What makes a crisis intervention successful?
Love, more than anything else. As should perhaps go without saying, it isn’t easy being an addict. You feel alien, isolated, cut off from anything and anyone you ever cared about. To make it back, you need the sort of boundless empathy you can only get from a loving intervention. The best crisis interventions are the ones that help addicts make the decision to seek substance abuse treatment through warmth, not reproach. If someone you care about is a drug or alcohol abuser, you’re sure to have a great many grievances that need airing. A crisis intervention isn’t the setting in which to do so. Only with relentlessly positive support can you expect to effect a positive outcome. In the end, that’s the only thing that could ever really be important. Make no mistake: Interventions aren’t easy. The good news is that most California rehabs offer crisis intervention services. There’s help out there, provided you’re willing to seek it out. If you’re going to conduct a successful intervention in
