An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by family and friends to get a family member, friend, or loved one to seek help for an addiction or other similar problems. When one has tried everything possible to inspire or convince their loved one that they need help, but they will not admit into a program, an addiction intervention program is a successful tool in helping you help your loved one escape from the grips of denial, rationalization and projection.
By approaching them from a place of love and compassion, with help facilitated by a addiction interventionist, you will be helping them understand the problem that they have and that a treatment program is needed. Using a professional interventionist will not only ensure that you have taken the appropriate approach, but will also give you peace of mind knowing that you have expressed your love and concern in a professional, impacting, and very effective manner.
Addiction Intervention Process
An intervention is a very strategic process that must be facilitated and properly executed by an addiction intervention specialist to ensure desired results. In order to effectively perform a substance intervention, an intervention team will be established and then thoroughly prepared with the information required for attaining success. All parties involved will understand the purpose, process and techniques of the intervention.
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- Addiction DefinitionAddiction is also classified as a progressive disease. This means that the habit will only intensify as time goes on if nothing or nobody intervenes with the addiction.
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Hello my name is sheron clarke I need help with my addiction I am from Richmond va. Please help me
I really wish my biological dad had gotten an intervention. I was only 9 when he overdosed on heroin. Maybe if he had gotten help then he would be alive today and maybe helped me and been the father he never was.
My 38 year old brother has been out on the streets homeless for five years now drowning himself out with any drug he can get his hands on. Last drugs of choice our family was aware of him using is heroin, and crystal meth. He was such a beautiful soul, spirit and person as a whole who would do anything for his family, the very best role model to his two sons; so full of life. After the split with his children’s mother (a 17year relationship) he dove into a deep depression, meet a rebound herion addict who turned him out onto the poison, and it was end game from there on. Our whole family tried to warn him he was inviting in lethal company, but he turned a deaf ear to us all. About three years ago his “rebound partner” got clean and sober and no loner associates with him, she was the main reason he said he was waiting to get clean, now that she is long gone he is faced along with all of us of the severity of his addiction. He has overdosed well over five times that we are aware of. We as his family are barely staying afloat to make ends meet in our own households; to try to consider a rehab for him is depressing because we know it’s not a reality that we can afford. I pray with tears falling from my eyes pouring out of my soul that someone can help my family and I- my once beautiful brother get the first step to rehabilitation that he so desperately needs before his next overdose is his last heartbeat. Thank you so much for reading and God bless!🙏
I wish I could give you a hug and tell you that you are a good person. Everyone has a battle to fight and some are not strong enough to handle it.
I have a daughter who is an alcoholic and she has wrecked her three children’s lives as well as mine. I have gotten her into program after program, but she goes right back to the alcohol.
I hope you find strength and love to surround you and know that you are never alone! 🙏❤️
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My sister needs help. We come from a family of 13 siblings of which one was from out of wed and I know that affected my little sister. She meet her first and only boyfriend very young They had 2 boys. She got pregnant a 3rd time and only my dad who is now deceased my mom and I know she aborted and she asked me to accompany her. Lord only knows the toll it has taken on her & me because I can’t even imagine what she has to deal with, as her older sis never knew the pain and anguish this has brought her. Her man did things after they moved together he started dealing bringing his friends into his home. She use to lock herself in the room and that’s were it started. Drinking by herself, hiding bottles. Drinking at work. She was an awesome mom and a great house maker. No longer later my dad passed. She was his fav. I feel she lost her hero I’ll never know. She shut down 2000 she lost her home kids and has lived in and out of places, not seeking help. Can’t hold a job, no insurance. We lost my lil brother in 2015 and my oldest brother 2019. I do not want to lose my sister she has an awesome nerdy. Please HELP
Please help me help my brother. He is a herion and meth addict and my mom is a meth addict as well. Please I’m begging for someone to help me.
Please help me , I’m a acholic and addicted to pot. Sometimes even smoke meth. I have no support and feel like I’m going to end up killing myself if I don’t get the proper treatment.
Hello I really need your help I don’t want to lose my 40 yr old son is is addicted to PCP he has 4 kids and a mother and stepfather that loves him dearly and need him to get himself together we are so scared that he won’t wake up one morning scared he is gonna do something out in the streets and not know he did it his actions are very scary when he is under the influence of PCP I’m a mother that has been in and out of the hospital due to stress, chest hurting like a heart attack about to happen my most resent visit to hospital was 2 weeks ago and they thought I was having a stroke I don’t want any of these to happen to me I’m raising his 3 out of 4 of his kids I’m begging someone anyone to plz help me I deal with him everyday cause of the PCP I can’t sleep cause as soon as his phone rings he is out the door then I start stressing cause he left it’s gotten to a point I have to watch the home cameras to make sure he doesn’t leave but I lose sleep watching the cameras it’s so bad when I do does off and I decide to go downstairs to check on him he is gone and used pillow under blankets to make it seem like he is in bed. At one point he was stealing my pills had to get a safe for my medications when he isn’t under the influence of PCP he is very nice and helpful PLEASE HELP ME IM BEGGING YOU I watch ur show and always said if I just could get them to help my son.
hi, my name is kyley and my mom is jil. she has been addicted to crystal meth for probably 3 years now at least. there have been many traumas in her life that have led to her drug abuse such as severe family trauma and trauma related to her experience in the military. my mom is mentally ill and because of her mental state she has not been able to take care of me or either of my brothers for years. i haven’t seen my mom since i graduated from high school (over a year ago) and haven’t been able to speak to her due to her being in and out of jail and without access to a phone or computer. the only time i’ve seen her face is on inmate search sites where her mugshots are shown. my mom needs help. i need help. every single day i suffer not knowing where she is or if she’s even alive. i need my mom in my life and so does my brother. i fear if i don’t get help for her that she’ll die alone on the streets. please help us.
