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

Former Taekwondo champ David, 32, now fights heroin and crystal meth addiction, risking becoming a family casualty.

David

Brad, 50, lives in a converted tractor-trailer and sells scrap metal for cash. He is also severely addicted to crack.

Brad

Conrad was alienated when he was young because of ADHD and tourettes, and instead of friends, used extreme sports to fill the void. As he got older and the adrenaline wore off, Conrad turned to Oxycodone as his escape.

Conrad

After falling in with the wrong crowd at a young age, a man becomes addicted to crack and is estranged from his family.

Jamie

Hailing from a small seaside town in Nova Scotia, Barry, 50, was born into a life of alcoholism and turmoil.

Barry

Suffering from a severe eating disorder, depression and suicidal tendencies, Cassandra is a young woman who has lost her way.

Cassandra

Tracy, 48, was born into a family rampant with alcoholism and abuse. With little parental oversight, she tried her first beer at the age of 11, and loved the feeling from the first sip.

Tracy

David, 29, is nothing less than a miracle. At the age of 18 he contracted leukemia and underwent a dangerous bone marrow transplant that he survived.

Sarah, 32, adopted her parents' partying lifestyle, leading to drug addiction. Post-divorce trauma worsened it. Now childless, her life is at stake.

Sarah

Wes and Lise have been together since their teens. Both products of traumatic childhoods, they bonded over a mutual interest in marijuana and other recreational drugs.

Wes and Lise

Science grad Katie, 24, battled a troubled childhood and opiate addiction. She sued her parents at 16, now only her mother remains by her side.

Katie

A woman who was a talented dancer as a child becomes addicted to Oxycontin after her father commits suicide.

Lyndsay

Racked with guilt and devastated by the loss, Travis has spiraled out of control in a ceaseless sea of partying, gambling and alcohol.

Travis

A sensitive, artistic boy grows up with alcoholic parents and winds up addicted to crystal meth and GHB as an adult.

Ziggi

Pain from dancing in a strip club leads a woman to become addicted to alcohol and opiates.

Allisha

"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

S14 E12 David

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Season 14, 15 Episodes