Alcohol Intervention

Our Interventions are purposeful, designed around your particular and unique set of circumstance, such that a poorly person accepts treatment.

Alcoholism is a much misunderstood label, eliciting many different reactions and perceptions. Ask yourself, if we do nothing, is there any recent evidence to suggest that somehow, our ongoing nightmare is going to cease, and/or not get worse.

If you believe that this is only getting worse, not better, then it is time to stage a Family Alcohol Intervention.

Thankfully, Family Interventions are 95% successful in the main goal, that being to engage a poorly person with effective treatment. Studies show that effective treatment means that 50%+ are still sober after 5 years.

Alcohol

Alcohol is the most available and therefore potentially most damaging drug in use by most populations around the world today.

Alcohol is legal in the UK, and more than that, is so enmeshed in all aspects of our culture and way of life it is often seen not as a drug, but rather a natural and normal behaviour.

10% of the drinking population will develop a dependency, an addiction to alcohol that can be seen in a progressive and predictable journey that eventually ends in rock bottoms like jails, institutions and of course a rather untimely death.

In context of alcohol being a normalised part of our society, so then is the natural denial and minimisation for developing alcohol problems.

There is so much in the news, society, on social media about extreme alcohol problems that we are collectively numb to alcoholism.

There are some killer denial statements that abound. “you can not help an alcoholic until they ask for help”, or ” you have to wait until they hit rock bottom until they will accept help”. For families and others affected by a loved ones alcohol use, then that could be a long time coming, stacks of misery and pain for all around, and in the last stages, could be to late.

Thankfully, Family Interventions are 95% successful in the main goal, that being to engage a poorly person with effective treatment. Studies show that effective treatment means that 50%+ are still sober after 5 years.

What Now?

Freephone 0800 530 0012 and speak to an Interventionist. Primary assessment to see if the basics are in place for an intervention.

1. Is there clearly a drink problem
2. Is there a group that will work together with an Intervention process
3. Are there funds and resources for appropriate treatment

Planning Meeting

A small core group meet to put in place the key components for the Alcohol Addiction Intervention. All interventions rely on planning, attention to detail, combined with determination and proven techniques.

Considerations

Family resilience and capacity for an Intervention: Alcohol problems often are only exposed as such when the nearest and dearest hit rock bottom themselves. However much they try to problem solve, keep secrets, manage the chaos, eventually alcohol fuelled behaviours will wear the family down.

The drinkers physical state: Alcohol ravages the human body over time, plunging the person into a state where a sudden cessation of drinking can be life threatening. Care is taken to address the Intervention process in context of the physical needs of all concerned.

Timing: Notwithstanding a current crisis or emergency, then preparation is of paramount importance. Therefore we tend not to rush. The Intervention can wait for a couple of weeks, in order that everything is tied up and in place for a successful Intervention and a poorly person going into treatment.