Well, the short answer is not necessarily In fact, if you are living with or know a friend or family member who is suffering from addiction, you've probably already intervened several times before and not even known it

If you have a friend or family member who is suffering from alcoholism, you are no doubt aware of the byproduct of the disease You’ve probably witnessed the alcoholic isolate from friends and family, a decline in health, problems at work, depression and perhaps criminal issues

Occasionally, I’ll get the call where a family member asks if there is a process to forcibly send a person into treatment Some families will ask if there is a way to simply restrain the addict, throw him in the back of a van, and haul him off to treatment