Checklist, quiz, intervention articles
Articles and Tools
This page guides you to useful information and additional links. These tools will help you plan an intervention.
The FAQs, or frequently asked questions, will address many of your first questions. You will find more answers throughout the website. You can also use the search function.
Our quiz that answers the question: How do I know that my loved one has a chemical dependency problem? The quiz doesn't provide a medical diagnosis, but it can help to point you in the right direction.
The series of six intervention articles written by Jeff Jay will give you an overview of the intervention process. It includes Jeff's personal story of addiction, intervention and recovery.
The intervention checklist will help you to plan and carry out a good structured family intervention. It includes many of the details necessary to work through the process.
Jeff and Debra Jay have both written articles for publication as well as having articles written about them. Here is a selection.
Every month, Jeff and Debra Jay answer questions from readers. Their columns, originally published in the Grosse Pointe News since 1996, have been collected here.
If children are involved in the alcoholic home, make them your number-one prioity. Here are thoughts and resources.
Other articles of interest have been collected here on a wide range of issues from various authors and publications.