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Intervention is an attempt by those who care about an addicted person to change the addiction’s course and promote treatment, by the use of convincing techniques, group support, emotional pressure, and sometimes all three. Although many think of intervention only as the formal group intervention developed by Vernon Johnson (1986) and popularized by television shows such as the A&E Television Network’s weekly documentary Intervention, true intervention with an addicted person occupies a broad spectrum of convincing and increasingly coercive tactics, ranging from the quiet friendly word to the group intervention to court-mandated treatment.
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