Season 1: 2005
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| 1 | 1 | "Alyson and Tommy" | crack cocaine, morphine / cocaine abuse | March 6, 2005 (2005-03-06) |
| Alyson was a White House intern and an award-winning student. She met a boy in college who showed her the world of drugs and she became an addict. Alyson now lives at home with her parents and is a heavy user of morphine and crack. She works hard to alienate herself from the people who love her. Alyson also takes painkillers from her dying father. Tommy, a 38-year-old ex-stockbroker, is addicted to cocaine. He has lost everything to drugs including his job, retirement plan and his luxury condominium. Now Tommy lives on the streets and tries to keep up his drug habit. |
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| 2 | 2 | "Gabe and Vanessa" | compulsive gambling / compulsive shopping | March 13, 2005 (2005-03-13) |
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Gabe is addicted to gambling and has lost over $200,000 in casinos. He has even withdrawn money from his parents' accounts without their knowledge. |
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| 3 | 3 | "Tamela and Jerrie" | prescription drug abuse / self-harm | March 20, 2005 (2005-03-20) |
| Jerrie's family calls interventionist Jeff Van Vonderen to help their 29-year-old daughter, who is addicted to Vicodin. Jerrie is so addicted that she has been forging physician signatures to get the prescriptions that she thinks she needs. She also walks around the waterfront to find drug dealers so she can get high. Tamela, a 24-year-old artist, cuts herself with razor blades. As a child, she was molested and has a hard time getting over what happened. Her family hopes she will go into treatment. |
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| 4 | 4 | "Alissa and Brian" | compulsive gambling / methamphetamine abuse | March 27, 2005 (2005-03-27) |
| Alissa's parents and friends try to save her from her gambling addiction. She has lost over $30,000 on 25-cent slots. Her boyfriend has three jobs and makes all of the money, while Alissa gambles it away. Brian has a bad crystal meth habit. He is also a sex addict. Brian roams around the streets to find new partners every night. Epilogue: Alissa refused to go to treatment, and she broke up with her boyfriend as a result; she is now married and claims to have "cut down" on her gambling. Brian was asked to leave rehab after 40 days; he relapsed several times but claims to be sober as of December 2007. |
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| 5 | 5 | "Sara" | methamphetamine abuse | April 3, 2005 (2005-04-03) |
| She had everything she ever wanted out of life, including a wonderful husband and family. In fact, she almost had a perfect life until it all ended in divorce. Not knowing how to handle the divorce, she turned to crystal meth. Sara is now a junkie and has lost everything in her life, including her daughter. She lives at home with her parents and continues using drugs. Her family hopes she will get help to get her life back. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "Travis and Matt" | methamphetamine abuse / crack cocaine | April 17, 2005 (2005-04-17) |
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Former rock star Travis now spends his days in a meth-filled haze, an addiction that has cost him nearly everything. Epilogue: Travis immediately walked out of the intervention, but later decided to accept the offer of treatment. After completing his program, he moved to Utah and began traveling and playing music. He suffered a brief relapse, but regained sobriety in September 2005 and maintained it until September 2007, when he had another relapse; he has since stayed sober. Matt had several relapses, then joined the United States Navy. He no longer uses drugs, but still drinks. |
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| 7 | 7 | "Peter and Renee" | video game addiction / eating disorder | May 1, 2005 (2005-05-01) |
| Peter is addicted to video games. He refers to himself as characters that are in the games he plays. Renee has an eating disorder and is dependent on water pills to keep her thin. Her health and her family are all feeling the effects of Renee's eating disorder. |
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| 8 | 8 | "Tina" | prescription drug abuse | May 8, 2005 (2005-05-08) |
| Tina is a mother of three and a true desperate housewife. She spends all of her time gambling with her car and house payments while high on prescription pills. Tina is at a crisis stage with almost all of her jewelry pawned and getting paycheck advances at any chance. Now she spends all of her days at race tracks and bingo halls. Her husband Harley has contacted Intervention as a last resort. Epilogue: Tina left treatment after 37 days. She and Harley divorced in 2006; Tina now takes Percocet daily for kidney stones. |
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| 9 | 9 | "Cristine and Kelly" | alcoholism / anorexia | June 5, 2005 (2005-06-05) |
| Cristine, a wife and mother with an abusive and dark past, is an alcoholic who drinks about 18 beers a day. Just three years ago, Cristine was top saleswoman at her LA-based newspaper; now, since her return to work after having her first child, the alcohol has damaged her career so much that she has yet to collect any commissions from her ad sales. Her husband is a stay-at-home dad, but their "home" is Cristine's mother's living room floor due to Cristine's business problems. Now Cristine's health is failing – she often works 4 hours or less a day due to stomach problems caused by her drinking – and the family feels an intervention is the only thing that can save her from herself, but Cristine wants no part of rehab after a disastrous stint two years ago. Kelly is an anorexic real estate agent and club DJ in Florida who weighs only 93 pounds and who often consumes less than 5% of her body's caloric needs for the day. She has a 6-year-old daughter who is following in her mother’s footsteps, imitating Kelly's disdain of food by refusing to eat her breakfast and leaving her lunch tray full of food. Kelly's boyfriend wants to come live with her in Florida but knows he cannot save Kelly by himself and needs outside help. Everyone who loves Kelly is not only trying to save her, but also her daughter. |
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| 10 | 10 | "Kelly F. and Mark" | alcoholism / prescription drug abuse | June 12, 2005 (2005-06-12) |
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Kelly is living on the streets and is an alcoholic. Even though he has a genius-level IQ, he cannot seem to stop himself from living off others. Epilogue: In the June 29, 2009 airing of this episode, the epilogue shows that Kelly spent 20 days in an Arizona treatment facility before being transferred to a center in California. He completed 60 days of treatment, but is shown purchasing and drinking a beer directly after leaving the treatment center. He went home to pick up his dog and reunite with his girlfriend Klover, but 5 months after she leaves him and he cannot find his dog. Mark completed his treatment in 2005, had his morphine pump removed and no longer uses opiates to control his pain. He still lives with his family and is still unemployed. He never spoke to his wife again before she died, 2 months after he completed treatment. |
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| 11 | 11 | "Rachel and Tommy Update" | heroin, prostitution / cocaine abuse | June 26, 2005 (2005-06-26) |
| Rachel, who was once a gorgeous child, now spends all of her time getting high on heroin and engaging in prostitution. Tommy is a cocaine abuser who has lost everything, including his job, to support his habit. |
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| 12 | 12 | "Michael and Randi" | aggressive anger / bulimia, methamphetamine abuse | July 10, 2005 (2005-07-10) |
| Michael has a serious anger problem. He has a history of violent behavior and has been known to punch holes into the walls of his father's house. Randi is a bulimic and a crystal meth addict. She is in denial of her condition and cannot deal with her childhood sexual abuse. |
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| 13 | 13 | "Michael and Brooks" | alcoholism, prescription drug abuse / prescription drug abuse | July 24, 2005 (2005-07-24) |
| Michael is a school athlete, yell leader, and now addicted to pills and alcohol after emotional pain from his high school days; Michael is now facing jail time after parole violations. Brooks is a former wrestling star turned drug addict after an ATV accident with his brother Chase left him paralyzed from the waist down. Brooks admits he is addicted to "drugs, period; nothing specific" and his older brother Ian has become his drug abusing partner. |
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| 14 | 14 | "Follow-Up: Sara, Matt, Gabe & Alyson" | August 21, 2005 (2005-08-21) |
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