Alcohol Abuse Advice

Different Sources Of Alcohol Intervention

A formal intervention should not be the first reaction from a concerned family. A series of informal interventions-simple confrontational conversations-should have been tried up to this point. The formal intervention should only be considered when other efforts have failed, or when the person’s life seems to be spinning hopelessly out of control. There are professional intervention services and agencies that you can hire to help you with this process. They often have an individual-usually a counsellor in recovery themselves-who can come and help conduct the intervention with you.

A successful alcohol intervention requires proper balance. On the one hand, you want to be loving and supportive and reach out and offer help ithout antagonizing or threatening the alcoholic. If they are a binge drinker, you might be able to stage the intervention so that it follows a day or two after the binge ends, before they have a chance to start again and also when they are most able to listen to your arguments.

An intervention is a formal opportunity for communication to occur. One of the goals of the intervention should be for you and the others involved in the intervention to set some boundaries. These boundaries should include what behaviour is unacceptable to them. If you are serious about planning an intervention, then here is what you need to do:

See if you want professional help and whether or not you can afford it.
Decide who to have at the intervention and where to do it at.
Specify the goal of the intervention and schedule at a cure alcoholism centre if possible.
Anticipate objections and rehearse overcoming them.