In the real world, it is ILLEGAL to threaten someone's life, yet here the "interventionists" (not an actual profession, by the way) do it regularly as life or death manipulation. I have known multiple individuals who have substance abused themselves to death as an alternative to the very real pain and or mental illnesses they were self-medicating, I also know how futile it is to intervene in the behavior of any adult who is in the actual throes of physical addiction (my Mom could never quit nicotine, even when she had to sit up @ night trying to breath during her dying days). Look @ the counselors on this show, many are unrecovered addicts themselves who, rather than resolve their own issues, intervene in the personal lives of others (for profit, I should add, recovery is as big an industry as religion, diet, cosmetics & munitions, with just as positive outcomes). I have had dozens of decades long friendships end because people would sooner take the "tough love" approach than acknowledge their own failings (or, rather than being a hopeless suicidal addict, I was actually mourning the loss of loved ones). Watching a marathon now, @ least one "success story" has died, but that is ignored in the years old closing credits. Apparently the producers consider an episode a "success" if the afflicted are delivered to the door of "recovery", I wish life were that simple. As the adage goes, never let the crazy person write the prescription for your meds, or, in this case? Physician, heal thyself (esp. Self-proclaimed who are not actually licensed to diagnose). How much has America's mortality rate continued to plunge for the 1st time in history during the course of this show's run during the course of the opiate epidemic? Even Russia is doing better with Putin & vodka.
Review of Intervention
