Originally Posted by
Panther 
I find it strange that people are quick to blame the intervention. Is it not more likely that the choice of recovery could be the culprit?
I don't think anyone blamed the intervention, only that they can backfire as well as succeed in getting someone to agree to rehab. And recovery is indeed a choice.
Are you so sure you would have made a different choice had your parents staged an intervention? I would submit you were ready to make a change when you were ready to make a change. I find it curious that you claim you have experience with addiction and make a statement like that? It wasn't your parents choice to prolong your addiction. I'm sure they were struggling plenty with what you were putting them through.
You have to realize the room you're walking into here. There are lots of people here who have have lived all these nightmares, and you're making broad assumptions and generalized statements based on too few responses.