I took my RAD to a very expensive rapid detox three days after I learned of her addiction. She spent the week at a beautiful retreat while being evaluated with all the best science money could buy. She was chemically balanced again and we both went home with a follow up treatment plan. It was mostly science based, but the clinic therapist also strongly recommended a traditional 12 step in patient rehab because of her lack of emotional maturity. She was 19 years old.
They don't do inpatient or IOP rehab. Most of their patients are older, been down that road several times, and are wealthy enough to afford the detox, personally stylized short term treatment. They usually already have all the tools they need to maintain recovery, they want recovery, but they're taking a shortcut around the months or years of chemical adjustment in their brains. This clinic won't take someone twice.
RAD was clean for six months but neither of us followed up on the recommendations, she relapsed and I started pulling my hair out. There was a traditional detox followed by IOP. Then suboxone, followed by a 28 day inpatient rehab. Then relapse and suboxone again and, after omitting a million details of life and death during those years, she's been sober for over a year now and working the medical, behavioral and spiritual recovery that was recommended in the first place.
Everything I did to stop her using was an intervention.
She is the one who made recovery happen and it didn't happen a moment before she was ready.
I sure as hell tried but couldn't get a textbook intervention going, because I couldn't make all the other enablers/addicts get on the same page and I wasn't ready to stop enabling, either. I had a much easier time getting her detoxed.
Panther, if you want suggestions for science based detox and recovery programs, try calling the clinics of the specialists you've named. It will be very expensive and short term, so hopefully your friend will be highly motivated.
And I have a question for you -- do you feel resentment or frustration that your parents didn't intervene?