"Intervention" was presented on Tuesday September 27, 2011, by Jeff and Debra Jay; Intervention specialists, chemical dependency therapists and trainers, and best-selling authors of "Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction" and other books. This program describes how the "Love First" process of Intervention can help chemically dependent people find recovery. Key elements of the "Love First" model for effective intervention with addicted individuals are discussed. This program will bring PRACTICAL INFORMATION, HELP and HOPE to anyone who cares about a chemically dependent person, and to anyone who wants to learn more about the intervention process. This program is part of the FREE, annual Dawn Farm Education Series. The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For information, please contact Matt Statman, LLMSW, CADC, Education Series Coordinator, at 734-485-8725 or info@dawnfarm.org, or see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.

1. Love First Presenters: Jeff Jay and Debra Jay Intervention

2. www.lovefirst.net Intervention

3. Interventionworkshop.com

4. In the beginning... Two women brought two alcoholics together. Alcoholics Anonymous was born.

5. “ The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable... to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago.” Big Book pp 23 Intervention

6. Normal 3-D Brain SPECT Images Top- down surface view Front-on surface view Side surface view Underside surface view Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

7. Alcohol – 17 years of heavy weekend use Top- down surface view Underside surface view Front-on surface view Side surface view Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

8. Healthy Brain Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

9. Twenty-two years of daily drinking. Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

10. Cocaine Methamphetamine Twenty-four year old. Using two years frequently. Twenty-eight year old. Eight year heavy use. Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

11. Marijuana Opiates Eighteen year old. Using 3 years. Four times week. Forty year old. Methadone 7 years. Previously, heroin 10 years. Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

12. Before & After Recovery Top down surface view during substance abuse. Same view after one year alcohol and drug free. Photos: Dr. Daniel Amen Intervention

13. The brain confabulates . It associates diverse sensations, defies contradictions, and creates coherence. It even seeks explanations for its own unfathomable behavior. -Dr. Gerald M. Edelman Author, “Wider Than the Sky” Intervention

14. Thinking Brain Emotional Brain Spiritual Brain

15. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Bill Wilson Intervention

16. Inebriety As a Disease Scientific American Published 1877 “ Science draws a broad distinction between drunkenness as a vice and drunkenness as a disease.”

17. Building a Language for Understanding Intervention as communication Intervention the first order of business isn’t talking to alcoholics. The power is in the hands of the families, friends and co-workers.

18. Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Benjamin Lee Whorf Intervention American Linguist

19. The Three Most Damaging Myths Thinking about our words Intervention

21. If you can’t help an alcoholic until he wants help, what will get him to want help? Intervention A question that changes everything.

22. “ I hadn’t a clue what an intervention was when I became the focus of one a quarter century ago. The first one didn’t take. I was angry with both my daughter, Susan, and Dr. Joe Cruse, who dared to trespass into my home and suggest I had a problem. I rose up on my high horse and threw them out. I try not to think about it too often, as I feel ashamed and embarrassed when I do. “ But the second intervention had a different ending....Surrounded by the family who loved me...this intervention saved my life.” -Betty Ford Healing and Hope

23. Always look for ways to outmaneuver the disease. Spiritual negotiation Intervention

25. It’s not how you get into treatment that counts, it’s what happens once you’re there. Intervention

26. Hazelden Survey Intervention

27. Statistics Intervention

29. Talk about crisis as intervention. Intervention Crisis comes with a choice.

30. Children’s Brains

32. “ The science shows that childhood maltreatment may produce changes in both brain function and structure. These changes are permanent. This is not something people can just get over.” -Dr. Martin H. Teicher McClean Hospital

33. Among neglected children, the cortex–the thinking part of the brain–is 20 percent smaller on average than in a control group. -Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine

36. Family is our springboard...

38. Taking Action: Practical Steps Intervention Building blocks to intervention

59. Addiction can no longer trump the welfare of the family. These are the ways I will take care of myself. Intervention Twelve steps for families.

60. “ Sarah, We are all committed to you and your health. Each of us would like to share with you the decisions we’ve made. We will not do anything to help you stay sick, but we will do all we can to help you get well. The addiction hurts us, too, so until you get into recovery we must take care of ourselves, and we want to tell you how we plan to do this....” Intervention We love you too much.