SUBSTANCE-ABUSE INTERVENTION TO BE DISCUSSED.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - The intervention process for drug and alcohol abusers will be the topic of a discussion Wednesday at the Valencia Recovery Center at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. Guest speakers Cary Quashen, president of ACTION, a program for addicts, and Peter Gallway, the center's program director, will discuss the intervention process and demonstrate the technique. The program is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the center, 23845 W. McBean Parkway, Information is available by calling (661) 253-8756. ``The structured intervention is not a new idea,'' Quashen said, noting it was introduced 25 years ago. ``Intervention works through care and concern coupled with scientific evidence that moves a person to accept both the realities of his or her condition as well as the help needed to manage it.'' Intervention forces alcoholics and drug addicts to face the consequences of their addiction, he said. Intervention involves family and friends - those affected by addiction - Gallway said. ``Intervention is when those closest to the addict Any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so drawn to the use of such narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his or her drug use. come together to say they cannot remain silent any longer, that they care too much to witness the destruction of the person they love,'' Gallway said. ``In the formal intervention process, significant others express just how much they care, as well as the bottom lines they will no longer tolerate.'' The technique involves a facilitator - a trained intervention specialist - who lays out an immediate plan for treatment. It is the process of presenting reality to addicts who are in denial in denial Psychiatry To be in a state of denying the existence or effects of an ego defense mechanism. See Denial. , Gallway said. The intervention is designed to help the addict seek treatment. Wednesday's program is aimed at those addicts' loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl . ``You need to know how to help that person before they do irreversible irreversible (ir´ēvur´seb  l),adj incapable of being reversed or returned to the original state. damage to their lives,'' Gallway said. The Recovery Center, Newhall Memorial's chemical dependency chemical dependency n. A physical and psychological habituation to a mood- or mind-altering drug, such as alcohol or cocaine. chemical dependency program, opened in November and offers outpatient drug and alcohol treatment programs. The programs include a confidential assessment process, individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. treatment planning In radiotherapy, Treatment Planning is the process in which a team consisting of radiation oncologists, medical radiation physicists and dosimetrists plan the appropriate external beam radiotherapy treatment technique for a patient with cancer. Typically, medical imaging (i.e. , individual and family counseling, relapse prevention and and six months of follow-up support. Patty Miller Marshall, the center's program director, said this outpatient program is ideal for adults still trying to hold jobs. The program runs 16 weeks and allows patients to continue working. |
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