Intervention

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.

This second follow-up episode will allow for a much deeper investigation of life after the intervention. Included: alcoholic wife and mother Cristine; heroin addict Audrey; and brothers Brooks and Ian, both cocaine addicts.

Antwahn played professional basketball for over a decade, but a serious knee injury ended his career and he began to binge on crack-cocaine. Billy is an IV heroin user. He steals his mother’s Xanax and also shoots Ambien and cocaine.

Annie is anorexic and bulimic. And Amy does drugs and lives on park benches with her boyfriend.

Chuckie is the son of a famous musician, and was born into the rock ‘n’ roll world of the 70s. Surrounded by famous musicians all his life, he aspired to be an athlete or singer. However, drugs have over-shadowed every moment of Chuckie’s life.

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 bring her the “peace” she’s looking for?

At 33, all John can see is the loss in his life. His mother died when he was 12. Recently, he lost his sister, his cousin and his best friend. His only escape from it all is in his addiction to crack and alcohol.

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.

Tammi 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.

A high achiever as a young man, Mike developed a life-threatening dependency on speed balling, which involves mixing cocaine and heroin. James was a straight-A student until he turned to methamphetamines to cope with his mother’s near-fatal illness.

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?

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.

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.

Lauren has known plenty of success in her life. 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.