![]() And three, even while she was sucking down spray cans and passing out in Walgreens, she had her “sugar daddy” who was bankrolling her. Two, even while obviously in the throes of a very serious crisis, Allison’s personality was really vibrant. The episode stands out for a few reasons: One, until this point, many of us were not even aware that people abused spray dusters as an inhalant. In easily the show’s best-known episode, Allison was addicted to inhalants, sometimes using ten cans of spray duster a day. Some episodes of the show were overwhelmingly tragic, some incredibly frustrating, and some made us want to leap through the television, grab people by the shoulders, and shout “stop blaming your child for being the victim of sexual abuse.” And other episodes? Well, some we’ll never forget. What Intervention did best, though, was show the person behind the addiction - a person with a sense of humor, a set of values, an identity that was getting subsumed in their addiction crisis. ![]() The show’s subjects came from every possible social demographic, from supportive and stable families to dysfunctional, abusive ones. ![]() Intervention starts its final season tonight on A&E after eight years and almost 200 episodes, each one as frightening and heartbreaking as the last.
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