Interventions change lives. In fact, interventions very often save lives. The truth of the matter is that addiction can’t be overcome without professional medical help—and addicts typically won’t seek assistance unless they’re made to recognize the full extent of their problems. A caring, compassionate addiction intervention can make that recognition a reality. The only catch, of course, is that someone has to be willing to take responsibility for the process.

A crisis intervention always begins with a personal decision. If the addict you care about is going to achieve meaningful healing, it’s going to because you find the courage to begin the intervention process. The good news is that you don’t have to face the challenge alone. On the contrary, the guidance of an experienced intervention specialist can and will make a world of difference. For your own sake, for the sake of the addict you care about, don’t wait any longer to learn that truth for yourself.

The best crisis intervention is the one conducted in a spirit of unfailing love and support. Remember, there is only one goal of the intervention process: to convince an addict to enter rehab. Interventions aren

As should perhaps go without saying, interventions are inherently intimate events. There is invariably plenty of raw emotion on display during the crisis intervention process, and only those interventions suffused with thorough and supportive honesty can ever really be successful. The practical implication of all that is that you need an intervention specialist with whom you feel comfortable. The best intervention specialist, in fact, is the one who earns the trust of his clients, and manages the intervention more from within than from without. Given the stakes, you can

A drug and alcohol intervention only matters to the extent that it produces long-term drug and alcohol recovery. That is the only point of the crisis intervention process, the only reason to conduct an intervention in the first place. The catch, of course, is that a drug and alcohol intervention can only work if it