Season 1 |
| 1 :01x01 - Alyson (Mar/06/2005) | | Alyson, a three-time White House intern and an award-winning student, met a boy in college who initiated her into drugs. She is addicted to morphine and crack and has returned to live with her parents. Alyson now steals painkillers from her dying father and works at alienating her mother and sister. Alyson is confronted by her friends, family and professional interventionist, and urged to get help. | |
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| 2 :01x02 - Gabe & Vanessa (Mar/13/2005) | | Addicted gambler Gabe has lost more than $500,000 as well as his family's home. Actress Vanessa, who has had a featured role on the hit TV show "ER," is a compulsive shopper. Now on the verge of bankruptcy, she still can't stop. Confronted by families and interventionists, Gabe and Vanessa face their serious troubles. | |
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| 3 :01x03 - Tamela & Jerrie (Mar/20/2005) | | Friends try to help Tamela, 24, who was molested as a child and now cuts herself with razorblades. And, a family calls in interventionist Jeff VanVonderen to help Jerrie, 29, who is addicted to Vicodin. She has been forging physician signatures on prescriptions and scouring the waterfront for drug dealers. | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Alissa & Brian (Mar/27/2005) | | Parents and friends intervene to save Alissa, a compulsive gambler who has lost more than $30,000 on 25-cent slots. Meanwhile her boyfriend juggles three jobs just to make ends meet for them. Then we meet Brian, whose crystal meth habit feeds his sex addiction and sends him trolling the streets for new partners every day. | |
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| 5 :01x05 - Sara (Apr/03/2005) | | At 24, Sara had everything she ever wanted in her sleepy Minnesota town. She had a fairy-tale wedding in Hawaii, a beautiful baby girl, a house, three cars, and even competed in beauty pageants. Then, it all abruptly ended in divorce. Not knowing how else to cope Sara turned to Crystal Meth, and now uses every day, all day if she can. A self-labeled "junkie," Sara has lost everything, including custody of her daughter. She currently lives with her parents and exists in an endless cycle of drugs, stealing, lying, drug testing, and court appearances. Her family says the only hope for Sara is an Intervention. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Travis & Matt (Apr/17/2005) | | An addiction to crystal meth threatens the life of Travis, a former rock 'n' roll star. Can his girlfriend and family get him into treatment before it's too late? And Matt, who comes from an upper-middle class home, is addicted to crack-cocaine and has stolen from his family and friends to support his habit. Desperate, his parents turn to an interventionist to save Matt from himself. | |
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| 7 :01x07 - Peter & Renee (May/01/2005) | | The stories of two people who need the intervention of family and friends to save them from their addictions. Peter is so addicted to video games that he identifies himself as the characters in the games he plays and refers to other characters as people he hangs out with. And Renee's eating disorder has become so dangerous that it is threatening her health, marriage, finances, and even the custody of her two small children. | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Tina (May/08/2005) | | Once a valedictorian, Tina is now a real-life desperate housewife. This mother of a three-year-old spends her days gambling her house and car payments while stoned on prescription pills. With most of her jewelry in pawn shops, and forced to take paycheck advances, Tina now writes insurance policies from home and spends her days at horse tracks and in Bingo halls. With her marriage, health and finances in complete crisis her husband Harley says that "this show may be the only thing left that can save our lives." | |
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| 9 :01x09 - Cristine & Kelly P. (Jun/05/2005) | | Family and friends stage interventions to halt the self-destructive behavior of Cristine and Kelly. Cristine is a wife and mother who drinks at least 18 beers a day. Kelly is an anorexic who weighs 93 pounds and whose young daughter is following in her footsteps, often picking at her food or refusing to eat altogether. Her friends are seeking help not just to save Kelly, but her daughter as well. | |
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| 10 :01x10 - Kelly F. & Mark (Jun/12/2005) | | Family and friends decide that an intervention is their only hope of saving two men: Kelly, a man with a 160 IQ who lives on the streets and survives on beer and other people's spare change, and Mark, who's so addicted to painkillers that he's had a morphine pump surgically implanted in his abdomen. | |
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| 11 :01x11 - Rachel & Tommy (Jun/26/2005) | | Friends and family gather to save two addicts -- Rachel, once a beautiful child in an upper-middle class family who has turned to heroin and prostitution, and Tommy, who quit his executive job and sold his Lexus, retirement plan, and million-dollar condo to sustain his cocaine habit. | |
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| 12 :01x12 - Michael M. & Randi (Jul/10/2005) | | A wealthy family is in crisis and desperate to help Michael, a rage addict with a long history of violent behavior who has punched 24 holes in the walls of his father's house in the past year. And a woman seeks help for her sister, a bulimic and crystal meth addict who was sexually abused as a child by her babysitter. | |
