One of the biggest heroes today is drug addiction intervention specialists. These are the people who go out on a daily basis and face people who are dying because of drug and alcohol addiction. An
intervention is only successful when you have the right person intervening. If the drug addict or alcoholic does not respect the interventionist than they will not accept help and go to a
drug rehab program. The addiction intervention counselor is most successful when he or she has had a drug or alcohol problem in the past because this makes it easier for the alcoholic or drug addict to relate.
A person with medical degrees, plaques, and diplomas mean nothing for a drug addict or alcoholic. Want they want is a person they can trust and to them a person who has been down the same path and successfully recovered is that person. It’s not to say that an educated person can’t do this but it certainly helps to have had personal experience with addiction.
Generally most alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers will recommend and intervention specialist who has a high success rate of escorting people into
residential drug rehabs. Finding a long term program is also important once the person has agreed to get help.
