How do you do an intervention if you’ve never seen the person use the drug?

Question by Baby Boy Due June 30th!!: How do you do an intervention if you’ve never seen the person use the drug?
My family is planning an intervention on my older brother who is 31. He went through a traumatic divorce 2 years ago after admitting that he was having multiple one-night stands. They separated initially and were going to try to work it out but she filed for the divorce. Since then—-my family has watched him spiral out of control. He is a high school teacher and track coach—and he and his ex-wife belong to the same mutual circle of friends/associates and this group that meets weekly. He hadn’t taken a vacation/break of any sort since their divorce. We first started noticing his hygiene neglecting. He goes days without showering sometimes and stopped getting his hair cut. He also doesn’t brush his teeth. He loss a lot of weight about 6 months ago even though he’s always had a small frame. And he goes through bouts of binge eating, then not eating for days. He’ll cover his non-eating up by saying he’s fasting. Recently, his behavior has started to become irrational. He’ll sometimes be sullen, moody then after disappearing to the bathroom or outside—he’ll come back in chipper/talkative with blood shot eyes. I thought he was just smoking weed but it has to be more. He also makes grandiose plans and lofty financial promises that he never backs up. He had been borrowing money from all of us for the last two years, yet he makes MORE than all of us combined. We are worried, but because we never caught him in the act (smoking a crack pipe or snorting) we have been in denial. We have talked to him numerous times before about his appearance and personality changes but he brushes it off. He is also isolated from any real friends. All of his old mutual friends sided with his wife after the divorce making him an outcast—yet he still surrounds himself around them daily.

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Answer by Victor
There is one thing that can be done to be sure that someone uses drugs: take a tests.
You would need to buy an urine test on 10 substances (or more if there are such tests).
It’s easy to apply, just like a pregnancy test, so he needs to pee on it.
The question is how to make him take the test?
Well, someone he trusts most should talk to him about how worried he or she is about him and that it would be a great relieve to help him or her and just take the test, otherwise that person can’t sleep of worry etc.
If your brother refuses taking test, there is almost a 100% chance that he uses some drugs.
If he agrees on it, some male family member needs to be in the bathroom with him otherwise he might mix his pee with water or something like that.
Normally these tests are rather accurate, but you need to pay attention whether he ate some cookies with papaver seed (the red flower used for making opioid drugs) or some painkillers with codeine. It will give a positive result to opiates.

My guess is that he is taking opioid drugs (if he’s not ill from some mental illness) according to the symptoms you described, but I really hope that it’s not the case.
Good luck!

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