Anyone watch tv show Intervention?See the Vegas tan salon guy episode?Solutions?

[BrentCrude]

I never really watched the tv show Intervention much except for the occassional channel surfing pause.I'm not sure if they ever touched on gambling which is classified as a disease and I totally disagree with that.

Anyway,they did an hour feature on this Latino guy from Vegas that has been drinking about 2 litres of vodka a day for a decade or so.I think he was in his mid to later 30's but he looks and acts like a retarded guy much older.The guy actually used to be a stud athlete but it was said he was a supplement freak for sure and a roids freak maybe?They blame his addiction to vodka on the fact that the supplement he used was banned and vodka has the same buzz attached to it so he switched over.

The guy had one hell of a homelife and childhood growing up.The old lady tied up with guys that would beat up the kids.etc.Just god awful stuff!So the guy stayed away from home as much as possible and concentrated on shool and athletics.He went to college at the University of Nevada but quit to get into the tanning salon business.In a matter of 3 years the guy made a few million bucks and helped his mom etc.

So now the guy is so blitzed out of his mind that he can't even talk coherantly and is totally dysfunctional.He never leaves his ** Mansion and does his business through home computers.etc.He's now failing in his business where he's getting late bill notices in the mail everyday and people pounding on his door wanting to be paid.He's got this pretty nice looking married broad that's totally in love with him and does everything for him.He married some Barbie doll chick a number of years back but got a divorce.

So he gets talked into going to interventions and drug counciling stays.etc.They do him absolutely no good because he's just being doled out total nonsense when reasoning with him why he's a dying alcoholic.Not once did these paid professional idiots tell the guy that he was or still could be the luckiest guy alive if he goes straight.He has or may have testicular cancer so that's not that lucky.About the only smart thing the guy has done recently is to not take chemotherapy for it.He had the world by the ass and probably got lucky doing so after coming from his horrible background.He probably got some minority government loans to get into business to begin with?So even now if he just got rid of everything and cashed his chips in he could probably walk away with big bucks after liquidating his assets and paying people off that he owes.

These councilors never tell the guy that the incentive for him to quit drinking is that he could go anywhere or do anything in life like going on a 365 days a year vacation.Switch to being a diet Pepsi caffeine freak to catch a buzz.Tell the guy he lucked out and that tens of millions of more people had alot more going for them than he did and they are wage slaves.Tell the guy that he should appreciate what he's got in life and that he lucked out and is throwing it all away.

Then the next episode was about this fairly decent looking woman that totally neglected her kids because she was hooked on prescribed meds.She goes out and attracts a friggin sugar daddy to give her huge bucks and a fancy lifestyle and she uses the money on more drugs.Here's another ass that is worthless but can recover from being worthless because her looks draw in rich guys.Someone should tell her that she should consider herself fortunate because if she was ugly she would have become a bag lady.She wanted sympathy over her addiction plight!Give me a break!


Anyone watch this crap and get pissed off?

[Panic]

I saw it. The guy had big bruises and sh!t all over his back. And he ended up dying. He was shaking real bad and all that sh!t. I've only watched 2 or 3 episodes of Intervention and that was one of them. He couldnt see that his helper was in love with him and would pull him through. Alot of people wait their whole live for their soulmate and he found his and didnt even know it.

[louisvillekid]

i watched quite a few of the first 2 seasons, but i don't remember this one, it must be from the newest season, cause i got bored of the show, it was pretty much all the same , someones got an addiction to whatever, they had either a shitty life or everything handed to them, family and friends love them and want them better, have an intervention, they reluctantly go, show ends.

[applepicks]

I watch this show all the time to remind me of what other people are going thru. I myself am a addict. Not a practicing addict as we speak, but I've been blessed with this lovely disease. Trust me, I wish on a daily basis that I didn't have this shit. But for me watching this show is a constant reminder that I am just as close to these people as soon as I use again.
The show sends these people to way overly expensive rehabs, as I've checked on most of the ones in the southeastern US. 5 to 10k a week is normal cost. When these folks finally show up at the intervention itself, you can almost see a sigh of relief. Finally someone is asking or making them get straight. Besides the wealthy guy from Vegas, most of these people at least expierence the sober life at least for a short time. Most of them are able to lead a clean life with the support of meetings,sponsor, and a tight nit support crew around them.
In my case I have it in my family. My father is now going on 12 years sober. Although he was given news of stage 3 lung cancer earlier this year, he is still attending his meetings and refuses to go back to the drinking. Funny thing is, when I got the news, I decided that I needed a drink. Not a good move.
No intervention for me, just me getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. Back to meetings and we'll see how today goes. Maybe tomorrow I'll drink, but for today and this hour, I won't.
Intervention, while true, is a self loathing story turned into a "shot at a good life". The disease doesn't promise it won't come back when the show leaves and the cameras are no longer there. People will relapse. People with this disease will die. The show just shows that there is a different path. One that is filled with hope instead of pity and self destruction.
Peace. APPLE.