A drug intervention is an opportunity for family members to confront a loved one about their addiction, to explain the ways in which addiction has impacted each member of the family, and to ask their loved one to get support.
These can be very challenging things to plan, especially because of the emotional difficulties involved. For that reason, many families decide to work with a professional drug interventionist, someone who helps them plan the intervention and facilitate the intervention.
Why You Need Professional Drug Interventionists
Deciding to confront a family member is a very difficult decision, and it can be fraught with challenging emotions.
Sometimes family members don’t know where to begin, they aren’t sure how to collect their thoughts and put them down on paper, or they just need someone else there to act as a mediator.
Preparations
It’s not uncommon for people in close relationships to predict how their loved ones might react and subconsciously become defensive or harbor annoyance or anger in response to these predictions. Many of these traits are small and subconscious, so family members don’t realize that their tone might change as soon as their loved one makes a certain face, but a professional drug interventionist can help family members be more aware of these subconscious changes and put them to the side during the intervention.
In this way, finding professional drug interventionists can help you with all of the preparations.
Location
Professional drug interventionists might also offer alternative locations. It’s important that the location where you have your intervention be on neutral ground so that it doesn’t prompt unnecessary emotional reactions. When you find a professional drug interventionist, they can typically provide a third-party location like their office or another community location where you can hold your intervention.
Mediation
Another reason why finding a professional drug interventionist can be beneficial for family members is the simple mediation that they provide. Someone who is struggling with addiction might be slightly more respectful of a third-party professional who is facilitating the discussion and mediating responses to a small degree.
Finding Professional Drug Interventionists
Finding professional drug interventionists might seem difficult; however, there are plenty of qualified treatment centers that also offer drug interventionist services directly or can connect you to third-party services that are highly qualified and vetted.
Once you have a list of potential contenders, feel free to reach out about consultations, to go over how they would offer support for your family and planning the intervention, what they might offer in terms of location, and the overall price and availability.
If a particular drug interventionist works with a treatment center they will be able to answer questions about treatment in a more informative way than you or your family might be able to. They can also help guide your loved one toward their treatment if they make the decision to seek help.
Having the Right Treatment Center
When you plan an intervention, one of the most important and often overlooked steps is to have a luxury addiction treatment center on hand and ready to accept your loved one for treatment if they decide to move forward.
You want to be able to capitalize on the momentum your loved one has if they agree to get help. The best way to do that is to have a facility where they can go immediately to start their program.
With The Differents, our facility is one with flexible schedules and a wide range of effective therapies. We want your loved ones to be comfortable, which is why we provide luxury amenities throughout their stay with access to trained professionals who can not only provide insight into how addiction works but what type of life skills and coping mechanisms will be most important moving forward.
Overall, finding a professional drug interventionist can take a lot of the burden off families who are trying to intervene in addiction for a loved one. The right type of interventionist will be able to offer support in planning the intervention, deciding on the location, and facilitating the discussion when the time comes. Most important, of course, is to have the right treatment center ready and available if your loved one seeks help.
Contact our team today to learn more about our treatment programs.
