Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Does Intervention Work?

Drug addicts and alcoholics are not always the most responsible people in the world. Nor are they the most trust worthy either. Families who have a loved one suffering from drug or alcohol addiction can get so frustrated because they try so hard to get the person to enter into a drug and alcohol rehablitation center and fail.

That is why an intervention is so important. Whether it is a drug intervention or an alcohol intervention, these are the first step to overcoming addiction. The reason is a trained intervention specialist knows how to educate the family on enabling an codependency and then organize a strategic game plan on how to confront the person refusing to get help with their addiction.

Once the family has been educated then the intervention occurs, usually the next day. The drug intervention is considered to be done once the person has agreed and is then escorted into a long term drug rehab.

5 comments:

bruce said...

Most alcohol and drug treatment centers have counselors who are trained to help families prepare for the confrontation, which always takes place in a "controlled" environment, specifically selected to put the alcoholic in a position in which he is most likely to listen. Many times these interventions take place at the workplace, with the full cooperation of the employer.

Sometimes, the intervention comes as a total surprise to the alcoholic, but recently new techniques have been developed in which the members of the intervention team tell the alcoholic that they are talking with a counselor about his drinking problem several days prior to the actual intervention.

With the new method, the alcoholic realizes that the most important people in his life are meeting about his problem, and when he is finally invited to the discussion, he does not feel as "ambushed" as with the earlier intervention techniques.
If the alcoholic does decide to enter the treatment center, he is more apt to be less angry than with the former procedure of surprising him with the confrontation. He feels less manipulated and usually enters the program with the attitude of trying to get better from the start.



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