Substance Abuse Intervention Success Stories
I was in Santa Monica this weekend visiting a client that I had done an intervention on almost two years ago. For the purposes of confidentiality I will refer to this individual as Santa Monica Client (SMC) for the rest of this post. I was visiting him at a treatment facility that he was staying at and he now reported that he has 90 days of sobriety. A few blog posts ago I had written about a conversation I had had with a therapist in Baltimore who wanted to know if I felt intervention really worked. I took the opportunity this weekend to discuss this issue with SMC. I asked SMC if he felt that the intervention process contributed to his current sobriety. SMC said yes, the intervention process had set the recovery ball in motion for him. He let me know that the first recovery attempt had failed because he felt he was just not ready. SMC went on to say that he felt that his first attempt at treatment had planted the seed for the success he was experiencing today.
As I say from time to time recovery is a process and sometimes relapse is a part of that process. I don’t believe it has to be but if it is, it is.
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