Cocaine is a heckuva drug (c) Rick James

So I was watching this show on A & E tonight called "Intervention". This show follows people around, documentary style, who are suffering from an addiction. One girl was a gambling addict. She sat at the slot machines at the Greektown Casino for hours at a time. Her boyfriend and family were worried and tried to have an intervention to get her to seek treatment. They threatened to cut her off if she didn't. Needless to say the girl had the nerve to be upset that her family was "making a big deal" out of her stealing money from her family to feed her habit and asking her to go to an inpatient clinic. She eventually sought treatment with a support group 3 months after the intervention.

The other story was about this guy who was drug addict. He was from Vermont and had been doing drugs since he was 12. He moved out to Arizona 4 years ago to kick the habit. He still hadn't kicked it and his family asked him to come home so they can "intervene". While he was staying with his family in Vermont he snorted coke and smoked crystal meth. ON CAMERA!!! Sheesh. Anyway, the have an intervention with him and he agreed to go to an inpatient clinic. The epilogue said he was now clean.

The moral of this story. It must suck to be an addict.