What Exactly Is An Intervention?

Wednesday, May 28. 2008

Before describing what an intervention is, it would be useful to have a common definition of intervention. According to a medical dictionary, intervention is the process of stopping someone who is experiencing the harmful effects of drugs or alcohol. Given this definition of intervention, an adolescent who is busted by his parents for using alcohol or drugs at a high school party, gets grounded by a month, and stops drinking alcohol or doing drugs because the negatives out weigh the positives has recieved a successful intervention.

For addiction counselors drug and alcohol interventions has come to mean specific procedures for motivating a person to enter treatment. However when deciding on an intervention remember that done correctly you can avoid serious problems that lead from drug and alcohol addiction.

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