Welcome to Intervention Directory
I created this site because, as an avid watcher of Intervention, I would often try to find certain patterns among the addicts profiled (such as war veterans who developed drinking problems, heroin addicts who experienced childhood abuse, etc). But there wasn’t a place on the internet where the addicts/addictions were catalogued and categorized for easy reference. Reference sites only documented by name and season, not by addiction or personal history.
I also figured that there were people out there that get introduced to the show and want to find out if there are any episodes about people dealing with something similar to what they’re dealing with, and there just wasn’t anything like that out there. So I decided to make it myself. Many, many hours of Intervention later, this site is the result.
Since then it has also become the primary spot that people come to update viewers about themselves and their friends & loved ones from the show, which is awesome! I didn’t expect it to turn into that but I’m glad it did.
Important Note: This site is in no way affiliated with A&E or Intervention. This is a fan project only, not an official network site.
If you have questions about the show or this website, please read the FAQ, they might be answered there.
Here’s an article about the show that I like a lot. Especially this part, which is very true for me:
“Intervention” is only partly a show about dependency. It’s also one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking ways to further acquaint ourselves with the interior lives of our fellow Americans.
I thought this website was supposed to be a comprehensive Intervention directory where fans of the show could find out much more information; but if the creator is going to commit editorial abuse by omitting episodes from the public record just because she finds them displeasing–example, Gabe from Season 1–then the entire exercise is arbitrary and unreliable. There is also a clear bias against religion with her snide comments about white Christians adopting a brown boy and families trying to pray problems away. Prayer is more productive than vodka.
I stumbled upon your page, and I really appreciate the kind words you had for me.
I’m doing well now and am starting an acting career
thank you
i think this might be the best place for this comment bc it’s ab an intervention canada episode from 2011 that i just watched, & i don’t think it’s on here. it’s ab andrew (23 y/o) from windsor, & he had a really rough upbringing & had one of those mom’s who was mostly his friend. she was honest & upfront ab all of her mistakes but she tried to give the impression that their relationship was mother & son, but then at one point they ended up doing ~$5-700 worth of crack together while she was in town to help him & participate in his intervention. the interventionist was maureen, & i’m like everyone else when they see maureen: “ah f*** not maureen!!” but i gotta say, she killed it. it surprised the hell out of me bc she not only called the mom out for making it ab her & being co-dependent on him, but she also turned the intervention on her, too. i’m not sure where to find updates on canada so i’m not sure what season or episode it was, but i guess back in the day maureen had her moments (haha).
The story about Josh who drank hand sanitizer was tragic. He went to rehab and appeared to do so well. However, I saw that he later died of organ failure. So sad. He seemed like a great guy.
Thank you for running and managing the site Dizzy- greatly appreciate it!
Good Morning,
I do PR & Marketing for Ken Seeley. I came across your site doing some browsing and think that it’s awesome!
Just a little heads up, not sure if you know yet, but a brand new season of Intervention will be premiering March 15th with a 2-hour episode featuring Ken.
Enjoy, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you ever need anything.
Best,
Drew
Just saw a commercial today on a&e that season 22 begins March 15. I cant wait!
Great to hear! I hope it details how many are struggling to stay sober during the pandemic.
Hi! This site is really great 🙂 I can only imagine the hours you spent putting this together for other fans.
Did you see yesterday’s episode, “Nathan” with the interventionist Geri Bemister? She has been in a couple other episodes and has another one coming up later this month as well. I work with her and would love to chat with you if you have a moment. Send me an email if you’re interested – I’d like to share your site with our visitors, it’s so much more informative than anything else I’ve come across. Keep up the good work and hope to hear from you!
I love this site. Thank you for your hard work and for keeping it up!
I am not sure where to post my question, and I’m fairly sure no one has a guess but…any thoughts as to there being another season of Intervention?? I would love for there to be no more addicts so there wouldn’t be another season, unfortunately we know that isn’t true
A&E’s site says there is a new season starting this Monday (July 20).
I watch Intervention occasionally. I stumbled upon it tonight on Viceland. I am a former cocaine addict who will be clean 20 years in November 2017. So I know from personal experience it can be done. But I tell ya, at the end of my run, no one had to twist my arm to get help. I was ready to stop, so I put myself into treatment. I also was a faithful NA member for the first 3 years of recovery. Treatment is so short-term it hardly ever KEEPS anyone clean. But it’s an important starting point. My real comment about the show is I can’t believe all these people think they are in documentaries. Addicts are sick but they’re not (all) stupid. There must be prearranged agreements in place. Otherwise, why are all these people agreeing to be in “documentaries?” There are no payments associated with documentaries or Intervention. So the last reasonable explanation is the addicts agree to get help beforehand, and usually in some very nice treatment centers in resort towns like Arizona and California. All this calls into question the big to-do the addicts go into when they walk into the room and see their families, and now “surprise!” it’s an intervention.
