Show summary:
Now in its seventh season, INTERVENTION profiles people who are losing their battle with their addictions, and whose friends and families feel the only remaining option is to hold an intervention. Each documentary follows the lives of these addicts, taking an unflinching look at the impact of their addictions on their everyday lives, all the while the addicts are unaware that an intervention is being planned. Each airing ends with the friends, family and a professional interventionist urging the addict to get treatment. If the individual should choose treatment, the addict immediately enters a widely respected treatment facility.
Awards and Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards (2008) - Outstanding Reality Program (Nominated)
Primetime Emmy Awards (2009) - Outstanding Reality Program (Won)
Now in its seventh season, INTERVENTION profiles people who are losing their battle with their addictions, and whose friends and families feel the only remaining option is to hold an intervention. Each documentary follows the lives of these addicts, taking an unflinching look at the impact of their addictions on their everyday lives, all the while the addicts are unaware that an intervention is being planned. Each airing ends with the friends, family and a professional interventionist urging the addict to get treatment. If the individual should choose treatment, the addict immediately enters a widely respected treatment facility.
Awards and Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards (2008) - Outstanding Reality Program (Nominated)
Primetime Emmy Awards (2009) - Outstanding Reality Program (Won)
A mother battles an addiction to meth and prescription painkillers.
A mother battles an addiction to meth and prescription painkillers.
A mother battles an addiction to meth and prescription painkillers.
Summary: A man battles a drug addiction that has required him to be hospitalized several times; and a chef suffers from alcoholism.
Summary: Tormented as a child and viewed as a failure by his father, Joe turned to getting high as a way out at an early age.
Summary: Adam was a top skier and a Marine, but after he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder he started to abuse alcohol.
Intervention is an American television reality show appearing on A&E in the US on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. EST.
