Consider psycho-social health enhancing factors which might compete with drug use. Deal with emotions Drug use issues tend to raise many emotional issues. Listen well using your best reflective skills. Acknowledge and validate the emotional content before moving on. Deal with your own emotions as well as others.
Emotional energy is useful when it encourages participation and change.
It is unhelpful when it distorts reality and blinds the possibility of creative solutions. Use a Solution Focused Brief Therapy pp approach of identifying what success would look like if the problem was gone or the issue resolved. This not only encourages positive energy, but it can also identify behavioural outcomes as well as those strategies which have already proven to be successful. Brainstorm other solutions if necessary. Creativity and imagination can take people beyond former frameworks and breed enthusiasm.