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Volume 09
Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
Addiction Summit 2018
May 17-18, 2018
Page 15
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May 17-18, 2018 Singapore
8
th
International Conference on
Addictive Disorders and Alcoholism
Addiction interventions: With love, honesty and boundaries, supporting the family to help addict’s
access treatment immediately
D
o you want to increase the number of clients accessing your addiction treatment services? The challenge has always
been that family members are crying out for help in many directions, whilst their loved one is in a desperate place, but
yet be unable to force them into treatment due to their unwillingness to accept their circumstances or admit defeat to their
dependencies. This is called denial, and it leads to many more months/years of debilitating health and poor behaviors at
the expense of the whole family and everyone around the afflicted individual. This has been a major dilemma for treatment
providers who want to help but feel unable to work with an unwilling patient. Historically we have been told that a person will
only respond to treatment once they are willing to engage and so everyone tentatively waits for them to reach rock bottom.
We disagree. Our Sober Intervention process works in conjunction with the family confronting their own enabling behaviors
and using love, honesty and boundaries we guide them through a process that is effective immediately over 90% of the time, to
bring about willingness in the afflicted individual to accept help right here, right now, on our terms. This presentation explains
in more detail the problem facing families whose loved ones don’t want to accept their condition and this presentation guide
through the 7 stages of a successful addiction intervention, and shows using love, honesty and boundaries to produce the
willingness in the addict to accept help and move towards permanent recovery.
Biography
Ian Young is a charismatic speaker, with a natural talent of being a positive, uplifting and thought shifting influencer. He is the Founder of two very successful
residential rehabs in the UK, before starting Sober Services in 2008; pioneering Sober Companions and emerging as the leading Sober Interventionist across the
UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
ian@sober-services.comIan Young
Sober Services Global & Sober Academy, UK
Ian Young, J Addict Res Ther 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6105-C1-035