Friday, April 11, 2008

Drug And Alcohol Interventions

Intervention is a term used when a traumatic event is involving addiction to dugs, alcohol, and etc. The main objective of intervention is to confront a person and allow him/her to see his/her wrong behaviors, how these behaviors destroy and affect him/her, friends, family and etc. It undergoes one or more counseling sessions; one is an education of the effects of drinking or drugs, asking questions, creating goals for the change of behavior, and etc.

Drug intervention is a discussion with other people about getting someone to seek professional help. It can be a doctor or a drug interventionist of someone to discuss your observations. It can also be people who are significant to the patient to directly talk to him/her.

Alcoholism intervention includes alcoholism treatment program. It includes confrontation of family, friends, and etc to the alcoholic about how alcohol is a problem in their lives and let him/her know how they feel and how it affects them.

With all these interventions, there will be more chance that the alcoholics and the drug addicts can recover from their behavior. With just counseling, confrontation, and discussion, the chances of recovering will be better.

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