Official A&E's "Intervention" Thread

[lorne667]

^^^Ok, let me start by saying that I FUCKING LOVE YOUR AVATAR, and your name. Cyrax was the fucking man(err, cyborg?) and I will rape 99.999999999% of the population with him in UMK3.

Now that's out of my system, let me call bullshit on intervention. I fucking hate that show, and this is why. You couldn't take 16'000mg of APAP, not even once. ANd you certainly couldn't get used to it. It is complete bullshit. Most likely, she took like 10 a day, when she could afford to buy them from her white trash friends, and the producers thought 50 a day seemed more "shocking". But no, it is not even almost possible to take that much apap, even if it we're spread out over a 48 hour period, and not every day. So you we're correct to call them out!!! Or make a thread about it, the next best thing, I suppose...

Also, I would say that suggesting that taking that much APAP is possible would be criminal, except anyone who tried even half that much would probably end up in the hospital, or at the very least, puking while in stomach wrenching pain, so I doubt it's a concern. I mean, some of the pillheads I have met are absolutely the most ignorant people on the planet, yet even with monkey-like intelligence then realize that they have to eventually upgrade beyond percs and vicodin to feed they're habit. Thanks for pointing this out though, nice little anecdote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[traybuck]

she could have been taking the small oxycodone pills.. I hear a lot of ppl calling those perc..thay don't have any apap in them.. Did you see the pills??

 

['medicine cabinet']

^yea everyone calls roxi 30's "perc 30s" and "perc 15's" dont get me started on intervention. that show is so fucking fake and shame on them for making money of the suffering of addicts and their families, plus it seems like a lot of times the families just want to get on TV to air out their problems. Who the fuck would agree to do that show....

if that woman was taking over 10 grams of apap every day for years she would be dead by now.

 

[Syrax]

Here's a link to the video...

http://www.aetv.com/intervention/video/ Name's Danielle. Those pills look pretty big by the way.

Yeah the show is definitely very exploitative and does so many things wrong but I'd like to think it has some HR value on some level. That is, until you see episodes like this one. I don't think it's quite as fake as some like to believe but it's really really hard to understand some of the misinformation that they air sometimes. It's just like all reality television I guess, where they cut the scenes up and sort of twist what's actually going on. It literally takes like 10 minutes on the Internet to correct some of this garbage. And you're telling me no one who works on the show, after seeing so many drug addicts, knows what APAP is... They seem to intentionally exaggerate the amount of drugs people are doing to sensationalize the show. I definitely understand people can be unbelievably ignorant about what they put in their bodies... but funny how she never tells the camera (I don't think) that she's explicitly doing 50 percocet a day. She does say that she takes 10 at once though... 3200mg APAP most likely (although not).

Point is... if you do 50 percocet a day chances are you won't be as healthy as this woman LOL... or alive period. And expect the shitty figures they throw out on this show to be blown way out of proportion and in some cases possibly really dangerous to take seriously.

*Oh yeah and off-topic... old school fighting games are the shit. Brings back so much nostalgia. I was surprised to learn that Cyrax turned out to be black after doing a Google image search of him haha. Makes me like him even more I think. Haven't played any of the recent MK games though, not in a long time.

 

[Jackie Chan]

On one episode from Intervention Canada, about a guy Brad who smoked crack and drank alcohol, they put a fact that said something like, "mixing crack cocaine and alcohol leads to more deaths than any other two drug combination."

 

[acid_staind]

i have also noticed this in the media when covering a celebrity addiction. eminem for example, which was reported pretty extensively has said he was taking 20+ extra strength vicodin(7.5/750) a day. i don't know how long this went on but the interviews gave the impression it was at least a few years. pretty much same thing with corey haim, one of his ex-girlfriends has said his favorite was to mix 5 es-vicodin with valium and soma, taken several times daily. his autopsy report stated that on top of everything else he also took 5 tylenol-pm(500apap) every night to help sleep. i'm pretty sure i could dig up more. it's weird that these celebrity addictions are so exaggerated. there is no way they could take that much apap with out going into liver failure.

what gets me the most is teenagers reading/watching who have drug problems may think to themselves "wow, i'm not half as bad as that" and may actually give them the idea that taking that much is ok.

out of all the interventions i have watched on pain pill addiction i don't recall them to have ever point out the dangers of apap overdose, which is something i find very odd considering that they point out the dangers on just about everything else.

 

[Tommyboy]

We've got a thread like this in Drug Culture. I'll merge it in there once I locate it.

 

[highhooked]

Anyone remember the one where the dude is compeltely unconcious the whole time drinking himself into a stupor just eyes closed and not able to function at all.

He said it was a curse to be alive and he hates it. Wow i feel so sad for that guy. He must be so sooooooooo sad.

 

[desaparecidos]

^ it was anthony, great episode

 

[highhooked]

Ehh not really a great episode. Yea i felt bad but i got annoyed as shit by him.

Its his grandmas birthday and hes just lying unconcomcious crying about where his vodka is and yelling.

Whatever, fucking pathetic...still really sad though.

 

[lorne667]

^^^ Interesting thread. I have never liked this show. But can someone tell me the evidence that it is fake?(don't feel like reading through 12 pages) I mean, it's obvious they stage outcomes sometimes, but otherwise, I figured the "addicts" we're as real as they could be, considering that anyone agreeing to go on a "documentary about addiction" much less under the thin guise of intervention is, well, they aren't "my kind of addict"!!! Oh and I remember the guy who didn't know how to smoke crack. I was at my mom's, and pointed it out to her, and she was like "WTF do you know about smoking crack junky? "...

