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Season 12 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Elena

Episode: 12x01 | Airdate: Aug 13, 2012 (43 min)

Elena

Elena, 63, has no intentions of stopping her daily meth addiction, even though her children and grandchildren desperately want their adoring grandmother to get well.

Epilogue: After assurances from her daughter and granddaughter that they too were entering treatment, Elena agreed to go. She completed three months of treatment, then returned home to California, where she now lives with and cares for her aged mother. Elena's granddaughter, Sarah, is the subject of episode 190.

Also listed as S13E02 on Wiki and Hulu.

Nichole

Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Aug 13, 2012 (43 min)

Nichole

Nichole, 25, has constant tremors due to a severe alcohol addiction as she struggles to overcome the pain of her sister s betrayal.

Katie

Episode: 12x03 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2012 (43 min)

Katie

Twenty-five year-old Katie uses her eating disorder and binge drinking to cope with her mother's secret alcoholism and parents war with each other while her worried siblings pray someone can step in and save them all.

Dennis

Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2012 (43 min)

Dennis

Once a big-hearted Christian family man, Dennis uses his meth addiction to run from the past that haunts him, while his family falls apart.

Diana

Episode: 12x05 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2012 (43 min)

Diana

Former "Super Mom" to her three children, Diana has exchanged her apron for an alcohol and meth addiction and is unraveling her marriage, family and sense of self-respect.

Britney & Terry K.

Episode: 12x06 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2012 (43 min)

Britney & Terry K.

A family begging her to get help and two overdoses in the last two weeks don t phase 21-year-old Britney as she fearlessly shoots up suboxone and bath salts up to 30 times a day. Terry, 32, is a chef who dreamed of opening and managing his own restaurant, but his career, marriage and parental rights to his nine-year-old daughter have hit a dead end as a result of his $500 a day cocaine and fentanyl addiction.

Amanda

Episode: 12x07 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2012 (43 min)

Amanda

Thirty-one year-old Amanda has exchanged her dreams of teaching for an alcohol and heroin addiction, while her family erupts in anger over her dad s chronic enabling.

Susie & Miriam

Episode: 12x08 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2012 (43 min)

Susie & Miriam

Attractive, charismatic 41year-old twins, Susie and Miriam, battle crack and alcohol addictions and each other as their career success and families slowly slip away.

Ryan

Episode: 12x09 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2012 (43 min)

Ryan

Ryan, 25, is a sweet, sensitive man whose alcohol addiction is spiraling out of control as he and his fiancé are expecting their first child in a matter of months.

Cher

Episode: 12x10 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2012 (43 min)

Cher

Loud and spunky 50 year-old Cher's alcohol addiction has led to liver damage and is driving a wedge between herself and her family.

Al

Episode: 12x11 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2012 (43 min)

Al

Al, a big guy with a big personality, is sacrificing his relationships with his wife and children to chase his out-of-control meth and painkiller addiction.

Megan H.

Episode: 12x12 | Airdate: Nov 19, 2012 (43 min)

Megan H.

Megan is a 24-year-old addict who turned to drugs to kill the excruciating pain she experienced as a young teen after her innocence was stolen by her mother's boyfriend. Today, Megan's life is at a critical point and she is facing a long stint in prison with her next mistake. Can Megan ever feel worthy of a different direction for her life and make the choices needed to stay out of the prison system?

Kelly

Episode: 12x13 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2012 (43 min)

Kelly

Kelly, a 27-year-old mother of three, mixes pills and meth to forget the man behind bars who destroyed her childhood. Can Kelly's family come together to help her face the painful past that consumes her?

Nick

Episode: 12x14 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2012 (43 min)

Nick

Nick, 23, uses his business talents to deal in heroin rather than business. Once the apple of his father's eye and destined to carry on his successful business practices, Nick's early rule-breaking and experimentation in drugs landed him as the black sheep of the family. Now abandoned by his family, Nick lives in a heroin daze, crossing the border into Mexico to get his next fix.

Sandi

Episode: 12x15 | Airdate: Dec 3, 2012 (43 min)

Sandi

Sandi, 64, is a vivacious, spunky and fun grandmother who loves gardening. But as her drinking escalates throughout the day, Sandi turns her gin-fueled anger on her 88-year-old mother and her 45-year-old daughter, alienating everyone in her wake. Can Sandi finally make peace with her estranged family and get the help she so desperately needs before it's too late?

Terry & Alissa

Episode: 12x16 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2012 (43 min)

Terry & Alissa

Charismatic businessman, spiritual leader and father, 56-year-old Terry is destroying his legacy with his crack addiction and taking his adoring son down with him. Alissa, 19 is a smart and fearless teenager who uses bath salts to mask her inner pain. Alissa must make peace with her estranged father in order to break free from her dangerous lifestyle and her self-destructive cycle.

Sarah P.

Episode: 12x17 | Airdate: Dec 17, 2012 (43 min)

Sarah P.

When her rock and best friend, her grandmother Elena, went away to treatment, Sarah, 21, spiraled out of control. Today, in denial of her own addiction, Sarah is on the same path of addiction her grandmother was on just six months ago. This cycle of addiction must stop in this family now, or unfortunately, Elena will pass on a legacy of addiction instead of recovery.

Tiffany

Episode: 12x18 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2013 (43 min)

Tiffany

Tiffany is a 19-year-old, doe-eyed, innocent looking young woman who treks to the seediest parts of Baltimore to score heroin while her family tries to pray the "devil" out of her.

Sean

Episode: 12x19 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2013 (43 min)

Sean

A gregarious man with an intense personality, 32 year-old Sean's alcohol addiction is causing him to blackout and suffer seizures, which have his wife and family on edge.

Andrew

Episode: 12x20 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2013 (43 min)

Andrew

In an Intervention first that reveals a surprising outcome, we reach out to 18-year-old Andrew who once dreamed of a military career, but now binges and purges up to 12 times a day.

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