Where is intervention produced

Last Updated on May 16, by. However, even though the family does all right and stage the ideal intervention, the addicted person can still seek help. According to the National Institutes For Health NIH , patients who stay in drug rehab avoid consuming drugs and alcohol and restrict criminal activity and change their lives at home, at work, and in their relationships.

As a result, there are several advantages of trying to persuade addicted loved ones to seek care. Also, with the most detailed preparation, an operation can not go as expected for various reasons. The Following Are Some of Them:. If your loved one declines the offer of drug therapy, that does not mean that you will be unable to assist them in entering care.

There are a variety of steps you may take to encourage your addicted family member to seek treatment. The following are some of them:. Many addicts feel they still have power over their condition and will make attempts to leave independently. However, the fact is that they do not have power and need assistance in quitting.

Treatment is always more effective than stopping cold turkey, and your loved one may require medical assistance for detox depending on the drug of choice. Consequences should eradicate any enabling behaviours or mechanisms that lead to their addiction and provide protection and security for you and your loved ones. Most participants in any kind of nonfiction film or television are participating in part because they want the soapbox and want to reach as many people as they can.

I think that most of the discomfort audiences have is due to the newness of these nonfiction forms. Fogarty : I remember being interviewed about my family, being loaded, and my "sugar daddy. Jeff came in and gave me an ultimatum: I could leave if I went to treatment, but I ended up escaping because I had an ex-boyfriend who just let me out the back door 'cause he worked there. Then I took the bus for the first time in my life and I went to Wal-Mart and the producer, like, commandeered a car to follow me.

It was pretty insane — by the time they got there, I was already exiting Wal-Mart loaded. I got back home, they kept banging on the door and my sister was there and I was like, "I absolutely do not have a problem! Partland : If a writer were to follow and observe their family doing an intervention on them, no one would ask if it were exploitive to write about it because that was the plan all along. Fogarty : I was psychotically angry about the whole thing. I can't believe I didn't have more of a meltdown on camera, but I was so angry that I collapsed in on myself.

It had been such a crazy week of betrayal, I wasn't understanding. It took me a long time to get over that. To me the whole thing was an intense trauma.

Partland : There is an incredible intimacy that cameras provide. It makes us question, "Is the intrusion just too much? And how successful your piece is has a lot to do with how well you earned that intimacy and how well you balanced the subject's goals with the filmmaker's goals; on Intervention , despite the incredible intimacy, I think those goals were in very good balance.

Fogarty : Then Jeff and my family had my cat taken away. My cat was the catalyst for me going to treatment. It was so easy for me to be mad at everyone, but my cat didn't deserve any of this, so I spent the next day just hanging out in a bank because cameras can't go in banks. It was stupid because every five minutes I would sober up again so it was hijinks after hijinks.

I finally came home, and they stopped by and they were like, "This is your last chance, yadda, yadda," and I was like, "Fuck off. VanVonderen : After we called animal protective services on Allison's cat, and she agreed to go treatment, she wanted nothing to do with me. Fogarty : At that point it wasn't even that I wanted to get better, I just wanted to punish everyone else.

Like, "I'm leaving forever! VanVonderen : She has her little hoodie over her head, her cloak of shame. We get to the airport. And I'm purposely not talking to her 'cause I don't want to blow the gig — so I went to the gift shop and bought her a stuffed cat and I walked up to her, handed her the cat, and we didn't say anything to each other the whole plane ride to rehab. Fogarty : At rehab, word had gotten around to the staff and clients that I was being brought in by Intervention. So when I got there, one of the clients was like, "Oh, you're the new girl from Intervention.

VanVonderen : Six months after taking Allison to rehab I got an email from her apologizing for being such "a dick" and thanking me and hoping I forgive her.

I wrote her back and said of course, and I'm glad she's doing good, and I asked how's the cat doing in treatment.

And she said, "Cat VanVonderen is doing really well. Fogarty : Obviously I'm grateful. I did the work and things turned out right. But it was a giant trauma. I wish I could have gotten to where I am without having to go through that experience. When I go out and people are like, "Oh my god, you're that drug addict! That was the funniest hour of my life! But some people approach me in a really positive way, like this woman at Pinkberry started to sob next to me in line and she hugged me and told me that her brother saw my episode and it saved his life because he got into treatment.

And I hugged her and said I was so glad, but it was still very awkward. Partland : Sometimes the tough part is after addicts get clean and the reruns come on and it's traumatic for them. And when we learned of that, we would ask the network to suspend use of their episode, and they did that every time. Fogarty : When my show is re-airing, someone from the show generally tells me they are re-airing. But there was a recent promo that featured my episode that I didn't know about and I just cried and cried when I saw it.

At this point, I just launched my own business and feel like, enough already, it's been five years, I've done my time. I feel like it's time to let me go. The show's ratings started to dip in the last two years. Today, people of the featured on Intervention are sober. Skibitzke : A low moment for me on the show was when one of the subjects — I don't want to say who — I had filmed with died about a year after his intervention.

Very brutal for me. Mettler : If so many addicts didn't decide to go to rehab at the end of the shoots then the show would have been too much of a horror to produce.

It would be too psychologically traumatizing for everyone. Partland : The lowest moments of the show were the shoots that we had to abort. It didn't happen much, and we would only do that for one reason: collusion between the addict and the family.

If we discovered that the family and the addict had conspired to make it appear that the addict was unaware of the impending intervention, then we would cancel the shoot midstream, because the intervention would be false.

In the cases where we pulled the plug, we did our best to provide resources and assistance to those families; some succeeded, some didn't follow through.

When you are in this for the opportunity to use your craft to bring help to people, it's devastating to leave people you've grown to care about in a crisis. But we did leave, to keep the integrity of the show and the process.

