Get Your Loved One Back: Intervention as Hostage Negotiation

Published: April 19, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

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In Love First: A Family\'s Guide to Intervention, Jeff and Debra Jay provide steps for harnessing the power of family and friends to create a better future with loved ones who have an addiction. In this excerpt, the authors apply insights from the science of hostage negotiation, highlighting the competing pulls of loss and gain that color every interaction with a person trapped in active addiction.

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