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| 13 :01x13 - Michael B. & Brooks (Jul/24/2005) | | A former top high school athlete gets hooked on pills and beer, after suffering an emotionally devastating incident - he was not put into a big game against a rival school. And a mother fears for the life of her son, a former wrestling star who turned to drugs after an accident left him wheelchair-bound. | |
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Season 2 |
| 15 :02x01 - Corrine (Oct/23/2005) | | Corinne is a pretty 18 year-old blonde girl who was an honor roll student, star athlete and played the clarinet and saxophone. She started using drugs at 14 after being sexually abused by a neighborhood boy who babysat her. Still striving to move forward while battling her addictions, she completed her GED and began college, finishing two semesters before dropping out. Now, Corinne has become addicted to a deadly combination of heroin and crystal meth. Corinne likes the "speedball effect" -- the dangerous result of overlapping meth and heroin usage. Corinne is also a diabetic who requires insulin, but she often skips her doses because she is so high. After repeated trips to the emergency room, her family is expecting, any minute, to hear that they've lost her for good. | |
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| 16 :02x02 - Howard & Audrey (Nov/06/2005) | | Howard, 39, is a driving instructor to celebrities, the CIA, and the FBI, but he drinks when he can't get high from driving fast. Now, Howard's doctor has told him his liver is failing, and unless he stops drinking, he will die. Audrey, 24, was popular and artistic, but the disapproval she felt when she came out about her sexuality led her to the streets and heroin addiction. Now her family plans an intervention to save her, if they can. | |
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| 17 :02x03 - Adam & Michael (Dec/04/2005) | | Adam, who began using heroin after his girlfriend broke up with him, panhandles money at gas stations to get enough money to score. His family is "hanging on by a thread" and desperate for intervention help. Michael is a violent son who holds his family hostage with his rage. Truly in crisis, his family will do anything to stop living in terror. | |
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| 18 :02x04 - Michelle & Heidi (Dec/11/2005) | Heidi is a compulsive shopper. She shops every day, and is running out out money. She even steals her moms identity just so she can stop. She also is addicted to plastic surgery; she got her eyes, chest, cheeks, and lips done.
Michelle is a meth addict. Everyday, she shoots up methamphetamine everyday to relieve the stress. She's suicidal, and has a boyfriend who's in jail. Michelle trades sex for drugs, which often leads to rape. With the support of her loving grandfather, mother, and sister, will Michelle choose to go into a medical facility?
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| 19 :02x05 - Salina & Troy (Jan/08/2006) | | For the past eleven years Salina has been suffering from severe bulimia. She also struggles with a shopping addiction and recently began battling a new urge, self-mutilation. Her family is desperate to help her break this cycle and is hoping she will take this lifeline. After relocating to Los Angeles, Troy had a promising future until his recreational crystal methamphetamine usage escalated into a full-blown addiction. While high Troy reports to having had, "hundreds of homosexual encounters." Now homeless and unemployed, he sells methamphetamine and claims that injecting crystal meth helps him stay alert, and survive on the streets. Long time friends sought Intervention's help. | |
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| 20 :02x06 - Kristen (Jan/15/2006) | | A young mother, addicted to alcohol and heroin, is in the midst of losing custody of her 5-year-old daughter Sadie, who recently told her "mom, you are a loser." Kristen has now reached the point of no return. Her family has reached out to Intervention as a last hope of saving Kristen. | |
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| 21 :02x07 - Follow-Up: Cristine, Brooks & Audrey (Jan/22/2006) | | This second "follow-up" episode will allow for a much deeper investigation of life after the intervention, as we revisit some subjects several weeks later to see if their intervention was successful. Included: alcoholic wife and mother Cristine; heroin addict Audrey; and brothers Brooks and Ian, both cocaine addicts. | |
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| 22 :02x08 - Antwahn & Billy (Mar/12/2006) | | The stories of two men on the verge of destroying themselves. Antwahn played professional basketball for the Los Angeles Clippers and in Europe for over a decade, but when a serious knee injury ended his career he began to binge on crack-cocaine and ended up on skid row. Billy seeks a fix for his terrible drug addiction in many ways--he's an IV heroin user, he steals his mother's Xanax, he shoots Ambien intravenously, and he shoots up cocaine. | |
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| 23 :02x09 - Amy & Annie (Mar/19/2006) | | Annie is anorexic and bulimic. Now her fiancé, Kevin, desperately wants an intervention because he's afraid that Annie's eating disorders will kill her. After Amy was sexually molested at 16, she turned to drugs to deal with the pain and ended up living on park benches with her boyfriend. Amy's mother has reached out to Intervention as her last hope. | |
