NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Michael & Randi
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/26/2005
Michael has a serious rage problem. He has a history of violent behavior and has been known to punch holes into the walls of his father's house. Randi is a bulimic and a crystal meth addict. She is in denial of her condition and cannot deal with the fact that she was sexually abused as a kid.
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#2 - Follow Up
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/10/2005
This emotional documentary series helps all types of people face their fears and hopefully cure them of their addictions. This special will allow us to see what happened to everyone after his or her intervention. In addition, letting us see if their intervention was successful or not.
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#3 - Follow Up
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/2005
Christmas brings us a follow-up episode. We get updated on previous addicts' present situations. We delve into their lives after the invention and brief follow-up that appears at the end of each episode. We meet again with the addicts several weeks after their interventions for them to update us on their condition, their family and friends and their lives.
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#4 - Follow Up: Briooks, Aubrey & Christine
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/22/2006
This follow-up episode showed life after the intervention for Brooks, Audrey and Cristine. Cristine's life used to be all about alcohol. She would drink at breakfast, on the train to work, and all day long afterwards. Her drinking was destroying her love life, as well as the rest of her families. Cristine is now clean, and has kept that way since her intervention. Brooks was addicted to all drugs ever since he was paralyzed in a ATV accident. Him and his brother Ian would rent hotels and do drugs together. Both got interventions, and both went to treatment. Since their interventions, both were tested positive for pot. Audrey was addicted to heroin. She used to be a star athlete, but after she came out to her parents that she was a lesbian, she has been hooked on the drug. Since her intervention, she has been clean, and back to playing the sports she once loved.
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#5 - Betsy
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 8/13/2006
Betsy went through a devastating time when her marriage fell apart. She began drinking heavily to help the pain. Her family is trying to help her with no results. They finally give her an ultimatum. She either quits drinking or she will lose all of their support and she would be on her own.
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#6 - Follow Up: Ryan & Hubert
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/2007
This follow-up looks at two addicts from Season 3. First was Ryan, the very troubled OxyContin addict we saw in the premiere. Recall that he left treatment early and there weren't very many good updates on his progress. How is Ryan doing now? Hubert is an alcoholic who confronted his feelings during his intervention. What is Hubert doing now in his sobriety?
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#7 - Jason & Joy
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/2008
Jason, 23, is from a religiously strict family. Jason's parents dealt plenty of punishments. However, after his mother reveals a pressing secret, Jason's father was ejected from the church and had to take up several jobs to feed his family. Left with minimal supervision, Jason turned to drugs and alcohol, and his younger sister, Joy, soon followed. Can a double intervention save these siblings?
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#8 - Charles
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/7/2008
A talented motocross rider, Charles, 23, is still dealing with terrible childhood memories. When he was seven, his father went to jail for molesting him and his younger brother and his mother became an alcoholic. Today, he uses heroin and alcohol to blot out his memories, but he's pushed most of his family away. Now, his half-sister, Lindsey, is reuniting the family in one last attempt to help Charles with an intervention.
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#9 - Marie
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 7/14/2008
A Sophia Loren look-alike, Marie was born into an Italian mob family. When her parents' marriage ended, Marie and her mother struggled with extreme poverty. Marie's three marriages ended in divorce, but she was still determined to give her children what she didn't have growing up. Despite her own unhappy love life, she became a highly successful matchmaker and well-known socialite. She even appeared on shows like 60 Minutes. Then Marie met her fourth husband, Bora, an addict and alcoholic. Marie tried to clean him up, but developed her own addiction to alcohol. Bora's alcoholism killed him and now Marie is headed down the same road – fast. Marie's family knows an intervention is her last hope.
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#10 - Intervention In-Depth: Meth Mountain
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 8/18/2008
A disturbing look into one small town in northern Alabama where many are struggling with addiction to methamphetamines and other drugs. People offer their stories including Chuck, a father who may lose custody of his children; Boo, who has become aged horribly due to long-time drug use; Shanta, who used the drug while pregnant. Dr. Holley explains her interest in helping the entire town rid the addiction. A special, first-of-its-kind episode of Intervention you can't miss.
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#11 - Phillip
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 8/25/2008
Phillip, 44, is an established singer and writer but has had an unstable childhood full of pain. He numbs that pain with alcohol but has lost his career and his family. Can he break this cycle of recklessness and restore his lost relationships, especially the one with his daughter?
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#12 - Mike & Jenny
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 9/1/2008
Once a police officer until injured, Mike now 67, used to catch addicts and drug dealers. Now, Mike's OCD signs are emerging, with his obsessions about germs forcing him to wash his hands over 40 times a day. The obsessions of germs is so bad, that Mike starves thinking his food is spoiled. Jenny, 32, was treated for endometriosis which crushed her dreams of having a family. She turned to prescription drugs but her addiction escalated to heroin and methamphetamines. Jenny has overdosed several times already. Can her family stop enabling her drug use and get her the help she needs?
