When someone you love in Arlington Heights will not accept help, a professionally led intervention gives your family a calm, prepared way to ask.
A drug and alcohol interventionist prepares the family, arranges treatment in advance and leads the conversation that asks a loved one to accept help. We do this for families in Arlington Heights, from Mount Prospect to Des Plaines, traveling in through Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at William Rainey Harper College or Oakton College, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
Local crisis and access line. Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances (24/7): 833-234-6343.
Public behavioral health. Cook County Health, Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
Treatment court. Suburban Municipal District Drug Treatment Court Program, 3rd Municipal District (Rolling Meadows).
Family support. NAMI Northwest Suburbs Chicago and NW Cook County Al-Anon Information Service.
Emergency. Call 911 if a loved one is in immediate danger. Call or text 988 for an emotional crisis.
Who is in the room, what each person says, which program holds a bed. See the full steps.
Your interventionist flies into Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near Arlington Heights or out of state.
In Cook County, public behavioral health services run through Cook County Health, Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
The Cook County Health Bridge Clinic offers rapid access to medication for addiction treatment in person or by telemedicine, then connects patients to ongoing care at county health centers (source).
Live4Lali, based at 3255 N. Arlington Heights Road, runs harm reduction mobile outreach across Cook County that hands out naloxone and offers Narcan training (source).
Suburban Municipal District Drug Treatment Court Program, 3rd Municipal District (Rolling Meadows) can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI Northwest Suburbs Chicago and NW Cook County Al-Anon Information Service offer meetings and education for relatives.
Not directly. Illinois has no addiction-specific court process a family can start. More detail: alcohol intervention in Illinois and drug intervention in Illinois.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
For Arlington Heights, Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances (24/7) answers at 833-234-6343, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
See every community on our Illinois interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in Arlington Heights and Cook County, usually through Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Call 911 if anyone is in immediate danger. For Arlington Heights, Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances (24/7) answers at 833-234-6343, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
Start with Cook County Health, Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
Yes. Suburban Municipal District Drug Treatment Court Program, 3rd Municipal District (Rolling Meadows) connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI Northwest Suburbs Chicago and NW Cook County Al-Anon Information Service offer meetings and education for relatives.
One confidential conversation with a professional interventionist. No pressure, no obligation. We'll help you find the right next step for your family.
