Archive for the Category ◊ Intervention ◊

Author: Suki
• Thursday, February 21st, 2008

An addiction intervention should never be undertaken lightly. The intervention process is fraught with tension and emotion, and the only successful interventions are those which go forward in a spirit of love and support. What that means, of course, is that you have to be able to marshall your words and actions in conducting an addiction intervention…which is why it

Author: Suki
• Monday, February 18th, 2008

A drug intervention doesn

Author: Suki
• Friday, February 15th, 2008

The best alcoholism intervention is the one that convinces an alcoholic to seek alcohol treatment. Period. There is no other reason to conduct an alcohol intervention, no other end that could possibly justify the intervention itself. Alcoholism is a devastating disease. Alcohol rehab can fix what

Author: Suki
• Thursday, February 14th, 2008

As should perhaps go without saying, interventions are inherently intimate events. There is invariably plenty of raw emotion on display during the crisis intervention process, and only those interventions suffused with thorough and supportive honesty can ever really be successful. The practical implication of all that is that you need an intervention specialist with whom you feel comfortable. The best intervention specialist, in fact, is the one who earns the trust of his clients, and manages the intervention more from within than from without. Given the stakes, you can

Author: Suki
• Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

A drug and alcohol intervention only matters to the extent that it produces long-term drug and alcohol recovery. That is the only point of the crisis intervention process, the only reason to conduct an intervention in the first place. The catch, of course, is that a drug and alcohol intervention can only work if it

Author: Suki
• Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

So you think someone you care about is in need of a crisis intervention. And you don

Author: Suki
• Monday, February 11th, 2008

A successful intervention can make a world of difference in the drug rehab process. Remember, rehabilitation must ultimately be driven by the efforts of rehab patients themselves, which means addicts must commit to addiction treatment for it to be successful. That commitment, of course, can be enormously difficult to make. Checking into drug rehab means admitting impotence, and vulernability…and addicts are extraordinarily ill-suited to honest self-assessment. In fact, it

Author: Suki
• Tuesday, February 05th, 2008

An alcoholic intervention has to start with love, and with warmth. If someone you care about is an alcohol abuser, there

Author: Suki
• Monday, February 04th, 2008

Drug intervention programs can often play essential roles in the addiction recovery process. Interventions, after all, are inherently difficult things to conduct. The emotional nature of the intervention process begs for outside assistance, which is precisely why professional intervention specialists are so important. The exclusive intervention services offered by private drug rehabs help to facilitate crisis interventions, thus ensuring that addicts get the support they need in deciding to seek drug treatment. In the end, nothing could ever be more important than than that.

Remember that drug intervention programs don

Author: Suki
• Friday, February 01st, 2008

A successful drug abuse intervention is always a labor of love. The goal of any intervention, of course, is to convince an addict to seek drug abuse treatment. To that end, the best interventions are conducted in a spirit of encouragement and support. If someone you care about is an addict, there