Season 11, Episode 2
Dallas
Age: 21
Location: Portland, Oregon
Addiction: Heroin
What’s memorable: Shooting up in the femoral veins, the insanely oblivious enabling mother, how ridiculously good-looking Dallas and her fellow Portland street kid boyfriend would be if they weren’t junkies, the fact that they both prostitute themselves for heroin. “You have to what you have to do and there’s no shame in this crazy heroin game that we’re in.” -Jason
Official Synopsis: Strikingly beautiful with a great sense of humor, Dallas is nevertheless addicted to heroin and lives on the streets. After her mother attempted suicide, Dallas turned to drugs to deal with the confusion and pain. But Dallas’s mother is in denial about her addiction and supports her “heroin-chic” lifestyle. Dallas’s family needs a wake-up call and face her problems head-on if they’re going to save her.
Original Air Date: January 2012
Interventionist: Donna
I found her ig and a post of hers from November 2024 says – if I understood well – that she divorced from Jason back in the summer 2022. Based on her fb she began a new relationship in August 2024. I think she has a good relationship with her mom too. But I’m saying these of course just based on pictures/posts. I hope she’s really doing well!
Pretty certain this is her facebook. She looks like she is doing great
https://www.facebook.com/share/18ZDnNizEL/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I don’t have Facebook so can’t see any of these supposed links but I genuinely like Dallas a lot and how is she doing these days
So happy to see that as of August 2024 she’s still sober and is in a new relationship and looks super healthy and happy
MICHEAL C NOT TRUE AT ALL. Dallas is doing VERY WELL and has been SOBER since the intervention! Please do research instead of being “sure she isn’t doing well”, because that would be like someone being a JERK and making inflammatory statements.
Dallas & Jason got married February 16, 2022 in Hawaii! She said that she’s been on a social media cleanse, that’s probably why you aren’t seeing recent posts. But in May 2022, she did comment on a comment section on her last IG post. It does look like her story helps a lot of people who are or have gone through addiction with themselves or a family member. God bless them both and all the other recovering addicts, as well as those that are still struggling with addiction! I myself am 19 years clean off of crystal meth, and almost 10 years clean off of opiates. & for those of you that are still on the treacherous path of addiction, it only takes one step to be on the path of recovery! ❤️🙏🏼🫶🏼
Wow. This episode was intense, not even so much because of Dallas, but because of the family. I am absolutely baffled and enraged that everyone, every single person in that family, was so aware of what was going on (except for a few painful details), but the mother was so deep in denial and hellbent on maintaining her “girlfriends” type of relationship with Dallas instead of being her mother. I was so impressed with Heather, the stepmother, at the beginning who really showed how much she cared about Dallas and wanted her to get better. The pain you could see on her family members’ faces during the intervention was so hard to watch. Her father breaking down as he read his letter and when Dallas left, her grandfather sobbing, and her grandmother just burying her face in her hands. And her sweet and loving sister Leah, so desperate to get her sister back that she was in danger of heading down the path of addiction as well. I absolutely loved the way that Donna handled the mother, who needed someone to get in her face like that, and loved that the grandmother backed her up!
Between her mother being intentionally clueless and her boyfriend being okay with her prostituting herself to help supply him with drugs, I am just amazed that Dallas made it as far as she did. I did some poking around on social media based on what was mentioned in the comments and it really does look like she and Leah are doing well. I won’t say anything about the mother, but you can look her up. I hope that everyone in that family has gotten the help that they need for healing and have been able to move forward together. I was happy to see at the end of the episode Dallas said she was setting boundaries with her mother and that it was helping. I hope she was able to continue to take the space she needed to heal and be healthy.
And I want to make an observation too that so many people commented on how beautiful she is, and this has happened with other interventions as well. I just find it interesting since as a society we so often place more value on people who are attractive, and I can’t help but wonder if some other addicts on the show have not received the same level of sympathy or interest from people because they’re not considered beautiful or attractive. Or if that even happens in real life. Sometimes obviously there are times where we can see how the drugs and addiction have ravaged someone’s appearance, but that was not the case for Dallas or Christina in the episode before this one. That’s not to throw shade on anyone who has made those comments, but when it seems to be a pattern, I really do wonder if we subconsciously think that only the beautiful are worth saving. This isn’t a judgment on anyone, but rather on our messed up society and it really sucks.
