Healing doesn’t happen on its own. That’s an important lesson, for drug addicts and their families: Drug treatment and drug recovery aren’t self-generating phenomenon. On the contrary, drug rehab can only work when it’s sought out, and those individuals who check themselves into drug rehab centers are very often individuals who’ve been motivated to do so by an intervention. To put it as simply and as starkly as possible: Interventions save lives. If someone you care about has succumbed to a habitual pattern of drug use and abuse, you can’t afford not to act.

Interventions, in this sense, aren’t simply about individuals; they’re about society as a whole, and the interpersonal bonds which work to make life worth living in the first place. The lesson: If you’re thinking about conducting an intervention for someone you care about, you’re a long way from alone.

And make no mistake: Your success or failure in the course of an intervention has far-reaching repercussions. Yes, an intervention is crucially important insofar as it can change the lives of the individuals involved in it, but drug addiction isn’t merely an individual phenomenon, and the benefits of drug treatment aren’t limited to individual drug addicts.  Read more...

It’s hard to focus on the future when someone you care about is mired in the depths of drug abuse or alcoholism. Indeed, the challenge for anyone conducting an intervention concerns itself mostly with hope: You’ve got to keep your focus trained on the prospect of a brighter tomorrow, even as today seems so impossibly broken. A successful intervention, in the end, is one that’s built on faith, and on optimism. If the addict you care about is going to get better, he’s got to be able to see the daylight through the gloom.

Alcohol or drug abuse intervention is a way to help someone you care about understand the true scope of their addiction and find the means to get help. Both are physical diseases, not a disgrace – a health problem, not a moral problem.

Alcoholism and Drug abuse, according to the American Medical Association, is defined as “An illness characterized by a preoccupation with alcohol and or drugs, and loss of control over its consumption.”

The alcoholic and the drug addict are sick and in need of medical aid. Alcohol and drug Interventions are a way to help the person find the treatment he/she needs. Without treatment, the disease is progressive. The person suffering from the disease may experience permanent physical damage, mental damage, and early death.  Read more...