Personal Growth Success

Addiction can potentially creep into just about anyone’s life because there are so many different addictions now. You have kids and teenagers who are smoking marijuana. There is a lot of peer pressure to drink alcohol in our culture and there is opportunity to do so almost everywhere these days. Then of course there are opiates, which have surpassed Marijuana as being the new gateway drug for today’s youth. Opiates have overtaken pot and other drugs among youth today and it is becoming an epidemic of sorts.

So given that the problem is so widespread, what can we do to reach out and help others who are struggling? How can we offer addiction help to those who are caught up in this deadly cycle?

The first idea for you to try is to simply open up a dialouge with the person. Sometimes this can be tricky because your offer for help might be taken instead as being bothersome or threatening so you might have to choose whether it is really worth pursuing. In some cases you might want to just maintain the peace but at other times if someone is truly out of control or a danger to themselves then you must set those fears aside and confront them anyway. The ultimate goal is to somehow motivate them to change instead of just letting them spin out even further.

There is no way of skirting the issue if you want to see change because there is no way to motivate them indirectly. If you want to see someone change then you must talk to them about it. A formal intervention can be a small step at times but most of the time they will not achieved the desired outcome, at least not initially. In some cases they might be the breakthrough everyone was hoping for, but more likely they will be a step on the path to sobriety, and might not be a magic bullet just because you got the whole family involved. They can be helpful and in some cases might inspire action and change but don’t believe that it is a sure bet – it is not.