| Drug Intervention is able to shatter the spiraling pull | | | | the drugs. This is a person who knows exactly what |
| of destruction that an addict endures. Addiction can | | | | he or she has to do to get the next hit. So this |
| progressively get worse in a few months and is | | | | individual will not accept treatment that easily |
| oftentimes beyond the understanding of the addict | | | | because to the person, drugs are more of a friend |
| and those that love them. Most people cannot | | | | than family and a stranger, such as an interventionist |
| comprehend why someone who is abusing drugs | | | | is to them. Therefore, there may be some resistance |
| cannot voluntarily commit to rehab. This is something | | | | to the confrontation and sometimes, the |
| many will never come to terms with because that is | | | | confrontation is so aggressive that the addict will be |
| another world and when you are not in it, then it is | | | | argumentative and angry about being put in a corner. |
| much harder to understand. It can create devastating | | | | There is nothing the family can do when this |
| situations where the nice person that families once | | | | happens, but to try and calm their loved one down in |
| knew have turned out to be thieves, and criminals | | | | such a way as to realize that what is being done is in |
| that they no longer seem to know. | | | | their own best interest and nothing less. The |
| At this stage of the game, the only recourse or | | | | interventionist will take over the situation if it |
| solution is to find someone or some place that can | | | | warrants it. Sometimes, family can be the ones that |
| help. What better place to start than a drug | | | | are in the way of getting the addict into a vehicle |
| treatment center where an interventionist can be | | | | and on his or her way to the rehab center. In this |
| sent out to the home of the family members to try | | | | case, this family member may be the one who has |
| and put the pieces back together. The key to staring | | | | been enabling the addict all this time. This person |
| the process is to come to terms with the fact that | | | | needs to leave the gathering as soon as possible |
| your loved one is beyond the norm in getting them | | | | because the addict will always want to turn to this |
| into treatment. It will take an aggressive approach | | | | person for validation, which can be very dangerous. |
| that the addict may not like at all. However, family | | | | Some family members don't think that they are |
| members have to surrender control to the | | | | enablers and that they are probably the one that |
| interventionist because this person is likely to know | | | | makes it impossible for the drug addict to quit the |
| what he or she is doing. | | | | bad habit. A better understanding of drug abuse will |
| The addict already knows how to manipulate family | | | | possibly help this person to grasp it, but until then, |
| members and friends. This is a person that used | | | | the addict is the primary suspect and should get help |
| manipulation to get drugs and to get money to buy | | | | right away. |