9.6/106 votesLoading...#1 - Jimmy
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 1/10/2011
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.
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- 9.5/1010 votesLoading...
#2 - Chad / Brooke Follow-up
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 8/3/2009
The episode features Chad Gerlach, clean nearly a year, in training for his first competitive cycling race (in Italy) since undergoing treatment. He has signed on with a cycling team consisting of and sponsored by recovering addicts. His relationship with his girlfriend, pregnant with their first child, is also featured. Sobriety and impending fatherhood have caused Chad to mature significantly as a person. Chad performs poorly in the race, but has recovered and matured enough to realize it's just an early step in his road to recovery. The other half of the episode features Brooke, still struggling with abuse of prescription medications. She returned from treatment to her hometown and family and appeared to be well on the road to recovery before suffering a relapse. Eventually she is put on a different regimen of medications for her rheumatoid arthritis and undergoes knee replacement surgery, which greatly improves her mobility and obviates the need for addictive prescription medications.
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- 9.5/107 votesLoading...
#3 - Intervention in Depth: Pot City
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 10/19/2009
The Illegal cultivation of marijuana in Humboldt County, Cal., is examined. Included: law-enforcement officials are observed as they search for illegal activity and suspected growers.
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- 9.5/107 votesLoading...
#4 - Linda
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/2009
After graduating college, Linda found success working as an extra in Hollywood, achieving the glamorous life she always wanted. But her dreams died when she came down with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by joint dislocations. Linda started taking fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than morphine. As her painkiller use escalated, she claimed that different sources were causing her pain, including electricity, energy, colors, and even specific people. Despite Linda's wild claims, her mother clings to the belief that Linda's pain is real and she must do everything to help her, including depleting the family's savings and sending her son to be Linda's caretaker.
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- 9.5/107 votesLoading...
#5 - Rob
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/2009
Once a gifted singer/songwriter, Rob was part of a successful band. He loved the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, but he began a long descent into addiction when he turned to drugs and alcohol to fuel his creativity. When his band fell apart--a casualty of his drug use--he was devastated. He lost his siblings' respect and custody of his daughter. Now he spends his days in a haze of meth smoke and alcohol in his filthy apartment. But his mother still sees him as her sweet little boy. Will she love him to death, or will Rob's family be able to save him from himself?
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- 9.4/108 votesLoading...
#6 - Anthony
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/2009
From an early age, Anthony's father made him feel worthless. His parents divorced, and his mother remarried, but she was still unhappy and turned to alcohol and drugs. It was little wonder, then, that Anthony began drinking at age 13. Another blow came when Anthony's younger brother died of leukemia. Anthony spiraled downward, and now he drinks half a gallon of vodka a day and takes whatever drugs he can find.
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- 9.4/106 votesLoading...
#7 - Lorna
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 8/2/2010
Once a Hollywood success story, Lorna is now a crack addict. She danced on Soul Train and for the "Ike and Tina Turner Revue" in Las Vegas, then landed a big job at A&M records. But the music industry party scene led to drug addiction, and she even abandoned her three children. Lorna needs to get clean and make amends with her kids before it's too late.
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- 9.4/109 votesLoading...
#8 - Alicia D
Season 16 Episode 13 - Aired 7/10/2016
A young woman becomes addicted to heroin and Xanax after reconnecting with her biological father.
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- 9.3/107 votesLoading...
#9 - Nik and Tiffany
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 3/2/2009
Beloved by his five sisters and his teenage son, Nik 35, was the glue that holds his large family together. He was a proud college graduate who became the director of a multi-million-dollar casino chain at a young age. But now Nik is a homeless drug addict. Four years ago, after a debilitating back injury, he became addicted to OxyContin. His addiction worsened and he turned to heroin. Now Nik has lost his job, his home, and custody of his son. A tall, beautiful brunette, Tiffany maintained a perfect GPA in high school and played Varsity basketball. But despite her achievements, Tiffany's childhood was plagued by her parents' violent marriage and their drug and alcohol abuse. She married at 19 to escape the pain of her youth, but her controlling husband forced her to move back in with her mother. Battling feelings of worthlessness, Tiffany self-medicated with alcohol. Now, she has been hospitalized numerous times for alcohol-related injuries and has attempted suicide.
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- 9.3/108 votesLoading...
#10 - The Heroin Triangle: Chapter 7
Season 19 Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/2018
Taylor's mother makes a disturbing discovery; Angela's frustration with her ex-husband challenges her ability to stay clean; Kiersten attempts to reconcile with her parents, but her heroin use stands in the way.
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- 9.1/1017 votesLoading...
#11 - Marci
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 9/7/2009
Everyone believed Marci lived a perfect life. Her mother would go off to work and leave her alone with an abusive, alcoholic father. As she endured the abuse, mom turned her head and ignored it. Marci turned to drugs and alcohol too. Her marriage would fail and she lost the children. Yet her mother still believes she has no problems. Can an intervention help Marci and her mother to stop their dangerous behavior before it's too late?
