Fortunately for Andrew and Mia, both their stories end in self-awareness and recovery, whether through intervention or sheer willpower, while others continue to languish in silence.
Washington seems fixated on trying to solve America's drug problem through intervention in other countries.
War could come about through intervention by Mao Tze-tung in Indo-China or Korea.
The outbreak was mitigated through intervention strategies reducing the mosquito abundance.
Women's advocates insist that they are trying not to split up families, but rather to keep them together through intervention, mediation and counseling.
The poet's impulse to seek sanctuary in isolation, and the militant's to seek justice through intervention, should, she suggests, feel familiar to us in 2008.
The best way to deal with drug epidemics is through treatment programs, he told me, and to head them off through intervention programs before they become epidemics.
Neither is the possibility of external powers (in this case shorthand for the US) extending their influence through intervention of whatever kind on China's borders.
From the 19th century on, they were able to help their less-favoured brethren in Iran, either through gifts or through intervention with the government.
Furthermore, attempts to manipulate currencies through intervention have a bad track record; they usually fail, and when they fail the currency and the credibility of the government plunge in tandem.
"The commission is there in the public interest to ensure that the standards are met, that public money is well spent and that action is taken to improve poor performance, through intervention or other enforcement action.
