Truths
About Interventions
Interventions have to do with speaking the truth. We have an obligation
to help the chemically dependent person. The chemically dependent
person’s reality is disturbed; someone needs to mirror back another
reality. The majority of people don’t get well until some kind of
intervention happens. A planned intervention is safest. We have
unwittingly been compliant. Find out what enabling looks like. We all
enable. Anytime we enable, we place another nail in the coffin, keeping
the disease going. Learn about the disease, what it looks like, why the
family isn’t to blame. Look at the family system, not just the
chemically dependent person. Every family member needs to be in
recovery. You have leverage, but don’t misuse your power; seek out
professional help. The steps are: the Plan, the Rehearsal, the Formal
Intervention.
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Handling Alcohol or Drug Abuse Among Employees Your employee is coming into work late. He or she is not performing at the level you have come to expect. Co-workers seem to be having problems getting along with this employee. And, worst of all, you thought you detected a smell of alcohol on the breath. Sound familiar? You are the supervisor; what do you do? |
Family Intervention: is it safe?
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Fire this employee; ignore the problem hoping it will go away; make excuses and cover up the deficiencies; have a “heart to heart” talk with this employee? No! There is another approach—the most humane and the least expensive—workplace intervention. Statistically speaking, by the time an alcoholic or drug addict starts having problems at work, he or she has been abusing substances for approximately 12 years! This individual is seriously ill, and desperately needs help. Your help!
A phenomenon exists known as denial which seriously impairs an individual’s ability to see how drug or alcohol addiction has changed his or her life. This is the chief reason a concerned supervisor can so dramatically impact the situation by mirroring back to someone the results of his or her behavior. This is called intervention.
Alcoholism and drug addiction has been considered a disease by the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization since 1957. This disease left untreated only gets worse, never better. And it doesn’t go away on it’s own. The alcoholic/addict must stop using completely to start recovering from the physical, mental and emotional abuse this disease inflicts. And you, the supervisor, could be the key to this individual starting on the road to recovery.
Statistically speaking, the income a person produces—his or her job—is the one area most protected by the alcoholic or addict. This employee will do anything to avoid having you, the supervisor, find out about the addiction.
Employers, family members and friends need not feel helpless and bewildered when someone they know has an alcohol or drug problem. Abuse of alcohol or other drugs need not go unchecked for months— even years—until someone has lost everything, job, family, friends and seriously impaired their health.
Supervisory training is available to help those in a leadership role to begin to interrupt this process by learning to spot the signs and symptoms of alcohol and drug addiction.
For confidential information on supervisory training or workplace interventions please call Olalla Recovery Centers and ask for Rebecca Smith. Call 1/800-882-6201.
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