What an Intervention Looks Like

What an Intervention Looks Like

What an intervention looks like is not what you typically see on TV. To have a successful intervention we must consider what drives addiction and what roadblocks will attempt to hinder the path to recovery. Many of the concerns our loved one has can be anticipated and handled prior to entering treatment. When everyone involved participates in thorough planning it is easier for the addicted person to say yes to treatment. 

  • Intervention is not as seen on television. It is a loving experience void of drama. 
  • Addiction is driven by experiences, triggers, stages of change and the fear that accompanies making a transition. 
  • Roadblocks are common and will occur. Being proactive instead of reactive makes the process safe and secure. This increases the likelihood of getting a yes from the person of concern. 
  • Families need to have a plan for both a yes or no response during the intervention. The entire network should be educated and prepared to take action. 

What an intervention looks like is a formalized process that will bring the family and friends together. The process will not look like what you see on TV. It is a loving and supportive experience that invites the person of concern to participate.

Roadblocks to Treatment

All members of the intervention network need to learn about addiction. Prior to this point, the family may be exhausted by empty ultimatums, withdrawn or in some cases separated. Our first step will be to educate ourselves on what drives addiction.

  • People, places and things
  • Cravings and triggers
  • Stages of Change
  • Fear of failure and fear of success / losing everything that they know

To help someone enter into recovery, we need to clear the path for them. In all interventions we encounter similar roadblocks. We hear things like, “I can’t leave my job” or “I have to take care of the kids.”  We will anticipate these roadblocks and make preparations so that our loved one can say yes to recovery. 

Anticipate Roadblocks

  • Who in the family is supportive and who isn’t?
  • Does the quality of the facility match the expectations of POC?
  • Time off of work and who will take care of the children and/or pets?
  • Common concerns about treatment centers: smoking, vaping, cell phone, computer, roommate, etc.

What an intervention looks like is a planned event. We need to plan how to work with the individual of concern, and we need to develop a plan for a long-term recovery. If someone refuses treatment that is just the beginning; we don’t stop there, we regroup and we change our approach.

Cover Yourself

  • What happens next when the intervention is successful?
  • What happens if the individual changes their mind after saying yes?
  • Contingency plans for a “no.”
  • Transportation plans to the facility.
  • Review what to expect in the days following.

 

About Adam Banks

Adam Banks is a certified interventionist and the owner of Adam Banks Recovery. After receiving an MBA from the University of Chicago, Adam built a company acquired by United Health Care. His discipline and attention to detail comes from his former career as an airline pilot, holding an ATP, the FAA’s highest license.

Today, Adam is dedicated to helping others achieve long-term sobriety. His work has guided executives, pilots, and physicians on paths to recovery. Adam brings families together through a loving and inclusive approach. Adam has authored four books on addiction. His recent work, Navigating Recovery Ground School: 12 Lessons to Help Families Navigate Recovery, educates families on the entire intervention process. He also offers a free video course for families considering an intervention for a loved one.

Adam is available for alcohol and drug intervention services in New York, Long Island, the Hamptons as well as nationally and internationally.

When is an Intervention Necessary?

When is an Intervention Necessary?

Recovery doesn’t require losing it all to begin healing. There is no need to hit the bottom before seeking treatment. Because addiction is hidden, we may not recognize when others truly need help. Entering treatment is a personal choice, and the best we can do to others is to help them realize the recurring consequences of addiction. 

  • The need to “hit rock bottom” is a recovery myth. 
  • Recovery is a personal choice, and we may not be aware of the emotional turmoil inside others who battle with addiction. 
  • Addiction is a slow moving train, accelerating slowly towards derailment. 
  • The goal is to help our loved one choose treatment by recognizing the consequences of substance use. 

One of the biggest blocks to seeking recovery is the myth that someone has to “hit rock bottom” before they can recover. The decision to recover can come at any time they’re ready for a new life. We can begin to recover as soon as the person is ready to be done with the sickness, the hangovers, and the consequences. Many young people have chosen recovery after just a few years of using.

I compare addiction to a freight train gaining speed. We are free to jump off at any point. Some people get off early, while the train is increasing in acceleration. Others wait until the train wheels get shaky, and some wait for derailment. 

But do they have to?

