411 on intervention

Suki — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:52:42 +0000

Drug intervention is an attempt by family members and friends to help a chemically dependent person get help for his or her addiction, and get them into a residential drug treatment center. The purpose of a drug addiction intervention is to help the drug addict see the physical and mental destruction their addiction creates. Interventions are usually successful and often enable the abuser to move on to successful drug and alcohol treatment programs. As with all addictions, drug and alcohol abusers are usually the last to admit there is a problem. Or, the abuser may realize there is a problem but just cannot seem to seek help. Family, friends and careers also suffer and can be destroyed by the abuser

Drug treatment is what you make out of it

Suki — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:10:07 +0000

Drug treatment doesn’t have to suck if you don’t let it. For real. They say that life is what you make of it, then so is drug treatment. I not only know because I was in drug treatment, but, also because I had seen so many people in there stay in denial. They ruined it for themselves. Sure, drug rehab is no picnic, but you gotta get through it. That’s just how it is. That’s what you’re there for! Anyone who has had to go to drug treatment knows that the only way to be successful at it is to open yourself to it. That’s what I did and I can definitely tell you that I never thought it would work. Years later, members of my family revealed that they were skeptical as well. The reason that I succeeded against all odds back then was because I gave myself to the program. I gave myself to the formula that they had for guiding me back to sobriety. I gave and I gave until I finally started realizing the benefits of what I was doing. I was giving drug treatment a chance to work and it was like nobody’s business. So what’s up with you?

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411 on intervention

Drug treatment is what you make out of it