Drug Rehab Advisor

Intervention, the process of helping another realize the damage they are doing to themselves and other through drug/substance abuse and offering a better alternative for all parties involved.

Sometimes, but not often, what’s best for everyone is to not support people who insist on abusing drugs and substances. See drugrehabadvisor.com video on justifications. This rehab video relates directly to intervention.

Why should you support a drug abuser’s lifestyle? Their continued drug abusing lifestyle, the crashes, the disasters and breakdown’s may simply be their effort to continue to get attention.

Below are some of my notes I’ve given clients during Plan B of an intervention. Plan B is when you’ve done everything you can to help, you’ve offered to pay for their rehab, take care of all their current responsibilities and still they want to abuse drugs. What do you do?

Intervention Notes

Remember, rehab is not prison, punishment or other. It’s a reward. A drug abuser who has been enabled to continue their lifesyle needs to experience some real life, please let him. When he’s ready to make a change, he’ll do that.

There are hospitals, doctors, social workers, counselors, ministers, etc who would also be glad to help, but they won’t
get anywhere with him until he see’s for himself that it’s HIM – he’s got the problem. Let him discover this on his own.

This is the patience and faith part of ‘intervention’. You should continue caring, but don’t allow his actions to determine your happiness.

Another Intervention Note:

Thanks for the update. I believe you’re following proper intervention procedure.

That does that mean? If someone acts like a donkey and disrupts people out of proportion to the value they give others, we naturally distance ourselves from them. This is a natural law. Proper intervention puts this into action. Distancing ourselves feels tougher to do with family due to our sense of obligation.

Natural Law; Rewards and attention:

People continue to do what gets them attention.

Giving people a sense of entitlement by enabling them to continue their actions despite disruption and disaster, we get more disaster and disruption.

Putting your foot down on unacceptable behavior makes YOU real and makes YOU the standard others follow. It’s the only way I know to reverse damaging and bad behavior of others.

I know I’m preaching to the choir, but I felt I needed to validate what both of you are doing.

The best intervention processes are coordinated by a professional interventionist who teaches, explains and advises families on proper intervention while the intervention is happening. The thing to remember is that a correct intervention saves both you and the drug abuser – even if they don’t go to rehab.

Intervention tips by Tibor A. Palatinus, The Drug Rehab Advisor