A lot of people look like they’re really happy when they’re using, and often their friends are surprised when they consider recovery. They may have an abundant life, houses, and a good job. However, on the inside, substance use is taking a huge emotional toll. When I chose to get sober, my life looked very abundant. In fact, I decided to get sober in a vacation house in the Hamptons. Inside, I was emotionless and very unhappy—but I never told anyone about my feelings.

People can choose recovery at any time, and we want to catch them before too many consequences have occurred. They don’t need to wait until they “lose everything” to recover. Many people don’t wait that long. I liken recovery to a self-help program that we choose for ourselves. We’ve all chosen workouts, medications, and diets for self-improvement. We consciously choose to adhere to those programs. Most people choose to diet, for instance, when they notice a few extra pounds—long before they become obese.

You can choose recovery any time you want. Most people that question their substance use have already reached an emotional bottom, whether they’re expressing it to others or not. What others see on the outside may not reflect what you’re feeling on the inside.

Let’s bust the myth that someone has to hit “rock bottom.” Let’s help people choose recovery before they hit that point. By intervening early, we can tap into someone’s emotional bottom. They might already be there.

Our goal with an intervention is to help someone see the consequences of their substance use, to shine a light on something that they are missing. We want to help them choose recovery at a point.

 

About Adam Banks

Adam Banks is a certified interventionist and the owner of Adam Banks Recovery. After receiving an MBA from the University of Chicago, Adam built a company acquired by United Health Care. His discipline and attention to detail comes from his former career as an airline pilot, holding an ATP, the FAA’s highest license.

Today, Adam is dedicated to helping others achieve long-term sobriety. His work has guided executives, pilots, and physicians on paths to recovery. Adam brings families together through a loving and inclusive approach. Adam has authored four books on addiction. His recent work, Navigating Recovery Ground School: 12 Lessons to Help Families Navigate Recovery, educates families on the entire intervention process. He also offers a free video course for families considering an intervention for a loved one.

Adam is available for alcohol and drug intervention services in New York, Long Island, the Hamptons as well as nationally and internationally.

Introduction to Addiction Intervention

Introduction to Addiction Intervention

An intervention is often a misunderstood process, and the only thing for certain is that everyone involved has experienced frustration, resistance, and failed attempts towards recovery. Adam Banks gives an introduction to addiction intervention and brings everyone together to form an actionable plan. In this process, we find that addicted people are longing to be part of a family that unintentionally pushes them away. Banks’s step by step method leads loved ones into treatment by peacefully repairing the structure of family dynamics.  

Recovery doesn’t require losing it all to begin healing. There is no need to hit the bottom before seeking treatment. Because addiction is hidden, we may not recognize when others truly need help. Entering treatment is a personal choice, and the best we can do to others is to help them realize the recurring consequences of addiction.

  • By the time the need for intervention arises, the AP has resisted treatment or made various one off attempts. 
  • Adam believes family is the difference. Interventions are a group effort that is guided by a dynamic, well prepared plan. This plan creates a lasting power that cultivates recovery. 
  • Interventions are not the dramatic episodes seen on television, and they often require more than one attempt. They do not dwell on the past, but rather build towards the future.

Taking the First Step

Families nearing the point of intervention commonly express, “We have tried everything, and nothing works, they are going to be the hardest person you have ever dealt with.” Those in need of treatment can often be difficult. However, underneath this difficulty is an internal struggle to break an addiction. Your loved one knows something is wrong, and they know that their substance dependency is taking its toll. Watching this introduction to addiction intervention is a first step. 

It is very likely that your family member does want to enter recovery – they just don’t see a path free of the substance that has a grip on them. Your loved one has probably made a few attempts at recovery in the past and claims, “It doesn’t work for me.”

Successful recovery follows a months-long plan, one-off attempts will not work. Prior to a structured intervention, attempts to recover have usually been “popcorn” attempts. An AA meeting here, a therapist there, and a lot of broken promises. A family that has “tried everything” has yelled, screamed, and attempted to enforce various ultimatums and the addiction has won every time.

Intervention Success Follows a Plan

Intervention creates and presents an actionable plan for the addicted person, which we refer to as “the AP.” When presented with a well-thought-out plan, the AP can recognize it as an obvious choice to follow. In a positive intervention, family is the difference. The family makes the plan, and during the course of treatment, they are taught how to support long term recovery. This program brings the family together to understand addiction. From this foundation, a plan comes together. 

