How drug & opioid addiction interventions affect the family in British Columbia and Alberta — Drug Rehabs in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and other parts of Alberta by Options Okanagan Treatment Center in Kelowna, British Columbia treating heroin, fentanyl, opiate, drug addiction and recovery.
Alberta and BC Drug Interventions
Addicted to the Struggling Addict
When members of a family call to learn more about intervention, their assumption is that they are calling on behalf of a loved one that’s addicted to either drugs or alcohol. While this is definitely true, the thing that most people never realize is that their calling has a lot to do about family members being addicted to their loved ones through enabling behaviors and co-dependency.
Chemical dependency cannot exist without codependency, which means that addiction cannot stop until the enabling and codependency stops. Options Okanagan Treatment & Intervention helps families in need of assistance with setting healthy boundaries for loved ones.
Think about all the times you have heard how your loved one is unable to get help until he/she hits rock bottom. Don’t you believe that this also applies to you too?
How the Addict Affects the Family
If you examine this situation closely, many family members continue doing things that prevent the addict from really feeling the bottom as well as making it impossible for help to be one of the options available to them.
The truth is that family members are addicted to the loved one who’s battling addiction and have become used to the status quo. When families get in touch with us, they are usually not ready to hear that they must since they are in fact part of the problem. Many actually tend to get very upset with us.
People have been told that they are not responsible and that prior to anything changing the addict must first hit rock bottom or ask for help. What does this all mean? The family might not be responsible or the addiction since they aren’t actually addicted to drugs or alcohol, but it is the family that actually enables it to continue.
It is far easier to get a person addicted to drugs or alcohol to accept help compared to attempting to convince the rest of the family members (who are emotionally attached and may have no professional experience or background) to let go of their opinions or agree to be on the same page and allow things to be done properly.
The addict and alcoholic also have a role to play, which is ensuring that nobody in the family actually agrees with one another. If everyone agreed, then the loved one would be unable to get high or drunk.
Addiction is perhaps the only potentially fatal medical condition that someone can have where families attempt to fix on their own or assume that they know more about than professionals or how to manage it better. It does not require any credentials to be a critic with an opinion of how best to treat or handle an addiction.
Options Okanagan Drug And Alcohol Treatment Centers in Kelowna, Salmon Arm and Vancouver, British Columbia – Men and Women are recovering and healing from Alcohol and Drug Abuse at our treatment center here in the Okanagan right now.
Our unique and distinctive drug treatment program allows men and women to come in from Calgary as well as Edmonton as we offer airport pickup.
Numerous clients come to us from Calgary and Edmonton and other locations in Alberta and even other provinces for Opiate addiction treatment, meth drug treatment, many other drug and alcohol addictions for rehabilitation because of the uniqueness of our treatment center.
Our Treatment Location:
Options Okanagan Opioid Treatment Center
551 Sherrydale Crescent, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 2E6
Toll Free Phone Number : 1-855-335-0331