-Divorce is the process of legal separation of a married couple.
-Bargaining is the negotiation of terms in a transaction.
-Intervention is the process in which family and/or friends try to make a person that has an addiction or other medical condition to get help and treatment.
-Abandonment is to leave family members like spouse or children for a period of time or permanently without legal excuse.
According to these definitions and considering that a chemical dependency includes alcoholism and drugs addiction, the action that may be taken toward a family member if he or she has a chemical dependency is intervention.
