A major U.S. health milestone just unfolded in 2024 drug overdose deaths dropped nearly 27%, thanks to expanded naloxone access, telehealth treatments, and stronger harm-reduction efforts. Yet, as experts caution, this fragile progress is threatened by looming funding cuts and evolving drug challenges.

From a forward-looking policy lens, the Pain in the Nation 2025 report emphasizes how early intervention through school resiliency programs, mental health services, and community expansion of prevention strategies is key to sustaining declines in addiction and overdose.

Introducing Crosswell Interventions

We’re Crosswell Interventions, an Austin-based clinical team united by a single belief: Help early. Help deeply. Help together. Rooted in love and licensed clinical care, we offer a gentle but structured hand before families are pushed to a breaking point.

As our founder Will Crosswell, LCSW, LCDC, often says:

“We show up before the fall, when fear begins to bend the horizon.”

How We Stand Apart Our Promise in Action

• Licensed clinicians with lived experience
  Our team brings clinical rigor but also real stories of hope and recovery.

• The Crosswell Method™ A nurturing five-step process: listening, invitation, planning, transition, and sustained support. Across years of work, this approach helps roughly one in three people we reach connect with appropriate care and that’s not a statistic. It’s someone’s second chance.

• Available when you need us
  Crises don’t wait for business hours. Neither do we. Families have our number any hour, any day.

• Whole-family healing We know recovery ripples outward. That’s why our services often include therapy, recovery coaching, case management, and aftercare healing isn’t just about one person. It’s about restoring family ties.

Why It Matters And Why Our Work Resonates

The sharp drop in overdose deaths offers a glimmer of what’s possible when care is early, informed, and community-based. Yet Pain in the Nation reminds us that structurally, early prevention strategies are vital to keep that momentum going and that without them, today’s gains could slip away.

Across Austin, we’ve seen families reach out when it’s a quiet rumble of change not a full-throttled emergency. Our role is to meet them gently but firmly, to help them take one step and then the next.

Closing Thoughts: Hope Meets Call to Action

The CDC and trusted voices like Pain in the Nation are clear: we can’t let this moment slide. Early, empathetic, well-resourced intervention isn’t just a policy ideal it’s a lifeline, lived every day by families across our community.

At Crosswell Interventions, we don’t just echo that truth we embody it. If you feel unsettled or concerned about a loved one’s trajectory, know that reaching out isn’t an admission of failure. It’s a first act of hope.

Let’s walk forward carefully, together.