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This variety includes,
but is not limited to:

• Arrests
  Including long and short-term incarcerations
• Accidents
  Auto, personal injury, work-related
• Relationship ruptures
  Family arguments, separation, divorce
• Financial losses
  Business failures, legal and personal debt
• Job loss or impairment
  LWOP, professional license suspension
• Health problems

These interventions are commonly known as “consequences”. Addicts and alcoholics may experience many of these types of interventions before seeking help. Their families and friends experience them as well. Tragically, this goes on for years, often decades as the disease advances and the interventions get worse. These interventions are destructive and devastating not only to the addict, but also to the family and friends. Amazingly, even the most serious and heartbreaking consequences such as divorce and major financial setbacks are recoverable, if not in whole, at least in great part. However, some interventions are not recoverable . . . ever. These include fatal traffic accidents or other criminal acts where someone dies as the result of a person’s drinking or drugging or health consequences that are so severe the alcoholic or addict can not recover. Sadly, most people begin recovery through an unplanned, ugly intervention.
But there is an easier, better way…

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The advantages of a professionally planned and facilitated intervention can not be more profound or clear. Some of them include:

• Superior education about the disease and recovery
• Control over the intervention
• Less destruction to the addict and the family
• Painful, devastating consequences halted and reduced
• Earlier treatment enhancing likelihood of successful recovery

There are only two choices. Wait for the addict/alcoholic to suffer an unplanned, ugly intervention severe enough to get him or her to seek help on their own (“hitting bottom”) as the disease gets worse and the addict and the family suffer more consequences. . . Or, intervene professionally.