Holding an intervention can and often is a very challenging and disturbing prospect. It’s not easy to convince someone who is addicted to drugs and alcohol to go to rehab, and the situation is made just that much more difficult by the simple fact that no less than ninety percent of those who are addicted to drugs and alcohol, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and … [Read more...]
Planning an Intervention: Five Ways to Have an Effective Meeting
An intervention can be a concerning and potentially difficult conquest to take on, and as a result of that the crisis and the substance abuse problem that hurts and damages the addict and the family will often go un-handled. Difficult or stressful as interventions appear to be, they do not have to be so. Interventions are only difficult and stressful when the members of the … [Read more...]
Intervening With a Pregnant Addict: Why She Needs Extra Compassion
Staging an intervention on someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol is never an easy prospect and it never has been. Studies from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, (NSDUH), have shown that roughly 90% of the country's drug and alcohol addicted individuals are not in fact willing to seek out rehab and do not believe that they have a problem of any kind at all. This … [Read more...]
Emotional vs. Thoughtful Interventions: What’s the Difference and Which to Choose
We all know the types of interventions we see on TV, made infamous by the popular reality TV series, “Intervention”. Now, many of us feel as though we know all about drug and alcohol addiction interventions because of this, though that couldn’t be further from the truth. Truthfully, interventions are quite varied and unique style to style, and some styles are in fact so … [Read more...]
Tips for How to Approach an Intervention with an Addict in Denial
There’s really nothing worse than trying to convince your loved one who is abusing drugs and alcohol to go to rehab for their addiction problem. This is just a horrendous thing to have to confront doing. All too often those who are addicted to drugs and alcohol just really do not want to go to rehab. This is particularly heartbreaking as this is a family member, a loved one, … [Read more...]