Please help . The father of my son is struggling with a very strong meth addiction and i need him to be a father to his son. my baby needs his dad alive. please help me.
I need help to help my mother. She is a cross addicted alcoholic. She started with prescription pills and alcohol when she was a teenager, mind you shes in her late forties. She has alot of her past that she will not let go. She will go on roller coaster rides with alcohol and pills. It has even led her to other drug use. I was heading down the same path when I was in highschool but as seeing what my mother went through, I was offered help from a rehab and I decided to take the opportunity. I wish she would see the same in these opportunities but hasn’t been in an intervention type theme to maybe help? Shes living with her boyfriend who is just as bad with drinking as she is, if not worse. I don’t want to see my brothers children or mine to go without a grandmother. She barely even knows her grandchildren now because she tries to hide the fact that she still drinks. She has terrible depression and anxiety which she is prescribed for. There have been many times where she has tried to leave this life, a couple times I was there to witness at a young age. Always drunken arguing and disagreements. I grew up with this with my little brother and felt as if I needed to protect him from her addiction. All the police lights, hospital trips and weekend long binges where we would see her that morning before work and would not see her again until after the weekend when she would come home from work after that weekend. My nana (her mother) is treated terribly by her. My mother has also lost her biological father around fifteen due to alcoholism. I’m begging for help to help her! I know you cant help yourself unless you seek help but I’m not ready to lose my mother yet. She used to be my rock, my best friend when I had no one. Please help me help my mother and our family!
My nephew has been a addict since his teenage years. He is 32 years old now and has been put into rehab by the family twice. He is so severely addicted he can not get better. He has stole from every person in the family, lies and always makes excuses for why he has a problem. He was just recently beat in the face with a brick by the other addicts he hangs with and almost died. His face is crushed and needs more surgery but has no insurance. He has liver, kidney and hepatitis C from all the drugs and drinking. If he does not get help soon, he will die before 40 years old. Please if you can help our nephew and our family we would be so grateful! Amy Wilson
My mother was an amazing mother at one time in my life. She became a meth addict while in her 30s. Her husband introduced her to it so she can stay awake to transport drugs across the Mexican border for her. He was a very evil man and I do blame him partially for the way she is. I love my mother with all of my heart even after allowing her husband to mentally, physically and sexually abuse my sisters and I from the age of 4 to 14. She decided to have a child with another man and my aunt adopted him because she couldn’t stay clean. About 3 years later she gave birth to a second son and we all take care of him but for the most part my 72 year old grandmother does. She takes abuse from my mother because of the resentment she has towards her. My mother and aunt were abused by their brother for many years after their biological father passed from a heroin overdose. If my mother could get help I know she would be an amazing and strong mother like she used to be. Please help me help her. Our family supports her and we all want to get her help but it’s so expensive and hard to find a rehab that will take her or that we can afford. I pray this gets into the right hands and know that we need the help. She is 47 years old now and I fear for her life. Please help us
I have a 19 year old son who is addicted to weed and i think pills. I’ve had him in several different centers since age 14. But nothing works . so im asking for HELP . please help me to help him . I dont wont to loose my son to drugs or pills. Someone reach out to us and tell me what can I do to help him LIVE a proficient life. 10-12-19.
WE DESPERATELY NEED HELP!!! Hello! I want to say first of all that the work that you do is amazing and is helping so many people to be in recovery. I just graduated with a Bachelors in Psychology and a minor in substance abuse education, so I hope to one day be like you guys. My nephew’s mother is on meth and has been for quite a while now. She is slowly killing herself and she is not doing anything to see her most precious son. He was born addicted to drugs because she was taking drugs that weren’t prescribed to her. She was a good mother at first, and then just started to do meth. She has been in and out of jail and even one time, took the baby for days and we had no idea where she was. She had stolen from her best friend. She has stolen from every person you can think on. Her parents are not there for her. Her Dad helps a little bit, but as of right now, my brother and Dawson (my nephew) are living in the the house with my parents. I, myself am also a recovering addict, so it’s like my parents are going through everything again, except that DHR is involved this time. My parents used to be so happy and they do not deserve to have to raise a baby when they should be living their lives. My brother’s child’s mother needs help and she needs it fast. Her son needs her and it is not fair to him to have to go through this. If there is any way on this God’s green earth we could do an intervention on her, that would be the best thing in the world. Our family is falling apart and she will die if she does not get help.
