Our purpose is to provide caring and compassionate guidance for you through this difficult, trying time as well as support you in forming the most compelling case possible to serve as the tipping point for your family member or friend.

To provide that final push needed to get them to accept the treatment they so desperately require.

Because addiction is more than just a “bad habit” or a vice after all. 

No matter how it starts, as experimentation or a coping mechanism or the like, once addiction grabs hold, it doesn’t easily let go.  As the symptoms pile up, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the gravity and reality of the situation.

It’s all-encompassing and the longer it’s left to linger, the worse it gets. Falling deeper and deeper into an ever-darkening abyss, there’s an isolation that comes with addiction. All of a sudden you don’t understand how to communicate with a person you used to be so close with. Even though you may still live in the same house, a distance is created with confrontation only serving to make matters worse.

And worse yet, a substance use disorder is not something that simply stabilizes and reaches a balance over time. The nature of addiction being what it is means that it’s more likely a person grows increasingly dependent on a substance, building a tolerance to that drug or drink of choice. So, to reach that same high or level of intoxication they have to take more or drink more heavily the next time.

There’s denial on their part that comes with the territory, a fleeting thought that they’re actually in control. Truly believing that they can quit whenever they want, under their own power and sheer force of will.

That self-deceptive, invincible pattern of thoughts and self-destructive behavior can only last so long before something catastrophic happens.

Maybe it’s an overdose. Maybe they get behind the wheel when under the influence and tragedy strikes them, you and perhaps even innocent bystanders. The longer drug use or alcoholism goes unchecked, the greater the likelihood of not just consequences, but escalating ones.

Drug and alcohol intervention in Los Angeles is a chance to change the course of their life, and your own, which is why we work hand-in-hand with you to ensure that the intervention achieves its goal. 

Ultimately an intervention is more than just getting friends and family together and talking to a loved one. You’ve no doubt already tried talking. In addition to confronting them, you probably tried a compassionate approach too but nothing has stuck. It’s decidedly not an easy task to convince someone to go to rehab.

So, the difference between mere talk and an intervention is in the preparation. Working with a trained, professional interventionist in Los Angeles means collaborating with someone who not only understands addiction but can also build an effective strategy and guide the intervention itself. It means they’ll be able to help you decide who should be involved and, more importantly, who shouldn’t and where to draw that line. Those details matter in how your loved one reacts and their willingness to even hear the message.

Prior training and experience mean they have the expertise to overcome objections, protestations, defensiveness and whatever else can arise in that type of delicate, stressful situation, all while keeping the program on track.

And, perhaps most critically, it means that you have a knowledgeable, considerate team to lean on in assembling treatment options that are best aligned with your loved one’s needs. 

Intervention is about saving a life and we believe that recovery is possible for anyone if they’re presented with the opportunity.

Our goal for your loved one is to be by their side for the entire journey of treatment and recovery – from care management to their sober companions – Footprints of Serenity offers everything you and your loved one need in order to achieve long-term recovery from drug & alcohol abuse.