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means An organized confrontation where friends or family gather to push someone toward getting help, usually for addiction or self-destructive behavior.

from From Latin 'intervenire' — 'inter' (between) plus 'venire' (to come) — literally 'to come between.' It first described the act of stepping into a dispute or situation to alter its outcome, which is exactly what the Roman root pictures: someone physically walking into the space between two parties. The medical and legal senses (surgical intervention, military intervention) came first; the family-and-addiction sense — the one with the couch and the letters read aloud — is a 20th-century narrowing, born out of addiction-treatment culture.