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| 24 :02x10 - Chuckie (Mar/26/2006) | | Chuckie, 28, is the son of a famous musician, and was born into the rock 'n' roll world of the 70's. Surrounded by famous musicians and privilege all his life, he aspired to be an athlete or singer. However, drugs have over-shadowed every moment of Chuckie's life. Born addicted to heroin, this third generation addict lives on the streets, and is the last remaining member of his family not to get clean. Chuckie's loved ones hope an intervention will help him break free of his family disease. | |
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| 25 :02x11 - Andrea & Gina (Apr/02/2006) | | Gina is bright, fun-loving, and ambitious, but she's losing a difficult battle with drugs and compulsive gambling. Gina's family feels an intervention is the only way to save her. Andrea is a 30-year-old, divorced, single mother addicted to alcohol, cocaine and marijuana. She says that she loves the party lifestyle and that she can't end the cycle of drinking and drugs in which she's immersed herself. Can an intervention can bring her the "peace" she's looking for? | |
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| 26 :02x12 - John (Jul/09/2006) | | At 33, all John can see is the loss in his life. His mother died when he was 12. This year, he lost his sister, his cousin and his best friend. His only escape from it all is in his addiction to crack and alcohol, an addiction that has already come close to taking his life. His family and friends cannot imagine losing someone else. Their only hope is an intervention and the possibility that John will seek treatment. | |
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| 27 :02x13 - Follow-Up: Rachel & Antwahn (Jul/16/2006) | | We revisit with two of our subjects to see how they've been doing since we first profiled them. Antwahn's family staged an intervention to save him from cocaine, and he went to treatment. But unfortunately, we learn that his story does not end there. And Rachel's continuing battle to stay off heroin has been threatened by her attempts to help her boyfriend get clean. | |
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| 28 :02x14 - Daniel & Tammi (Jul/23/2006) | | Tammi, 45, is an alcoholic despite being raised in an upper middle-class family that provided her with a good education and even golf and tennis lessons. Daniel got hooked on meth after becoming a victim of molestation. Now interventions are their only hope. | |
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| 29 :02x15 - Mike & James (Jul/30/2006) | | A high achiever as a young man, Mike developed a life-threatening dependency on speed balling, which involves mixing cocaine and heroin. Only an intervention can save him now that he's lost his marriage, his business, and the custody of his children to drugs. James was a straight-A student until he turned to methamphetamines to cope with his mother's near-fatal illness. Now his mother, Mary, hopes an intervention will get James back on track in life. | |
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| 30 :02x16 - Tim (Aug/06/2006) | | Tim was an accomplished producer and a talented musician with a lucrative career in the entertainment industry, but a crack addiction nearly destroyed everything he treasures. An intervention is his last chance--but will it work? | |
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| 31 :02x17 - Betsy (Aug/13/2006) |
At 40 years old, Betsy seems to have it all. She's beautiful with great friends and a gorgeous house. But Betsy is miserable and she drinks up to five bottles of chardonnay a day to mask the pain. The alcohol is starting to take its toll. She has been in detox several times this year. Betsy does not believe she has a problem with alcohol. And her friends and family believe is it time for her to face the truth and get help. They are planning an intervention, but will Betsy be able to admit she has a problem and be willing to go to treatment? | |
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| 32 :02x18 - Cristy (Aug/27/2006) | | Cristy was born into a tight-knit family and sought a career as a clothing designer before she became addicted to alcohol and crystal meth. Now she earns her money as a stripper, and her desperate family knows she needs an intervention. | |
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| 33 :02x19 - Sylvia (Dec/03/2006) | Sylvia had four wonderful kids, a strong marriage, and
a successful business. But when family tragedies
struck, Sylvia looked for solace in the bottle, and
today she is a frail, vulnerable, alcoholic. An
intervention is her only hope. | |
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| 34 :02x20 - Jessie & Laurie (Dec/10/2006) | A look at two women whose lives have spun out of
control. At one time, Laurie was a psychotherapist and
mother of three. But then an addiction to pain killers
and alcohol led to the loss of her job and her family,
and now only an intervention can stop her from losing
her life. Jessie is a beautiful young woman who once
dreamed of becoming a doctor. But that was before
bulimia trapped her in cycle of despair. | |
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| 35 :02x21 - Lauren (Dec/17/2006) | Lauren has known plenty of success in her life.
Growing up, she was a cheerleader, a dancer, a swimmer
and a great student. After college, she became a high
school health and phys-ed teacher, and the students
loved her. But amid all the accomplishments, Lauren
was hiding a growing problem: an addiction to heroin.
In the past three years, Lauren has lost her job and
her apartment. She's living with her mother and her
moods swing constantly between volatile and depressed.
