Addiction effects far more than just the person using alcohol and drugs, it also destroys families. When preparing for an intervention for alcohol & drugs, families are almost always worse off emotionally than their loved one who needs a treatment center. Alcohol & drugs addiction is not a victimless crime as the the addicted one would see it, it destroys everything in it’s path and effects everyone around it. Families call about intervention for alcohol and drugs when their loved one does not appear to be getting better on their own despite several promises or attempts of doing so. Everyone says the .png)
addict or alcoholic has to want it, well what about the family? When does the family hit bottom and what about when they want it to stop. People who tell families of addicted people that their loved one has to want it or hit bottom and that the family has to wait is very dangerous and very wrong. When preparing, intervention for alcohol and drugs always uncovers a family in ruin caused by the addiction and an enabling family on some level that is indirectly making the addiction easier than it should be for your loved one. Although the alcohol and drugs user has to want it or hit bottom, the family does not have to wait for that. Intervention for alcohol and drugs spends an entire day with the family before the intervention preparing and creating an environment for this to be possible. As long as it is more comfortable for the alcohol and drugs to continue than it is to stop, then that is the path your loved one will take. Your loved one is always going to take the path of least resistance at the families emotional and financial expense.
Intervention for Addiction
The intervention is for the family as much as it is for your loved one. Intervention for addiction can be viewed as the treatment center for the family who has suffered long enough over their loved ones addiction. It is sometimes difficult for families to understand that intervention for addiction is about working with the family to restructure the family system that is allowing the addiction to continue and fester. It is not the families fault this has happened, they have only allowed this to happen simple out of love for the addicted person. Prior to intervention for addiction families have been manipulated into doing things for the addict or alcoholic that makes their addiction easier than it should be. Because of this, the addiction is far to comfortable for your loved one and makes it far more difficult for them to want to stop. Intervention for addiction instructs families on how to change their behaviors that makes their loved one accountable, responsible and willing to accept help and go to a treatment center. Everyone says they have to want it and hit bottom, however when you sit back and analyze every call that comes for intervention for addiction, you see that your loved one is never going to want it or hit bottom if they don’t have to. Unfortunately through no fault of the family, they are standing in the way making quitting for the alcohol and drugs user very difficult.
Alcohol & Drug Intervention
It is difficult to convince a family to have an alcohol & drug intervention for their loved one. We should not have to convince anyone to do this, however it is unfortunate that everyday we find ourselves laboring to sell an alcohol and drug intervention to the family. The first caller is always on board with doing something, however when the phone hangs up and the intervention concept is presented to other family members is when everything goes wrong. It is amazing how difficult it is to get every family member to agree to do an alcohol and drug intervention because of differences of opinion. The question is never whether or not the family wants their loved one to get better, that’s a given. The difficult part is families agreeing on the question how do we approach this and get our loved one better. It 10 times easier to get your loved one to accept help at the alcohol and drug intervention than it is for the family to agree to the intervention and allow us to take their loved one to treatment. Interventions work, it is the families that stand in the way mostly out of fear and guilt.