Do You Know Someone Who Needs Alcohol Or Drug Rehab?
Listen. If during your drug or alcohol intervention the addict begins asking questions like; Would I have to go to a drug treatment center? How long would I be at a drug and alcohol abuse treatment program? Will you send me to a luxury residential drug addiction treatment program in Malibu, CA.? These are signs that he is reaching for help and wants drug abuse treatment. Do not directly answer these questions. Instead have him call in to talk to a professional interventionist at a drug treatment program. Support him.
The family and person attending the intervention should definitely express their concerns but not to sympathize with the addict. Sympathy is a form of agreement and can back fire by justifying the dependency.
Without any anger or fear, the addict should “get” from all the people present that the situation is known and that he/she needs to go to drug abuse treatment program. Don’t allow stories of family problems and life’s troubles sway the attention off the point that the individual has a problem and needs to seek help fixing it. This is where the family’s preparation pays off.