Recovery statistics are always of questionable merit, and when so many are in a position to profit from impressive statistics of result and recovery, you have to wonder just how these stats are collected and to what extent they accurately reflect reality. Intervention stats are different though, and addictions professionals universally recognize that an intervention is the absolute best way to convince a reluctant and still using addict of the need for treatment. Interventions will work the vast majority of the time, conservatively with an 80% or better success rate.