AHS Views

I recently helped a woman whose son was addicted to heroin. He had been using cocaine since he was in high school and was now 26. He claimed to have attempted to quit on his own, but was never successful. His mother couldn’t convince him to get help, so she called me to find out what she could do to get him to agree to go into drug rehab.

We talked about interventions - what they are, how they work, and the importance of having a successful drug rehab lined up so that once the intervention was complete, he could get straight into treatment with no delays. I helped her select a program that would be able to handle his addiction once and for all, and then got her in touch with a professional interventionist. He put her at ease and she finally felt that her son was going to get the help he so desperately needed.

She hired the interventionist and the next day he flew to her home to help her son realize why treatment is so important and necessary to his recovery. She called me the next day to let me know that the interventionist was successful, and her son had agreed to go. It was set up for the interventionist to accompany her son to the facility and, in fact, they were already en route to the program I had helped her choose.

She was so thankful and couldn’t believe that after all her personal efforts in the past had failed, getting her to agree to go to drug rehab could be accomplished so quickly by a professional with an objective viewpoint. He is now getting the help he needs in a successful drug rehab program. All it took was a little help from a professional to get him there. If you’re having trouble convincing someone you love to get help, call me.