Originally Posted by
cynical one 
LOL. Nor is this concept anything new. Family involvement has been tested since Bill W., it reemerged again back in the 80’s with the crack epidemic, and then again in the late 90’s/early 00’s when all the “professional interventionists” saw that there is big money in addiction treatment and came out of the woodwork.
The changes happening now are new because they are based on scientific evidence, and statistical evidence regarding what works in terms of treatment. Knowledge that did not exist and was not accepted by the medical field years ago. Changes happening now are based on addiction being viewed as a disease instead of a choice. Blows some old theories away as far as Im concerned. Lots of good things happening, and its never going to go back to the way it was. hopefully this means people will get better care. With the person that brought me to this forum, his success is his own, but there were family members and friends who were with him, and enabled his “recovery” right from the start. This is what I hope happens more often when people begin to view addiction as a disease, and the “addict” stereotypes go away, and the person becomes a “patient” in need of medical care, and the support of their family.