I hate this drug.

Girl needs to sober up. And rethink her eyebrows.

In the end the family stood their ground and wouldn't let her move back in when she left rehab early, went to jail and relapsed again, but it seemed to be too little too late, an all too common theme for this show.

i remember this ep, each ep is just one large downer

This girl is not the saddest "Intervention" story, but she is the craziest. I feel like an asshole for saying this, but she drove me so nuts that, were she my relative/loved one, I don't know that I would participate in the Intervention.

Jesus I just watched it. This is sad.

Somebody has been watching too much Pi.

a@katastic: i second that, i pay attention to eyebrows religiously. srsly

Is there some sort of link between the whole meth/crack addict thing and bleaching your hair? Is it just me?

she is going to end up in a sanitarium somewhere, lithium'd out of her tiny mind. christ, ten years on meth?

i wonder what that stellar example of father hood did to her between the ages of 0-14? not to mention mommy. because you don't come up with a complex family structure based on numbers and deities with the words mommy and daddy involved if there's not something going on in family of origin.

I saw the end of this ep on TV, but the clip above was new to me. What a sad human being.

I've decided meth is a scourge of biblical proportions, and for some there is simply no escape aside from death. So sad and scary for society.

@J.D.Regent: and the way they just stood back and let her use for 10 YEARS? fishy, i agree.

Drugs suck. I love my sister, and if I had to deal with that, it'd break my heart.

@charlotte corday: Or dead. I think that option is sadly, more likely. Especially because she does stuff like trying to talk men into buying her alcohol. It's just a matter of time before some sicko snatches her ass off the street.

Meth is evil.

is she from tennesee? cos my home state is SHO NUFF the meth capital of the world. every damn stripper in Memphis looks like this.

this is why I'm pro-choice.

I was watching an older episode last night, about the alcoholic kid who had come back from Iraq. I haven't seen this one.

This show always results in a knot in my stomach, and tears.

Her teeth are in surprsingly good shape...

@DorothyZbornak: it's a race to the finish line, between that and full-on delusional psychosis.

christ.

@AGreenEyeDevil: Most of the time I'm kind of whatevs* about other people's drug problems, but meth makes me angry, especially since seeing that episode of Grey's where the meth lab exploded (and now that PSA) because I wouldn't put it past some of my neighbors to be cooking meth and that puts me in danger, too.

*I, thankfully, haven't had anyone close to me go through a drug problem. I'm not "whatevs" to addiction, but I just don't get my panties in a twist about the "War on Drugs" or "Drug Crisis" or whatever we have these days.

Umm, is this fake? I really hope it is, cus I would NEVER bring my sister food if she acted like that. Or wore no clothes. Why can't they get her help? Isn't meth illegal? I'm just confused. So confused.

@eraserheadpixies: Yes, meth is very much illegal.

This girl's problem goes a lot deeper than just her own immediate family experience -- she's Native, and that means generations of likely substance abuse, depression and dehumanization. Not that Meth is easy on non-Natives, but it's a different world, believe me.

I tried to watch this last night and just couldn't. I tried to watch the following one with the soldier who is an alcoholic and again I had to change the channel. It is so sad, it makes me cry when I watch.

@AGreenEyeDevil: Agreed

@charlotte corday: You'd think that the parents would've noticed the meth stench from the get-go. Seriously, it's one of the worst smells alongside raw heroin.

@Luckwouldhaveit: Native?

This show is just....so depressing. The people always have such awful pasts. It's really distressing to watch sometimes.

Um, holy shit. How did the episode end?

@nodoubt9203: Ok what? Out of that whole depressing mess, her eyebrows bothered you?

@PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA: That's the one! I only lasted half way through that episode. I was having a whole bunch of feelings collide with that one. I had to go sleep on it. And I couldn't finish my glass of wine before I turned in.

@pillarofsalt: I don't get the pro-choice connection.

This is incredibly sad. I can't believe her family let her get to this point.

@LaComtesse: I haven't seen the episode but it might be the drugs making her crazy.

My sister will be 30 this May, and has been addicted to meth for about 12 years. She has lost custody of her daughter, her job, her car, her apartment, and pretty much control of her own life. The person she was seems long gone, and she isn't interested in the slightest in cleaning up.

After so many years, even those who can get clean are never the same. My brother is going on two years of sobriety, but still has what my friend calls "termors." Those tweaky tics that stay with you. My brother was shooting it, and had become dissociative and violent, culminating in more than one (actually, more than 12) major encounter with members of the Arizona police department and/or swat team. He was even on CNN, as he was found 'directing traffic' with an AK. He thought he was god, and told my mother that if he and my sister got married, they would have the reincarnation of Jesus.

It's difficult to deal with family members that far gone, especially when you've been through it dozens of times already.

@AbbyNormal: I'm so sorry.

@Cam/ron: well, i could forgive them not recognizing the stench, but the girl lives in crackhouse squalor, and writes batshit crazy things, and abuses her sister.

did her mother die when she was young? why are her parents so useless?

i saw this the other day... she behaved like an animal: constantly naked, rifling through things and throwing them around, chowing on food and then spitting it out. she was like a feral child. watching stuff like that would keep most kids off drugs, i swear. positively frightening. i hope she can manage to get her life together.

@AbbyNormal: Wow. I am so sorry to hear of someone it's really happening to.

i'm from cleveland, so i've ben hearing about meth labs being busted in rural areas in ohio pretty much my entire life. it's absolutely unreal to me that anyone would be interested in doing a drug that so obviously destroys everyone it touches. what is the appeal here? more importantly, how can we get videos like this in drug education in middle schools?

even more importantly, how do we get people to take parenting seriously?

has there been an update on this girl? This episode aired like three years ago!

@AbbyNormal: WOW. that's awful. i'm so sorry.

@barstarCAB: Well, I am ashamed to admit that I used it once. But, I was kind of a cokehead at the time, and desperate.

I think the appeal is like any other drug. Usually a means of self-medicating.

I was just thinking about my health insurance--it's pretty good, really, as it's state health insurance--and it only "covers" things like this, as in only a certain number of visits to a counselor, whether it's for substance abuse or depression or what have you. It's kind of sickening that I could eat myself to death and get treatment for heart disease, but I couldn't get proper preventive care if I spiraled into depression and might end up killing myself or something.

Shit I'm glad I don't watch this show.

@AbbyNormal: rough girl. keep yo chin up!!!

I don't know what meth smells like, I thinks its more popular on the west coast(?) as it doesn't seem to have gotten to the Pennsylvania/New York area as much yet, but I could just be naive. Also, doesn't heroin smell good or something, like sugary, or maybe cinnamon?

@katekate: if i think about all of the indirect and direct consequences of how many of us are not guaranteed health care, i seriously want to hit the meth pipe myself.

@AbbyNormal: Jesus that's rough. It would be really hard to keep trying with them when they're so destructive. You have my sympathy.

Her family "let" her do drugs? Because, coming from an unfortunate lot of addicts, I can tell you that addicts will find a way, regardless of family intervention. Since I haven't seen the episode maybe I shouldn't comment until I know the context, but enabling someone you love by giving them a roof so they don't go sleep on the streets or prostitute themselves or whatever is quite different from simply abiding the abuse. It isn't usually a good idea to enable, but when it's your fam, you tend to lose perspective.