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[suspenseful music]
Christine: I am the mom here.
I don't mean to be pushy, but responsibility--
That's got to come first.
Joe: Christine, her boyfriend, chantal, and my other two boys,
Jordan and joey, all live together
In a small studio apartment.
Jordan: My family is pretty tight knit,
But everybody who lives in the apartment
Is addicted to fentanyl.
[suspenseful music]
Chantal: I shoot up five or six times a day.
Oh.
Let me see your torch.
I was using meth probably 20 years
Before I ever tried fentanyl.
I hope my dad doesn't see that.
Joe: The day a parent uses drugs with their child
Is kind of shocking.
What's your name.
Last time joey od'ed, took two narcan.
My role is to make sure they keep living.
Christine: Overdoses started happening more and more
In the last year, and I know it's because she's
Away from her son.
I've chosen drugs over my son.
Joe: Jordan. - Yeah.
You want to come outside and help me?
Wait, 'cause I'm going to take a hit.
My dad's worried about all of us, but he's kind of just
Grown to accept the fact that he can't change what we do.
Joe: What I do now for them is virtually nothing.
You 100% enabled them.
Sylvia parsons: I am working this intervention
With ken seeley because this is a really tough one.
Do you think joe has addiction issues?
How can you not?
[music playing]
So I have to ask you, because you're
Around a lot of drug use.
Are you using drugs now?
No.
I don't use the drugs.
I don't use-- they do nothing to me.
I'll go through the motions, but I don't use drugs.
It's not making sense to me because you
Said you don't do drugs, but--
--But I'll pick up the pipe.
I don't do anything.
Look in my eyes do I look like I'm a methamphetamine?
Ken seeley: It's a yes or no question.
Are you doing drugs and drinking right now?
To me that's a tough answer.
It's a yes or no question.
Are you-- - ok.
--Drinking and doing drugs right now?
I will take a drink of alcohol,
And I will take a hit of meth.
Ken seeley: And how often?
Today I took two hits of meth.
Yesterday I took a few hits of meth, too.
Ken seeley: With five people using fentanyl,
And dad using meth, this is one of the biggest
Interventions in my career.
I am surprised that they haven't lost one or more
Of their family members from their addiction.
And we got to move quickly on this, because I don't
Think they have much longer.
[suspenseful music]
The problem is is that joe dabbling into meth,
And drinking on and off--
When you talk about denial.
He thinks he's the savior in the family,
And he can't connect the dots.
It sounds like he's doing a lot of enabling,
But he's using that enabling concept to feel like he's
Helping the family, but really it's feeding his addiction.
And that is an addiction.
He's addicted to taking care of them,
But taking care of that family is really killing that family.
Sylvia parsons: I think it's very important that we address
Joe's addiction and get him into treatment,
Because they all need to go.
And if they don't all go, then the family will not get well.
They will not get healthy.
[music playing]
Chantal: My family moved into the apartment
That we're in right now about three years ago.
Every one around here is such pigs.
It's crazy.
We live in such small quarters that everyone
Needs to be cleaning up for themselves
At all [bleep] times.
I love my family members, but the apartment-- it's just
So small, and there's no room.
Joey: Joey, you got the lighter?
Thank you.
I spend a lot of time with my family.
On average, I'm here about four nights a week
I'm trying to have another life, but my family is priority.
Christine: Even though joe and I are divorced,
We have three beautiful children together.
Joe: There was a time when we were
A normal family, did everything you're supposed to do.
Barbecues, friends, soccer games on saturdays.
Those days are over.
Chantal: Everyone who lives in the apartment is
Addicted to fentanyl and meth.
[suspenseful music]
Jordan: Mom?
Christine: Yeah?
Jordan: Do you have a lighter?
Christine: Yes.
I have something to smoke out of.
I never in a million years thought
That I would be--
Thank you.
Chantal: --But it's become just natural to us now.
It's just us kind of bonding.
Here you go.
Fentanyl has just absolutely destroyed our family.
My daughter and her children--
Their drug use has become normalized,
And it has brought them all together.
