I wasn’t sure that I wanted to watch the Intervention special that was on. Granted, I watch the show every single week. It just seemed awkward to actually have the interventionists sitting in a talk show type of setting.
The regular show airs on Mondays. The participants think that they are in a document about addiction. What they don’t know is that their family & friends will stage an intervention with the help of a professional to try & get them to go to drug rehab. I always think of the interventionists as super heroes who use their powers to get people into drug treatment. The show has an extremely high success rate. I think they said that the AE show has aired about 100 episodes & seventy something of the addicts are still sober.
It was interesting to hear the interventionists share their own stories of addiction. I guess when they say sobriety is something that you have to stay on top of everyday, they mean it. One of the interventionists Jeff VanVonderen admitted during the special that he had taken a leave of absence from the show because he had problems with alcoholism. He said that he is working his way back. I really hope that’s true, but it broke my heart to hear it. I guess superheros are still human too.