Ideally, you want a drug treatment professional to help your organize your drug abuse intervention for maximum impact. This person can help you to stay focused on your goal. Your goal should be to get the drug addict to recognize the existence of the addiction, how that addiction is impacting everyone, and the need for change.
Surprisingly, those in the midst of a drug addiction seem to be the last people to know they have an addiction. They are often comparing themselves to the worst of those around them and coming out favorably, rather than analyzing the quality of their decision making. Drug abuse begins to take a toll on every aspect of the drug addict's life long before the addict is aware of any problem.
Somehow, the drug addict manages to start making more mistakes and alienating the people around him without noting any link between the behavior changes caused by drugs and the career and social results. This is why your primary drug abuse intervention goal is to get the drug addict to recognize the existence of a damaging addiction.
What Does Drug Abuse Intervention Entail?
What makes a good drug abuse intervention difficult for all involved is the bluntness required. Accurate accusations of harm done must be made by the participants. Nobody likes to have people gang up on them with character attacks, but drug addicts tend to be so dense that little else will be understood.
It is just as hard for those making the attacks to see the turmoil caused in the addict as it is for the addict to go through that turmoil. But, if you really care about the drug addict, you must care enough to do a drug abuse intervention. Without such an intervention, the individual may never confront his addiction. The results of this are often fatal.
As you might expect, the drug abuser is unlikely to take all of this criticism silently. Often, the drug addict will fight back in unexpected ways. In rare cases it may get physical. But defensive, emotional attacks aimed back at each accuser are very common.
Again, you have to care enough about the afflicted individual to go through this process. Try to remember that the attacks from this person are driven primarily of a fear of being out of control of one's own life. The drug addict typically doesn't want to use the drugs as often as he does, yet is unable to resist them on his own.
It is best to go into the drug abuse intervention with a plan developed by the professional helping you with it. Each stage of the intervention will be choreographed to move from confrontation to evidence to reassurance of acceptance to a plan of action to overcome the addiction. Do your part in the drug abuse intervention to help your loved one get better.
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