Her family's only hope is an Intervention. | |
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Season 3 |
| 36 :03x01 - Ryan (Mar/16/2007) | | From the outside, Ryan and his family look picture perfect. They live in a beautiful house in an upscale northern California neighborhood. But inside, their world is falling apart. Ryan, once a talented drummer who was awarded a music scholarship to the state university, is addicted to opiates. He injects OxyContin up to 15 times a day. His moods swing wildly from needy to hostile, and his family no longer knows how to deal with him or help him. Their only hope is an intervention. | |
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| 37 :03x02 - Kim (Mar/23/2007) | | Kim is a beautiful 34-year-old make-up artist who grew up a cheerleader and popular. But fearing her good looks and slim figure were deteriorating, Kim turned to bulimia and anorexia. Now Kim's weight issues have taken over her life. She is entrenched in a divorce with her high school sweetheart, who she still loves dearly. She's moved in with her mother and stepfather, with whom she can't get along. Kim's needs have taken over the household and no one believes it can get better unless Kim agrees to get help. | |
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| 38 :03x03 - Jacob (Mar/30/2007) | | By day, Jacob, 25, is a banker. But most nights, Jacob is drinking, driving and often engaged in barroom brawls. He recently overdosed on alcohol and prescription drugs. His heart stopped and he had to be revived with paddles. Jacob is aware his mother -- a drug user and former dealer -- contributes to his addiction. But will he be able to hear her when she pleads for him to get help? | |
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| 39 :03x04 - Anthony (Apr/06/2007) |
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Anthony has been working at the pizzerias owned by his family since he was a kid. A good athlete, colleges offered him baseball scholarships. But at 14, everything changed. His sister died of a heroin overdose and his mother fell into an emotional black hole. Anthony found comfort in cocaine, and today he needs methadone to get him through the day until he can shoot coke at night. His family is not ready to let him hit rock bottom, but Anthony won't get better until his entire family embraces change. | |
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| 40 :03x05 - Dillon (Apr/13/2007) | | Growing up, Dillon showed tremendous promise. But after a bitter divorce, his mother, Tammy hoped that Dillon wouldn't follow in the footsteps of his violent, alcoholic father. But today Tammy's worst fears have come true. Dillon, 20, is living with his father in a dilapidated trailer where he injects methamphetamines every day and refuses any overtures for help. Tammy has one final hope--an intervention. | |
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| 41 :03x06 - Trent (Apr/20/2007) | | Trent, 33, is a four-star chef who's served U.S. presidents and Hollywood stars. But as the child of alcoholics, Trent's formative years were marked with violence and abuse. He ultimately turned to drugs to cope, and today he is homeless, sick, battling freezing temperatures, and has an insatiable heroin addiction. His friends and family fear he won't make it through the winter on the streets, but will Trent be willing to listen to the family he feels deserted him? | |
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| 42 :03x07 - Jessica & Hubert (Apr/27/2007) | Jessica, 21, comes from a tight-knit family. Her father, mother, sister and grandfather all work at the family-owned gas station. But Jessica's not allowed to work there any more. Ever since Jessica became addicted to heroin at 17, her family cannot trust her. And even worse--her addiction is straining family relationships. Everyone wants to see her go to treatment, however just organizing the intervention is tearing them apart. Growing up Hubert, now 50, never felt truly loved by his stepfather. And his stepfather admits giving more love and attention to his three biological children.
Meanwhile, Hubert protected his brother and sisters from hearing and seeing their parents screaming and hitting one another. Forty years later, it's Hubert's siblings' turn to help him overcome a horrible alcohol addiction that has left him living on the streets of Los Angeles for the past six months. | |
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| 43 :03x08 - Laney (Jun/01/2007) | Laney is an outgoing, intelligent 36-year-old woman who used to have the kind of life other people dream of: a handsome, loving husband, plenty of money and the opportunity to travel the world. Unfortunately, all the wealth and status in the world could not help Laney escape alcoholism. She lost her husband, her health and is quickly spending what's left of her sizable divorce settlement on endless bottles of rum. Her organs are deteriorating fast and Laney is too weak to take care of herself. She is so dependent on attention from her frustrated family that Laney will attempt suicide in an effort to win back their love. But will her damaged body survive yet another trip to the ICU?
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| 44 :03x09 - Ashley (Jun/08/2007) | Growing up, Ashley, 20, was always considered the wild child. While her younger sister was quick to follow the rules and be active in the church, Ashley tended to reject her parents' strong Christian values. The more her parents tried to guide her, the more she pulled away. By her teenage years, Ashley became a chronic runaway and drug addict. Her family sees an intervention as her only hope. But will Ashley take their efforts as a sign of love or another chance to run away?
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| 45 :03x10 - Andrea & Ricky (Jun/15/2007) | Not long ago, Andrea, 31, decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother and become a nurse. It was a field in which she excelled and was revered by colleagues and friends. But all the while, Andrea was hiding a dark secret--a growing crack addiction. Now she's lost her job and relies on several male friends to buy her drugs. Growing up, Ricky seemed to be on a path to greatness. He was a straight-A student, a star athlete and named one of the three brightest students in school. He joined the Marines, where he served as a police officer. But what started as experimentation with drugs has turned into an out-of-control heroin addiction.