We weren't willing to film hoax interventions. Finnigan : While the show did offer the families treatment at places like Betty Ford, we didn't provide any resources for them to actually go.

Many families couldn't take four days off and stay in a hotel in California. It was very frustrating for me because if an addict gets clean and their family stays sick, they can relapse. The network has the money to offer these families airfare and hotel stays. It just made me angry. And then you hear about the Duck Dynasty guys getting so much money, come on! VanVonderen : I don't really watch the show. I can't do it. To me, the most important part of the whole process is the pre-intervention, when we train the family on addiction and codependency.

The show gives the impression that we summarize what's going on and then we write letters but these pre-intervention trainings go on for five to eight hours. That's the most important day. If it's done well, then we will get the answer we want the second day. When I'd watch the episodes, I'd get frustrated that some of the most important moments were edited out, so I had to stop watching because my role isn't to be an editor, it's to be an interventionist.

I can't do what they do, I wouldn't even know how to condense hours of footage into 45 minutes. The show is called Intervention , not Pre-Intervention. Partland : The spectacular relapses were also devastating. Over the years, we'd get a call that an addict, after filming, was ready to go back to rehab. We'd fly all over the continent to pick up an addict who had decided to go back to treatment only to be stood up at airports and bus depots and practically every scenario you can think of.

In some cases we'd pulled strings and placed addicts in several different treatment centers, and picked them up after relapses, and coordinated complicated travel and legal issues — helping to arrange for them to leave jurisdictions where they faced restrictions or charges, etc. Hard to describe how disappointing those moments were. Sibitzke : Strangely, I never got sick of doing it. I loved it to the end. I remember going to work one day thinking I had the best job in the world — and this was about three years into it!

It was psychological, emotional, and exhilarating. I would do it all over again. Elaine Frontain Bryant : Intervention depicted addiction as something that everyone could relate to because of the emphasis on families.

Entertainment moves in cycles. Times are hard right now, and Duck Dynasty is something easy to watch while you're chewing on popcorn. It doesn't weigh on you in the same way as Intervention — it's addictive but in another way.

In a way, both Intervention and Duck Dynasty are about families. They are just in different places in their lives. That's a crude analysis of it, but that's a common thread.

That was quite terrifying. My hands are here! Tell me what you want me to do! But what ensued was pretty funny. So we get in the elevator with him, and we run after him into the street.

So he ends up crossing the street, and in the middle of the street, turns around takes a swing at the camera, hits the mic off of it — which is very dramatic — and then goes down the stairs into the subway station. Candy Finnigan: We we went to some really strange places, like Crawford, Nebraska, where Tressa the shot-putter lived. We stayed in a ghost-ridden speakeasy. And when the producers asked if they would please change the dark dungeon downstairs, someone got out a can of spray-paint and spray-painted a couch.

But oh my God, Tressa was so wonderful. She was afraid to fly, so the producer and I got her in a van and drove to Minneapolis. There was no stopping us. Peter LoGreco: What was left on the cutting-room floor more than anything, was humor. And PCP really does a number on you; he was really just kind of out if it, and had a limited capacity for motor skills. So what ensues is him lifting the window up, getting an inch or two of his body into the house, and having it fall on him again.

And he lifts it up, he gets another inch in, and it falls on him again. And this goes on in this sort of absurd, surreal performance for 25 minutes. I mean, it was ridiculous. Finally, he got to a point where his entire body was in the house, he was on the floor, but one of his legs was still up and sticking out of the window.

But I did feel that we were a little too conservative with the extent to which these addicts were very charming and funny people, who used that charm to get what they wanted on a day-to-day basis.

And I think there was a fear of making light of the addiction and of the situation that the person was in.

Sam Mettler: Children. Just absolutely tore my heart out. I remember getting on a plane after a shoot like that and just sobbing. Candy Finnigan: We had one suicide.

And then we had another guy that found out in treatment that he had terminal cancer, and he died six months later. But his kids got a sober dad those last six months. Sarah Skibitzke: There was a character named Chris; he was really lovely. And he eventually died. He was one of a little handful of people who died after the intervention, probably five of them, way after their treatment. And so he was one of them. And that was pretty heartbreaking. And so that was really kind of a heartbreaking one to be a part of.

Sam Mettler: We actually provided therapy for our producers. They need professional help. As the show grew in popularity, the producers had to deal with new challenges: people who figured it out that they were on Intervention, or tried to con the crew in order to get free treatment. Also, they expect that a big TV show like Intervention would have this huge crew and all of that.

We kept a very small footprint. Top review. Hateful, exploitative, fake. In the real world, it is ILLEGAL to threaten someone's life, yet here the "interventionists" not an actual profession, by the way do it regularly as life or death manipulation. I have known multiple individuals who have substance abused themselves to death as an alternative to the very real pain and or mental illnesses they were self-medicating, I also know how futile it is to intervene in the behavior of any adult who is in the actual throes of physical addiction my Mom could never quit nicotine, even when she had to sit up night trying to breath during her dying days.

I have had dozens of decades long friendships end because people would sooner take the "tough love" approach than acknowledge their own failings or, rather than being a hopeless suicidal addict, I was actually mourning the loss of loved ones.

Watching a marathon now, least one "success story" has died, but that is ignored in the years old closing credits. Apparently the producers consider an episode a "success" if the afflicted are delivered to the door of "recovery", I wish life were that simple. As the adage goes, never let the crazy person write the prescription for your meds, or, in this case? Physician, heal thyself esp. Self-proclaimed who are not actually licensed to diagnose.

How much has America's mortality rate continued to plunge for the 1st time in history during the course of this show's run during the course of the opiate epidemic? Details Edit. Release date March 6, United States. United States. Intervention in Depth. GRB Entertainment. Technical specs Edit.