Alcoholics and addicts are also our beloved family members and treasured friends. Although we see their problem, they cannot. When we offer help, they refuse. When we talk to them, they blame us or someone else. It begins to feel hopeless, but it is not.
Intervention teaches families and friends a language alcoholics understand.
It organizes love and honesty in a way that breaks through denial. It creates a moment of clarity for the alcoholic. Most alcoholics and addicts accept help the very day of the intervention. Intervention requires new information. Forget everything you've been told about intervention and begin anew.