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Season 5 | | | |
| After Treatment Special (Sep/08/2008) | | Past intervention subjects gather at an intimate Los Angeles studio for a discussion on how their lives have changed. Some of the interventionists will meet up with their family and friends for the first time since leaving a treatment center. | | | |
| 62 :05x01 - Chad (Jun/16/2008) | | Chad was a troubled youth who was sent him to juvenile hall for felony arson. His father introduced him to cycling at the age of 15, and soon was part of Lance Armstrong's team. But after a dismissal for "personality conflicts," Chad was crushed and turned to drugs. Now Chad is a homeless, crack smoking and drinking panhandler. Although his family has made many unsuccessful attempts to help him, they have asked for an intervention as the last hope. | | | |
| 63 :05x02 - Dan (Jun/23/2008) | | Dan, a married father of one who loves music and works as a first mate on a snorkeling and whale watching boat company on the Hawaiian islands. But not all is well as Dan is an alcoholic who as a child was the subject of physical violence and verbal abuse and now harbors deep emotional pain. | | | |
| 64 :05x03 - Sandra (Jun/30/2008) | | Sandra spends her days sitting in a garage popping pills...anti depressants, pain killers, anti-psychotics and sleeping pills. Her sons have had enough and moved away. Her best friend has moved in with Sandra to help take care or her, despite suffering from multiple sclerosis. Along with Sandra's husband, the two make sure she can't OD, yet have not done enough to stop her. Sandra's family is ready to try an intervention, but they're not sure she'll ever choose her family over her addiction. | | | |
| 65 :05x04 - Charles (Jul/07/2008) | | A 23 year old motocross rider, Charles, has become a heroin and alcohol abuser. Most likely it was to block out the memories of his troubled childhood, which included being molested by his father, for which he went to prison for and his mother becoming an alcoholic. It's his half sister Lindsey who has gathered the family for one last attempt to help Charles. | | | |
| 66 :05x05 - Marie (Jul/14/2008) | | Marie, a Sophia Loren look alike, was the child of an Italian mob family. She went to live with her mother after her parents divorce, living in poverty. Marie herself would be married three times, all ending in divorce. But she was still determined to give her children what she was missing as a kid. Despite her problems finding love for herself, she became a successful matchmaker for a wealthy socialite, and has appeared on 60 minutes. Then Marie met and married husband number four. But he was an addict and an alcoholic, a fate she soon would meet up with. Her husband has since died from his alcoholism and she is headed down the same path, unless an intervention takes place. | | | |
| 67 :05x06 - Tom (Jul/21/2008) | | Tom got caught up in a gangster lifestyle while growing up in a South Boston neighborhood run by an Irish mob. By the time he was 20, Tom was holding down a job in the day as a Boston fireman and dealing drugs and running with the wiseguys at night. But through it all, Tom remained a loving, loyal father to his four children. But all his came crashing down one day when he was caught and indited on drug charges, losing his home, his job and his family's respect. Can an intervention help cement Tom and his family back together again? | | | |
| 68 :05x07 - Asa (Jul/28/2008) | | Asa grew up with a low self-esteem being of a mixed race while raised in a predominantly white neighborhood. He was ridiculed by his classmates due to his size, race and effeminate demeanor. Asa became bulimic while trying to drop some pounds. At the age of 19 he came out as a gay man and began to drink and experiment with hard drugs. Although he is fell aware of what is happening to his body since he is a medical science student at the university, he can't stop his addiction. His family hopes an intervention will help Asa out. | | | |
| 69 :05x08 - Derek (Aug/04/2008) | | Once a championship bodybuilder and successful property owner, Derek, 30, became severely depressed believing he was over-the-hill. His wife has left him, and he sits daily in a basement smoking, drinking and sulking. He narrowly escaped a suicide attempt and his family feels another may be coming. | | | |
| 71 :05x10 - Allison (Aug/18/2008) | | A pre-med student on her way to becoming a surgeon, but Allison's hopes are marred by the trauma of being molested as a child and her parents' brutal divorce. She has begun inhaling computer dust removal spray and stopped heading to class and now sniff ten cans a day. | | | |
| 72 :05x11 - Phillip (Aug/25/2008) | | Phillip, a 44-year-old singer and songwriter used music to forget his abused childhood. Now he drinks up to four pints of peppermint schnapps a day. He has lost his job, his wife and the respect he earned. Now he needs to break his addiction before he looses his 11 year old daughter he lives with. | | | |
| 73 :05x12 - Mike and Jenny (Sep/01/2008) | | Policeman Mike, 67, began seeing signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder after stopping an addict by himself. Fearing germs, Mike would wash his hands nearly 40 times each day. This problem has lost him his job and his family. Also, Jenny, 32, is a talented hairstylist who was diagnosed with endometriosis, meaning she can no longer have children. This made her turn to IV heroine and meth. | | | |
| 75 :05x14 - Edwin and Bettina (Sep/29/2008) | | Ed, 53, and Bettina, 49, lived a dream life with 3 children, a perfect house, sports cars, motorcycles, and respected by the church community. But a bad career move left Ed unemployed six years ago. After losing everything they had the two of them became alcoholics. Ed has had hospital stays for internal bleeding and Bettina experiences violent withdrawals. Their kids are begging for an intervention, but the couple only seem to become closer. | | | | | | |
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