I have a brother who is 28 years old he is an drinks a lot and also does a lot of drugs and he need help. He has 2 kids who he needs to be there for
Hi Intervention,
My name is Toni Rodriguez and I’m contacting you regarding my 22 yr old son who is on heroin. He tells his dad, myself, himself, and everyone else who loves him very much that he isn’t doing anything. He’s gone to rehab here in Wisconsin a half a dozen times, and came out doing the same thing. He has been incarcerated for almost a year, came out doing the same thing. Lately he’s been calling me asking for money and i give it to him because he tells me he hasn’t eaten or needs gas for a friends car, and promises he’s not doing anything wrong so I have given into him. Now he calls and comes to my work to demand he needs money because he’s stranded so i have given it to him because im very busy at work and need to get back to work. He goes by his dads place and asks to shower and asks to put gas in his friends car and ask for a pair of shoes to wear and his dad gives into him too. Now he sleeps in his friends car because we can no longer enable his behavior. We feel very heart broken and sad that he hasn’t at least tried to go back to rehab..he tells his dad he’s afraid of the detox effects and that he doesn’t have a problem..when we see that he clearly does. He’s lost weight he eats very little and lost all color and life from his face. He has a 4 year old daughter that needs her daddy and needs him alive. We don’t want to loose him, we don’t want to bury our son. Please Please help me and our family get back our happyfamily. He isn’t the same anymore, he doesn’t make me laugh anymore the way he used to. He seems to be a stranger to us because we don’t know who he is anymore. His dad told me he had a blackeye that was seeming to get better because it was turning green already, so i don’t know why he’s getting into fights or what’s going on. Please help me. Please.
Please help I have a niece that was clean from meth for almost 3 years. She got around the wrong people and now she is worse than what she was. She had 2 children and is wasting away on meth she shots it. We tried to put her in drug hab but they won’t do much money or family doesn’t have. It’s very sad watching her go down this path. She just recently got arrested for sales of meth and might be servicing a year or so. Please help us help her. Thank you
My older sister is 26 years old. She is addicted to heroin and crack cocaine. My parents very recently found out about her addiction. She has been living with a drug dealer who beats her and doesn’t allow her to have any contact with family. She has two very young boys who my mother currently has custody of. She suffers from depression and is extremely underweight. She lies about the drugs she is doing and steals my mothers prescription pain pills, money, and anything of value. Very recently she was picked up by our father and is staying with him away from the town where she was doing all the drugs. She desperately needs my professional help. Please help.
My son need HELP He just had a baby he’s been doing drugs for all the seven years he’s destroying his life his babies in everybody’s life around him he has a drinking and a drug problem he just destroyed his marriage with a brand new born baby they driving around with the baby when they’re drunk and high on whatever they on I’m just concerned about the baby as much as him. I am a mother screaming for help I can do anything else I’m trying to I have tried to get him help but he’s just not seen the picture he slowly killing himself me and everybody in the family we just don’t know what else to do we desperately need help please help us please for the love of God on this pI am a mother screaming for help I can do anything else I’m trying to I have tried to get him help but he’s just not seen the picture he slowly killing himself me and everybody in the family we just don’t know what else to do we desperately need help please help us please for the love of God I need help or I’m going to go crazy as well
My son is 24 years old he has been addicted to heroine for 8 years, he has overdosed 5 times and been on life support once, he has been arrested many times for overdosing, and failing drugs tests,he has been to a couple free rehabs but never completed treatment, he needs doctors and professional therapists to help him learn why he has this destructive behavior, I have watched your show to learn how to handle him on my end, I always thought cody wasn’t as bad as the people on your show until I typed this out and realized he is, I love him and I will never stop trying to save him, I pray you will help me save him too.
Hello my name is Ashley Crosby.I dont know if writing a comment on here will make a team of professionals come to help but I just need to try.My little brother is a herion addict.He is only 22.I want to believe its not too late.My family cant afford to put him in rehab.I just dont know what to do.I just really want my brother back.I dont know if thats possible but I still have a glimmer of hope.
My son Nathaniel is 20 years old. Been addicted to heroin for a couple years now. And pills. He has overdosed twice this year. Once in my arms. Somehow he made it from a 20 minute drive to my house in the back of a truck during active overdose. He dropped at my door and died in my arms on my couch. While i had my young son here and his son which is my grandson who wasnt even a year old yet. That was the end of febuary. The 2nd overdose was a month ago from pills. I didnt evwn know til he showed up at my door from the hospital the next morning. He has a lot of family who care. 2 younger brothers and his son who will be 2 in march of next year. As his mother i have had a horrible time. I give him what he wants and i help him. But i have stopped because its breaking my heart. Its not easy to tell him no especially after seeing him die. My head has been messed up since then. Thats what i see every day in my head. He said he dont need help or rehab that he can do it. He wants to get clean but with no one that will take him in anymore he goes qhere he can and stays high. He has no job he doesnt see his son and i dont get to see my grandson due to him. Please help me. I dont know what else to do. I cant live if he dies.
My son Cesar Vergara living in Colombia, I need to help for help my son, he abuse with basuco for mor or less 6 years.