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| 46 :03x11 - Leslie (Jun/22/2007) | Leslie is a Sunday school teacher, PTA member, soccer mom of three and a raging alcoholic. When she can't get her hands on vodka or wine, Leslie resorts to economy size bottles of mouthwash. After countless arrests and DUI's, her husband is hoping to find help for the mother of his children before it's too late. It's time for Leslie to choose: her alcohol or her family.
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| 47 :03x12 - Coley (Aug/10/2007) | As a timber cutter, Coley has one of the most dangerous jobs in America. But instead of taking serious precautions, he increases his risks every day by snorting crystal meth. Because of his addiction, Coley's business is falling apart. His wife can barely stand to talk to him any more and his relationship with his three young children is deteriorating. They all believe his only hope is rehab, but will he be willing to go before it's too late?
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| 48 :03x13 - Caylee (Aug/17/2007) | As a child Caylee was an over-achiever from an affluent family. But despite her myriad successes, her mother, Christy, was never satisfied with her. Christy, herself was sexually-abused as a girl, and has hidden her bulimia from her family for 35 years. When Caylee was in grade school, Christy began to teach her daughter to count her calories. In high school, Caylee became a bulimic and began drinking. Now, she is 23 and a college drop-out, a bulimic, and a heroin addict. She is 80 lbs, and goes to her 50 year-old "boyfriend" for drugs and money. The family wants to help both mother and daughter. If they can find a way to have the mother present for Caylee's intervention, they can then approach Christy about her bulimia as well.
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| 49 :03x14 - Pam (Aug/24/2007) | Pam is a 49-year-old alcoholic who has suffered a string of abusive, failed marriages and horrific molestation as a child. Drinking is her only way to cope. Her frightened family has already lost one sibling to cirrhosis of the liver. Their greatest fear is that Pam will fall to the same fate unless an intervention can save her life.
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| 50 :03x15 - Jill (Sep/07/2007) | Jill was a beautiful woman with a Victoria's Secret body until a boyfriend betrayed her by secretly distributing a tape of them having sex. Now Jill uses alcohol to numb her pain. Her family is planning an intervention--but will they succeed in saving their loved one's life?
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Season 4 |
| 51 :04x01 - Emily (Dec/03/2007) | | Emily, 26, had high expectations as an academic and athletic scholar. But Emily suffered from depression and low self-esteem, and felt shame when she became a date-rape victim in college. She started dieting as a means of taking back control of her life, but after dropping to 90 pounds she seems to have lost control once again. | |
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| 52 :04x02 - Dawn & Fabian (Dec/10/2007) | Dawn, 49, a homeless meth user and suffering from the effects of Meth Psychosis, was once a model. Watch as Dawn's sons ask interventionists to help save their mother.
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| 53 :04x03 - Follow-Up: Ryan & Hubert (Dec/17/2007) | | Ryan, an OxyContin addict and Hubert a recovering alcoholic have their cases update since their interventions. Ryan had gone back to rehab and is having trouble following their rules. Hubert is still having trouble coping with the death of his father and avoiding an old friend. | |
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| 54 :04x04 - Brooke (Jan/07/2008) | | Brooke, 26 is a former gymnast on an elite cheerleading squad who dreamed of an athletic life. But tragedy struck when she was diagnosed with Steele's disease, an early form of rheumatoid arthritis. Treated with narcotics, Brooke soon became addicted. Her family wants her to try new types of treatments, but she denies she has become addicted. | |
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| 56 :04x05 - Jason (Jan/14/2008) | | Jason, 23, is from a strict Southern Baptist family who had no problem handing out punishment. Jason's father was away from home after being banished from the church and needing to work many jobs to make ends meet, often leaving Jason with no supervision. Jason ended up on drugs and alcohol and sees his younger sister, Joy, heading doen this same path of destruction. | |
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| 57 :04x07 - Tressa (Feb/04/2008) | | Once an Olympic shotput hopeful, the 32 year old Tressa's life has spun out of control and into a world of daily crystal meth use. | |
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| 58 :04x08 - John T. (Feb/11/2008) | | An athlete lost his chance to run after a leg injury and then began to abuse his body by ingesting drugs and alcohol, including marijuana, ecstasy and hallucinogens. | |
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| 59 :04x09 - Brad (Feb/18/2008) | | The violence and bloodshed that Brad has seen in his young life, includes being a soldier in Iraq where he saw his best friend get killed, has left him emotionally damaged. He has since used alcohol and marijuana to ease his pain and the post traumatic stress he endures daily. This has led to temper flare ups and two auto accidents. His family wants him helped before he dies or kills someone else. | |
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Season 5 |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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? | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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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Season 6 |