Maybe these questions have been addressed somewhere but I would appreciate a response. Thanks!
Dizzy – I found your site only earlier this year even though my husband and I have watched Intervention since the series started. In the past few months, I have returned to this site often. I enjoy reading the positive updates from friends and family in the comments section. My heart breaks for the ones who have gone back to using and for the people we have tragically lost.
I know you put so much time and effort, and likely your heart and soul, into maintaining this site. It can’t be easy. I just wanted to let you know that I and likely many others appreciate the work you do. Thank you so much.
Hey Dizzy,
I was watching an episode of intervention it’s the episode of Matthew (who inhales computer dusters) and the episode also involves Olivia, who is addicted to meth and herion. Both stories were powerful. I am a fan of your website and I’m so glad I came across this website. I went on your website to search for Olivia and I saw that she wasn’t on here/: I was wondering if anyone had any updates on Olivia or if there was a reason as to why her part of the episode isn’t featured. This website is a great and amazing thing you have created!! It helps many people! You’re doing a great thing
Yeah you’re not the first reader to bring this up. I honestly don’t know what happened. I’ll work on finding the episode again so I can get her up here.
Hi Dizzy will you be updating your site on new season??
I would be updating more frequently but they aren’t showing many new episodes this season, and a bulk of them have been Intervention Canada, which I don’t cover.
Does anyone know how tammy is from intervention canada? Also her mother father and sisters?
I would love to know as well
I am writing in Respect to our Close Friend : Derek Douglas Muzeka
YOU POSTED HE DIED DRIVING WHILE UNDER HIS ADDICTION WHEN YOU NEED TO READ THE OPP REPORT WATCH CHCH NEWS ETC SPEAK TO THE FAMILY !!!! NOT POST HE DIED WHILE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL WHEN THERE WAS FOUNDED IN THE OPP REPORT & ON THE NEWS AND FROM THE FAMILY HE DID NOT DIE FROM ADDICTION HE WAS CLEAN AND SOBER . GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT THIS COULD REALLY HURT THE MUZEKA FAMILY . WE ARE BURYING OUR FRIEND TOMORROW. HE DID NOT DIE FROM HIS ADDICTION SHAME ON YOU. GET IT OFF THIS SITE NOW. OR CALL THE GRIMSBY OPP AND HEAR FOR YOURSELF THAT ALCOHOL WAS NOT A FACTOR IN THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT.You had know right too assume it was his addiction.
REGARDS
C.JENKINS
MUZEKA FAMILY FRIEND
I did not ‘assume’ it was drunk driving accident, I would never assume that kind of thing. And I didn’t even say he was the one who was drinking. I stated that it was a drunk driving accident because 5 different people who claimed to know him commented on his page that it was. I will take the drunk driving part off of the page until there is proof either way.
I’d really love to know the reason there are so many US episodes missing from Amazon. I bought all of the seasons over the years and there are tons of episodes I’ve never seen. Ed & Bettina…Tommy…Michelle…Michael…Adam…Austin…I could go on and on. It’s kind of irritating to pay full price for a full season and not have all the episodes. It’s just weird that so many aren’t there.
That’s true! It IS frustrating. I wonder if the folks in the episode pulled their permission to view it, or they have to renew the release…
Hello, Dizzy… I saw an episode this week about a transgender alcoholic named Robby. I believe it was in Canada. I can’t seem to find a mention of it here. Would it be considered an Intervention Canada episode or could it show up here anyway?
Yeah I would have liked to watch that, but you’re right it’s an Intervention Canada episode and not available online unless you have a cable subscription. I bought the season pass on Google Play but the Canada episodes aren’t there, just the US ones. Weird system.
Hi Dizzy,
I hope you find this comment well. I believe you are missing Jennifer from Season 16, Episode 1 in your intervention directory. I know it’s technically Intervention Canada, but her addiction to Oxycontin (paired with her severe eating disorder) made for one of the most disturbing episodes I’ve seen in a long time, and I’ve been a regular viewer since season 1. Most disturbing about the episode was how she took advantage of, and cheated on, her wheelchair-bound husband, and how she normalized drug addiction to the point where she’d shoot up right in front of her entire family (including her kids) at the kitchen table, then play with them as if nothing happened. So disturbing, so sad and the story ended in relapse. It would be great if you included her story, along with your thoughts on the episode in the season 16 directory. Here’s the link in case you missed the episode!: http://www.aetv.com/shows/intervention/season-16/episode-1
Another one I would have liked to watch but I don’t have a cable subscription so there’s no way for me to watch Canada episodes, unfortunately.
