Drug & Alcohol Addiction Intervention Services

Perhaps most importantly, your interventionist will guide you in how best to confront the addict without pushing him or her away or resenting you, which is one of the family’s worst fears. Maintaining neutral ground can be difficult when denial is strong or the alcoholic/addict becomes argumentative against others’ experiences, but our licensed interventionists provide unique approaches to these situations through their own experiences.

• Be specific about times they have put themselves or others into harm, danger, or emotional turmoil.
• Be concise and direct; decide for yourself that you will no longer be involved with the family member as long as he or she is acting out the addiction. This means leaving the relationship until they agree to enter into treatment.
• Have a treatment plan in place.
• Follow through on your word if they decline treatment.
• Contact one of our professional interventionists and bring together all the people who are affected and hurt by the situation, love the individual and are willing to stop contact with the addicted person until he or she goes into a treatment center or gets some other form of help.
• Communicate openly with the professional to help stifle your need to control the situation, enable the afflicted, or be overly judgemental.
• Accept the person as he or she is; understand that the addiction will continue, and learn to take care of yourself within the situation.

• Shame or berate.
• Schedule the intervention at a time they are like to be stressed or intoxicated.
• Ramble or vent — your healing will come when they are in a better place to listen.
• Be negative.
• Ignore the signs: The drugs that are available to emerge generations these days are more dangerous than anything you ever experienced in your youth. The youth today might get hooked on painkillers such as Vicodin, Percocet, and Lortabs. Then when those highs don’t cut it, they get turned onto stronger opiates such as heroin, oxycontin and potentially worse. Meth, cocaine, or crack might also fall into play.  No one seems to walk completely away from this addiction because the temptation is there each and every day for the rest of their lives and they begin to fight a force they cannot win. See the signs and symptoms of their use and point them out; show them they aren’t fooling anyone with their behavior.