| In Depth: Compulsive Gambling (Feb/23/2009) | | The face of gambling has changed dramatically through the years. More and more we find women have been drawn into this addiction. Whether it be sitting in front of a slot machine for hours on end, playing the poker tables, or online gambling, while leaving their children unattended all the while piling up debts. No longer a game, these ladies try to keep their compulsion from their families, followed by hitting rock bottom and lose everything. Some even serve time in jail. We will go inside this compulsion, examining the shame and fear that keeps it hidden, and the surprising casualties caught up in the gamble. | |
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| 77 :06x01 - Janet (Dec/15/2008) | | Janet was molested at age 6, bullied by the other kids, which made her self-conscience of her looks. At the age of 18 she married a drug dealer and was made a rich woman. But he was sent to prison, leaving her behind with no income and 2 children to raise. She turned to drugs and drink and had a number of affairs. Once her husband found out of one affair he divorced her. She remarried and had 2 more kids, but started missing her luxurious lifestyle and drank heavily. Now she drinks heavily, threatens to kill herself and puts herself in life-threatening situations. | |
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| 78 :06x02 - Nicole (Dec/22/2008) | | When Nicole was a child she was molested, resulting in her eating disorder which made her unable to swallow. She weighed only 68 pounds when she was16 year old and a feeding tube was needed to be added by a doctor. This was suppose to be a temporary thing, but after 16 years the tube is still in place and she still can't swallow foods or liquids. She also abuses prescribed drugs and neglects her 2 children. If she refuses to find help, her husband says he will divorce her and take away her neglected daughters. | |
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| 79 :06x03 - Brittany (Dec/29/2008) | | Brittany's sister Terry, was raped five years before she was born and was only 9-years old. She has always struggled to keep a perfect image in her mother's eyes. But at the age of 12, Brittany was molested and she began taking drugs and sneaking out at night...anything to shake Terry's shadow. She now shoots up Dilaudid six times a day, begs family members for money and prostitutes herself. Brittany's mother scrambles to give Brittany enough money for her fix. Both desperate to get her daughter healed and on the verge of bankruptcy, it's time that Brittany has an intervention. | |
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| 80 :06x04 - John C. (Jan/05/2009) | | John knows he has type one diabetes yet refuses to keep a close monitoring of his blood sugar levels or using insulin. Known as an outcast and social misfit, all ohn wants is to be considered normal, and pretends to be so by eating anything he wants. He's been hospitalized and in a coma several times. His parents agree they need to stop enabling his self-destructive ways, but are afraid to kick him out of the house fearing he will die. | |
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| 81 :06x05 - Tressa/Josh (Jan/12/2009) | | A follow up episode featuring Tressa and Josh. Tressa was an Olympic hopeful who's career was ruined by her meth addiction. Now eight months sober, she's working hard to stay on the right path and rekindle some of that lost potential. Going back home for her mom's wedding brings up those old feelings of her past addictions. Josh was obese, weighing in at over 500 pounds. Now he's dropped 200 pounds and is planning to surprise his family with a visit, the first since the intervention. | |
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| 82 :06x06 - Casie (Jan/19/2009) | | Casie was once a successful hairstylist, but is now living in a small town with a $500 a week meth habit. As a child she grew up around her mother's drug addiction. Having low self-esteem, Casie became a bulimic and a drug addict. Her career, money and husband are all gone now. Her mother has been trying to make up for Casie's difficult childhood by enabling her, which caused her to lose her marriage too. Even Casie's boyfriend is an addict, and is trying desperately to keep her alive, but her addictions are bringing everybody down with her. | |
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| 83 :06x07 - Anthony (Jan/26/2009) | | Anthony has always been made to feel worthless by his father. His parents divorced and his mother remarried, but she still turned to drugs and alcohol when she became unhappy. This helped Anthony get hooked on the same things since the age of 13. Then Anthony's younger brother died from leukemia and his downward spiral continued, and now he drinks half a gallon of vodka each day and will take any drugs he can find. | |
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| 85 :06x09 - Angelina (Feb/09/2009) | | At the age of eight, Angelina's family broke up over money issues. Her mother started using cocaine and prescription pills as a means of easing her stress. Angelina became her brother's legal guardian just after she graduated from high school, and became overwhelmed having to care for both her mom and brother. Angelina wound up spending her whole trust fund of $350,000 her own OxyContin addiction. Then Angelina turned to cheaper drugs and heroin to support her habit. | |
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| 86 :06x10 - Chris (Feb/16/2009) | | Chris was born into a traditional Catholic family who upheld their values, but struggled with his sexuality until coming out at 18. Now that he has turned 34, Chris feels being gay cheated him out of things he had wanted such as kids, marriage and feeling included in his family. Chris is an alcoholic, who drinks from the moment he awakens to ease the tremors, abuses his partner and can't keep a job. His father thinks he can stop drinking just by sheer will, but his mom feels genetics has caused his alcoholism. Can the family overcome its divisions and work together for Chris? | |
