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.

Intervention

Alyson

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.

Tamela and Jerrie

Parents and friends intervene to save Alissa, a compulsive gambler who has lost more than $30,000 on 25-cent slots.

Alissa and Brian

At 24, Sara had everything she ever wanted in her sleepy Minnesota town.

Sara

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?

Travis and Matt

The stories of two people who need the intervention of family and friends to save them from their addictions.

Peter and Renee

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.

Tina

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.

Christine and Kelly

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.

Kelly and Mark

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 to sustain his cocaine habit.

Rachel and Tommy

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.

Michael and Brooks

This emotionally gripping documentary series helps people confront their darkest demons and hopefully find a route to redemption.

Follow-Up: Sara, Matt, Gabe, and Alyson

Pluto

Melanie is saddled with a severe addiction. Without an intervention, she will lose custody of her son, or worse, lose her life.

Melanie

Robin, a successful pilot, found the stress of being away from his wife and children drove him to booze, ultimately destroying his career and family.

Robin

Chelan was a devoted wife and mother until the breakup of her marriage sent her spiraling into the world of prescription opioid abuse.

Chelan

When Nathan was 19, a fight at a local bar left him with a ruptured ACL, a painful injury that left him with an addiction to prescription opioids.

Nathan

Today, Courtney no longer cares about her health or safety. Her alarming re-use of dirty needles has taken her to the brink of death. If Courtney doesn't accept treatment, her life is surely at risk.

Courtney

Coleman grew up with the stigma of having a father in prison. His mother did her best to raise seven children but, as the middle child, Coleman got lost in the mix. Today, Coleman is hopelessly addicted to fentanyl.

Coleman

Now in her mid-twenties and saddled with a $200 a day intravenous drug habit, Shandon's family is at its wits end and is desperately hoping an intervention will save her life.

Shandon

When Natasha's parents divorced, her mother, Linda, soon remarried. Natasha's new life was a far cry from her father Wayne's strict household. Alcohol and drug-fuelled parties were the norm and it wasn't long before Natasha was partying.

Natasha

"Intervention" profiles people whose uncontrollable addiction to drugs, alcohol or compulsive behavior has brought them to the brink of destruction and has devastated their family and friends.

"Intervention" profiles people whose uncontrollable addiction to drugs, alcohol or compulsive behavior has brought them to the brink of destruction and has devastated their family and friends. Twice nominated and in 2009 awarded the Emmy

Melanie

Full Episodes

Season 21, 8 episodes