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.
- Intervention FAQsHere are some of the most common questions that families often ask about an intervention, whether for drug, alcohol, or substance addiction.
Our family has 2 addicts living in my parents house.. my 54 year old sister & her 21 year old son. She denies being on drugs but her actions, gone for 3-4 when she gets any money, then comes home & sleeps for days. When she is up then she screams & accuses my parents of all kinds of stuff. She tells them they don’t love her, they give her son anything he wants they are the reason he is on drugs, etc then the cycle starts over. She doesn’t work because she claims to have illness & can’t but she can do what she wants when she wants, and her mouth is a meth mouth with the rottening black nubs for teeth. We have found meth pipes, meth, pills, etc on her but she always blames her son. We have tried approaching her on the subject & she blows up at us is verbally abusive to my parents.
Her son, my nephew, she actually left him with me & my parents at 4 years old because “he” didn’t want to move with her to her boyfriends house. I live next door to my parents so I can be there to help them when they need it. Her son has OD’ed 5-6 times in the last 3 years, stolen thousands of dollars from parents who are on a fixed income. We have taken him to local facilities, had him put in behavior facilities, had him arrested, & he keeps doing it. He buys drugs now & keeps them in my parents house. He uses her ion, meth, pills, anything.
My parents have been enablers but I have now convinced them to get them out of their home. I’d there anyway we could get help. They have no insurance & we are broke due to all of this! Please help!
My mother Melissa Dawn Jacks is serving with addiction to pain pills and meth she has already od once before when I was a teenager and she has been charged with possession of meth and is out on bond as I speak now I am very scared I will lose my mother to death one day and never be able to find her I know I am not any better I have had rehab lost four of my babies to state on the count of addiction but I have been able to turn my life around with the count of the good lord above by sending me an eye opener allowing me to find a great man and I have a five month old one on the way and I am dying for my mother’s love and is to finally have a bond and her be able to be a part of my life and at least for sure two of her grandbabies life as well to three of her step grand babies life as well I am asking for help for my mother as soon as possible and I want it to where she can’t leave on her own because she will and I don’t won’t to lose my mother I have always wanted a true mother and daughter relationship with my mother and I have never ever since the day I was born
I lost my son March 30, 2019 to drugs and alcohol he was 39years old. My other son has been addicted to methadone/Xanax/any opiates he can his hands on. He currently lives in my deceased sons car. He was born 1981. Please help us! Please! I can’t bury another son!
My name is Liz I have been fighting alcohol and drug addiction since I was 17. I think everything started when i was gang raped at 17. I started having anxiety attacks but couldn’t remember the rate only flashes. I’ve been in and out of AA since I was 22. The last six months I’ve been hiding my drinking, cocaine use and meth use from all my family. I’ve stolen from my dad, sister and brother, including money, pills, and alcohol. I havent held a job for more then 1 year since I was 15. I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2017. I never completed counseling. I’ve had three DUI’s since 2002. I’m currently not in compliance with my DUI sentence. I never finished treatment last summer. I live with my 70 yr old father who enables me and I know it’s wrong but I constantly take his oxycodone and his money. I babysit for my sister to cover basic needs, but I’ve been using neth at her house while watching my nephews Ben 5 and Max 8. I’m in a spot of complete defeat but I cant seem to surrender. I’m ready but scared to admit to my myself and my family how screwed up I really am. I tried to put myself into treatment here in Vancouver in 2015 my state insurance wouldn’t cover inpatient cause I had two weeks clean. I was td yo come back the next day and give dirty UA and I could get detox then insurance would have to pay for inpatient. I made it 5 months that time before I relapsed. I’m 39 and I’m scared.