The AP wants to be a part of the family. In fact, we often find that an AP is the one of the most involved family members. They call more frequently, and they stop by more, and they are typically the focal points of conversations. Sure, these interactions might be painful, but they are instances of the AP looking for connection and longing for belonging. However, addiction comes with pain for the family.

 In this misguided pursuit of forcing an AP to get sober, the family punishes them with ultimatums, pushing them further from stability, and making them more lonely. This cycle perpetuates addiction, the AP feels like the “black sheep.” They want to be a part of the family, but the hill to climb to get back in the good graces of the family becomes overwhelming. They don’t believe they could ever live up to the expectations of the family, so they use more, and cause more damage. 

If we can change the dynamic by surrounding the AP with love, showing them a path back to the family, and helping guide them into sobriety, we can give them exactly what they yearn for, family connection.

Intervention Reality

There are a lot of myths around intervention. The dramatized productions of television shows can make an already suffering family hesitant toward an intervention. There is little reality in these types of shows. A proper intervention should be a positive experience, the interventionist serving as a project manager, and the family making and presenting a plan. 

Once families learn about addiction in the introduction to addiction intervention, they become very influential. The interventionist is in the back-ground, moving the project forward and steadying the interactions between family and the AP. The calm progression is a slow ascent towards a positive solution. 

Start Recovery Today

An intervention is not a one-off event where a family shames an addicted person into seeking treatment. These scenarios can only blow up, and that form of intervention has been tried 100 times before in the past. In a positive intervention, very little time is spent on the past. We can bring a great sense of relief to the AP if we assure them that we aren’t bringing up the past, we are focused on the here and now and the future.

In emergency cases, a dramatic intervention might be the only option to help someone. Rather than an ambush operation, imagine your family as a peaceful unit that can offer help and follow a program that allows for long-term recovery. 

 

About Adam Banks

Adam Banks is a certified interventionist and the owner of Adam Banks Recovery. After receiving an MBA from the University of Chicago, Adam built a company acquired by United Health Care. His discipline and attention to detail comes from his former career as an airline pilot, holding an ATP, the FAA’s highest license.

Today, Adam is dedicated to helping others achieve long-term sobriety. His work has guided executives, pilots, and physicians on paths to recovery. Adam brings families together through a loving and inclusive approach. Adam has authored four books on addiction. His recent work, Navigating Recovery Ground School: 12 Lessons to Help Families Navigate Recovery, educates families on the entire intervention process. He also offers a free video course for families considering an intervention for a loved one.

Adam is available for alcohol and drug intervention services in New York, Long Island, the Hamptons as well as nationally and internationally.

Common Rehab Tall Tales

Common Rehab Tall Tales

During the course of a stay at a treatment center, the emotions of the AP will change. Sometimes you will notice great resolve from your AP to commit to change and other times it will feel like they can’t see the forest through the trees. They don’t see the entirety of their addiction and the pain that it caused. 

One of the most important elements of rehab is sober time, the more time someone has the better their chances of staying sober for the long term.  When your AP is in treatment, you will often hear convincing arguments about why their treatment should be different or shortened. 

These utterances come up with just about every treatment center placement.

This Place is Like a Jail

Day-to-day life at a treatment center is very structured compared to the lifestyle of using drugs and alcohol. Learning structure is an important part of recovery, getting up at the same time, eating a healthy diet, and going to bed at the same time. These habits might have fallen off during use and treatment is a chance to reestablish a structured life. 

Treatment centers do have a lot of rules, phones may be restricted, patients are encouraged to attend all sessions of therapy, and the men are separated from the woman. Rules are in place to keep everyone in treatment safe, ensure that no one will accept the delivery of drugs in the facility,  and give people the time to focus on getting the most out of their time there.

“You’re sending me to Jail” tends to be a manipulation by the AP. They are attempting to get someone to feel sorry for them and call the whole thing off.  A good treatment center is more like a fancy resort, a far cry from a jail. Lean back on the research that you did on the treatment center. They may need to be reminded why a treatment center has rules.

There is an Executive Program that I need to be in

Most treatment centers have an expensive executive track. These pathways offer more liberties, like cell phone access and time to work. An AP might try to guilt someone into paying for these expensive tracks by saying something like, “I will only stay if I can go to the Bespoke Program.” All of a sudden there is hostage negotiation going on at the door of the treatment center.

