1. What You’ll Learn
1. Discuss steps teens can take to get help for
someone who misuses or abuses drugs.
2. Discuss what happens
during formal intervention.
3. List the kinds of
treatment for people
who are drug dependent.
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2. What You’ll Learn
4. Explain what happens during detoxification.
5. Discuss why family
members and friends
of people who are
drug dependent
might need treatment.
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3. Key Terms
• honest talk
• relapse
• detoxification
• inpatient care
• outpatient care
• halfway house
• student-assistance
program
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4. Formal Intervention
• People who misuse or abuse drugs
need help.
• These people might be in denial and
not wish to do anything about the misuse or
abuse. However, people who know someone
who misuses or abuses drugs do not need to
deny this. They can be straightforward and
try to get help.
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5. What to Know About Formal Intervention
• There are four steps to take when you want to
get help for someone who is misusing or
abusing drugs.
1. List the person’s specific behaviors and signs of
drug abuse. Write out a detailed list that
describes specific situations and dates.
2. Share the list with a responsible adult who can
review what you have written and decide
appropriate steps to take.
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6. What to Know About Formal Intervention
3. Know that you have made a responsible
decision by sharing the list with an adult.
Recognize that people who look the other way
or make excuses for a person who abuses
drugs are enablers. Be proud that you have
made a responsible decision.
4. Follow the advice of the adult who takes action.
The adult might choose to contact a trained
counselor or other health-care professional for
a formal intervention.
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7. What to Know About Formal Intervention
• How a formal intervention helps
– A formal intervention is an action by people,
such as family members, who want a person
to get treatment.
– The goal is to help drug-dependent people
recognize the effects of their drug misuse
or abuse.
– A trained counselor guides people through the
formal intervention process because a formal
intervention should be carefully planned.
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8. What to Know About Formal Intervention
– During a formal intervention, family
members, friends, and other significant
people describe the behavior of the person
who is drug dependent, explain how it affects
them,
and explain
that they want
them to get
treatment.
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9. What to Know About Formal Intervention
– It is best for a person who is drug dependent
to enter treatment immediately after
the formal intervention.
– Family members often have
packed a suitcase and
made plans to take the
person to a treatment facility
immediately following the
formal intervention.
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10. What to Know About Formal Intervention
• How honest talk helps
– Family members, friends, and employers who
use honest talk and I-messages often are
successful at convincing a person who is drug
dependent to agree to treatment.
– Honest talk is the straightforward sharing
of feelings.
– An I-message is a statement that contains a
specific behavior or event, the effect of the
behavior or event on a person, and the
emotions that result.
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11. What to Know About Formal Intervention
– People who are healthy recognize when
other people are drug dependent and use
honest talk and I-messages to express
their feelings.
– For example, a teen might say:
• I feel that I cannot trust you when you lie about
your drug use, and this stresses me.
• I cannot bring friends over because I don’t know if
you have been drinking; this makes me sad.
• I cannot relax when you are out drinking with your
friends because I worry that you might have an
accident.
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12. Treatment
• People who are drug dependent need
help to discontinue drug use.
• It is important to make sure that a person
uses the treatment approach that will work
best for him or her to avoid a relapse.
• A relapse is a return to a previous behavior
or condition.
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13. What to Know Before Selecting
a Treatment Program
• Involvement of the person in need
of treatment
– The person needing the treatment can be
involved in selecting the type of treatment he
or she will follow as he or she may have
certain goals he or she wishes to accomplish.
– People who have a say in their treatment
often have greater chances of success
because they know what their goals and
values are.
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14. What to Know Before Selecting
a Treatment Program
• Sometimes treatment might not be necessary.
– The most difficult step for a person who is
a drug abuser is to admit he or she has
a problem.
– People might recover on their own. However,
they might need reinforcement for their actions.
– Sometimes sitting down with a friend or
family member might help a person share
important feelings.
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15. What to Know Before Selecting
a Treatment Program
• A person’s characteristics
– A person who is married might have a support
system in his or her spouse.
– A person’s job might be a consideration in
treatment outcomes. This person might not
need to worry about finding work, which would
resolve many problems.
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16. What to Know Before Selecting
a Treatment Program
• Follow-up procedures
– In any treatment, the follow-up procedures
need to be taken into account. For example,
are there group therapy sessions periodically
after treatment? Is a counselor available
for advice?
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17. What to Know Before Selecting
a Treatment Program
• Environment
– The recommended treatment should take into
account an environment that increases the
chances of success.
– The person might need to change his or her
physical environment so that he or she is not
pressured by peers to use drugs and so that a
source of drugs is not readily available.
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18. Treatment Options
• There are many different kinds of treatments
available to a person who misuses and
abuses drugs.
• Detoxification
– Detoxification is the process in which an
addictive substance is withdrawn from
the body.
– Withdrawal symptoms are unpleasant
reactions that occur when a person who is
physically dependent on a drug no longer
takes it.
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19. Treatment Options
• Inpatient care
– Inpatient care is a treatment that requires a
person to stay overnight at a facility.
– The main advantages of inpatient care are the
medical supervision and the drug-free setting.
– Inpatient care might last from a few weeks to a
year—most last for 28 days.
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20. Treatment Options
• Outpatient care
– Outpatient care is a treatment that does not
require a person to stay overnight at a facility.
– Outpatient care is offered by
many hospitals and community
treatment centers.
– People in outpatient drug
treatment programs can work
or attend school while
recovering from
drug dependence.
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21. Treatment Options
• Halfway houses
– A halfway house is a live-in facility that
helps a person who is drug dependent
gradually adjust to living independently.
– Halfway houses provide food, shelter, drug
treatment, job skills, and counseling.
– They provide a supportive, drug-free
environment for living.
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22. Treatment Options
• Recovery programs
– There are many recovery programs available
for people who are drug dependent, including
some that deal with specific drug
dependencies.
– Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a recovery
program that helps people deal with
narcotics dependence.
– Cocaine Anonymous (CA) is a recovery
program that helps people deal with
cocaine abuse.
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23. Treatment Options
• School resources
– Many schools offer resources to help
students with drug problems.
– A student-assistance program is a school-
based program to help prevent and treat
alcoholism and other drug dependencies.
– Some schools also have recovery groups
for students.
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24. Treatment Options
• Additional treatment options
– Treatment programs are available for people
affected by other people’s drug dependence.
– These programs often focus on helping
people who are codependent and enablers.
– It might be difficult for people to stop being
codependent and enablers because they do
not want to let the person who is drug
dependent suffer the consequences of his or
her drug use.
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25. Treatment Options
Why do you think
it is difficult for
people to quit
using drugs?
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27. 8A, 9A, 9B,
Study Guide 12A, 16A
1. Identify the following statements as
true or false.
_______ People in outpatient drug treatment programs
true
can work or attend school while recovering
from drug dependence.
_______ All inpatient care treatments last for
false
28 days.
_______ A formal intervention is an action by people,
true
such as family members, who want a person
to get treatment.
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28. 10B, 11A, 12A, 12B
Study Guide
2. Fill in the blank with the appropriate term
from the lesson.
Narcotics Anonymous
A. ___________________ is a recovery program that
helps people deal with narcotics dependence.
Cocaine Anonymous
B. ___________________ is a recovery program that
helps people deal with cocaine abuse.
Withdrawal symptoms
C. ___________________ are unpleasant reactions
that occur when a person who is physically
dependent on a drug no longer takes it.
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29. 16A
Study Guide
3. Why is the involvement of the person in
need of treatment important before
selecting a treatment program?
People who have a say in their treatment
often have a greater chance of success
because they know what their goals and
values are.
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