Q regarding alcohol intervention for a person who has suicidal tendencies
Can anyone direct me to information regarding conducting an intervention for alcohol addiction but with a person who may be suicidal?
Background:
A cousin (64M) “Joe” believes his sister (60F) “Mary” is an alcoholic and addicted to marijuana.
(They both have problematic relationships with substances. He binge drinks - a fifth of whiskey in a weekend - or even just an evening - intermittently. He also abuses his anxiety meds (doubling doses) and mixes them with alcohol. She vapes marijuana - a lot, and can drink to excess - a pint in an evening, but generally has two drinks a day.)
Lots of swirling family drama. Their mother recently died in November and left the house to the sister. There is conflict over the house.
According to Joe, their mother believed Mary was suicidal, and told their father (parents were divorced) who promised to “pay for treatment.”
Mary is unemployed - has always worked intermittently.
Joe has been pressuring Mary to include him in house ownership (aunt did indicate that was a desire in a recording but there is nothing legal).
She has continued to offer him a 45% share but wants to keep the house for two years in case their 88 year old father needs a place to stay.
Joe suddenly is lining up a residential treatment center and wants to stage an intervention for Mary’s addictions, and suicidal tendencies, *and* antisocial behavior disorder (sociopathy) which he determined she has (no education etc in the arena of mental health care). There is also no indication that he is hiring a professional.
I refused to engage. Primarily because I believe all these other forces are at work, but also because if Mary IS struggling with suicidal tendencies, an intervention strikes me as being dangerous.
Can anyone direct me to literature regarding this fairly wild situation?