There is no correlation between money spent and successful recovery, most people do better when in the general program, if the AP is paying and would be invested in the executive program, so be it.  But if the family is paying for the treatment, you should not feel guilted into paying.  

Your loved ones’ addiction and behavior got them to rehab, you are not making them go.  You are providing enough and don’t need to play a game of paying more for them to have the upgraded program.

My Friends Left and I am Ready to Leave

The lifecycle of being in treatment runs on a 30-day cycle, from new guy to senior guy, a full lifespan happens in 30 days.  When someone “graduates” it is a significant moment and it’s celebrated.  As someone becomes senior in the program they are given the opportunity to take new people under their wing and do service and welcome them into the program. 

Attrition of friends is a normal part of treatment, this attrition is the opportunity that your AP has to do service and help the newcomer into the facility.

*a word about “friends”.  Friendships develop fast and are very deep in treatment. People share honestly about deep aspects of their lives in group sessions. After treatment people go a million different ways, the friendships made in treatment tend to be just that, friends in the facility. It is rare that these friendships are lasting.

I Could Teach the Classes

In an attempt to trick you, an addicted person will claim they are the “best in the class.” They have been put into leadership positions. This is the addiction hinting that they can leave early. They may think they are looked at highly by the other clients and staff, but that is irrelevant.  

I don’t know of any treatment center that promotes clients to a position higher than their peers. Most people in treatment are trying really hard to break free of their habits. They would not tolerate another client telling them what to do. The staff certainly doesn’t regard someone with 2 weeks of sobriety as a leader in treatment. 

There are opportunities for clients to share their stories, this is an important part of 12-Step meetings and therapy.  By sharing openly, you are doing service and helping others, you are not the de facto leader of the group.  Everyone is given an equal opportunity to share their story with the clients.

Most treatment centers have a list of chores. Participating in service work is an important lesson. The chores are small, like sweeping the floor in the living area or making coffee. The clients are not the cleaning staff, they are simply expected to respect shared areas and take responsibility for keeping them clean.  Usually, there is a culture among the clients that this is expected of all.

Everyone Else Here is Worse than Me

Every person that I have ever helped go to treatment has mentioned this phase, every one of them.  There will be some people in the treatment center with really rough stories. There will also be people there that self refer into treatment, and decide to address the problem early. It is unlikely that your AP is in better shape than everyone else. 

It is important not to compare one addiction to the other. The reality is that if a loved one qualifies to go to treatment, they are in the right place. I encourage people that I work with to compare themselves to the people that aren’t in rehab instead of the few people that are.

Everyone Here Agrees with Me

Do the other clients agree with your AP, or does the clinical team? 

Most of the other clients in treatment want to be there and want to take the advice of staff members.  There is not a culture of other clients giving advice – and one should be very wary of taking the advice of someone else that is new in recovery.  The culture of recovery is to take advice from people that have been successful at it.  In a treatment center, clients know not to give advice.  When a loved one says “everyone” they are probably not referring to the treatment staff. 

The Facility is Only Out for Money (It’s just a business).

Treatment centers are businesses, let’s just accept that fact.  A reputable treatment center is very interested in a successful outcome for your loved one.  The front-line staff of a treatment center makes recommendations that are clinically based and in the best interest of your AP.

 It would be a rare (unheard of) recommendation for a treatment center to leave early, again distance (time) from last use is very important and there is no way to shortcut this.

 The answer for addiction is always more treatment and a longer stay.  For most people, 28 days is not enough time between using and going home.  It is very common that the treatment center will recommend a longer stay, and they will always recommend sober living.  If the treatment center that you choose has extended care, they will recommend theirs as the staff there believe in it and already know your AP.

Treatment centers will work with you to create an aftercare plan that is affordable and will accommodate the requirements of the AP.

I am Following the After-care Plan that the Facility Recommended.

 Aftercare recommendations always start with the most intense options as the recommendation. The most successful aftercare plan would be to stay at the facility for an extended period, but due to costs and time constraints, few people can make this commitment. 

 If staying at the facility is not an option, the treatment center will recommend sober living and intensive outpatient treatment.  If your AP will not agree to sober living, the treatment center will make other recommendations. This creates a “race to the bottom.” The treatment center recommends the highest and best course of action, and the AP negotiates down.

