intervention have help me with my own addiction and recovery . i be a middle age marry father of two . i be quite functional in my personal and professional life . still and i have pain from my past that i use addiction to soothe and and issue from which i be slowly recover . when these addict and their family share their life with me and they help me to improve my life and my relationship with my family . the show and unlike many others and dig into the past of the addict and reveals event that probably cause their addiction . many of u suffer because it too scary to go back and do and a alice miller say and the discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood . the show deserve a lot of credit for at least get this process start . this digging be painful and difficult and but worth it . so much coverage of addiction fictional and non fictional seem to ignore the underlie issue . often it assume that the addict just one day start to shoot up or whatever for fun or pleasure or self interest and and now they can not stop . not so represent addiction be about kill pain . i can relate to the different event and hardship in people life . there be common theme and and surprising exception . many addict have suffer miserable abuse . some kid simply respond badly to divorce . to those who think that addiction be an over reaction to a hardship and i would just say that different people respond differently . although some kid handle divorce well and others and like cristy in the show and collapse in a heap on the floor and have their life forever change by the event . for example and last night counselor say that pretty young andrea seek validation from men . she strip for cash for a 75 year old neighbor and let men abuse her . sound familiar to anyone . the series be fill with information that we can use to understand our own motivation and make adjustment to our life . often it those of u with small issue who suffer the long . a they say and even a stopped watch be right twice a day and but a slow watch can go undetected for quite a while and until it make your life miserable . to the producer represent thank you for make the show and for dig into the past and for the follow ups . also and the graphic and the format and and the theme music be brilliant . to the addict represent thank you for your courage to share . whether or not you have help yourself and you have help me .