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.
- Alcohol and Substance Abuse: A Deadly DuoAlcohol and substance abuse is a dangerous combination. You need professional help in order to treat both addictions.
- 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.
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Please help me!! I am an alcoholic—for many years and have exhasted all avenues-where i live. I am a veteran-have so much more to give but here they throw me away–please please I want to be well
Hi I’m looking for help for my mom ..all my life my mom has been a drug addict… As far as I can remember as a child every person she was with got her addicted to a drug. I had a really bad child hood because if this as soon as my young brother got a life sentence she went spiraling down with meth she doesn’t wanna change she’s hurting everyone around her and she does not care I want my mom back the one that was clean please help me help her before its too late.
I need a Intervention for my only Son he is Addicted to Alcohol/Drugs of all kinds needles,pills heroin he has had a death wish since 2013 . On January 9th 2013 we lost my youngest Son to kidney failure he suffered his whole life with kidney disease it was horrible to watch my baby boy die while my oldest son lost his only brother/sibling. Bradley my only living child is on a snowball headed to hell he has been homeless for years because our whole family has tried an tried to help him he has stolen from all of us who love him dearly he has lied repeatedly so much we can’t believe anything he says. I’ve been on my knees crying and pleading for him to please get help I’m so afraid I will get a horrible phone call about losing him to he is all I have besides his 2 precious children whom which I’m raising since they were born my granddaughter is 10 my grandson is 9 I have never give up hope for my son but I have had to show tuff love and it’s killing me slowly I grieve one son while I worry myself sick about my living son I’m in hell but my son is in a worse place he has been arrested to many times to keep up with for many reasons, he is suicidal I don’t want to bury my only child I just know I will not make it thru it again it’s by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do please please please help me help my son his children cry for him day and night because they love him soooooo much.
Hello there,
Wow, I never thought I would be here seeking and pleading for help for my family. Drug abuse runs deep in my family tree. I am desperately trying to find someone to help my whole family, but mostly my sister before it is to late.
She is a 31 year old single mom with three small children all of whom have different fathers. She abuses her own prescription drugs, along with purchasing extra prescription drugs and alcohol abuse possibly more things I am unaware of. She has NEVER had a job. She collects a monthly social security check and child support for two of the three children in order to support her children, my disabled mother and her habits.
That is another thing. My mom lives with her as well. They have always been inseparable, but they are bad for each other. They are constantly borrowing each other and other family members prescriptions. My mother is now in the last stages of COPD and is currently receiving hospice care in their home.
My mother used to be addicted to speed/ crack/ cocaine and opiates when I was younger and went to at least 8 different rehabs without success. My sister and I were actually given up to a family friend at a young age so my mother could receive treatment. My mother has been on suboxone for the last 13 yrs and recently signed herself into hospice because she is unable to make it out of the house to travel for her medications. I desperately want to save my younger sisters life before the cycle starts all over again.
We are from a small town in Ohio. I chose to move away to better myself when I was 18 and watched the last 14 years in horror at my family diminish into poverty without having a way out unless they are to die or to get clean . My family does not have love for one another or each others best interest. I have already lost one aunt, two uncles, and a cousin to addiction.
PLEASE HELP.
Hi my name is Rachel , i am 28 yrs old and have been using and selling drugs since i was 15 yrs old. I got addicted to herion and went to rehab twice in baltimore,md and lived in recovery/oxford houses after. But i would remain clean for 6 mths or so and relapse. I currently reside in the state of Delaware where i grew up so i know a lot of people, i have a wonderful family and two older brothers who are also addicts one is completely sober and has 5yrs clean the other is on methadone and claims thats all he does. Well i hit my rock bottom when i began to sell my body in Wilmington, DE i lived on the streets or motels or stayed with clients. While escorting i meant a man who offered to help me because i was shooting herion about 15 times a day and taking pills too. This man was 18yrs older than me. I felt an instant connection with him and as did he. So i got on the methadone clinic HUGE MISTAKE i contiuned to use for about 6 months then stopped the herion and replaced it with xanax and klotopin which i sniff on occassion still and this started 4yrs ago. Since that 4yrs i have only used herion 4 times so i am really PROUD of myself in that aspect but i NEEED HELP PLEASE SOMEBODY im ashamed to ask my family again for help. But more importantly my fiance and i live togethet and he cant take it anymore the constant trips to the clinic or my trips to buy more pills because i took or sold all my xanax so i need to buy more. He is clean and has never touched drugs, and he helps me more then i can believe, im blessed but now i need to help myself i have state insurance so im limited on where i can go or if anywhere. But im begging anyone or someone who may read this please please help me or guide me in a way or direction where i could get help. I dont want to be on methadone anymore and j dont want to be on xanax or klotopins im affraid one day im gonna take too many xanax and not wake up..i pray someone reads this. Thank you and i hope for some help im soo READY!
