Drug intervention programs are not all the same. The truth is that intervention is an inherently personal process, and a drug intervention program can only succeed if it
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Drug rehabilitation never works by accident. On the contrary, there are a handful of key characteristics which determine the success or failure of drug rehab programs. Foremost among these is personal attention. The best drug treatment center is the one that recognizes and cares for its residents as unique individuals. Drug abuse is a personal problem, after all, and drug rehabilitation has to pose a personal solution to it. Rehab programs can
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The goal of the intervention process is deceptively simple: to convince an addict to seek drug rehab. The catch, of course, is that interventions are inherently emotional events, and only by harnessing and channeling those emotions can you expect to be successful in your effort. The intervention that works is the one conducted in a spirit of warm and levelheaded support, without reproach or criticism. In conducting a crisis intervention, then, it
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
In drug rehab I learned wasn’t the cool guy I thought I was. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking,
