• Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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
• Monday, October 29th, 2007
What makes drug addiction treatment successful? Personal attention, for starters. You are your own person. You don
• Friday, October 26th, 2007
During my 90 days at alcohol rehab I experienced more ups and downs than I could ever hope to include in a short write-up. There were the good days and there were the bad, but in the end they all added up to precisely what I came for: alcohol rehabilitation. Alcoholism had left me in a shattered state, without the hope or energy one needs in order to make any kind of life recovery. Three months ago I found myself in a state of total stagnation and despair; my alcohol addiction had led me to a point of desperate immobility where nothing existed outside my alcohol abuse. I was truly at the brink of death with nothing to call my own but a broken soul. I had no future. When I finally reached a point where I was prepared to make a serious change in order to save my life, I was presented with an opportunity to come to a rehab center, a safe place, where I could learn some tools for sobriety as well as for living a healthy life. I gained so much more. I have never before in my life had an opportunity to take three months for myself; a time to peel back the layers and walls of my inner and outer personality and to explore the many corridors and shadows that have helped to create the person I was and the person I am today.
• Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Whoever you are, however tough you think you might be, you aren
• Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
At drug abuse treatment centers people do what they have to to achieve sobriety. The people at drug abuse treatment centers are there because they have the balls, the sheer balls that it takes to make a change in their lives. A lot of people talk a ton of smack about drug abuse treatment centers and the people in them, but the reality is that these folks are the bravest people in the world. I say this because life is much harder when you tell the truth. It reallly is. The folks that are at the drug abuse treatment centers are speaking the truth about their faults and weaknesses. They aren’t hiding the facts any futher. And, yes, it takes a lot of balls to be that brave. I guess the folks that work at drug abuse treatment centers make it easier to do. Their job is to make you feel comforted when you step through the door and they are also determined to help you get over the hump. The mission of drug abuse treatment centers is to get you sober, and you can be rest assured that they will achieve that goal. I’ve seen it first hand. I was one of those goals and they sure did do what they said they would.
• Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one, or often many, people (usually family and friends) to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction and/or to get them into drug & alcohol treatment. It can also refer to the act of using a technique within a therapy session. Interventions have been used to address serious personal problems, including, but not limited to, compulsive gambling, compulsive eating and other eating disorders, self-mutilation, “workaholism”, tobacco smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, and various types of poor personal health care. Most drug and alcohol treatment centers employ Interventionists, typically involving a confrontative meeting with the alcohol or other drug dependent person (the most typical type of intervention) or indirect, involving work with a co-dependent family to encourage them to be more effective in helping the addicted individual. In the same sense, direct interventions tend to be a form of short-term therapy aimed at getting the addicted person into inpatient rehabilitation, whereas indirect interventions are more of a long-term therapy, directed at changing the family system, and therefore promoting recovery from addiction.
• Monday, October 15th, 2007
