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Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Services for Women in the San Francisco Bay Area

February 25th, 2008
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Services for Women in the San Francisco Bay Area help assist families to motivate women to accept a treatment program.
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Services for Women in the San Francisco Bay Area help assist families to motivate women to accept a treatment program.
Fred Wade

Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Services for Women in the San Francisco Bay Area help assist families to motivate women to accept a treatment program.

There is a vast difference between Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Services and drug addiction treatment for women than for men. The single most important gender difference is the actual access that a women has to alcohol and drug treatments that are designed for the circumstantial as well as the physical and psychological needs of a woman.

Most important in finding an effective Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Service and outpatient treatment program for women is to find one that has been designed for women. Unfortunately most rehabilitation treatment services are planned with men in mind, not considering that women might also fall victim to the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

Alcohol and Drug Intervention programs for women helps assist families and friends to motivate an abusive woman to accept a treatment program for their drug or alcohol addiction.  Many times today drug intervention is the best and safest way to help those struggling women with an addiction.  Drug and alcoholism intervention of a woman is many times started by a family member or friend to help a chemically dependent employee to get help for her addiction.

Weyland Intervention Services provides Orchestrated Interventions with the specific goal of getting a woman abuser into treatment. It is their belief that such services should only be employed when a qualified counselor has assessed that it is the only option left for family and friends. Ethically, a less restrictive and certainly less intrusive intervention approach should first be explored before doing an Orchestrated Intervention. Weyland's approach entertains the idea that there are often intermediate or gradations of intervention strategies that may be implemented. Families are typically afraid and sometimes even at their wits end when they decide that they are in need of an Intervention.  It is the job of the professionally trained interventionist to infuse a sense of calm to the situation while clinically assessing both the need for an intervention, when best indicated and the level(s) of intervention that will best serve a woman's specific situation.

They have found from years of experience that a women often does not feel that they would be unable to take advantage of an effective drug and alcohol Intervention and treatment program because of their responsibilities for the care of children, often alone and believes that for an alcohol and drug addiction treatment for Women to be effective it needs to be an affordable outpatient program with few disruptions of their day-to-day life. Weyland offers flexible hours and can create a personalized program to fit into a women's family and career schedule. The professionals at Weyland understand that a women patient might not be able to fit into one of their pre-designed programs and they are prepared to do whatever they can to make coming into treatment palatable and possible!

Weyland Consultation Services has made the sincere and professionally executed effort to put together a tract of services specifically designed for women. They offer a discreet and gender specific group and an individual outpatient opportunity for women to attain recovery. These services are provided in a calm and soothing environment that supports the patients efforts to take the risk to the necessary steps toward ongoing recovery at the patients pace. The professionals at Weyland have learned that pushing people tends to encourage behavioral or literal relapse. Weyland supports their women patients and support then in finding their own way, while honoring their needs and personal beliefs.


If you are a woman, have a women family member, friend or work with a woman that needs help to overcome this painful, destructive illness while allowing the continuation of life's obligations with minimal interruption and located in the Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, Berkley, Danville, Concord and Walnut Creek areas - visit our website www.weylandservices.com/  or call (925) 945-7816 ext. 41.





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