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 sons father is doing any drug he can get his hands on, and we recently just found out he is shooting up. He needs help before he is no longer here. It’s getting out of control! We’ve tried everything from jail to rehab to etc! Nothing, he’s draining us. & I don’t want my child to loose his dad. HELP!
Hello,
My step father has been 500+ lbs the entire time I have known him and it has gotten worse. I see how it has affected my upbringing and my sisters. I see how depressed my mom is because of his eating and lets herself over eat because he does and they love each other. I am surprised he is alive. We all are. We need help to heal as a family. I know his disorder runs deep in his brain from emotional and physical abuse growing up. His upbringing has impacted mine in this manner as well due to his behavioral issues. Everyone wants him to get better but him. It is a constant battle between him and my mom to stay on “diet”. They have tried so many types of diets I can’t count them all. I know he is going to die but I wish it wasn’t because of his eating. He has been to the hospital countless times for b fib heart attacks- the most dangerous kind, infections that don’t heal from being so large, etc. He is a control freak he has to control everything around him. He has not left his house in months, not even for work. He makes big bucks sitting on a computer which escalates the situation because they hire housekeepers, dog poop picker uppers, grocery deliverers, my sister, etc. If my parents are sitting on the couch one room away from the kitchen there’s no way they will get up if a kid is present. Kids are little slaves in his mind. The kids do the moving around the house he should be doing. This has put so much guilt on my sister and I because we enable him and we can not stop because he is the sole breadwinner for the household and parent. I am in college (going into student debt) at the most prestigious hospital in the nation and I do not have the funds or adequate resources to help him. Please help!
I write this knowing not to get my hopes up, having zero expectations… Knowing that I’ll probably die an addict. My name does not matter… I am an addict and so is my father, mother, uncle’s and many before me. I’ve been addicted to heroin since I was 13 years old. My mother is a nurse and injects heroin and smokes meth, has been for years and so does her current husband. My uncle’s are also addicted to heroin and meth. I’ve been clean off meth for 7 years but can’t stop using heroin. My family has been destroyed by this drug. I’ve lost a mother, a father, and my uncle’s who were very close to me and I’ve lost myself. I don’t know what else to do or where to go. I have zero motivation and desire to stop, change, do better. I don’t know who I am anymore. I’m a waste of life. Heroin is in complete control. I’m 22 years old and I still feel like that 13 year old girl who is lost and mad at the world, wanting my mother to love me. Please help me and my family before it’s too late. My mother is on the verge of losing her nursing license and idk where she will be or what she will do if she doesn’t have a regular income. And at this rate I don’t see myself making it to 30. Fetynal is a big scare as well. A huge reality. One hit off a foil, one shot …and it’s over. This is my life. I’m taking a risk of dying with each bag I buy. I want to show my sister, my mother, my GMA who raised me that I can do this. That I can be me again. That I can make something of myself. We’ve hit rock bottom a long time ago. Someone please help us. My grandmother shouldn’t out live me …she shouldn’t have to burry me. I say this knowing how serious it is and it still won’t drive me to stop using. I need real help. I need just one opportunity and I’ll never look back. Please safe my life before there is nothing left to save.
My husband is an AMAZING person and father when he is NOT drinking!! We have 4 kids ages 9 through 14. Our two oldest are definitely realizing he drinks now. He doesn’t make any sense when he talks he is irritable and even mean. It is like walking on egg shells. He can go through a giant bottle of vodka in two days. He constantly blames me for his drinking and he says he just cant stop and cant take the time off from work to get help, so he just continues to drink more and more and more the older he gets. I am so worried he is going to lose me and our kids or worse he will die at the rate he is going. He has so much to live for! PLEASE HELP!!!! He is only 36 and I am 29 I dont want our kids to lose their dad, because they are definitely going to SOON =(
My mom(56) is addicted to alcohol. Has been for years since my grandmother passed away in 2006. I’ve been tryna keep getting her help but it doesn’t work. She has been in and out the hospital for seizures and withdrawals when she can’t have it. I need help my is all I have now please
My husband is addicted to marijuana. He smokes every morning before work, after work, and on his days off. When he doesn’t have it, he has anger issues. I would like for him to get help.
My uncle is a meth addict; he steals, manipulates, throws tantrums, and more. My mother who has been my uncles ‘motherly figure’, since him and my mother’s mom died of lung cancer when he was 16, she was 29 enables him. My father is a drunk, he has been since he was in his 20’s. I’m the youngest, so I’ve only known this part of him. He has been especially bad the last 13 years due to both of his parents deaths. He is a raging drunk. My brother, who I don’t have a relationship with is a criminal who abuses drugs, and alcohol. He shows sociopath traits and would/has hurt his family. I need help.
My daughter is addicted to ICE as a family we have no type of insurance on her medical/burial. I’m fearful that one day I’m going to get that fatal call that she’s dead. I’m not sure if its the side effects of the drug itself but her behavior is extremely abnormal. Perhaps she has gotten ahold of some type of “mickey”
To Donna (I think)
You did an intervention with a lady who had twins, and 1 of them had intellectual disabilities. He was affected by it and moved out; however, he was not included in the actual intervention. How rude!
Fortunately my family is alcohol free, but our family has many many folks with differing disabilities. Our late son could not walk, talk or use his hands. However, if someone was affecting him, he would be included while being protected from the offender.
My dad is 52 years old addicted to meth . hes was sobber for awhile but he just ended up relapsing . he has such a beautiful soul but he just don’t see it anymore cause he’s blinded by this evil drug… Hes high almost 24/7 . please help my dad . i want him to be able to see his grandkids get older but the path he’s going down he’s on a time limit 🙁