Season 10: 2010–2011
| # | # | Subjects | Addiction topics | Original air date |
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| 136 | 1 | "Rachel" | cocaine, methamphetamine abuse, heroin | December 13, 2010 (2010-12-13) |
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Rachel started experimenting with cocaine and meth at 14 and using heroin at 16. She survived on the streets with the help of her boyfriend until he was sent to jail. Can an intervention save her from herself? Update: Rachel's ex-boyfriend, Joseph "Joie" Minozzi was found dead in San Francisco on January 12th, 2012, of stab wounds to the torso. Joie had been sober and employed as a window-washer. A tribute to him on Rachel's Facebook page read, "i love you babyboy. always and forever. NO MATTER WHAT." |
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| 137 | 2 | "Darick" | methamphetamine, OxyContin | December 20, 2010 (2010-12-20) |
| Once a football player with a bright future, Darick dropped out of college to get married when his girlfriend got pregnant. When his marriage ended, Darick learned his daughter was not his biological child. Devastated, Darick turned to drugs. Having already lost one family member to addiction, Darick's close-knit family is enabling his habit. | ||||
| 138 | 3 | "Michelle / Austin" | alcohol abuse, heroin | December 27, 2010 (2010-12-27) |
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Michelle, a lesbian, has a troubled history of being abandoned by her father and molested by a stranger. She was also ridiculed in middle school. After a relationship ended badly, Michelle turned to heroin and desperately needs an intervention. After seeing the group gathered, Michelle walked out in shock but came back when someone went and got her. Michelle agrees to go to treatment when asked and shows hope for the future. When Austin's stepfather died from alcoholism, he turned to alcohol himself to numb the pain. But Austin's girlfriend is now pregnant and the partying and binging he is engaging in needs to stop. Austin needs an intervention to become a sober dad and break his family's cycle of alcoholism. Austin initially walks right out of the intervention after seeing the people gathered as he realized what it was, but the interventionist goes after Austin and convinces him to hear them out. After an emotional plea from his little sister that drives both to tears, Austin agrees to go. Epilogue: Three months later Michelle lives in sober living and is better dealing with his transgender issues, changed his name to Felix and is transitioning. As Felix, he is much happier, a change that his family accepts and supports, saying that Felix is now much more comfortable with himself. Felix has been sober since July 27, 2010. Austin was kicked out of treatment for noncompliance after two months while his family completed dependency treatment. Austin gave up his addiction on his own and had been sober since December 7, 2010, with plans to go to college, but in late 2011, Austin died of what was believed to be a heroin overdose. |
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| 139 | 4 | "Erin" | methamphetamine | January 3, 2011 (2011-01-03) |
| Erin relies on her looks to score drugs, including meth. She abandoned her child and the child's father and continues to engage in a drug-induced party lifestyle. Now her daughter has been sent away and the rest of the family wants to get Erin help now. | ||||
| 140 | 5 | "Jimmy" | methadone | January 10, 2011 (2011-01-10) |
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Jimmy was raised by an alcoholic father but is now a heroin addict. At 13, he was in a gang which abused drugs. Jimmy also has a son and has tried getting sober in the past, but the pressure from his family in this instance lead to dependence on methadone. Jimmy's mother Joannie is also a methadone addict due to her originally getting on it for lupus treatment. Joannie is also alcoholic and enables her son by paying for his bills and his medicine and also giving Jimmy her own methadone. While the family gathers to have an intervention on Jimmy, they also turn to Joannie to convince her to get treatment for her own addiction and she agrees. Jimmy immediately realizes what's going on and refuses to go to treatment, but agrees to listen to his family's letters even though he says it won't change anything. He rejects his mother and sister's pleas, but when his father, who was an alcoholic when he was a child makes his plea, Jimmy listens as his father is emotional and has always maintained a distance from him. Jimmy finally agrees and he and his mother go off to treatment. Epilogue: Three months later both Joannie and Jimmy are doing much better. Joannie is recovering well from her alcoholism and drug addiction and the rehab center is helping her deal with her lupus pain and she is doing much better. She has been sober since November 19, 2010. Jimmy also is recovering well and finally admits to the fact that he's an addict. After treatment he moved to North Carolina and has contact with his son and father every week. He briefly relapsed but has been sober since April 15, 2011. He has been diagnosed with epilepsy and is taking medication as directed after suffering a fractured skull during a seizure. |
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| 141 | 6 | "Cassie" | crack cocaine, oxycodone | January 17, 2011 (2011-01-17) |
