Intervention

An intervention begins when you call for help:
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Do you have a family member or loved one who needs an intervention? Professional help is just a phone call away. Don’t feel you are alone.

Woody has been working as an addiction professional since 1997. He is certified and licensed as an addiction specialist, the CEO of Right Turn – Innovative Outpatient Services, and the recipient of the 2009 Robert Logue President’s Award by The Massachusetts Association of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselors (M.A.A.D.A.C.)

An intervention is attempt by family members and friends to help a chemically dependent person get help for his/her problem. These interventions are usually successful and often go onto a drug and alcohol treatment program and learn how to live life without the use of these substances. The purpose of interventions is to get substance abusers out of denial and show them the ways in which their disease is affecting the people they love the most and get them into the needed level of treatment.  With the help of Woody Giessmann, an intervention specialist and loved ones, the intervention process does not have to be painful, but can be the beginning of a new way of living for all those involved.

It is believed interventions have a 90-95% success rate when done under the guidance and supervision of a licensed intervention specialist and with the help of other people close to the individual needing the intervention. Intervention is always successful on some level. In some sense, interventions are very successful because although drugs and alcohol have essentially taken over a person’s life, it is still hard for the abuser to be confronted with his/her own behavior and know how it has affected others.

The abuser does not have to be willing to get help, however successful interventions occur when there have been significant repercussions as a result of the person’s drinking or using. These events and occurrences can be used to show the chemically dependent person the ways in which life has become unmanageable.