If he won’t willingly choose to go to treatment he is having a normal reaction and joins the majority of the young men who end up going to treatment. Being willing or unwilling is greatly misunderstood and prevents many families from getting their children the help they need in a timely fashion so they can minimize the hurts, damage, legal and medical expenses, and lost potential. The vast majority of our residents are “unwilling” to admit to treatment, in the sense that if they had all of the choice to themselves, they wouldn’t go. The perspective that a person needs to admit they have a problem and ask for help in order for them to go to treatment or get help does not apply to adolescents and young adults. They have parents who are very influential with them (even when it doesn’t seem so) and are capable of reaching out in love and constructing a consequence response to their son choosing not to go to treatment. Adults, however, have the consequence scenario handed out to them by real life. Adults are on their own; therefore, a lifestyle of active addiction gives them escalating consequences to a point that they either, choose to admit they have a problem and ask for help or, they continue their descent which will eventually end in their death. They only choose treatment because of life’s consequences. However, the vast majority of adolescents and young adults only choose treatment because of the life’s consequences that are orchestrated by their parents. During the assessment process, the Admissions Team Member you are working with will assist you in planning the appropriate way to get your son to treatment which may include a referral to professional interventionists who specialize in assisting families in crisis.

Please call us if we can help at our toll free number 866-728-4479 or email at info@capstonetreatmentcenter.com. If you haven’t filled out the online assessment or read the web site please do, it will help you make good decisions and be prepared. God bless.