Al

Addicted to Intervention
I teach addiction treatment classes at a university and Intervention is my go to show for in-class exercises. I use these episodes as case studies and to show how NOT to do interventions. These interventions are typically brutal ambushes and though they mostly do the trick by getting the individual into treatment, they generally traumatize the family and are unnecessarily attacking and harmful. Candy may be the most inept interventionist I've ever seen. No wonder a lot of her interventions wind up with the addict running away. I suspect it's great drama for the show, not so great for the addicts or families. Candy is so inappropriate with her self disclosures, her ignorant generalizations and her false pretenses (she pretends to be some all knowing family therapist but she is NOT a therapist and she isn't even a certified addiction counselor--no, her certificate from UCLA's Extension program does not qualify her as "certified" in our state or in any other so the claims on her...

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Hills & Valleys
Some people have extreme highs and lows. Dennis was a drug dealer, did prison time, etc. However, he had a loving family and once had a lucrative housing business. I do wonder if those ups & downs may have led to the drug abuse.

Here's what really ate at me. Dennis' wife waited for him for seven years to leave the pokey. She was almost sexually attacked by her father-in-law. In his addiction, Dennis has meth sex with other women, but then punishes his wife for having sex with another man when he was locked up. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! She was nice enough to stand by you and yet you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater!? Another thing that irked me was Dennis' daugther drived him around where he scored drugs. Why does the daughter never think about how she's helping the father to cheat on the mother? She's like the daughter of Franklin and Eleanor!

If you love "Intervention" episodes that don't end successfully, then you will...

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