Rachel began using cocaine and methamphetamine at fourteen, and heroin by sixteen. She navigated life on the streets, sustained by a relationship with her boyfriend, until his imprisonment. Is it possible for an intervention to pull her bac…

Darick had once seemed destined for a promising career in football, but he left college to marry when his girlfriend became pregnant. Following the dissolution of that marriage, he discovered his daughter was not biologically his own. The r…

Michelle, a lesbian woman, carries deep scars—the abandonment of her father, a childhood encounter with a predator, and the sting of relentless teasing during middle school. A painful breakup sent her spiraling into heroin use, and she now …

Erin exploits her appearance to obtain drugs, among them methamphetamine. Having left behind both her young child and the child’s father, she maintains a relentless cycle of partying fueled by substance abuse. With her daughter now removed …

Jimmy grew up under the shadow of an alcoholic father, and now struggles with heroin addiction himself. He became involved with a gang at thirteen, where drug use was commonplace. A father to a son, he has attempted sobriety before, but rec…

Cassie’s childhood was marked by her mother’s absence and a father who cycled through marriages, leaving him often ill-equipped to guide her. Her defiant nature eventually led him to place her in a reform camp for adolescents, an institutio…

Jimbo’s dependence on painkillers had already brought a crippling injury and a painful rift between him and his steadfast father. Helpless to break free, he now drifts through his days consumed by drugs, erupting in fits of rage that have i…

Jenna, twenty-eight years old, was once a gentle and empathetic girl, but a harsh childhood continues to shadow her and her brothers and sisters. Now, she resorts to theft and manipulation, exploiting those closest to her to fuel a devastat…

Benny was once driven by ambition, envisioning himself as a wealthy inventor and businessman. Now, however, that dream has soured into something bitter, consumed by the pressures of life, substance abuse, and alcohol. The most devastating c…

Megan, once carefree, is now 25 years old and struggling with a volatile drug addiction that frightens her family with its unpredictable anger. Having grown up feeling overlooked, she’s now supported – both emotionally and financially – by …

At twenty-one, Jamie had achieved sobriety after struggling with substance abuse involving both drugs and alcohol. The tragic loss of her twin sister to a drug overdose, however, prompted a devastating return to those habits. Already battli…

Tiffany, once a beauty queen, has always yearned for the close-knit family she lacked. Now, after a decade spent battling crystal meth addiction and searching for love in fleeting connections, she faces losing what she cherishes above all e…

Michael, fifty-two, a voluble and somewhat peculiar man with a passion for antiques, spent his childhood moving from place to place across Europe and the United States as the son of a military family. Yet, what he craved above all was a sen…