Drug Intervention is a course of action taken to get an addict into treatment long before they would if left to their own devices. Before intervention became a proven method of getting addicts to receive help; habitually, drug dependant individuals would need to reach their bottom previous to accepting any form of drug treatment assistance. But unfortunately, to hit bottom often meant loss of health, family, friends or even death. Drug addiction can easily be compared with cancer, because, both often kill, even with proper treatment plans. If a loved one had cancer most people would do anything and everything in their power to help that individual to recover, therefore, it should not be any different with drug addiction. Everything possible should be done to save the addict form succumbing to his or her chains of addiction.
Drug addiction can be very baffling and insidious; at first the drugs seem to help out, and all of life's problems seem to fade away, tensions are reduced, and worries disappear, and even the daily tasks that once seemed difficult don't seem so bad anymore, but the perceived benefits of drug usage will be the allure and the undoing of the person if he or she does not stop taking the drug. Drug abuse is a progressive disorder which usually starts off slow with small amounts, but tolerance of drugs can build fast, so the drug user will need more of the drugs to achieve the same desired effects. If regular usage of the drug continues, the person will eventually progress through these stages of drug use, drug abuse, and ultimately drug addiction.