Question by hypejack: How does drug intervention program work?
Is drug intervention program really effective to minimize if not stop drug addiction cases which is really alarming these days?
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Answer by Alfredo whieghts you just talk to pot heads and drugies
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Question by andie b: What is an alcoholism intervention?
I want to know how this works, since my friend has been considering doing this for another friend. I was too shy to ask her what it meant. Help please.
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Answer by bernice n When someone who is dear to you happens to be an alcoholic, you will most likely try to talk to her and persuade her to undergo treatment, right? Well, if you can’t get the person to agree to your wishes, that’s what alcoholism intervention is for. You seek the help of professionals, called intervention specialists, and they will facilitate a group meeting of friends, family members, and even the employers of the patient, to convince her to stop her intake of alcohol and undergo treatment.
Website: www.facebook.com Jessica, 21, comes from a tight-knit family. Her father, mother, sister and grandfather all work at the family-owned gas station. But Jessica’s not allowed to work there any more. Ever since Jessica became addicted to heroin at 17, her family cannot trust her. And even worse — her addiction is straining family relationships. Everyone wants to see her go to treatment. But just organizing the intervention is tearing them apart. Hubert is a middle-aged American Indian man whose struggles to keep his family together amidst an abusive childhood at the hands of his alcoholic stepfather, along with the pressure to protect his siblings from the verbal, emotional and physical violence from his alcoholic parents, eventually drive him to the bottle as well during his life in Las Vegas as a bartender. Hubert moved back to Los Angeles to care for his dying diabetic mother, but after her death, his alcohol abuse worsens. His stepfather, showing “Tough love”, kicks Hubert out of the house and Hubert becomes homeless, depending on recycling bottles and cans for booze money. Another homeless friend, John, a bipolar who is non-compliant with medication, helps take care of Hubert on the streets by feeding him, buying him alcohol and helping him find safe places to sleep at night. A real estate agent who frequents the park where John and Hubert “live” during daylight hours had gotten to know Hubert and John and realized what a kind gentleman Hubert was underneath …
No longer driven by the idea that “life will be better when I get this job, that girl or whatever it may be..” Sober today I may have dreams, and make steps toward the future based on real life, real life as it is. I can be open, honest and willing, share my hopes and put in the foot work today. Unrealistic dreams are resentments under construction… How do we look after ourselves? My late father, said to me many years ago, “I wished I had cherished your mother more and been less superficial and indifferent” Dad never found recovery. Those words, cherish, superficial and indifferent help me every day. To cherish always and be aware of superficiality and indifference.. Every day we learn more about who we are, how we are feeling, why and what we may do ~ Katharine Butler Hathaway “All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be; crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do” -/- We learn to cherish ourselves and everyone, just as we may be today.. As Bill Sees It ~ Foundation for Life… We discover that we receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. In praying, we ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for the day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and …
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Website: www.facebook.com Born into a mixed-race family in a predominantly white town, Asa struggled with low self-esteem and body image growing up. Classmates teased him because of his size, ethnicity and effeminate manner. Desperate to loss weight, Asa became bulimic. He came out as a gay man at 19 and started using hard drugs and drinking heavily. For the past 10 years, Asa has been working towards his college degree. Being a medical science student, he understands how his eating disorder and alcoholism are affecting him, but he’s been unable to stop. His family now realizes that an intervention is their last chance to help Asa. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Ever since my best friend’s boyfriend broke up with her, she’s gotten back to drinking alcohol. She’s been so messed up and I just want to help. I’ve heard about alcohol intervention and I want to know more information about it because it might just be the kind of help that my best friend needs. I’m so worried about her.
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Recently, I have noticed that after attending a series of gathering and too much social drinking, I am beginning to get addicted to alcohol. I want to get professional advice about alcoholism intervention before it gets too late.
Pam is an alcoholic with a terrible past full of failed marriages and abuse. She uses drinking to cope with her past and to try to move forward in her life. Cirrhosis, the degradation of the liver due specifically to alcohol, has already claimed one member of her family. Her family does not want Pam to be the second victim and urge her through an Intervention to agree to treatment.
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