As much as I love the show, I'm beginning to see a pattern in "Intervention." 99.99% of the subjects are white middle-class people who literally have nothing better to do than to succumb to vice. From watching this show you would think the crack epidemic is hitting white people worst of all. I guess the producers don't want to track black or latino addicts through the areas where addiction and depression are most rampant. Where's the fun in that? Better to follow around a 32 year old infant running around with his bottle, his mommy and daddy chasing him in case he trips on the rug.
I've also noticed that most of these people are not hurting for cash. At all. I've seen 4-5 episodes already where the meth addict is living off court settlement money from a car crash (that they did not cause, of course). The others are supported by their parents, who are independently wealthy. I'll give kudos to some of the hard working families I've seen on the show, but they are the exception, not the rule. Most of them don't work and while the rest of us get squeezed under the grind, these Victims of Nobody have time to shoot heroine and make themselves puke into the toilet. If half of these guys had a fucking job their drug troubles would be over. Put down the pipe, get off your ass, and make... a what? A living. Yes. A living, to keep yourself from dying. Put that in your pipe and hit it.
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