Drugs and Alcohol Intervention in Canada

Drug Rehab Services is a no cost referral agency to inform you and help you find the proper treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. We have helped thousands of persons getting the proper help in the following services:

• Outpatient treatment
• meetings
• Residential treatment
• Detox centers
• Private cocaine treatments
• Long term treatments

Our goal is to provide you the best advice possible to attend a drug rehab centre so you or a loved one get a drug free life. Intervention has helped many people to recover from addiction. Performing a well done intervention can save an addict's life.

Intervention for Drugs and Alcohol Abuse

When a drug user has reached a point where his or her drug and/or alcohol addiction has consumed most of there life, it is not uncommon for the user to still not be able to admit to a problem or ask for any type of help from their family. This is normally the crucial time to conduct a family intervention to help the addict come to a decision to want to do something about his or drug addiction. An intervention can be conducted as a family without any outside help. The other and sometimes most successful way of doing an intervention is to bring in a professional intervention counselor. Both approaches can be successful if done properly.


An intervention it self is a carefully staged process that could potentially take two to three days, depending on the difficulty. Typically the first day is spent planning the actual intervention. Such things as where it will take place, who is going to attend, what treatment center is he or she going to should all be planned out. When deciding on where to do the intervention, it is best to pick a spot that the addict is very comfortable being at. If they are coming to a place that feel comfortable in and can recognize, it will the make intervention process much smother. When deciding on who should be at the intervention it is of the most importance to not have anybody there who will cause the addict to become enraged or who the addict has no respect for. If there are people attending the intervention that the addict does look up to or does respect, the family will increase their chances of the addict actually listening to what is being said. Another very important part of the intervention is to have an actual treatment center lined up and/or paid for if necessary for when the addict does say yes to treatment. If this is not done and a treatment center is not lined up for the addict, the family will only lessen the chance of the addict going to treatment.

When conducting the intervention the most common approach to take is that of, ‘we love you and never will stop loving you, but we are not willing to watch you kill yourself with drugs.’ In some cases where the addict is refusing to get help and does not accept what the family is offering, this is where the family will have to follow through with plan ‘B’ of the intervention. This is the tough love approach that must be taken in order for the addict to truly realize they have no other options but treatment. The family must be prepared to cut off all support, and this does include living arrangements, financial, etc. from the addict, and only offer treatment, nothing else. Although this will be very difficult to do, it is sometimes the only option that will be available to the family. Always remember, a family will never stop loving the person battling drug addiction, but it is OK to not like what they are doing.