Intervention Information

back to additional information > >

Addiction Intervention Information - Oasis Interventions

When a person is in serious need of help with their addiction, their judgement is often clouded by denial. Family and friends are usually the driving force behind an addict realising that they have a problem. Through gathering intervention information through addictions experts working at well known treatment centres in South Africa, those close to the addict can often help to interrupt the destruction of the illness.

Interventions are a common occurrence in cases of addiction. They involve the confrontation of an addict in an attempt to help them to agree to take measures aimed at treating drug addiction. Family and friends of the addict are accompanied by an informed person such as a therapist, experienced recovering addict or counsellor.

The result of an intervention is that the sufferer will hopefully enter an addiction recovery programme to stop their addictive behaviour, especially a 12 Step recovery programme. The best chance of this result is with the help of qualified addiction counsellors, who have all the necessary intervention information.

The disease of addiction is progressive, meaning that the grip that the illness has over the sufferer worsens significantly over time. The prognosis often calls for serious action. The positive effect of a number of individuals confronting the user, each with a close relationship to the sufferer, tends to be far more effective than one person confronting the addict alone.

A person suffering from any addiction will be reasonably skilled at methods of avoiding action, yet when a group of people form an intervention, the addict is less likely to be able to use these learned methods of avoidance.

Oasis Counselling Centre is able to provide intervention information to assist the families and friends of sufferers in making the right choices in an informed way. Interventions are not something to be taken lightly: they are immensely stressful and painful for the sufferer and the family involved.

Having the correct resources available, interventions can be handled in the healthiest manner for all involved. No individual should have to suffer alone - neither the addict nor their family and friends.

For more intervention information, contact Oasis Counselling Centre in Plettenberg Bay to speak to one of our qualified addiction counsellors. Take a look at our drug treatment facilities and 12 Step help group philosophy.