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- 9.1/108 votesLoading...
#12 - Megan / Maryanne
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 2/21/2011
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?
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- 9.0/1010 votesLoading...
#13 - Sarah
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 1/4/2010
Raped when she was 14 and feeling abandoned by her family, Sarah turned to drugs, even becoming a stripper to support her drug habit. She's prohibited by the courts from seeing her three-year-old son, and now lives with a man who is more than twice her age and manages a massage parlor. Can an intervention save her from her self-destructive lifestyle?
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- 8.9/109 votesLoading...
#14 - Miriam
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 7/12/2010
A charismatic reverend at a wedding chapel, Miriam, 38, is adored by her clients, but suffers inner torment. Sexually abused as a child by someone she trusted, Miriam turned to drugs at a young age, and now she's addicted to P.C.P. Her family has practically given up on her, and she risks losing her daughter's love. Can Miriam's desperate family convince her to get on the plane to treatment?
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- 8.9/1014 votesLoading...
#15 - Tiffany D.
Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 8/8/2011
Tiffany, 24, a former athlete and cheerleader who dreamed of a career in the medical field, has no intention of giving up her IV crystal meth addiction, despite the fact that her four-year-old son is being cared for by her family. Can an intervention help Tiffany to regain her son and her life?
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- 8.8/1011 votesLoading...
#16 - Derek
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/4/2008
Derek became depressed in his thirties and started to drink to cope with his troubles and responsibilities. Now, Derek has lost his wife and he laments this and continues to drink to drown this loss. Derek's family is worried because he has tried to commit suicide. They feel an intervention is their last hope to help Derek.
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- 8.8/107 votesLoading...
#17 - Jeff
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009
A firefighter who saved lives, Jeff kept reliving the horrible events he had seen. He started to drink and now the problem has escalated - to the point of being hospitalized for seizures. His family had cut off their ties but come together to try and save him.
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- 8.8/109 votesLoading...
#18 - Jason B.
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 6/22/2009
Jason grew up in a seemingly perfect upper-middle class family in Littleton, Col., but he struggled to gain his father's approval. When Jason failed to make the baseball team his freshman year, Jason and his father were devastated. Jason began rollerblading and excelled, but he quit because his father disapproved of the sport. Jason turned to drugs and by his senior year he was an addict. A year later, the Columbine High School shooters named Jason one of the bullies they retaliated against. Overcome with guilt and grief for his dead classmates, (He felt that it was his fault that the massacre happened.) Jason's addiction escalated. Now Jason lives on the streets of Denver, and his family is in pieces.
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- 8.8/107 votesLoading...
#19 - Jennifer
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/2009
Once an effervescent, beautiful young woman, Jennifer was considered a genius by her teachers and was the pride and joy of her parents. But at age 17, Jennifer was involved in a car accident that caused a brain injury and kidney damage. Jennifer survived, but only three days after she left the hospital another family car accident ended in a fatality. Jennifer turned to drugs and alcohol to cope and now spends her days searching for parties or drinking companions. Her parents know that only an intervention can save her.
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- 8.8/1011 votesLoading...
#20 - Rachel
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 12/13/2010
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?
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- 8.8/1011 votesLoading...
#21 - Jeanna
Season 11 Episode 12 - Aired 9/12/2011
Jeanna conquered generations of addiction until the murder of her four-year-old son sent her spiraling into a $100-a-day meth addiction. An intervention is the only way to help Jeanna start to heal her troubled soul.
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- 8.8/107 votesLoading...
#22 - Robby
Season 16 Episode 9 - Aired 12/27/2016
Five years ago Robby came out to his wife of twenty-nine years and two sons as transgender, exploding their world and Robby’s own in the process. Already a heavy drinker, Robby’s drinking intensified after coming out. Now, terrified of losing her wife, and being alone for the first time in her life, Robby has become a blackout drunk, downing up to forty ounces of vodka a day. Once a fun-loving partier, Robby has become increasingly violent when drunk. The family fears for Robby’s safety as well as their own. Without an intervention, Robby is in danger of losing her family forever. (Canadian produced.)
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- 8.8/106 votesLoading...
#23 - Tanisha L.
Season 18 Episode 2 - Aired 8/7/2017
A woman battles a heroin addiction that surfaced after her fiancé was murdered in front of her.
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- 8.8/107 votesLoading...
#24 - Nick and Emily
Season 25 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2024
Nick, and his girlfriend, Emily, are heavily addicted to carfentanil. Nick's family has stepped up to offer their son -- and Emily -- a final shot at getting clean.
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- 8.7/1010 votesLoading...
#25 - Tressa
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/28/2008
Tressa is 32 and was one of the world's top female shot-putters. However, a routine drug test revealed a life as a IV drug user. Tressa is now using crystal meth daily as her life spirals out of control. Can her family save Tressa?
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The Best Episodes of Intervention
Every episode of Intervention ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Intervention!
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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Jimmy" is the best rated episode of "Intervention". It scored 9.6/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/10/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Chad / Brooke Follow-up".