Posted by Tony Bylsma on February 23, 2011 under How to Help a Drug Addict | 
To help a drug addict, any addiction counselor can tell you, the first hurdle is to get the addict’s agreement to receive help. No amounts of advice or friendly mannerisms are going to make a difference if there is no willingness to quit drugs.
This can be difficult; it often is, but definitely not hopeless. This is called intervention and can be the most difficult part of their recovery from addiction. The good news is this, there are things you can do or say to bring them to the realization that help is needed. Here are some very important points to keep in mind:
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on August 18, 2010 under Effective Drug Detox Rehab |
Addiction to drugs or alcohol is not an on—off switch. There is not really a point at which you can say, “Wow, yesterday I was just a drug abuser, but today I am a drug addict.”
Most of the drug abusers do not become addicted. They abuse drugs for a certain period and then just sort of graduate out of it; or they become interested in life and realize that drug use is getting in the way of their goals and simply stop.
But an unfortunately high number of drug abusers do pass the point of control, the point at which addiction sets in. And anyone CAN become addicted.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on July 27, 2010 under How to Help a Drug Addict |
My pleasure to post an article from the blog, Sobering Thoughts, By Sigal Adini
At anytime during the process of getting a drug addict to treatment you can do an intervention. Honestly, I have seen so much time and thousands of dollars wasted and more importantly, death, due to delayed interventions, that at this point, I say just cut to the chase and do an intervention.
I know it can be confusing to the family. Why should you do an intervention if the addict is not willing to go to treatment? If you cannot convince him, who will?
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on April 1, 2010 under How to Help a Drug Addict |
They need your help, now, desperately.
An addicted person is not thinking clearly, it is obvious. When it comes to his or her addiction, they are making destructive decisions and doing stupid things.
Good choices and responsible actions are required to avoid worsening of the situation and deadly accidents. The user is not able to make those choices right now.
While you can never force someone into getting better, an expert interventionist can show the addict where he or she is headed and make it real to them that misery and possibly death lie down the path they are on.
They might come around some day and decide to quit and enter a detox rehab program on their own, but if you wait that long, it may be too late. Remember, the drug addict’s thinking is deadened, at least on the subject of his or her addiction. They cannot make valid or even logical decisions where their addictions are concerned. If they could, they wouldn’t be addicted!
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To help a drug addict, any addiction counselor can tell you, the first hurdle is to get the addict’s agreement to receive help. No amounts of advice or friendly mannerisms are going to make a difference if there is no willingness to quit drugs.