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The Media’s Role in Intervention Awareness With their hard-partying antics and highly publicized stints in posh rehab centers, celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Robert Downey, Jr., Eminem, etc. (the list truly goes on and on), have helped to integrate “addiction lingo” into the common vernacular. After Ms. Lohan’s 2007 court-ordered stay in a Malibu treatment center, rehab was a buzzword on everyone’s lips. In 2008, Heath Ledger’s tragic and fatal overdose encouraged a new public awareness of prescription drug addiction. Sure, people knew of the drugs Xanax, Oxycontin, and Demerol, but most common folk certainly didn’t know the ins and outs of prescription addiction prior to the recent celebrity debacles/deaths. Similarly, the latest television offering from A&E, aptly called Intervention, has introduced a new recovery tool to the public and made “intervention” a household term. The Latest Intervention TV Show Offers Hope By walking the viewer through the entire intervention process from start to finish, this new intervention TV show offers a real, insider’s glance into a very painful, complex process. At the start of every episode, the addict allows the camera crew to follow him (or her) around as he demonstrates his own, tragic version of a day in the life of an addict. Typically, the visuals are bleak and upsetting. Meanwhile, the family works with the interventionist to prepare letters to the addict, to explore how their loved one’s addiction has affected them, and to establish boundaries/consequences that the addict will face should he not choose treatment. (At the end of every good intervention, the addict it presented with the option or request to seek treatment, whether it be a stay in an inpatient facility or mandatory drug testing & twelve step meeting attendance.) A&E’s Intervention allows the viewer a glimpse at the gritty, ugly truth behind drug addiction. Simultaneously, it offers hope & a possible solution to individuals across the country who may be at their wits’ end with the addict in their lives. Intervention Services If you have already watched an intervention-themed TV show and found yourself identifying closely with the families presented, you most likely have a loved one that needs help. Choosing to stage an intervention can be as terrifying for you as choosing to seek help can be for an addict. Luckily, intervention services are available and out there. You might be asking yourself, “Is the reward really worth the risk? What if an intervention pushes my loved one further away?” The truth is, there is never any harm in trying…and doing so before it is too late. After all, addiction and alcoholism can be fatal. Intervention services or a skilled interventionist will help you gather your resources, initiate the appropriate conversations, and establish personal and familial goals. |