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| 88 :06x12 - Nik and Tiffany (Mar/02/2009) | | Nik is 35 and is loved by his five sisters and his teenage son, which is the only thing which holds this family together. Nik is a college graduate and at a young age, became the director of a multi-million-dollar casino chain. But four years ago he suffered a back injury and became hooked on OxyContin, which caused him to his recent fate of being a homeless man. Now he has become hooked on heroin, lost his job, his home, and custody of his son. Next there is the story of Tiffany, a tall, beautiful brunette who maintained a perfect GPA in high school and even played varsity basketball. But her childhood was filled with her parents arguing along with drug and alcohol addictions. At 19 she married to escape her home life, but her controlling husband forced her to move back in with her mother. Feeling worthless, Tiffany has turned to alcohol. She has been hospitalized many times for alcohol abuse and suicide attempts. | |
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| 89 :06x13 - Sandy (Mar/16/2009) | | Sandy was living the American dream, married with four beautiful daughters and owned a home she and her husband built themselves, and only in her late 20's. But today she is unrecognizable. She spends her days taking prescription drugs and drinking vodka, and relying on her daughters to monitor both her diabetes and drinking. Her speech is slurred and has been hospitalized several times. Her family has only one option left--an intervention. | |
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| 90 :06x14 - Sharon (Mar/23/2009) | | Sharon is a 51-year-old grandmother and a compulsive shopper who keeps spending money on plastic surgery to feel better about her looks. She also has bruises along her thigh stomach from punching herself and repeatedly hits her head with a hairbrush. She is getting worse by having a feeling she needs to drown one of her Chihuahua's. She has yet to hurt one of her dogs but her daughter is afraid to leave her alone with her own grandchildren. Sharon's dangerous compulsions need to stop. | |
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Season 7 |
| 91 :07x01 - Gabe (May/25/2009) | | Gabe was abandoned by his mother at the age of 3 on the streets of Calcutta, and was later adopted by an American couple.. Gabe always seemed happy in the USA, but kept a feeling deep inside that he was an outsider. He started to rebel in high school and resented his Christian upbringing. He delved into using marijuana and cocaine, and soon turned to heroine. He supported his drug habit with an insurance payoff of $37,500 from a car accident. His adoptive parents feel he needs an intervention now, or his addiction and depression will kill him. | |
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| 92 :07x02 - Jeff (Jun/01/2009) | | Jeff, 40, was once a heroic firefighter who saved his partner's life. But one harrowing event change it all, and his drinking became more frequent. Since then, Jeff has been stopped for two DUIs and was even taken to the hospital for seizures. His alcoholism has driven his wife and son from their home. Hopefully this intervention will get him to treatment and save their family and maybe Jeff's life. | |
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| 93 :07x03 - Sonia & Julia (Jun/08/2009) | | Sonia and Julia, 22, are a pair of identical twins who have shared everything as children inside their loving home. Their parents were emigrates from Poland who worked many jobs to provide for their kids and send them to the best schools. But this families American Dream has become a nightmare as Sonia and Julia have developed anorexia. Their once competitive spirit has become laced with jealousy and rivalry. And they won't let each other out of sight in fear that one may burn off more calories than the other. Now their desperate parents seek help. | |
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| 94 :07x04 - Donald (Jun/15/2009) | | Donald's parents divorced at the age of five. His father had little contact with him after that, which was something he longed for. He became a skilled boxer, but chose the path of drugs. He later joined a gang and supported his crack habit by stealing. Now his own son is angered by Donald not being there for him. Donald's girlfriend just had a baby and Donald get's a second chance at fatherhood, but he'll need to kick his crack habit first. | |
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| 95 :07x05 - Jason B. (Jun/22/2009) | | Jason grew up in a seemingly perfect family in Littleton, Col., although he struggled for his father's approval. Jason and his father were both devastated when he failed to make the freshman baseball team in his first season. He excelled at rollerblading but ended up quitting because of his father's disapproval of the sport. Jason turned to drugs to ease his pain and became an addict by his senior year. The next year he was named as one of the bullies at Columbine High School in which the shooters vowed their revenge against. This caused a feeling of guilt and grief over his dead classmates, causing his addiction to escalate. Now Jason lives on the streets of Denver, and his family is in pieces. | |
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| 96 :07x06 - Nikki (Jul/06/2009) | | Nikki's mother and grandmother have always tried to give her the best. She was an excellent student in school, but all this changed when her grandmother died. She started hanging out with the wrong crowd, skipped school, and started using crack. Eventually she had two daughters, but never shook her crack habit. Her children desperately want to have a relationship with Nikki, but need an intervention first and save her life. | |
