Addiction Intervention
About Addiction Intervention
There are strong emotions attached to any addiction intervention. The losses from the addiction seem more real at the start of an intervention, more serious when the family is ready to actually do an addiction intervention and starts to take action.
In any addiction intervention, serious questions arise, "How will we get him to talk to the interventionist?" "Will he realize that we're doing an addiction intervention?" "Will this even work?" And from the viewpoint of an involved family member, the answers can seem constantly elusive.
Even the words, "addiction intervention" carry with them a stigma of a family ambush, unplanned confrontation, accusations of betrayal, and the difficulties of "tough love" addiction intervention strategies. They scream out for an acceptance that will never come easy, if at all.
With an experienced addiction intervention professional; someone who not only does addiction interventions but who also has experience as an addict, your chances of success are much, much greater. In fact, we have been assigned, and have succeeded at, cleaning up the messes left by families who have tried to do an addiction intervention on their own, and have failed in spades. The messes that a family planed addiction intervention can cause are not worth describing, other than to say that if you know you need to do an addiction intervention then your best bet is to seek professional help. Don't try to do an addiction intervention on your own.
The clichés around addiction interventions are the main thing to avoid: It has to be done in an afternoon; if they say no they’re not ready; if they’re in denial then they don’t realize that they have a problem; you have to use tough love… When it comes to addiction intervention the clichés never stop and will tank your addiction intervention more quickly than contempt.
There is no room for emotional decisions, for self-serving emotional payoff’s, or for resorting to the trite and often destructive advice of inexperienced loved one’s or Alanon alumni. A truly effective addiction intervention is a matter of intellectually derived strategy combined with level-headed focus. This is the difficulty of it, the challenge of it, and the reason why it needs to be orchestrated by an experienced professional.
Addiction intervention has gotten a bad rap over the past fifty or so years. In the most recent ten years it has become a tabloid stomping ground, fodder for over-produced and the lesser, under-planned-for duplication of interventions gone by, and gone bad. If you have an involved mother or emotionally attached father at the helm then you may have the makings of genius, or more likely, of disaster.
The best advice we can give you is to hire us, or someone like us, in an effort to minimize damage and maximize your potential for success. Interventions that involve an experienced addict/professional have a 90% chance of success, while a self run attempt at minimizing cost usually results in a complete disaster.
At the very least you owe it to yourself to call us and see what your options are.
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