Intervention only works when it’s built on love. That’s the most important truth, the only point that could ever really need to be made. Intervention has got to be…GOT to be…a labor of love. Of compassion. Of empathy. Intervention that works is intervention that shows an addict exactly what he has to lose if he doesn’t beat addiction: the friends, the family, the community. The Love. Intervention that works is intervention that’s built on love. There is, in the end, no more compelling way to say it.

Successful intervention, it’s important to remember, is and can only be measured according to its outcome. Intervention that succeeds, that matters, is intervention that convinces an addict to get help for his disease. Period. There is no other goal, no other purpose. Intervention that works is intervention that facilitates healing. Beyond that, everything else is really just details.

Intervention, of course, is never easy. It can’t be. Intervention is by its nature a traumatic experience: for the intervenee, for the intervener. But make no mistake: Intervention is worth it. Intervention saves lives. For you own sake, for the sake of the addict you care about…make today the day you make the right decision.

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