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Interventions FAQ

• How do I know if the person I love has an alcohol or other drug problem?
  If you’re concerned over their alcohol or drug use - it’s already a problem.
  
  You may also want to ask yourself, "Is my relative or friend experiencing repeated negative consequences due to alcohol/drug use? Are they experiencing problems in their personal relationships, work, school or other important areas due to alcohol or drug use? Do they still continues to use despite these problems?
  
  If you answered "Yes" in any of these areas it is likely the person you are concerned about has a problem.

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• What is an intervention? What is its objective?
  Intervention teaches families and friends a language alcoholics can understand. It organizes love and honesty in a way that breaks through denial. It creates a moment of clarity for the alcoholic/addict. Most people suffering from alcoholism/drug addiction will accept help on intervention day.
  
  The objective of each intervention is to help the alcoholic/addict and their family and friends begin the journey of recovery.

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• Isn’t it true that you can’t help someone until they want help?
  This is not true. Alcoholic/addict don’t spontaneously decide to get help for their addiction. Something happens in their life that causes them to want help. Ask yourself this question: "If an alcoholic/addict won’t get help until she wants help, what will get her to want help?" The answer is years of personal tragedy or the loving intervention of family and friends.

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• Don’t alcoholics/addicts have to "hit bottom" before they can recover?
  An alcoholic/addict’s bottom can be divorce, arrest, health problems, financial ruin, child neglect, loss of friends, domestic abuse, jail, insanity, death. Typically, an alcoholic/addict can suffer some or all of these consequences. When the alcoholic/addict hits bottom, the family does too.
  
  We can "raise the bottom." Families do not have to endure years or decades of personal heartbreak and suffering over a loved one’s addiction. Family intervention is a loving and honest way to raise the bottom.

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• I’ve been told that treatment doesn’t work when someone is forced to accept help.
  It is not how someone gets into treatment, but what happens once they are in treatment. Hazelden conducted a 25 year study which shows that the success rate in treatment is the same for people ordered into treatment by the courts and those who entered treatment on their own.
  
  In intervention, however, we don’t force someone into treatment. We ask them to go. They make the final decision for themselves. We do, however, makes decisions to no longer do things that make it easy for the alcoholic/addict to stay sick, and this often convinces reluctant alcoholics to get help.

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• Won’t the addict get angry during the intervention and begin an argument?
  Our Intervention Specialists use a love first approach. Using this approach it is more likely that the alcoholic/addict will become tearful. While families often believe the alcoholic/addict will react with anger, this rarely happens.
  
  If anger does become a problem during the intervention session our trained specialists can help restore calm and order to the situation.

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