Interventions occur when a person using drugs has a problem but is not yet willing to admit to needing help. In many cases consequences have come from the person’s using that have affected other people in their life; it is usually those people who become involved and call an intervention. A drug intervention happens before the treatment process begins and occurs when a loved one of a drug addict calls for help. Interventionists specialize in helping to uncover how and why an addict has been using and why he or she cannot stop. The interventionist works with a team of the individual’s friends and family to show the ways in which the individual has hurt him/herself and others. Denial is one of the greatest offenders and one of the main reasons why many addicts are unable to achieve any considerable recovery. The point of an intervention is to break this denial and make it possible for an individual to receive treatment. On the whole interventions have a very high success rate and once they have been completed the individual has usually agreed to attend a treatment program that suits them.