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How to Do an Intervention for Those Suffering From Drug Addiction

An intervention is a meeting of friends, family, peers and colleagues who come together to compassionately confront a loved one and persuade them to seek treatment for their addictive behaviors. When you have a serious drug addiction and you are destroying your relationships, missing out on clients or career opportunities, and losing large chunks of your life due to blackouts and bad behavior, it's time to get help for your drug addiction.

At The Canyon, we specialize in treating those who suffer from mental and psychological issues like severe depression and bipolar disorder in addition to drug addiction. Unlike most drug treatment facilities, we recognize that psychological problems feed drug addiction and vice versa. If you don't treat both simultaneously, you are not receiving a comprehensive treatment and your chances for success decrease significantly.

How To Do a Drug Addiction Intervention: How It Works

Awareness of the problem and a desire to help are the motivating factors for most who deem it necessary to get involved and stage an intervention. From there, you'll need to research and learn as much as possible about the addiction and available treatment options. Gather support from key people in your loved one's life who are willing to participate by writing letters about their experience with the person since drugs and alcohol became a problem.

Emphasize your love and concern for you loved one when you write your letter, but don't hold back any details when it comes to discussing the effects of their harmful behaviors. Be sure to point out the physical, emotional and financial toll the addiction is having on you and them. Define the consequences if they refuse treatment (cutting off contact or financial support, moving out, divorce, etc).

Quietly make arrangements for transportation and admission to the treatment center, then schedule the intervention and invite your loved one without informing the person you intend to confront of the plan. Friends and family will read their letters aloud and encourage their loved one to enroll immediately in treatment.

How To Do a Drug Addiction Intervention: Using a Professional Interventionist

Professional interventionists are skilled at organizing and mediating all kinds of interventions. If your loved one uses denial, anger or other defense methods to minimize the situation, is best to seek professional assistance. Additionally, if your loved one has a history of suicidal behaviors, violence or mental illness, an interventionist can help navigate these psychological landmines.

At The Canyon, we are committed to helping you and your loved one through the emotionally difficult and physically uncomfortable transition from addiction to a drug-free lifestyle. We stand ready to offer professional interventionists who can plan, coach and guide your loved one's intervention from start to finish-even escort them directly to the facility.

How To Do a Drug Addiction Intervention: Planning For Success

  • 1) Take as much time as you need to plan your approach, educate yourself about the problem and coordinate with everyone involved.
  • 2) Practice as a group. Iron out every detail: who reads in what order, where to sit, when and how to react if there's a blowup.
  • 3) Do your best to persuade your loved one to accept treatment. They have the option to refuse, but make it very clear that you will follow through on removing yourself from their sphere of destructive behavior.
  • 4) Insist that treatment must be started immediately. Time to "think it over" is an excuse to continue denying the problem, an opportunity to hide from the situation, or a dangerous escape through binging.

A Drug Addiction Intervention with The Canyon

Each person who is admitted for treatment will undergo an evaluation by Canyon medical staff to determine what, if any, medications are appropriate to assist with withdrawal symptoms, detoxification and the co-occurring disorder or disorders. Interwoven throughout treatment are relapse prevention tools and techniques to handle internal or emotional triggers as well as external or environmental triggers that stir up cravings for drugs or alcohol. From beginning to end, The Canyon provides addicts with multiple levels of support and recovery. If you have questions about treatment options available at The Canyon or would like more information about staging an intervention, please call today at .

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