Intervention, i.e., intervention in the life of an addict in order to motivate him to go to rehab.
So how do you make an addict accept reality, become aware of the problem and go to rehabilitation?
First and most important thing! Stop the relatives from creating conditions for using.
There are three elements that allow an addict to use quiet active substances more or less comfortably or to continue the way of life he/she leads during active addiction
- Means of Use
What does means means? It does not mean that the money you gave him for drugs he will spend on drugs, it means that all the money which fall into his hands he will spend on drugs or on alcohol or on any psychoactive substance, i.e. on his addiction. All the money you give out of “good intentions” to pay for school, to pay fines, to buy food, to buy clothes. All of this is likely, or most of it, to be spent by the addict on psychoactive substances, i.e., on his addiction. - A place to spend time before or after substance use.
Roughly speaking this is a bed with a fresh change of clothes, i.e. a roof over the head, which very often is provided by relatives. - Non-Intervention Policy.
This means that we let things run their course.
Having these three or at least one of them allows the addict to go on with the life he leads.
If relatives stop providing this comfort zone for the addict, then it is easier for the addict to accept the truth about himself
The truth that addiction brings some problems, i.e. all spheres of life have become degraded.
Dear Relatives! Recovery of an addict very often begins with recovery of a co-dependent. And then the addict does not ask himself what he needs to change in his life, because he is doing very well as it is! He has substances to solve his internal problems and he has you to solve all of his external problems! Until this circle is broken, there will be no change, and until then, the addict will say that he is fine, he doesn’t need treatment, and that he is coping with everything, but in reality it is YOU who are coping with everything, not him.
It is important for him to get back this reality, so come to groups, get information about co-dependence and addiction, and this will be the first step to recovery of your addicted relative.