Drug abuse and or substance abuse is a complex mirage of behavioral, physical, environmental, and pharmacological factors. For the drug addict or the support web around him or her to think that all is needed is will power to “just say no” would be naive and foolish. The drug addict may have physical coordinates which cause the addictive substance to poison him, as it were. A young woman who has grown up with an alcoholic dad may despise alcohol because of the havoc in her childhood. However, she has the propensity for addictions because of the environment of addictive behavior with which she was subjected. She may develop an addiction to cocaine.
The medical community categorizes addiction as a “disease” or a chronic and progressive illness. The medical community also refers to it as a “chemical dependence” rather than an addiction. This means little a a boy or girl, man or woman who is in the vice grip either a withdrawal or the highs of their drug of choice.
During the early years of substance abuse, the user has some degree of control over using or not using. In the later years the drug addiction presents few choices of ceasing without major medical and behavioral intervention.
The intervention tool has been used in many different setting. An intervention is used to offer immediate, short-term help to individuals who are in a crisis life-threatening place. An intervention is used to force a redirection for an individual with a life-threatening drug addition. The mechanism of an intervention is when a friend or a family member, someone whom the addict respects and feels close to. Steps into the realm of the addicts secrets and tells him or her, that things are going to change and he or she is on the way to a treatment facility.
If the drug addict is not on a high and can communicate with a little bit of rational, the transfer may be made without incident and may be somewhat compliant to the plan. The drug addict must not be given option to argue out of the intervention plan.