(And one last time off-topic, because syrax is a greenlighter, yeah, Trilogy was the last "true" mortal kombat in my opinion. Though I have played the newer ones, didn't care for them, and don't own them,though I have all of the old ones, and for the sake of nostalgia, I have them on multiple consoles, Genesis, SNES, N64, PS, emulators, blah,blah,blah,. UMK3 and Alpha 3 are like the best fighting games ever, so it's one of the only things that gets me going besides, well, drugs...)

(edit: I looked for the mysterious, "non crack smoking man" and I remember now just from reading part of a synopsis, he was the former cyclist turned homeless crackhead, with the fucked up hair. My mom and her boyfriend(er, fiancee?) watched that episode when it was new a few years ago, and I swear, I told her "That fucking guy does NOT know how to smoke crack!!!) But to be fair, I have met lots of REAL junkies who cooked they're pills and barely knew how to shoot...

 

[verso]

Ehh not really a great episode. Yea i felt bad but i got annoyed as shit by him.

Its his grandmas birthday and hes just lying unconcomcious crying about where his vodka is and yelling.

Whatever, fucking pathetic...still really sad though.

How old are you? Because it is pathetic, but that's sort of where many, many young people his age are in their lives right now, and it's sad.

I can't speak for all twenty-three year-old americans, but honestly, that's what it is... we imagined graduating from college, taking the reins from an older, retirement-ready generation, and then living long, happy, successful lives. I could be wrong, but I do believe that a good number of us imagined this, and that's certainly not at all what happened... and so now we're all angry, bitter, bored and pathetic... abusing substances and going no where fast.

 

[lorne667]

^ I agree. I felt bad just watching the kid standing in the alley way laughing at the garbage... Sad...

That episode was fake as hell, then. DXM DOES NOT make you laugh at garbage, or laugh period. To me it seems as if they we're staging it based on the cough syrup stereotype, while having no idea that DXM is a disassociative or the effects it has. I think it is a statement on the fact that the show is 90% bullshit. Granted, I think it's real too an extent, but then there are some episodes and situations that are obviously staged, and of course the episodes that do depict real people are going to be edited and manipulated for TV...

 

[Syrax]

^^^ Not sure if it was mentioned... but he also attempts to eat dog shit thinking that it's mushrooms growing naturally next to a sidewalk 8) That kid is one of the few people from the show that has talked about his episode on the Internet. You can look him up. I don't even think the producers of the show have to coerce people into acting over the top, they do it on their own without anyone telling them. That kid seemed really strange, but I feel like he was intentionally acting really bizarre because he was on camera. At one point he like rips off a prostitute and gets in trouble with her pimp. Something he probably only did because he had a camera guy with him that he thought could help. He was just walking around the city doing shit that he wouldn't do if he didn't have some dude walking with him. Some people on the show are going to exaggerate their own situation to show how fucked up they are. Not unlike the dick-sizing that is discouraged on this forum.

 

[Fire&Water]

Shoot your T.V. (careful no kids are in the room)

 

[Damien]

That episode was fake as hell, then. DXM DOES NOT make you laugh at garbage, or laugh period...

^^^ Not sure if it was mentioned... but he also attempts to eat dog shit thinking that it's mushrooms growing naturally next to a sidewalk 8) That kid is one of the few people from the show that has talked about his episode on the Internet. You can look him up.

HAHAHAH this dude came and trolled our forum. He was a problem in the lounge for a minute. :D I believe his handle is robcypher or something like that. One of em anyways. hahah oh wow. Ben.

 

[Tommyboy]

^ Here is his profile.

 

[highhooked]

How old are you? Because it is pathetic, but that's sort of where many, many young people his age are in their lives right now, and it's sad.

I can't speak for all twenty-three year-old americans, but honestly, that's what it is... we imagined graduating from college, taking the reins from an older, retirement-ready generation, and then living long, happy, successful lives. I could be wrong, but I do believe that a good number of us imagined this, and that's certainly not at all what happened... and so now we're all angry, bitter, bored and pathetic... abusing substances and going no where fast.

Yea im almost in that area of my life. im turning 21 this month and i finish college in a few years and then im off into the real worldan we will see what happens. I totally feel you on what said man and i have thought about the same thing before... you said it short and sweet. I dont know because i havnt been thre yet...but i imagine it would be very veryyy rough on a person to grow and have everything go wrong...which many of the times happens. Not being able to support yourself i think really has an effect on my person. Im in education though so it should be pretty easy to find a job but i just hope i like it as much as i think i will and all that ya dig.

This guy was on another level thoguh im guessing you didnt see the episode? He was def hyping it up for the cameras or hes more looking for attention from his family rather than him really being that fucked up ya know? Just honestly....dude was crying, saying he wanted to die and half unconcious slobeering all over for most of the episoode. Sad sad.

Does anyone know if he got sober?

 

[piebald]

^ are you guys talking about Anthony episode?

 

[Syrax]

^^^ Yeah.

Well... he got sober. Then moved back home and started drinking again. But his family / friends are "holding their bottom lines" 8) It seems like he'd be dead by now if he was still living like that. Same goes for that guy who was living in like Arkansas or something and was an alcoholic if anyone has seen that episode. He went back to drinking and was in a terrible state. But again, you have to question the level of exaggeration within the show and also by some of the doctors that give advice to these people. A lot of the time they're probably trying to scare them, I don't know maybe not.