 When having the aftercare conversation with your AP, make sure you understand what the treatment center is actually recommending. 

Responding to Rehab Feedback

Most people at treatment are grateful for the opportunity to go to treatment. They are grateful to the staff that are trying to help them out.  Be wary of any story that your AP is telling you otherwise. 

 If your loved one has a complaint about the facility or seems to have a plan that doesn’t make sense, always ask your AP’s case manager what is going on from the facility’s perspective. Don’t take action just based on what your AP tells you.

I encourage people entering into treatment to stick with the winners. Like any program in life, there are people very dedicated to making change. For those just going through the motions, going to rehab is (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You can make the most of it by sticking with the people that want to make the best of it.

I learned my lesson (by seeing people worse than me).

Thirty days of treatment cannot be summarized into one lesson to learn – that things can get worse.  Your loved one has already seen people worse than them before; they have already had negative consequences – they have had plenty of opportunities to “learn their lesson” before they got to rehab.  

Treatment is not simply learning one lesson or being scared straight.  If this were true, people would stop drinking after the first or second negative consequence.  We know that people that leave rehab early rarely, recover.  One of the most important parts of treatment is the 30 days, people need distance from their last use and there is no shortcut for time.

It is a blessing to go to rehab early, addiction is progressive, it always gets worse, if your loved one isn’t as bad as others, there is no need to wait until they are.

There is an upcoming event that I can’t miss.

There is never a good time to take 30 days off to go to rehab, absolutely everyone that has ever gone has a schedule of future events.  It is a matter of deciding what is more important, one event or a lifetime of recovery.  

Like clockwork, your loved one will look to the next important event and use that as a reason that they can’t do rehab now.  Upcoming class reunion, the next holiday, a child’s birthday, their birthday.  It really doesn’t matter what the upcoming event is, that is the excuse that they will use.  

Occasionally there truly are events that can’t be missed. A treatment center can work with major life events, but not for things like a 4-year-old’s birthday party or a high school class reunion.

It is time to decide what is more important, treatment for a life-threatening illness or the next event.  The people that attend the event would most likely be thrilled that your loved one has chosen rehab versus the event.

I am only here because (my wife made me do it)

Absolutely everyone that goes to rehab is pushed into it by someone that cares.  It is almost unheard of that someone to send themselves to rehab.  While a family member might have been the one to say, “Enough is enough”, they were not the reason that someone goes to rehab.  

Your loved one is in rehab due to what they were using and the consequences of that use.  Your loved one ended up with an intervention and going to rehab

I am upset at the way you went about (the intervention)

“You should have just addressed this with me one-on-one, you shouldn’t have told my family”. 

When family or friends step in to help someone out, we are taking agency away from the addicted person.  Sending someone to treatment is a bit unfair. The family steps in and determines the day and time someone goes to rehab. That isn’t at all what your loved one had planned for that day. It is common that them to respond with anger.

The reality is that family members have addressed the addiction one-on-one in the past and that didn’t work.  Intervention is addressing addiction in a new way. 

We can armchair quarterback the process that we used and the people we involved in getting someone to go to treatment.  Intervention is everyone trying their best to get someone’s help. We might make a few mistakes along the way, but we are trying our best.

Common Enemy

Your loved one may attempt to split the group up by choosing a scapegoat that they can turn everyone against.  Common enemies are the strongest person in the intervention group, the person that organized the intervention, the treatment center staff, or the interventionist.

“Bill overreacted, this was blown out of proportion” or “The treatment center doesn’t know what they are talking about”.  Your loved one is attempting to get people to join their side, and if they can get a few people on their side, they can manipulate to blow up the entire process.  

Your loved one is an expert at blowing up attempts by loved ones to help them recover.  They don’t think that this time is any different and they will make several attempts to sweep this all under the rug in hopes of making it all go away.

About Adam Banks

Adam Banks is a certified interventionist and the owner of Adam Banks Recovery. After receiving an MBA from the University of Chicago, Adam built a company acquired by United Health Care. His discipline and attention to detail come from his former career as an airline pilot, holding an ATP, the FAA’s highest license.