You’re so right about the attractive vs not so attractive issue. Unfortunately, it’s our society. Just look at when happens with missing women. When is the last time we saw an unattractive missing woman being profiled? It’s the same with women of color. Basically if you’re not an attractive white person(usually a chick) and you go missing, you’re probably not gonna get the TV coverage as a pretty white chick would. Look at what happened recently with that Gabby Petito. Her face, her story etc was EVERYWHERE. I’m not saying it shouldn’t have been that way but I’m saying that it shouldn’t matter how rich or poor, how attractive or unattractive, white or person of color etc. EVERYONE deserves the help.
You are so right Nahrissa and Lisa! I have noticed that the ones that are “ pretty” and usually white, have so many more comments. And sometimes they were more comments on their beauty than on their character.
Unfortunately, it is something that society helps foster. Also, we are drawn to attractive faces. In college, my professor talked about a study that was done on infants. The study found that infants spent more time looking at attractive and symmetrical faces than unattractive and non-symmetrical faces. I had another professor talk about how this is the evolutionary biology of beauty (survival of the fittest Darwin & Spencer) meaning if we are attracted to strong and pretty people, and therefore procreate with such, this ensures our chance of reproduction and survival of the human race.
I hope Dallas has been able to continue her life of sobriety. She definitely is an amazing writer! Oh, and she’s beautiful… Ha ha!
You are so right Nahrissa and Lisa! I have noticed that the ones that are “ pretty” and usually white, have so many more comments. And sometimes there are more comments on their beauty than on their character.
Unfortunately, it is something that society helps foster. Also, we are drawn to attractive faces. In college, my professor talked about a study that was done on infants. The study found that infants spent more time looking at attractive and symmetrical faces than unattractive and non-symmetrical faces. I had another professor talk about how this is the evolutionary biology of beauty (survival of the fittest Darwin & Spencer) meaning if we are attracted to strong and pretty people, and therefore procreate with such, this ensures our chance of reproduction and survival of the human race.
I hope Dallas has been able to continue her life of sobriety. She definitely is an amazing writer! Oh, and she’s beautiful… Ha ha!
Not sure where some people are getting this jnfo? She’s dead, still a prostitute, married to Jason?! Huh? According to her IG, yes she’s still with Jason. But her last post was in Nov. of 2019. Regardless of all the chatter and speculation I hope her and Jason are happy and healthy! From the looks of her posts she seems to be much better than from her appearance on the show. Wishing them both blessings!
Dallas hadn’t posted in a while but she’s replied to comments on her Instagram including one about how she’s doing. She said 6 weeks ago that she’s doing well and her and Jason are getting married!
Dallas is in the Pacific northwest and is still a prostitute but this is on her social media. I doubt she is sober.
Here’s Jason’s FB page… https://www.facebook.com/jason.fudge.374 (no recent posts that I can view)
Here’s Dallas’ page… she looks good! https://www.facebook.com/dallas.mcmackin
You are the same person who attacked me for just accidentally thinking she was dead. What’s your deal?
My deal is that dragging these people down in lies does not help. You simply have to do your research. It’s not about picking fights moreso it’s about respecting people who have gone through tough times and not spreading rumours and gossip based off anecdotal evidence.
Dahlia your posts have ALL been inflammatory and hostile of late.
Update, she died in 2021.
Ahh sorry I meant 2016
Do you have an obituary you wouldn’t mind sharing?
Stefan no I don’t unfortunately but having Googled her a while ago it said she died August 20 2016. I can’t confirm for sure if this is correct or not.
She posted on IG as late as Fall 2019. Why spread rumours and lies?
Her boyfriend posted pics of him and her in Summer of 2020 on IG. Stop trusting a literal Google “ad” that popped up as a search result. Be a better internet/social media sleuth than that, bro.
I understand yes, my sincere apologies to Dallas and her loved ones.
She didn’t die. She posted on her IG at the beginning of June. She and Jason are married and live in Oregon.
She is alive and well.
https://m.facebook.com/dallas.mcmackin
The mother did?