Drug Intervention: Relapse Prevention How It Works

Alcohol Intervention: Stepping In Before It’s Too Late

The goal of alcohol intervention is to step in before it’s too late. As a friend it’s normal to look at another friend who has been drinking a lot, abusing alcohol and getting crazy at parties and kind of chalk it up to it being just them or who they are or social fun. However, there is a point where getting wasted every night and not being able to go to a party without getting plastered is no longer a rite of passage that you do when you are a teenager trying alcohol for the first time or a college kid flexing a little independence. While binge drinking and getting drunk and abusing alcohol at any age isn’t acceptable as an adult you know better and as a friend you don’t watch your friend make a complete idiot out of themselves and do nothing about it.

Drug Intervention: When Your Friends Ask You To Participate

If you’ve never participated in a drug intervention you are probably not sure you want to. You have a friend who clearly has a drug problem and a bunch of your friends and his are getting together to do an drug intervention for him. You are worried about a million things. You’ve done drugs with him before does that make you a hypocrite? The answer is no. If you have a drug problem yourself and are doing drugs you should definitely take a step back and ask yourself what you’re doing and why but if you aren’t doing drugs and you are talking about in the past then no, you are not a hypocrite.

Relapse Prevention: Noticing The Signs And Doing Something About It

There are signs to relapse prevention, signs that a person might relapse and what you can do to prevent this from happening. There is a lot of shame that comes in relapse so while a person may relapse and hide it from you and that might make you really mad the important thing is not to make the addict feel like they messed up and that they failed you and instead help them find a meeting or getting them into a rehab right away.