Getting Your Son to Say Yes - Episode 20

George is celebrating a one-year sober following a family intervention. He shares his story with openness and vulnerability to encourage families that intervention works.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

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Show Notes

• When George realized that "t was time" - 1:08
• What happened the first weeks of the intervention - 2:45
• When he first started to use substances - 5:56
• Identifying who he was - 7:14
• Having an addict personality from a young age - 9:05
• Starting to do well - 14:33
• George's definition for co-dependence - 16:25
• What's codependency - 16:55
• What did drugs to him - 10.39
• Losing his apartment - 22:48
• The level of his addiction - 23:29
• Mothers taking responsibility for an addiction - 26:25
• Going into treatment - 27:43
• Being so "weak" - 28:40
• Trying to kill himself - 31:20
• Just wanting to go home - 32:13
• Being sick and tired or not - 34:04
• What does an Intervention - 40:52
• Having the support of his family - 46:09

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What is Why Intervention Podcast?

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. Through powerful stories of recovery, expert interviews and relevant musings, families can learn just how influential love and understanding can be to get their loved ones to stop their addictive behavior and willingly accept help.