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If you have a loved one who is struggling with drug dependence, you know all too well the chaos drug addiction can cause among the whole family. Whether your loved one is a partner, a friend, or a family member, the effects of the drug abuse and dependency can be devastating to both the person who is living with the addiction and their friends and family.

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Unfortunately, many drug treatment programs focus on the addiction and not the underlying cause of the substance misuse.

As the entire family struggles to accommodate the needs of the substance abuser, anger and resentment on all sides of the equation grow. This creates division and strife within the family, making it even more difficult to agree on the proper treatment approach moving forward.

Drug use interventions include family and friends, but introduce the added benefit of an intervention specialist to help family members and the drug abuser find a much less destructive path forward.

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What are Drug Abuse Interventions?

A drug use intervention is a meeting initiated by family and friends, along with the help of a skilled interventionist, to create an open and honest dialogue about how the continued substance abuse problems are affecting the person and their loved ones. The goal is to get the drug user to seek treatment for his or her substance addiction. The sooner you seek the help that successful interventions have to offer, the better the outcome may be for your loved one and your whole family.

A person struggling with substance use disorder cannot overcome addiction on their own. They will need to go through a rehabilitation program for real positive outcomes. Substance abuse is rarely a one-dimensional problem. The right drug abuse treatment understands that and will seek to address the underlying causes of the addiction as well as co-occurring mental health conditions that might delay or derail recovery altogether.

The purpose of drug interventions is to get substance users to admit they have a problem and to agree to seek help through a treatment program, which generally starts with a drug detox. The Surgeon General promotes the idea that early intervention for substance misuse and abuse is essential for improving the odds of a successful recovery among those who abuse drugs.

Addiction is a far-reaching illness that affects more people than you realize. In fact, research indicates that approximately 24 million Americans over the age of 11 struggle with alcoholism and drug dependence. Of those, only two million are receiving treatment for their substance abuse. That leaves 24 million families across the country trying to cope with the realities of substance use disorder.

Even among the two million who seek help and agree to treatment for their alcohol and drug addiction, many of them will relapse at some point. For drug misuse, the relapse rate is between 40 and 60 percent. The problem of drug use is complex and there are no easy solutions.

However, a unified family engaged in addiction treatment is one of the most important tools you can put to work to address the substance abuse issue. Drug use interventions can be instrumental in encouraging your loved one to get the help they need to successfully recover from drug addiction as well as other mental health conditions.

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What Should You Expect During Drug Abuse Interventions?

While everyone hopes for the best when it comes to drug use interventions, it’s important to prepare yourself for the fact that it may not work. Your loved one may refuse help. If that is the case, it’s important to follow through with the warnings you made with your intervention team that you will no longer enable or excuse addictive behaviors.

Planning ahead allows you to physically and mentally prepare for the reality of substance abuse treatment. This means you can have a treatment center ready and make sure friends and family know what is expected of them throughout the drug intervention process.

How Your Loved One May Respond to an Intervention

These are the things you should expect during a drug intervention.

  • • Anger from substance abusers. Your loved one is likely to feel threatened and maybe even a little attacked, especially if you’ve been accommodating the behavior until now. Remain calm and rational throughout the intervention and avoid the temptation to respond in anger.
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  • • Your loved one will attempt to deflect or change the subject. It’s important to work with a professional interventionist prior to the meeting to come up with a plan and stick to the plan throughout the conversation.
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  • • Your loved one may attempt to delay committing to a treatment plan. Don’t let this happen. Force an answer immediately if possible and contact a treatment facility ahead of time that can take your loved one right away. Even if your loved one agrees, you do not want to allow them the opportunity to rethink their decision.
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Planning ahead allows you to physically and mentally prepare for the reality of substance abuse treatment. This means you can have a treatment center ready and make sure friends and family know what is expected of them throughout the drug intervention process.

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How Do You Know You Need a Drug Intervention for Your Loved One?

Chances are good that you know if a loved one is struggling with a drug addiction problem. However, if you’re not sure your situation requires immediate intervention, look for the following signs that your loved one is struggling.

Many people struggling with a substance abuse issue often begin using drugs to mask untreated physical or mental health concerns. Mental illness and drug addiction often coincide and can feed one another if both conditions aren’t identified and treated at the same time. Recovery from addiction without treating the underlying problem is rare.

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Signs It May Be Time For an Intervention

  • Secretive behavior or hiding things from family and friends.
  • Borrowing money (often from multiple people).
  • Difficulty going to work or performing at work or in school.
  • Unexplained health issues.
  • Aggression and erratic behavior.
  • Changes in appearance (for the worse).
  • Zero motivation or energy

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Is Now the Time for a Drug Abuse Intervention?

Research has indicated time and again that the sooner the intervention takes place, the more effective it has the opportunity to be. That means that it is never too early to plan a drug intervention if your loved one is abusing drugs.

In 2019 alone, more than 70,000 Americans lost their lives to drug overdoses. That doesn’t include people who died as a result of driving under the influence of drugs, drug-fueled suicides, and other drug-related incidents. For those people and their families, it is certainly too late to stage a drug abuse intervention. What this means for you is that now is the ideal time to plan a drug abuse intervention if you have a loved one who is struggling with drug addiction.

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A proper intervention for drug abuse will give your loved one the ray of hope they need to chart a course for a brighter, healthier, sober future.

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