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.
My Brother is a Drug addict he’s been neglected by both his mother & father im his younger brother trying to help him the best I can but I’m running out of options he keeps telling me you can’t quite in a day it takes time. I’m a Ex Drug addict. I’m scared for him. I get dreams all the time I’m gonna find him dead. I learnt & was given the help I needed at young age. I hope he can also before it’s too late.
I’ve been watching intervention for a really long time & I really love the show but I’m watching today it is June 19, 2018 & every time someone on the show said God or Jesus they bleeped it out I’d really like to know why the name of God or Jesus is an offensive word cause I am very offended by the fact that it is being bleeped out !! and will not watch intervention anymore if that is the case!.. I would appreciate an answer!
My mother has been an addict for as long as I can remember. Her addiction has left me and my sisters with no mother figure for our entire lives. My father raised me, my youngest sisters father raised her, and the middle sister was raised by my aunt who also deals with addiction to pills. Me being the eldest has watched my mother completely tare apart the lives of those who care for her wellbeing…..this has not only caused myself mental problems ( chronic depression and bpd) but has also affected my sisters as well. We want help for her. I want my mother back…
my 19 year old cousin kaylee has been addicted to heroin for years, she even got pregnant with her dealers baby and she was using throughout her entire pregnancy, the baby was born 3 months early at 2 pounds was life flighted to a better hospital, where he stayed for about 5 months and now will have to use a tube to help him breath his whole life, he was adopted into very good family thank god. We all thought maybe that would make her feel something and wanna get better. It didn’t all she said was oh well she’ll just have another one.. Its sickening she deals herself, steals from our family anything just to get her next fix, she’s killing her self and no one will say anything to her because her mom is so embarrassed she wants to pretend its not happening, she used to be a loving sweet smart girl and now its just like being around a zombie she doesn’t have any personality anymore!
My 19 year old kaylee is addicted to heroin, she has been for a few years and she even got pregnant with her dealers baby and used throughout her entire pregnancy. The baby was born 3 months early at 2 pounds had to be life flighted to a different hospital and now will have to use a tube to breath the rest of his life, she doesn’t care just laughs about it and said oh well I’ll just have another one.. The baby got adopted to a really good family thank god! But she continues to sell her self steal from our family, just to get her next fix its sickening.. No one will tell her she needs help because her mother freaks out on anyone that says anything about it, she’s killing herself!
I have a daughter that’s been Heroin addict since she turned Eighteen unless you have the money to put them in rehab yourself there’s no Hope I have watched my straight a beautiful intelligent daughter turn in to a lion manipulating cheating thieving addict I’ve called every talk so host every TV show dog the bounty hunter begging for help unless you have the money forget it the CIA in our government brings the hair when in has our troops guarding the poppy Fields its jobs for the jails the state run terrible joke re habs its population control and ultimately gun control when everybody gets a felony and can have a gun people are oblivious to what’s really going on our government brings the hair one in because it’s money in their pockets nobody’s gonna help you I have resigned myself to the fact that I can’t help Her and that after taking her in being robbed manipulated lied to stone from its not gonna change it’s gonna be the ultimate worst I’m gonna put her in the ground because I don’t have the 2030 $40000 to put her in rehab myself or a 100000 in a good rehab that seem my be successful At my heart goes out to everyone but I’ve been going through this now for almost 8 years and I’ve been through it all cried day-and-night made myself sick blame a self and now the reality is I just hope I don’t have to live to see the day I put her in the ground because I don’t have the money and nobody is going to help because I have called and called and begged and written in text and emailed everyone it’s too widespred and no one cares I love her but I’m never gonna see that beautiful girl again she lies about pregnancies she lies about everything I have to look outside to make sore it’s daylight if she says it’s nightAnd what makes me sick is because of the hair one people can’t get pain medicine anymore that abide by the rules do the drug screens don’t doctor shop all everybody once is the Communist country in everyone on methadone and Suboxin subutex because they own those clinics and all these addicts say they used them first…because they cant find the heroine they use pills…I watch our elderly get legs cut off and have to hurt bec as use of drug addicts ..all because our government brings it in our country…people need to w as ke up…its sosdem and gamera all over hope God comes back before she dies…good luck but get online on TV everyone in every walk of life is affected but…there’s only help that works in private programs that cost 100s of thousands…unless they decide to get better nothing works and no one cares God bless good luck but as u can see millions in same boat and putting online changes nothing speak up to government and wake up
I don’t know what to do….my older sister is addicted to heroin and alcohol, i just took her son in after fighting for nine months to gef him in my care and out of a foster home. I have tried all I can with my sister…tough love helping ignoring and so on but nothing works. She is homless and i just recently caught her in a mot3l with a tone of needles and she has contracted hepititis c from using. I’m scared she is going to end up dead and I’m scared my nephew will have no mom just like we didn’t growing up. We were in foster care, we know how it feels to suffer and now my nephee is going through the same thing. My sister has seen more and been through more than alot of people have in her short life and now all she knows is drugs and escaping reality. I need help finding a way to help her before we loose her.
My mother is 43 and addicted to pills and we are afraid that we are going to get a devastating phone call that she didn’t wake up or she over dosed on them it is a very scary thought when she has them she is sweet has ever but when she don’t every body gets the blame and gets cussed out and she don’t realize she is doing it all we want is are mom back before it is to late… she us to be so loving and caring person we just want her back from the devil
Hi my name is Nicole! My husband is 46 years old started with bath salts 7 years ago and is now on meth. He did es good for awhile but always resorts back. We have 2 daughters age 10 and 8. They know way more then they should. My 8 year old told her daddy that when he talks funny she knows he’s sick. What do I do? How long to I deal with this?
I have a 25 year old daughter that I have completely and totally lost to heroin and crack cocaine. She used to be a loving and compassionate girl, she is now gone and this monster has taken over her body and brain. The drugs have changed her to where the family no longer wants to be around her at all. We have been lied to stolen from to the poin where not one of us trusts her anymore. The thing that kills me the most is she has two adorable children a 9 yr old and a 2 yr old who love her unconditionally. My grandkids have both seen things that no little one should see. The children were taken away from her, the kids were her everything. My sister (her aunt) just passed away of an overdose in Feb of this year while she was using heroine. I am terrified every time the phone rings someone is calling to tell me my baby girl is gone. When I think I can cry no more the tears will just flow. I am loosing the battle against the drugs my daughter is addicted to! I would trade places with her in an instant and fight the fight for her to take away all her pain and suffering.
Signed,
a mother in agony
My cousin Ashley is an addict. She’s to the point where she doesn’t recognize who people are anymore. She lost custody of her two daughters and doesn’t even attempt to get them back. She followed the same path as her mother and was raised by our grandparents whom always provide and it supports her habit unintentionally. Also, the town we grew up in doesn’t help matters.