The plain fact of the matter is that substance abuse interventions are inherently traumatic events, fraught on all sides with tension and emotion. At the same time, it’s vital that those individuals conducting the drug addiction intervention do so in a spirit of unfailing love and support, in order to convince the addict they care about to get the help he needs to get better. That’s where intervention specialists come in.

A professional intervention specialist will help you keep your emotions in check during the course of an intervention, and ensure that you deliver your message exactly as it needs to be delivered. Given the stakes, you can’t afford to settle for anything less. You already know that addiction is a devastating disease. Now you what you can do to put it on the run. For your own sake, for the sake of the addict you care about, let today be the day you seek the help of an intervention specialist. You will never, ever regret the decision.

When is the best time to get your loved one suffering from drug addiction into a drug addiction treatment center? That question can be answered with another question… When does an intervention take place? Ideally this has less to do with the family schedule and more to do with getting them into drug detox and a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center. It also has to do with what’s going on in the addict’s life. Even if they are not willing to go to a drug addiction treatment center, the best time to perform an intervention is just after a major event. Such an event would be that the addict got arrested, or when he/she has wronged (lied, stolen, cheated etc.) a family member and would show remorse or guilt. Another good time would be if his /her spouse is leaving, if they are about to lose custody of the kids. Yet another would be after an overdose, which, if they don’t die, is a form of detox. Although you obviously don’t want to risk the addict’s life by postponing forever, an intervention will be more effective after such events when the addict is down and feels like his/her world is coming to an end.

Even in the absence of these situations, an intervention can be successful especially if the family is close to the addict on a daily basis so that every little situation is known by the family. An addict’s life can be a major roller coaster and the only way an addict can deny their problem is to successfully hide these problems from those who love him.

The intervention that my family performed on me woke my ass up. Hell yes it did. I was in a daze for longer than I would like to admit. My meth habit had taken me to the edge of hell. I was completely consumed by my addiction and there was really no way out of it. I had been doing meth for a crazy long time and nothing was going to get me out of it. My mom had tried everything. And no matter how much she tried I just continued to get worse and worse. It was like I was another person who had no recollection of the person he had once been. The intervention was my family’s final attempt to help me reclaim my life and they all chipped in. When I got home to that crowded living room I immediately knew what was going down. They all sat me down and explained how they felt about my addiction and told me that they wanted me to get help. I took what they said to heart even though it meant admiting that I had a problem. They had a counselor from a drug rehab present and he told me that he was willing to take me there if I agreed. The rest is history. My wake up call was amazing and it got me back on track for sure.