What if I do an intervention and he still does not want to go?

This does happen in some cases and any times families will resort to the idea that the addict hasn’t hit their bottom as yet and will back off of trying to get them into treatment until the addicts gets to a point that they ask for help.  This is a very dangerous attitude, even though it may be presented to you by addiction professionals.  Every addicts wants to be free of the imprisonment of addiction and you have to continue to use your resources to get the addict believing that they can get well and they can be free of alcohol and other drugs.  Most of the professionals that subscribe to the “tough love” idea of letting them “hit bottom” believe in the disease model of addiction and do not believe that everyone can recover from addiction.