Intervention S04-E04 Brooke – Prescription drug abuse 01/03
Website: www.facebook.com Brooke suffers from chronic pain and doctors have never been able to find a diagnosis. Her family thinks she takes too many prescription pain pills. Brooke was found unconscious and injured by the Intervention production crew after taking “an extra pill or two” to take the pain away.… Continue reading
Intervention S02-E11 Gina and Andrea – Drug abuse, Gambling and Alcoholism 01/03
Website: www.facebook.com Gina is bright, fun-loving and ambitious, but she’s losing a difficult battle with drugs and compulsive gambling. 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… Continue reading
Intervention S08-E05 Greg – Morphine, Methamphetamine and Cocaine 01/03
Website: www.facebook.com Greg once owned a thriving business and was a devoted husband and father. But after a back injury left him disabled, he lost his business, started gambling, and became dependent on pain medication. He also became obsessed with Internet sweepstakes scams, and he has bankrupted his family in… Continue reading
Intervention S03-E07 Jessica and Hubert – Drug abuse, Alcohol abuse 01/03
Website: www.facebook.com 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… Continue reading
Intervention S09-E07 Joe – Self-Asphyxiation, Heroin 01/03
Website: www.facebook.com Though he grew up in a close-knit family, Joe has felt lonely and isolated all his life. As a child, he was excluded by his peers and didn’t get the affection and acceptance he needed from his father. At age eight, Joe learned “the choking game,” in which… Continue reading
Intervention S09-E09 Ryan & Jason – Alcohol abuse and Heroin 01/03
Website: www.facebook.com When Jason’s mother and stepfather had twins, Jason felt abandoned. He dropped out of school and turned to drugs. Now he lives with his grandmother in a retirement community and takes up to 30 mg of Xanax and shoots heroin up to five times a day. After an… Continue reading