Thanks for your post Daisy. To be honest, I WISH I had tried something like an intervention with my husband when he was actively using (pain meds which then led to Xanax and Cocaine, which then led to an affair, and the loss of his being present for the birth of our first child, and active participation in months of his sons life). Sure he was responsible for all that, but these drugs are proven to affect a person’s brain chemistry and he was lost to reality. It took him a little over a year, to realize although he was still working, paying bills, and all the rest.. he was unhappy, lonely, and drug sick. And then he finally came home, still thought he could quit it all on his own (that didnt work well), and finally we (me, my parents) encouraged detox and rehab,and he agreed. We lost a year. I still wonder if I could have done anything to shorten this. The rehab he ended up at, I later found out they offered intervention services!!
