Addiction Show Intervention Is Surprisingly Effective 12.87K Brian Moylan 07/22/10 02:36PM Filed to: Television Television Reality TV intervention A&E Addiction The addicts who appear on A&E's Intervention have a 71 percent recovery rate, which is astonishingly high. Of the 161 addicts profiled on the show, 130 are allegedly still sober. See? Reality television isn't entirely bad after all.