Hello, my name is Kristen and I am 20 years old. I have two older sisters who are in trouble. My oldest sister is almost 30 years old and she is currently facing time in prison for dealing drugs with her boyfriend. So at the moment she is completely out of the picture. My concern is my second eldest sister Courtney. She is 26 years old and she is an extreme addict. She drinks, smokes meth, does coke, and probably more. She sells her body for money for the drugs. She has endangered her kids on more than one occasion by putting them in the car with her while she was drunk, despite us calling the cops on her. She’s threatened people’s lives with a knife, random strangers. She sees people who aren’t there. She is always paranoid that someone is watching her. The guys she hangs around with abuse her kids and her. They even result to drugging her and taking pictures of her nude, then sending the pictures to my mother’s phone. She just lost her kids two months ago to CPS because she tried to commit suicide by overdosing on her medication and drinking with lithium in her system.She has actually been continuously hospitalized for her drug habits. She has gone through two strokes and has almost died. Her kids name’s are Alayna and Damon, they’re the light of my life and I am in so much pain after loosing them. My sister has been raped, molested, and beaten by these guys she is hanging around. I don’t know what to do anymore. My mom supports her drug habit by feeling bad for her and letting her guilt my mom into buying and spending money on her, or giving her pain pills. My mom is an addict as well. She does Hydrocodone and she drinks everyday. She gets loud and she tries to fight people when she is drunk. My mom has also been beaten on and raped most of her life, so she handles those feelings by drinking. My mom is almost 50 years old and spends 200$ or more a week on just pills alone. I need help. My family is falling apart and I seem to be the only sober one here, trying to hold it together the best I can. I’ve always been the grown up in the group of my mom, my sisters, and I. I’ve never got to have the childhood that I’ve always wanted. Now my niece and nephew are facing the same fate. I don’t know what to do anymore and I’m on my last string of hope. I’ve been watching a lot of the shows of Intervention and I honestly feel this is the only way I can get my family back and sober away from the drugs and get them the therapy they honestly really REALLY need. I’m afraid my sister Courtney is going to kill herself or worse. I love her so much, and I love my mom too. But I don’t have the resources or help to give them. I’ve tried everything. Please, if you read this. Help us. Please help us. I don’t want to bury my sister. I don’t want to bury my mother. It’s too soon. I am reaching out to y’all. Please.
I have a brother who has been on Meth and popping pills since he was in high school. He is now almost 30 years old and we don’t know what to do anymore. My parents do nothing but help his addiction. They’ve given him multiple houses, vehicles, a business, pay his bills, and just do anything for him when he calls, which is constant. He’s done several different things to try and sober up but none were affective. He’s moved away to other family and has also been to rehab as well. After rehab he was clean for 2-3 years. He ended up in a relationship with a woman who had 3 children. They lived together through this duration and didn’t live a very happy life. Then ended up in a bad car wreck that broke his back. He was obviously prescribed lots of pain medication and that’s when it all started to go down hill. His relationship started to worsen, then we started to notice he was using again. Him and his girlfriend stayed away from most functions with the family. When they did end up coming around we would notice how bad they’ve started looking. It was clear both were using. She eventually left and we haven’t heard from her. But to this day my brother still uses. He’s stolen from the family on multiple occasions and has even almost ruined my dads business to help his addiction. I’ve never understood why he used. He would make up so many things to cause problems. When he would talk about his childhood I wasn’t sure what to believe.
I see people leaving comments, I am curious if responses are received?
My 17 year old daughter has been smoking marijuana since she was 14 years old also drinking. At 16 she used Xanax and later on ecstasy. Now she is 17 years old and smokes marijuana cartridges. She takes a hit about every 10 to 15 minutes a day. It’s the first thing she does when she wakes up if she doesn’t smoke she gets irritated, mad, she goes days without eating, body pains and now she is showing signs of respiratory problems please help my daughter who I fear will soon start using stronger drugs
My father is addicted to meth. I haven’t talked to him in a year because of an incident. He has tried almost every drug besides heroin. He is a manipulator, liar, cheater and can be a hateful person. He asks his parents for money. I myself almost being 25 have paid for some utility bills and he owes me $500 because of it. He’s a 50 year old man. He’s lost relationships with two of his daughters and his parents and will eventually lose his other two daughters one day. He’s in denial. He will deny anything and everything. I’m scared for myself that when I get the call one day that he’s gone my feelings will be void for him. My state of mind if he dies, it won’t matter cause my life will still be the same and it will go on. He doesn’t realize what he’s missing. I’m his oldest daughter and I recently got married. Nothing was said from him. He’s going to be missing out. I’m going to be getting a call one day that he’s dead. And my heart breaks the most for my grandparents, I don’t want them to burry a son. Drugs has taken over his life. And I’m afraid they will win.
I face addiction and seriously need GUIDANCE on what I should do. I’m only 27 and addicted to benzodiazepines(xanax). I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place and dont know what to do or how to get help, I’ve been to rehab twice now, and left both times because I had a way home ( only 45 miles from home) I need help getting on the right path to success. I have a family who depends on me! Please help!