Is it time for a family intervention? Take the self-assessment.
A short, confidential 7-question assessment to help you read the situation clearly.
If this is urgent, call 720-303-5657 · available 24/7.
About this assessment
The questions below are the same ones our team would ask in a first phone call. Answering them on your own first helps you organize what you’re seeing, and lets our interventionist arrive at the conversation already understanding the shape of your situation.
It is not a diagnostic tool. There is no pass-fail and no algorithm scoring your loved one. We don’t believe in that. The point is to give you a structured place to put what you’ve been carrying, and a clear path to the next conversation.
What the assessment asks
- Who you are concerned about — your partner, parent, adult child, sibling, friend, or someone else.
- What substance is involved — including alcohol, opioids and synthetic opioids like fentanyl, stimulants, benzodiazepines, cannabis, or multiple substances.
- How often they are using — from multiple times a day to harder-to-pin-down binge cycles.
- How long this has been going on — weeks, months, years.
- Whether they have refused help or treatment before.
- What is happening right now — overdose risk, withdrawal, legal trouble, work problems, financial harm, family safety, health or mental health decline.
- How urgent the situation feels to you today.
Why fentanyl changes the calculus
Today’s drug supply is the most lethal in modern history. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, synthetic opioids like fentanyl are now involved in the majority of overdose deaths in the United States. A bag, a counterfeit pill, a borrowed dose — the margin for error has collapsed. Families who used to have months to think and plan often have weeks. That is why the question of urgency in this assessment matters more than it used to, and why we routinely tell families — gently — not to wait for a clearer signal.
What happens when you finish
When you submit your answers, they go straight to our team. There is no automated result page, no scoring, no ranking. A real interventionist reads what you wrote and reaches out by phone — usually within a few hours, often the same day. The conversation is confidential, and there is no obligation. If we do not believe an intervention is the right next step, we will say so and help you identify what is.