INTERVENTIONS

ADDICTION

Navigating Addiction: Signs Your Friend Needs Support

It’s hard to watch someone you care about struggle with addiction. You may be getting to the point where you feel helpless and your hope for them to fight the addiction is waning. Sometimes a real and honest conversation is all it takes to help an addict realize they have a problem and seek help.

ADDICTION

How to Recognize the Need for an Intervention

Watching a loved one struggle with addiction can be heartbreaking, and this is especially true when they don’t want help. Unfortunately, addiction can completely take over a person’s life, even to the point where they don’t see the issue. Here’s...

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Strategies for an Effective Intervention

Addiction affects millions of people in the United States alone. Unfortunately, many of those struggling are not willing to seek treatment themselves, or they may not think they have an issue. So what can be done about this? This is where loved ones may...

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Five Tips for Having Honest Conversations About Addiction

It can be incredibly difficult to watch a loved one struggle with addiction. It can make the loved ones of an addict feel powerless to help their loved one. This is especially true if they have already tried to bring up the issue to no avail previously....

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Confronting Your Loved One About Their Substance Abuse

One of the most difficult things any family can go through when they have a loved one struggling with addiction is confronting them about the problem. Here we examine why this can be so challenging and offer up some helpful suggestions when attempting...

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An Intervention Can Be the Difference Between Life and Death

Standing in line at the security check point, a TSA agent tells the crowd to remove everything from their pockets, take their shoes off and throw all liquids away. I barely go through the motions, fighting the urge to turn around and bolt out the door....

ADDICTION

Can You Force Someone into Rehab?

As someone who has worked in drug rehabilitation and handled families of addicts for a long time, I’ve come across every question and concern that can possibly be brought up in regards to getting someone into treatment.