Dear Dizzy,
I think a good poll/discussion topic would be to make a list of some of the sickest people who were NOT intervened upon, e.g. relatives/friends of addicts whose own behaviour was even sicker than the addicts themselves.
My top 10:
*Brenda (Nichole from Calgary’s mother)
*Vania (Luke from San Fran’s mother)
*Sebastian and Marcel’s father
*Fabian the alcoholic from L.A.’s mother
*Madison (Tim from Jacksonville’s girlfriend)
*Andrea (Sandi the alcoholic from Chicago’s daughter)
*Gene (aka “Papaw,” Jessica the heroin addict’s grandfather)
*Jim (Tressa the shotputter’s father)
*Peter (Richard the gay meth addict from Toronto’s brother)
I love Janelle’s idea. I find myself sometimes more upset with the enablers who clearly have their own issues which aren’t often discussed in depth. I love this site ; just spent way too long Looking through all this! Thanks for sharing all this.
Hello there!! My episode aired June of 2013!! I’m Jessica and I found this and did some reading and I didn’t see anything about my episode….. But if anyone has any questions I have tons of updates!! I jus did my follow up with my interventionist Donna and will air in 3 months but it jus a 2 min clip
Hi Jessica! I do have questions about the show. I’ve thought about submitting to the show for my son. Are you glad now you done the show? How was the rehab they sent you to? Can you tell me your experience? I hope you are still doing good.
Dizzy, thank you SO MUCH for this site. I binge addiction docs/Intervention because I had a rough go with alcohol in my 20s and never want to slip backwards. The memory can play tricks sometimes but Intetvention never lets me forget. Prayers, hugs and LOVE to all the subjects, their children, families and friends. There’s a special place in heaven for people so giving of their struggles to help others and it’s wonderful to have a place to share our prayers and love. Again, thank you Dizzy!
Oh, I forgot. There was also an episode surrounding an alcoholic named Phillip, which I didn’t see here.
Yes! Why no mention of the talented Phillip (s4/ep21)? He was a soulful singer/guitarist and had a successful career early on, but alcoholism derailed him. Phillip was scarred by the violence in his upbringing, including the witness of his sister’s molestation. I remember how sweetly affected his teen daughter became – after Phillip’s treatment – when he sang her a lovely song that he wrote just for their relationship.
FYI Dizzy. I saw the episode with Mike (OCD) on the A&E app today. It was paired with a young woman named Jenny, who struggled with heroin and meth. It seemed like these were missing at one point. You can check them out for free. P.S. Love this site!
I feel like the show exploits addicts for their profit and to promote the fancy rehab centers they send those people to, but that’s just me….
The first part of my prior message got cut off… I knew Kristen Showe from Baltimore when she came out to Costa Mesa. She used to share in meetings how grateful she was for recovery. Then 1 day she called me from a bar w for another addict and I picked her up after she relapsed with these strange guys…
I she relapsed with strange guys, we brought her to a meeting, and she had the guys picked her up. She was such a sweet girl but that’s the last I saw of her. I was really sad to see her latest mug shot. She was such a beautiful girl, inside and out.
However the reason I’m writing this is because I’m trying to find an update on Tammy, the gorgeous crack addict whose parents are addicts. She often used with her father, and her sisters Tina and (Tanya?) were at the intervention. They hadn’t eaten as children growing up, Tammy took care of her younger sisters feeding them toothpaste while their parents were on drug binges. Can’t find her episode on here…
I recently watched an episode about Rachel. A girl that lived on the streets of NY and had a boyfriend named Joie. At the end it said that Joie ended up getting clean and was sober for 9 months and was then murdered. Do you have any information about this? Thank you. Love the site and the show.
thanks for the site, its great 🙂 just curious if you remember the episode im thinking of. i browsed the site and couldnt find him. it was a guy who found out it was the show intervention and ran away. his mother and family were searching all over the city for him. thanks.
There have been a few of these so I dunno. The one that first comes to mind is Joey.
thanks for the response… i just watched that episode and it was really good! it wasnt the one i was thinking of though, but thank you because it was a good episode. especially the part with his brothers running after him. sad.
some more information from my memory would be the people were all in a trailer when they were talking about the intervention. i think it was cold outside, he could have had a sick or old grandfather or relative. thank you so much
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS SITE…
I have been an addict for over 10years. I was in DENIAL for years. But after watching the show (many nights)- I saw my family and my story in those people on TV. Although, the show seems to change from “good to shock” most episodes show the good that comes from intervention! My own family has provided “intervention” methods, and it has worked. I am on the road to recovery! We cannot afford those fancy places, but I have found local help and of course the TV show—reminds me of what addiction does! 🙁