Loving someone with the disease of addiction can feel like being trapped on a runaway train. You are under continual stress as you worry not only about your loved one, but your entire family . When you finally reach the last straw and decide to...
If you are preparing to participate in an intervention for a loved one who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, you may be on an emotional rollercoaster. It’s hard to predict how your friend or family member might react to being confronted with the realities...
The effects of drug and alcohol use in our nation’s workforce are a more significant issue than many people realize. According to a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more than 75 percent of individuals with addiction disorders continue to hold...
If someone close to you is struggling with addiction, you are probably all too familiar with how exhausting and frustrating it can be to deal with. How many times have you brought up the topic of their drug or alcohol misuse, only to have the...
It’s an all-too-common myth of recovery that a person struggling with a substance misuse disorder must reach a tipping point before they will be willing to consider choosing the path of sobriety over the path of addiction. However, the reality is that the idea of...
If someone close to you is struggling with the challenges of addiction, you can save their life by convincing them to get help with a professionally planned drug or alcohol intervention. However, you may not realize there is more than one approach to staging...
Addiction is an illness that causes sufferers to lose sight of how their condition is negatively impacting their life. A professionally managed drug or alcohol intervention paves the way to a healthy and successful recovery by giving the addicted person an opportunity to identify the...
If your spouse, child, parent or another relative is locked in a struggle with substance misuse and addictive behavior, you already know the strain it puts on your relationship. Often, the addiction begins to feel like a third person who has driven a wedge between you and the...
If you have seen drug and alcohol interventions depicted on movies or TV shows, you know an intervention is an opportunity for the loved ones of someone with a substance misuse disorder to confront the addicted person with the goal of convincing them they need to get help...