Welcome to InterventionGuide.Net!

This site was designed to have comprehensive information regarding addiction, alcoholism, intervention and treatment.  Every day, millions of people around the world are unable to take control of their addictions.  For these addicts and alcoholics, only their family members and friends will be able to guide them to the help they so desperately need.  It is our hope that through the information found on this website, you will be able to get your addicted family member the help they so desperately need.

Why Intervention? 

• Intervention is an extremely effective way to make a loved one agree to going into a treatment program for alcoholism or addiction

• Intervention will show an addict that they need help in order to stop engaging in their self-destructive behavior

• Intervention will make the addict understand that their behavior  will certainly lead to their DEATH! 

• Intervention neutralizes denials  associated with alcoholism and drug addiction

• Intervention allows you to combine forces with others who are concerned about the person's problem and who's opinion the alcoholic /addict respects and cares about.

• Intervention has a good chance of persuading your loved one that they need immediate help. 
  
   

Drug Addiction 

Addiction is chronic disorder precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. addiction is characterized by the repeated use of substances or behaviors in spite of serious consequences.There is a lack of consensus as to what may properly be termed 'addiction.' Some within the therapeutic community perpetuate a rigid definition of addiction and contend that the term is only applicable to a process of escalating drug or alcohol use as a result of repeated exposure. Anyhow, addiction is many times applied to obsessive behaviors other than drug use, such as overeating or gambling. In all cases, the phrase addiction describes a lasting pattern of behavior that continues despite the direct or indirect adverse consequences that result from engaging in the behavior. It is perfectly common for an addict to portray the fancy to conclude the behavior, but find himself or herself unable to stop.  Read the rest of this article