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As a child, Cassie was abandoned by her mother and raised by her father, who married and divorced several women. Her rebellious behavior led him to send her to a behavior modification camp for teenagers that was run like a prison. She is now addicted to crack and oxycodone, a habit she supports by prostituting herself, and has an infant son whom she hardly ever sees. Cassie's family must try to break through her deep distrust of them and stop her father from enabling her further in order to save her. At the intervention, Cassie is furious as she figured out the truth and had been promised it wasn't an intervention. Her refusal to listen causes her grandfather to storm out and she kicks everyone but her father and aunt (the only two people she'll listen to) out. Cassie refuses to listen and throws the treatment center pamphlets around the room in an act of defiance. Her father and aunt break down in tears at Cassie's indifference. Finally, her aunt leaves after giving her a final goodbye and Cassie storms out after her father decides to cut her off. After the failed intervention, Cassie's father stops his last payment on her motel bill and a week later, Cassie finally agrees to treatment. Epilogue: Cassie attended treatment and recovered from her addiction. She was able to forgive the people who hurt her in her life and admitted to being a bitch at the intervention and was even able to joke about it. Cassie completed treatment and moved back to Florida, but totaled her car in June. She claims to be clean, but her family thinks she's using again. |
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| 142 | 7 | "Jimbo" | painkillers, benzodiazepines | January 24, 2011 (2011-01-24) |
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Jimbo's addiction to painkillers has already resulted in a devastating injury and a strained relationship with his devoted dad. Unable to stop using he now spends his days snorting drugs and flying into rages that have terrorized his family and community. Can an intervention stop this small-town menace? Epilogue: Jimbo threatened his interventionist with violence and was given the choice of rehab or jail. Jimbo chose rehab but was expelled for fighting after 30 days. After relapsing in December 2010, Jimbo has been sober since February 2011. |
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| 143 | 8 | "Jenna" | heroin | January 31, 2011 (2011-01-31) |
| Jenna, 28, once a sweet-natured and compassionate young girl, endured a brutal childhood that still haunts her and her siblings. Today she steals and manipulates her family to support her destructive heroin habit. Can Jenna and her siblings overcome their past to work together as a family and get Jenna into treatment? | ||||
| 144 | 9 | "Benny" | alcoholism, various drugs | February 7, 2011 (2011-02-07) |
| An ambitious inventor and entrepreneur, Benny once dreamed of becoming a millionaire. But stress, drugs, and alcohol have turned his dream into a nightmare. Worst of all, he is no longer a dependable father to his six-year-old daughter. Benny, now 38 and living with his mother, has seen his relationship with his family reach the breaking point, and only an intervention can save him now. | ||||
| 145 | 10 | "Megan / MaryAnne" | crack cocaine, alcoholism | February 21, 2011 (2011-02-21) |
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Once happy-go-lucky, Megan, 25, is now a volatile drug addict who scares her family with her unchecked anger. A child of neglect, Megan is now enabled and financed by her guilt-ridden mother. She spends her days drinking and smoking crack. How will Megan react when confronted by her family in an intervention they believe is needed to save her life? After the tragic and shocking loss of her two young children years ago, MaryAnne turned to alcohol to cope with the pain. Today, MaryAnne is the mother of three, but her inability to stay sober has jeopardized the safety of her children. She's lost custody of two and lives in squalor with her youngest daughter. MaryAnne needs an intervention before her tragic streak continues. |
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| 146 | 11 | "Jamie" | alcoholism | March 7, 2011 (2011-03-07) |
| Jamie abused both drugs and alcohol and at 21 she got sober. However, a fatal overdose that killed her twin sister triggered a relapse. Jamie already has pancreatitis and suicidal tendencies, she needs an intervention fast. | ||||
| 147 | 12 | "Tiffany" | methamphetamine | March 14, 2011 (2011-03-14) |
| Tiffany, a former beauty queen, has always wanted the family she never had. Now, after ten years of using crystal meth and looking for love in all the wrong places, Tiffany may lose the one thing she values most, her one-year-old daughter. Her family is terrified that they're going to lose Tiffany, and desperately hope that an intervention will save her from her abusive boyfriend and constant drug use. | ||||
| 148 | 13 | "Michael" | methamphetamine | March 21, 2011 (2011-03-21) |
| A talkative, eccentric, antiques collector, Michael, 52, was a military brat who moved with his family all over Europe and the U.S. But what he really wanted was a stable, loving home. After a series of traumatic events, Michael began to do drugs, and now he's a rambling, self-loathing addict. Even worse, his two sons have become his using buddies. Michael needs an intervention to save himself and his children. |
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