My name is Jill and ive been in and out of treatment for the last 18 years, mostly in NY of NY state Medicaid. My family paid for me to go to treatment in south florida when i became black listed from everywhere up north but when they closed ive been bouncing from halfway to halfway and baker acted a few times. My parents don’t have the financial means to pay for treatment again. I have no insurance and my family will no longer talk to me tell i get my shit together. No one will scholorship me to treatment and some of the halfway were flops. I have alot of trama from my past, I self harm, have an eating disorder, drugs & alcohol and addiction to kava kava. I want help but ive burned my bridges. My family may be involved if they knew that i was reaching out but they dont pick up my calls anymore.
My name is Eddie and I’m a 50 year old herion addict. All these addicts on the InterventionTV show get offered awesome detox and treatment. I have no family to go to for help. I have no one to do an intervention nor help me. My wife died at 44 years old from brain cancer in 2015, my mom passed from renal failure in 2016 and I was robbed and shot in 2017. I was addicted to opiates way before all the tragedy in my life, but all the trauma didn’t help my addiction. If anything, it made it worse. I’ve tried several times to get help for myself, but never was able to get help. As I stated, I have no family nor any friends. I want and need help. Can somebody help me please? You can contact me at eldie3d at gmail dot com. I need an angel to help save my life!!!
Hey Eddie I’m not a doctor or even a specialist.. Im a regular drug user myself and I looked at this site for my mom who is addictied to meth and alcohol. I red this and honestly it makes me cry to know how bad someone wants the help but has nobody to help and here I have a full family who I’m scared to even ask to do an intervention with… You’re not alone and I think having a family support just makes the addict aware that there could be a lot to loose.. but what could someone like you loose? I want to die everyday over my mistakes but then I feel selfish when someone like you has the want to live even if it’s through a needle .. you want help. You want to live and I’m selfish for wanting to die with everything in my hands and family who loves me.. I love you and you’re not alone addiction is nasty and scary, we run from what haunts us most.. the world needs more love and needs to be more aware of drug use and not just a ssad story.. we are more than story tellers we are real life fairytale deamons. Who honestly just want to be told that everything will be ok and we can do this… Well you can and everything will be ok.. I belss you and I’m not even holy but I want someone anyone to know I love them.
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My email is daddysgin@gmail.com. i don’t know how much I can help. But I’ll listen. Idk if intervention has contacted you but hopefully they have. Everyone deserves access to sobriety.
My entire family is suffering from addiction. I have two brothers, one is addicted to prescription pain meds and possibly Herron. The second is a heroine addict as well. My sister is an alcoholic. Both brothers live with my mother (86) she drinks to much to deal with her co dependence. I have a half brother that lives with my father that is an alcoholic that can no longer drink because of illness. My father is a codependent to my half brother that is addicted to alcohol and opioids. I have been involved in recovery since 1989 and presently have 11 years sober, although I have been having problems with depression and hopeless feeling do to struggling with how to cop with my family situation. Is there any special help out there for dealing with my situation? I don’t know how to do an intervention on a whole family, when I feel I’m all by myself.
My mom is a beautiful amazing kind giving person when she’s sober. When’s she’s drunk it’s a whole other story. She has struggled with alcoholism since I can remember I’m 19 years old I have 3 sisters and we all worry and are scared for her life. My younger sisters father beat my mom and after 7 years she left him. She met this amazing man that she married and he took care of us girls like we were his own he moved us to Hawaii and we loved our life. over time my mom drank more and more and would cause fights sometimes I would have to break it up and many times when I was in middle school I would have to drive her car to pick her up because she was wasted and couldn’t walk or drive. My step father passed away from a heart attack in 2013. My mother wanted to move back to Arizona but my older sister stayed in Hawaii with her boyfriend and my little sister went to her dads I stayed with my mom for a few months until I couldn’t handle it anymore. I moved back to Hawaii by myself and got a job. She would go missing for days weeks months and it was hard to handle it all by myself so I left her I feel horrible I left her.. she later then found another man and was doing great got into the gym didn’t drink as much and decided to have another baby girl. Later she found out he was a conartist and she left him and now she’s back drinking like crazy and it kills me to see another one of my little sisters having to go through the same life me and my other sisters had to go through. Sometimes she gets so wasted she pees her pants and try’s to fight people, she also gives away her money like it’s water always offering to buy people stuff, she really knows how to put on an act like her life is perfect and she doesn’t have a problem Everyone tells us to give up on her but I just can’t shes the greatest mom when she’s sober but when she’s drunk she’s very emotionally abusive and it worries me she will damage my little sisters making them later in life have problems or addictions I’m scared and this is my last resort I hope you guys can help.