Families

Many good interveners—including some excellent professional intervention counselors—started out as primary enablers.

The same people whose “enabling” actions allow the disease to flourish— and who may feel helpless to confront it— are the ones who can be most effective as interveners.

They don’t realize how effectively their actions are undermining their own goal: getting the addict into treatment.

One benefit of gender-specific rehab is the reasons for initial substance-seeking can be appropriately addressed by the treatment team and can be processed with like-minded peers.

There’s a big difference between “knowing” that something is a disease, and actually treating it as one.

It’s often difficult for family members to see the real extent and nature of the damage addiction has caused to themselves and the family.

The drugs or alcohol have turned someone you love into a monster. How can we turn them back?

If we have been or are in the addict’s path, we have dealt with having to compromise.

Instead of becoming inspired to turn his life around, he seems to have figured, “OK, crisis averted. Let’s go get a beer.”

An Interventionist will be trying to make sure they have all of the ‘pieces of the puzzle’