If you can ever convince a person who needs help to get it, then you've done a very good thing…no matter what they may think at the time; and more often than not, they'll thank you for it later. I was convinced to enter rehab through an intervention, and I would suggest that anyone thinking about how to get a loved one the help that they need consider this method of encouragement. They are never easy, but they are remarkably effective.

The Federal Govt. estimates that almost 10% of the population is need of, but not receiving, drug or alcohol treatment.

Wow

We need to do better, here's how we can.

Worried your spouse may be on the road to a drinking problem? Noticed how little influence your words seem to have on his/her drinking behaviors?

Well, the answer may be easier than you think, but it will require that you make some changes as well!

Too many grandparents are placed into a role of primary caregiver, their grandchildren, sadly, drug orphans. Many more watch with concern as their grown kids put drinking or drugging above parenting, and the grandchildren suffer.

Here's what The National Association for Children of Alcoholics says grandparents should do when their grandchildren are at risk.