Louisiana Drug Intervention Services
Only a small fraction of people in Louisiana in need of drug rehab actually get the help they need. That is why a drug intervention in Louisiana may be what is needed to get your loved one into a quality addiction treatment center that can really help them.
Several factors contribute to Louisiana’s historic position as a drug smuggling center. The Gulf of Mexico, the fifth largest sea in the world, forms the southern border of Louisiana which consists of over 6,000 miles of navigable waterways, 7,721 miles of broken shoreline, and 397 miles of coastline highly conducive to maritime smuggling.
There are five major drugs of abuse that make up 95 percent of all drug rehab admissions that may require an intervention in Louisiana. These are alcohol, opiates (mainly heroin and prescription painkillers), marijuana, cocaine and other stimulants such as methamphetamine.
Not sure if a drug or alcohol intervention in Louisiana is right for your loved one? Call us to find out how different types of interventions can be performed to get the addict's agreement to get help.
In addition to the Mississippi River that snakes its way through the state, Louisiana has an extensive network of rivers, lakes, bayous, and canals. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, 3,000 miles of canal extending along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts in the southern and eastern U.S., gives New Orleans direct access westward to points in Louisiana and Texas, as far as the Mexican border and eastward through natural and artificial channels to Florida. In addition, there are three deepwater ports located in Baton Rouge, Lake Charles and New Orleans. Each year up to 100,000 barges move in and out of the New Orleans port, the Nation’s second largest port in exports.
Our drug intervention specialists are expert at addressing the situation with the addict as well as the family to help determine who shoudl be involved, how it the situation should be approached and what the best overall way would be to help get the addict's agreement to enter into a drug rehab program.
Has the addict already been to treatment before? This is a common problem. Unfortunately there are many addiction treatment centers that have very low success rates. We can help you find a more effective drug rehab program to inrease your loved one's chances at staying drug-free and get them to realize that there is a way out.
An imortant piece of information for you to have is that, contrary to popular opinion, alcoholism and other drug addiction is not an incurable disease. People become cured from this ailment every single day and never go back to using drugs or alcohol. In addition, giving substitute drugs to addicts will never solve the problem. Sure, a prescription here or there might temporarily treat the symptoms and make them feel better, but their body and mind will still be dependent on drugs to function in life and they will therefore always be looking for drugs as a solution to life's problems.
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