Today, Adam is dedicated to helping others achieve long-term sobriety. His work has guided executives, pilots, and physicians on paths to recovery. Adam brings families together through a loving and inclusive approach. Adam has authored four books on addiction. His recent work, Navigating Recovery Ground School: 12 Lessons to Help Families Navigate Recovery, educates families on the entire intervention process. He also offers a free video course for families considering an intervention for a loved one.

Adam is available for alcohol and drug intervention services in New York, Long Island, and the Hamptons as well as nationally and internationally.

Where Are My Amends?

Apologies Come After Recovery

When an intervention gets rolling, families tend to gear up for confrontation as if they have one shot to get everything off their chest. They see it as an opportunity to unload the trauma and emotional baggage that they’ve been holding onto. It is often followed with the expectation that the addicted person will capitulate, emotionally breakdown, and then accept treatment. 

This is not reality.  

Although the situation is unlikely to play out that way, it is not unnatural for a family to expect an apology. They have endured a chaotic cycle of addiction that has left a path of destruction in their lives. They expect the person of concern to acknowledge and apologize for the damage.  What the family seeks is something that Alcoholics Anonymous refers to as ‘amends.’ 

We educate families that an intervention is not the place to seek an apology. The purpose of an intervention is to get someone into treatment. We can all agree that the apology is much more sincere and heartfelt when it comes later, after a person has started their recovery.

Part of how an addicted person apologizes is through commitment to their recovery. The words, “I’m sorry” have lost meaning to families who have dealt with addiction and become numb to their utterance. True atonement happens when a person of concern shows their family that they are attending meetings, repairing relationships, and seeking a lifelong recovery. 

The 8th Step

Digging up the past or seeking an apology deviates from the mission of an intervention. Our purpose in that moment is to help our loved one choose recovery. The apology will come later, when the addicted person starts working through the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. 

Making amends is the 8th step in AA for a reason. People need time in recovery before they are able to view the damage they have done with sober eyes. It takes several months for the fog of addiction to lift so that a person can really understand their past behavior and why it was wrong. Step 8 has the addicted person write down all of the people they have hurt and relationships they have damaged. Step 9 sets them out to mend, or clean up all of that damage.

Making amends in the AA program:

  • Make a list of all persons (the addicted person) has harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all (Step 8). 
  • Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others (Step 9). 

Recognizing that a certain interaction was wrong is part of a sincere apology. This will include relieving some uncomfortable moments like ruining a wedding with drunken behavior or creating a scene by shouting at a partner in public. The cringe caused by reliving those events will help the addicted person realize the significance of their recovery. The actual apology allows past relationships to mend even if they don’t continue. 

In active addiction, a person may have “ran a tab” with friends and family. Making amends may require some financial reflection and retribution. If the money was stolen, both an apology and a payback will be necessary. Those coming out of recovery may find that difficult to accomplish, but the subtle acknowledgment and attempt to at least pay something back will lead to mending a severed relationship. 

Show the Work

The most complicated and difficult part of making amends is when it has to be made with immediate family. Close relationships are typically cut the deepest from an addiction, and a simple apology is never enough. In fact, when someone leaves treatment I recommend that they refrain from making a verbal apology right away. For many families, addiction has caused years of toxicity and abuse, and quick apology feels empty or insulting. 

What I do recommend to a person coming out of recovery is that they apologize with actions instead of words. The family wants to see that recovery is working. They want to witness their loved one attending meetings and working the program. They want the “old” person back. 

For them to believe it, they need to see it. 

We refer to the process of making amends with a family as “living amends.’ The addicted person understands that to show their family they are truly sorry they must live out an apology. Making amends is a lifetime commitment to working on recovery.

 

About Adam Banks

Adam Banks is a certified interventionist and the owner of Adam Banks Recovery. After receiving an MBA from the University of Chicago, Adam built a company that was later acquired by United Health Care. His discipline and attention to detail comes from his former career as an airline pilot, holding an ATP, the FAA’s highest license.

Today, Adam is dedicated to helping others achieve long-term sobriety. His work has guided executives, pilots, and physicians on paths to recovery. Adam brings families together through a loving and inclusive approach.

Adam has authored four books on addiction. His recent work, Navigating Recovery Ground School: 12 Lessons to Help Families Navigate Recovery, educates families on the entire intervention process. He also offers a free video course for families considering an intervention for a loved one. 

Adam is available for alcohol and drug intervention services in New York, Long Island, the Hamptons as well as nationally and internationally.