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If you’re supporting a loved one through substance use challenges, our resources deliver the insight, guidance, and support you need to navigate this path together.

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Are you looking for resources to help you support someone struggling with addiction? Is someone else’s addiction negatively affecting you? Perhaps you’re seeking an alternative to tough love? SMART Recovery provides effective, easy-to-learn tools to help you and your loved one.

Their meetings – available both in-person and online – provide concerned significant others the tools they need to effectively support their loved one without supporting the addictive behavior. These tools also help Family & Friends better cope with their loved one’s situation and regain peace of mind.

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Support for loved one’s lives who been affected by someone else’s drinking.

Al-Anon is a mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. By sharing everyday experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, families and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their situations, whether or not the alcoholic admits the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help.

Alateen, a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, is a fellowship of young people (mostly teenagers) whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking, whether they are in your life drinking or not. By attending Alateen, teenagers meet other teenagers with similar situations. Alateen is not a religious program, and there are no fees or dues to belong to it.

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An intervention can motivate someone to seek help for alcohol or drug misuse, compulsive eating, or other addictive behaviors. Discover when to hold one and how to make it successful.

Organizing an intervention is not easy, which is why many people look to a professional interventionist for help. These professionals plan and stage the intervention, guiding loved ones through the entire process from start to finish. When professional interventionists are involved, the chances of a successful intervention increase.

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Located in the Midwest? Addiction Solutions 605 is an organization, Servicing the Midwest region to guide families, friends, and business associates through the intervention process. The goal is to urge the addicted or impaired person and their family to accept help and to get on a path to recovery.

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Steps for Involuntary Commitment for Addiction (South Dakota)

People in the throes of addiction refuse to acknowledge they have a problem. One route people close to them can take is to have them committed into treatment involuntarily.

The South Dakota Department of Social Services put out a brochure on the steps to take in the involuntary commitment process for someone suffering from substance use disorder.

Emergency room doctors can also put an emergency commitment on a patient for up to five days, giving a family time to go through the IVC process.

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