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#13 - Intervention After Treatment Special
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 9/8/2008
An episode of Intervention where former addicts come together for a candid discussion on what has changed since their time on the show. Have they gotten their lives back on tract? How are their relationships? Those participating include Sylvia (Season 2. Ep#32), Michelle (Season 2, Ep#17), Hubert (Season 3, Ep#41), Dillon (Season 3, Ep#40), and Coley (Season 3, Ep#46). Also interviewed the regular interventionists: Jeff, Candy, and Ken. The special is hosted by Chris Lawford.
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#14 - Ed & Bettina
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 9/29/2008
Ed, 53, and Bettina, 49, had a picture-perfect life, including three adoring kids, a dream home, sports cars, motorcycles, and a respected place in their church community. But six years ago, Ed made a bad career move and ended up unemployed. He and Bettina lost everything they had worked for. They began to drink, and quickly became alcoholics. Ed has been hospitalized for internal bleeding, and Bettina for withdrawals so excruciating she thought she was dying. Their children have begged them to stop drinking but they need an intervention now to help their parents.
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#15 - Intervention In-Depth: Prescription Addiction
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 10/20/2008
Medicine cabinets are fuller than ever today. In one port town on Florida's west coast, pharmaceutical drug abuse and its often fatal consequences are sharply on the rise, particularly among teenagers and other young people. This year, deaths from pharmaceutical drug overdoses in the area are on pace to exceed accidental deaths from car accidents. Legal drugs account for three times as many overdoses as illegal drugs - an alarming finding. Pain clinics prescribe opioids like aspirin. Meet several people whose lives have been taken over by abuse of deadly and addictive drugs, all of which are perfectly legal. We'll also meet a group of community members and experts who are taking to the streets and airwaves in the hopes of stopping this silent epidemic once and for all.
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#16 - Intervention In-Depth: Heroin Hits Home
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 11/30/2008
In the third episode of the in-depth focus, the documentary team travel to Boston, where parents are confronted with a common problem: kids using heroin. They talk to some of the users and follow some through a group therapy session. See how the courts got involved as well to get mandatory treatments. See how members of the community are dealing with and trying to change the problem. Donnie Walhberg narrates
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#17 - Chris
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 2/16/2009
Born into a family with traditional Catholic values, Chris struggled with his sexuality until coming out at 18. Now, at 34, Chris feels that being gay has cheated him out of the things he wants most--marriage, children, and inclusion in his family. He drinks first thing in the morning to ward off tremors, he's abusive to his partner, and he can't keep a job. His father believes Chris should be able to stop drinking by sheer force of will, but his mother believes that genetics is to blame for his alcoholism. Can the family overcome its divisions and work together for Chris?
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#18 - Intervention In-Depth: Huffing
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 2/1/2010
They're cheap, easy to get and legal. They're also deadly. But that's not stopping teenagers and young adults from using chemical inhalants to get high. Hundreds of everyday products--household cleaners, disinfectants, computer dusters--contain chemicals that when breathed in give a powerful five-second high. It's called huffing and studies show that over two million kids nationwide are doing it. We'll take a powerful look at the trend and how it is shocking parents and destroying young lives.
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#19 - Marquel
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 2/8/2010
Working as a fitness instructor at the most elite gyms and partying on the club circuit at night, Marquel seems to have the perfect life. But her family sees her exercise regime as obsessive-compulsive, and they watch her binge-drinking episodes end up in hospitalizations. They believe she is an exercise addict, bulimic, and alcoholic, and they have turned to interventionist Candy for help.
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#20 - Kristine
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/15/2010
Kristine has major health problems like a blood clot in her brain and recently news of leukemia, yet alcohol is a daily part of her life. With the heavy burden of medical problems, Kristine feels hopeless and figures drinking will simply ease the process of death. Can an intervention work in this case? If the disease is terminal, is an intervention even the answer?
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#21 - Shane
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 3/1/2010
Shane's musical aspirations are being ruined by his abuse of prescription medications (OxyContin). He even deals the drugs out of his family's home and puts them in danger. Shane's father was a drug addict who died from an overdose, so what will it take for Shane to realize that what he is doing is dangerous to himself and damaging to those around him?
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#22 - Rocky
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 4/5/2010
A former boxer fights homelessness and crack addiction for his life.
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#23 - Ashley
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/2010
Ashley started using heroin when her grandfather passed away; her family fears that she will overdose and die.
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#24 - Amy P.
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/2010
Amy and her family immigrated to Canada to escape the violence of South Africa; Amy has become anorexic and bulimic.
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#25 - Tyler
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/2010
A mechanic turns to drugs and alcohol following the drug-related deaths of his brother and sister.
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The Worst Episodes of Intervention
Every episode of Intervention ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Michael & Randi" is the worst rated episode of "Intervention". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/26/2005. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Follow Up".