Domestic Violence and Addiction Intervention: The Screening Most Practitioners Rush

Matt Brown • 2026-07-28

Domestic violence and addiction intervention work overlap far more often than our intake forms suggest. If you have run more than a handful of cases, you have almost certainly walked into a home where someone was being hurt and no one said so. The family called about drinking. They did not call about the bruise, the broken door, the phone that gets checked every night, or the reason one adult child will not sit in the same room as the identified client.