- Avoid arguments by seeking a moderator when it is alright to confront the drug abuser in a group. The group should include family members and close friends.
My son has been an alcoholic and serious drug addict since 18. He is now 40. My family has all written him off because of his dangerous and unpredictable outbursts and lack of respect and responsibility. He uses me so bad but because he is my son and pretty much all he has left I feel obligated and so sad for him. I have spent $1000’s of $ trying to help him but nothing is working. I am literally just as sick as he is because of the life I live trying to be here for him. We both need help. I do not drink or use in any way. He puts in his body, whatever is available. I’m at a complete loss and something has to change fast. I have seen my son near death a lot in the last year and I cannot bear the thought. Thank you, I’m advance
I am a mother of a meth and Xanax user. I’m scared that I’ll get a phone call one day saying she dead. I have a beautiful 25 yr old daughter who uses everyday since the age of 16. I think I have or was an enabler but now she stays away I think due to guilt of losing my grandchildren to foster care because of me being the one that raised and loves them more then anything and her being the one that uses drugs and caused defax to take the babies. I cry everyday and now my family is getting to where we don’t even talk and my daughter is a large part of that. Please help her get help PLEASE!
I need help desperately, my brother is a meth user and im not sure what else he could be on but he has torn my family apart. My family is not from here so they are not accustomed to situations like this, my mom is an enabler and my dad is not present in our family. My situation at home has gotten bad to the point where he would bring other meth or drug users to home. In the beginning he moved to somewhere else with his girlfriend, things were bad but his girlfriend had mentioned to my parents that she suspected that he was starting to use. This was about around 2015 so I was fairly naïve about the whole situation, but around that time my father had lent his car to him and found his “pizzo” meth pipe. My parents wanted to get rid of anything bad like that so they just threw it away. After that my brother was starting to associate with bad people and criminal and psychotic behavior, as in now getting physical with his girlfriend and with people. He later on left cause my parents and her made him move back. When he moved back things only got worse, I would see him everyday strung out, my mom is a single mom and my dad does not live with us, so with this being said my mom was the one that has to deal with this. She is only focused on her work cause we struggle financially, so most of the time it was just me alone or with our roommate with her younger son. There were times where my brother would smoke out in the open thinking we would no notice but then the child would see and he would lie to him but the child told his mom as soon as possible. Our roommate has told my mom but she says she talks to him but im afraid talking isn’t helping anymore. It never did. We have had the police at our door more than several times due to my brother, he has been on the news, on papers, and on social media because of his crimes. Our roommate left with her child because it was no longer a safe area for her and her kid to live in. Now that I am on my own I try to talk to my mom to have him leave. He is emotionally and physically abusive and I have reported it to the cops but I can’t keep calling them because if we get kicked out we will have nowhere to go since we can’t afford anywhere else. I’ve asked my mom several times to kick him out but she will only say something but yet have him come home to open arms and a hot plate on the table. He will leave at random times of the night and come home at random times of the days when he assumes my mom won’t be around to bother him. Because of my fear to him I have had to live with constant fear and lock myself in my room when he’s around, I refuse to help someone who gives me nothing but fear and pain. But I need him to get help for my mom’s well being and mine. I don’t know what to do. He consistently brings home stolen stuff and keeps using things that aren’t his and is not even on our lease, he used to have a good paying job and lost it due to his addiction. Please help.
my daughter has fentanyl addiction I need help
My brother received injuries in the Army that required him to seek pain management. I am pretty sure that’s when his addiction started about 10 years ago. He hid his addiction from friends, family and coworkers. Until he couldn’t hide it anymore. My brother has a college education, his last job that he was released from was as a GS14 employee (90,000yr). He went from using pills to currently using fentanyl and heroin. His wife divorced him and took their daughter to another State. They gave him so many chances at work that they fired him. He went from living in a gated community to living on the streets. He takes advantage of my mother anyway he can. He used her credit card to pay for a three month stay at a hotel, got her to co-sign a vehicle for him and has not made one payment. He has been so deceiving and manipulative, this is not my brother. He has not spoke to his daughter. And I know his daughter is hurting from this. If you would have told me 10 years ago that my brother would be digging through dumpsters for food and shooting heroin and fentanyl, I never would have believed it in a million years. It is literally shocking. Please reach out to me to help my family get my brother help before he dies, everyday we wait for that phone call. My mother is tortured by this. My brother doesn’t know how to stop.
Please, I need help for my brother, he is had been using drus for many years, and his brain is almost gone. He has been in 2 programs of rehabilitation but he is geting worst every day.
Our mom pass away in 2001 when he was 14 years old, and he started drinking alcohol, then drugs.
Another brother died in 2014, it was worst.
His father died last year (2019), but my brother is argüing and fighting with him every day.
Almost all the doors are close for us. We are from Chihuahua, Mexico
I dont undertan very much english, Im sorry for my writing!
Hi my name is stephanie i am 30 years old i am a wife and a mother i would really love the oppertunity to be on this show and get the help that they offer im addicted to opiates have been for 10 years now
Please I am reaching out for my son david who is25 and has been using herion and meth. He is at his lowest point in life. he wants help but really needs an intervention before he is dead. Ive tried and tried. He really needs to talk to someone. It all starts from his dad died before he was born. I really fear that one of these days I will get a call. Please I beg of you here in oregon it is tough to get an intervention. He really needs help he has been doing these drugs for going on 8 years. Please I need your help before he is dead. my phone number is 541 951 9249.
I would like to seek help for my mother im in recovery myself and i would like for her to get help i feel her drinking is in the way of healthy relationship with me and my siblings she is in denial and always seems to think she has it under control but im uncomfortable being around her because of her drinking and smoking marijuana
I desperately want to seek help for my girlfriend. I beleive she would be an ideal candidate for the show. I say that not for any notoriety or publicity motives. But rather because i fear that she has exhausted any further support from her family. She has isolated herself from most family and friends whom are not users. Her location(Calgary,Alberta) has in my opinion very spartan, limited…and insufficient funding to support and treat serious addiction issues. She has saught treatment but lacked moral support and her situation is compounded by mental health issues that require medication, OCD behaviours, repressed childhood trauma….and three substance addictions. She is a mother of 2 whom are living with her parents. She currently funda her addiction partly by high risk sex work. Currently she is homeless and struggling to make enough to get a motel and her drugs. She relies on co dependant friends whom only worsen the matter. She is worth the effort as i have first hand witnessed how sweet, kind, and considerate a human being she is. Despite all the evil, betrayal, robbery, rape she experiences she still maintains her decency and humanity never once displaying violence towarda another.