How Addiction Happens

Shockingly, those patients compelled by courts, by employers and even by concerned family or parents to enter into drug treatment do just about as well as those people who check into rehab of their own accord.

We as a society cling to the myth that people can only truly get help once they have reached rock bottom, and once they have made a determined and personal decision for change; and it seems to be completely false.

It’s unfortunate too, because how many families let a loved one continue with abuse in the mistaken belief that they are powerless to effect change.

It’s hard to accept a need for change while your mind is clouded by drugs or alcohol

Addictions professionals explain that a true desire to change cannot really occur while intoxicated and lacking the clarity of sobriety, and for a great many participants in drug and alcohol rehabs, its not until a few days into the program, after the end of detox and with the reemergence of the clarity of sobriety, can recovering addicts even begin to make truly rational and considered decisions.

Many participants in drug and alcohol rehabs have been almost continually intoxicated or recovering from intoxication for literally years, and they have not had a real significant period of considered self refection for that entire period.

If you can ever convince someone needing treatment to get help, they have a great chance at sobriety

If you can convince someone obviously abusing drugs or alcohol to accept needed drug or alcohol treatment, even if they do not agree that they need it, then they should go. Statistically, they have just as much of a chance of bettering their addiction as someone who checks in on their own.

Family interventions

Families concerned about a loved one’s drinking or drugging and wanting a change should consider a family intervention. Interventions have an incredible success rate when success is defined as the acceptance of treatment help. Interventions do not always convince the using addict of the existence of a problem, but they almost always result in an acceptance of treatment, if only so “the addict can show that he or she doesn’t have a problem!”

Only the addict can change their behaviors, and all family can do is try to get them to seek help; but since so many addicts only realize the true magnitude of their problem with a few days of sobriety or through participation in group or individual therapies, the odds are good that by getting them into treatment they will concede to a need for help, to the level of the problem, and begin to strive towards sobriety as the only acceptable goal.

Families can have a powerful impact, and although they can never make the decision to stop for the using addict, they can influence an entry into treatment, and from there everyone has a legitimate chance at a better life of sobriety (How to run an intervention).

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