I find nothing more disgusting than Intervention...not even Tila Tequila's wh*reishness.

i'm not really sure how i feel about intervention shows,but i also understand how hard it is to get rid of an addiction,not only drug addiction but any addiction

I'm not gonna watch it, nor would I watch Intervention. It strikes me as way icky and uncomfortable, and honestly, if someone did this to me, I would have to hold back from seriously injuring the guilty party. What happened to respecting someone's privacy? You can accomplish the same good without a camera crew.

Addictions are terrible for all involved; and I can't help but see these kinds of shows as exploitative.

The only experience I have with drug use is watching people abuse them; ruining their lives (that's as close I wanted to ever get) so my answer always revolves around a serious minded medical treatment not one where an instigator like MTV is involved. To me it sounds like seeing a crack dealer to stop abusing alcohol.

I find Intervention to be utterly disgusting. Is this what this society and country has come to? If you or someone you know battles an addiction of sorts or at all you would feel the same way. It's also glamorize 80% of the time and make it seem like people who have battled demons for years can just be "fixed" by being sent away. Pfffft get real America. I wish this show would go off the air.

the show is getting people to get treatment how is that disgusting. The people are agreeing to be taped, the family isn't exploiting them. In alot of the cases the family has tried many times to get them to go get help and its failed. So i dont see how so many people can have a negative view about a show thats actually helping people, unlike most reality shows out there now.

Basically, lilashleyxox, my problem with it is that you can help people without the TV crew. Otherwise, it's basically televised rubbernecking.

if MTV does it, its exploitation. I enjoy the A&E show (its 'realistic'.) tisgirl, most people wouldn't do it without the tv crew, hence MTVs involvement.. its probably all fake on MTV.... or any channel really... reality tv is not reality tv.

aimeeb, its completely different if its YOU who has the problem and are watching intervention. But i guess you just have to have a lot of human compassion to understand the being in other peoples shoes thing. I think its enlightening actually. To see that all people have the same demons even though these people feel alone, and if you had a problem yourself that they deal with eg. I have suffered with anorexia for five or six years now, im in recovery but obviously its always going to be there, but shows like intervention open your eyes and you can observe what is happening ot other people and it makes you more aware of the fact that something isnt right with you, and it slowly pushed me to accept that i had a problem. So while i dont think that mtv doing it is a good idea, i think that they will botch it and perhaps have unqualified people, i mean come on its a music video station at its core and its all about entertainment, but i dont think we should sit here and bash intervention or televised interventions all together because personally i believe them to be beneficial to a lot of people.

Aimeebe, when I watch Intervention I do not see these people's situations, their addiction, etc. being glamorized in any way as you say. It almost makes me wonder if we are really talking about the same show. They always do an "update" on the addict's progress in rehab, and half of the time he/she does not make it all the way through. So I have to disagree with your view that cleaning up is glamorized or made to seem easy. Far from it.

I feel that I've learned a lot about addiction from A&E's Intervention, and it's very interesting from a psychological p.o.v. But I would not watch this new show on MTV because I don't trust MTV to create quality programming. MTV is bs in my opinion and I wouldn't trust that any "reality" show of their's isn't staged in some way.

Lastly, as some others have pointed out, the people on Intervention have given consent to be filmed, they are usually told that they are being filmed for a documentary about addiction or some other subject. So I do not see it as exploitation. For some of these families, they feel it is their last chance to get their loved one help.

Although I don't have high expectations of it since it is MTV, I'll give it a shot. The intervention type shows (Intervention, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, rambling Tyra) don't seem to have great results, or at least I don't follow-up with the "Where Are They Now" episodes.

What does DJ AM have to do with the show? Other than being just like an intervened, is he going to host it?