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| 98 :07x08 - Aaron & Andrea (Jul/20/2009) | | Aaron was a mixed martial arts champion, who suddenly began working in adult films and was then introduced to crystal meth. Once the drugs took over both his acting and fighting careers were over. Now his days are spent watching porn and doing drugs, and his wife is at the end of her rope. While Andrea was growing up, she wished for a relationship with her mostly absent alcoholic father. She sought solace with her boyfriend while in high school, which led to a family by the age of 19. Andrea found herself overwhelmed raising a family and turned to drinking. The more she drank the more she sought out her father. Four years ago, Andrea's father passed away and her drinking has since spiraled out of control. Now, she is unable to raise her children and spends her days on her mother's couch drinking. | |
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| 99 :07x09 - Danielle (Jul/27/2009) | | Despite having an adoring husband and 2 loving children, Danielle became dangerously addicted to Percocet. When Danielle was a teen she felt neglected by her alcoholic father and started cutting herself. Now her days are spent behind closed curtains, ignoring her children, and self-medicating nearly 40 Percocet a day. Can an intervention allow Danielle's children to get their mother back. | |
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| 100 :07x10 - Chad / Brooke Follow-up (Aug/03/2009) | | Chad and Brooke are former subjects who recall their experiences with rehab. Chad's career as a world class bicyclist was ended by a crack addiction. Seven months after his rehab he's been given a second chance, having joined a racing team in Italy. But his body may have been damaged too much to make a comeback. Brooke was in denial about her addiction to pills, but agreed to going to rehab following her intervention. Now her parents are visiting Brooke to see how she's doing. | |
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| 101 :07x11 - Joey (Aug/10/2009) | | Joey's career as a tattoo artist may come to a halt due to his heroine addiction. His parents divorced when he was 3, and at the age of 13 he started smoking marijuana and soon graduated to ecstasy, LSD, and heroin. His mother had to reluctantly send him to jail when he began stealing her credit cards. He now has a daughter of his own, but her mother won't let Joey see her alone. Joey needs an intervention before he has an overdose. | |
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| 102 :07x12 - Sebastian and Marcel (Aug/17/2009) | | Sebastian and Marcel are brothers, ages 21 and 20, who were soccer stars at a young age. Sebastian was cool and rebellious, he hung out with older teammates and started doing marijuana, cocaine and meth. Meanwhile, Marcel started using cocaine, Xanax and OxyContin, and would also sell drugs. Their older brother is mad, their mom feels betrayed, and their father is ready to give up his wife, oldest son and his own life in order to save them. | |
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| 103 :07x13 - Gloria (Aug/24/2009) | | Gloria, 53, is proud of being a good cook and an independent, fun-loving woman. She uses her cooking and charm as a means of getting her family to allow her to drink as much as she wants. Gloria found difficulty in raising her kids, especially with having an abusive husband. Gloria discovered she had breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy and radiation at he age of 42, but kept on drinking. Now she drinks and drives, misses work, and spends all her money on alcohol. | |
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| 104 :07x14 - Marci (Sep/07/2009) | | Everyone believed Marci lived a perfect life. Her mother would go off to work and leave her alone with an abusive, alcoholic father. As she endured the abuse, mom turned her head and ignored it. Marci turned to drugs and alcohol too. Her marriage would fail and she lost the children. Yet her mother still believes she has no problems. Can an intervention help Marci and her mother to stop their dangerous behavior before it's too late? | |
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| Intervention In Depth: Addiction in Uniform (Sep/14/2009) | | A gut-wrenching look at a trio of soldiers from Iraq and how their addictions were caused by the stress of combat. Leila's flashbacks to Iraq led to her drinking habit until her connection with fellow veterans. Paul has in the thick of the most heaviest combat of the war and turned to alcohol and cocaine as soon as he returned home, but learned to cope and move on from a detox center. After Matt returned home, he would suffer from nightmares of being shot or burned, and began drinking to calm down. | |
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| 106 :07x16 - Allison/Gabe Follow-up (Sep/21/2009) | | Gabe and Allison return to tell their stories after they both faced interventions and treatment. Gabe suffered from deep emotional scars do to his adoption and turned to heroin. Will Gabe ever accept the love and support his family gives to him? Meanwhile, Allison, pays a visit to her home for the first time since kicking inhalants, and hopes to make amends to those she hurt. | |
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| Special: One Man Rehab (Sep/28/2009) | | "Sober companions" help out addicts which are high-risk and trying to live on their own while struggling to not relapse. A young mother is worked with a former meth addict. Mike tries to help a teenage boy stay out of harm's way. | |
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Season 8 |
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| 110 :08x03 - Jennifer (Dec/14/2009) | Parents plan an intervention for their daughter Jennifer, who turned to drugs and alcohol to cope after suffering a brain injury and kidney damage in a car accident that was soon followed by another family tragedy. Watch this new episode and find out more!
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