Intervention

 

Are you worried about a family member or friend?

How can you recognize the signs of an alcohol or drug problem in someone you care about?

 

• Drinking / taking drugs to calm nerves, forget worries or boost a sad mood
• Guilt about drinking or use of drugs
• Unsuccessful attempts to cut down or stop
• Lying about or hiding drinking habits or drug use
• Causing harm to oneself or someone else as a result of drinking or taking of drugs
• Needing to drink / use increasingly greater amounts in order to achieve desired effect
• Feeling irritable, resentful or unreasonable when not drinking / taking drugs
• Medical, social, family or financial problems
• Spending a great deal of time obtaining and imbibing the alcohol / drugs
• Drinking / doing drugs in risky situations such as before driving or engaging in unwanted / unprotected sex

 

How can you help?

 

You can HELP and provide HOPE through a process called INTERVENTION.

 

Through the INTERVENTION process, you will learn more about alcoholism and drug addiction. How it affects the addicted and how it affects you.

 

It is not a long or complicated process. It is a loving and caring way in which family members, friends and co-workers present the addicted person with the facts about his or her problem, trying to get them to accept the fact that there is a problem and that professional help is needed to deal with it.

 

Successful interventions usually result in a loved one getting help and just as important preserving a family or a friendship.

 

Successful interventions occur when team members, family members, friends and co-workers have been well prepared by an Intervention Specialist. MCCA can help you.

 

 

Intervention is often the most

important tool a friend or family

member can use to help a loved one.