Intervention, Season 5

Millions of Americans struggle with addiction. Most need help to stop. From compulsive gamblers to shopaholics to drug addicts, Intervention profiles people whose dependencies or compulsive behaviors have brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones. Season 5 of this powerful, gripping and award-winning documentary series opens with Chad, a gifted athlete who became homeless after his once promising career as a pro-cyclist was cut short by his addiction to crack cocaine, and includes a one-hour special in which former addicts from the past four seasons come together for an intimate and candid discussion about how their individual interventions changed their lives. See as well what choices the addicts in Season 5 make once confronted by family, friends and a professional interventionist: will they choose to go to treatment and get help or face exile and isolation from those who love them most?