It's just absolutely heartbreaking.
Joe: Hey, jordan.
Jordan.
What?
Joe: You want to come help me?
Oh, not right this second. Joe: Ok.
Joey, you want to help? - I'll help you in a minute.
Joe: Christine, do you want to help?
Dad, I'll help you. I will help you.
Joe: All right. I'm just asking.
Ok. Joe: I'm just asking.
Christine: Fentanyl has made my family
Incapable of doing anything.
It's-- it's debilitating.
Joe: They have no life anymore.
They can't do anything without thinking about their drugs.
They're always there, always ready to take a hit.
I'm thinking this is about done.
Christine, you want to come eat? Jordan: Oh.
Yeah, yeah. We're coming right now.
Coming to eat.
What is this?
Are those hot dogs?
Look.
He overcooks everything.
Look at that.
Almost burned.
When my dad comes around, it's a little different
Than it is with my mother.
Our relationship is, like, we use drugs together, me
And my mom, but me and my dad had never
Really had that relationship.
But he's got a drug addiction like the rest of us,
And he just doesn't like to admit it.
I don't know why.
Joe: I wanted them to come out, but I knew that they wouldn't
Because they'd have to leave their drugs
For a whole 10 minutes.
Thank you, joe.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Christine: Did you just take my foil?
It just shows you that the drugs
Have taken over every aspect of everything in their lives.
Thank you.
Yeah. Joey, are you going to eat?
Joey, you want to eat a burger with us?
Joey: No.
[suspenseful music]
Hamburgers are good.
Why won't you eat?
Celeste: For the last few years, joey
Has had episodes of drug-induced schizophrenia, where he's
Really mental and incoherent.
It's very scary.
I love my brother, but I worry about him.
He's always stealing drugs from every one of my family members.
Beep, beep.
Coming through.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Why do you have my cottons in your hand?
I came out of the bathroom and joey
Had my cottons in his hand and my personal spoon
That I use for my shots.
Put it all down.
No.
It worries me that joey is going to do this to the wrong person,
And end up dead somewhere and in a ditch.
What did he just--
You're not taking your sister's bong, you're smoking it.
You have no business to do speed at all.
None.
You're (bleep).
Get out of my room.
I don't like who you are when you are smoking speed.
You're mean.
You're miserable.
You make up conspiracy theories in your head that aren't true.
Jordan: Joey, he's so paranoid all the time for some reason.
It's just hard for us to be in a studio apartment with him.
You're my [bleep] brother.
Don't make me scared to be around you.
Ileen: Intervention is so important because they're
All out of control.
[door kicked]
If I lost any of them, I would die.
I would die.
Fentanyl and speed--
I'm in love with it.
Dylann: Drugs normally tear families apart,
But with my family it's brought in them together.
They are all enabling each other,
And making each other more sick.
Here.
If any one of them die, the rest of them
Will have no reason to live.
No doubt in my mind at all, whatsoever.
We will lose them all.
Christine: Chantal, you're going to find out in life there's not
Too many people you can trust, and you have to be careful
Who you let in your life.
I'm co-dependent.
I need someone.
You got me.
I'll be here.
I need a man.
Christine: No, you don't need a man.
That's the worst thing you can say.
You know, what you're missing in your life is your son.
My grandson is eight now.
I know that he wants to know where his mother is.
He loves her, and he needs her.
Chantal: It's been about four years since I've seen my son.
The time that we had together was so--
Just-- sorry.
So blessing, but so unfair.
Like we were best friends, and like just abruptly
One day we're-- we're--
Like just split up.
Four years raising him, four years without him.
Yeah.
I understand, chantal.
I do, but--
You don't, though, because you had your kids
When you were on drugs.
Christine: I did have my kids, but--
I know.
Christine: I probably should have
Let someone else raise them, and maybe
They wouldn't be on drugs.
Chantal: Exactly my point.
I just hope that one day I can sit
Down and explain everything to him, and that he'll understand.
And I hope that he will because I did with my mom,
And I gave her a chance, and now she's my best friend.
Ow, that that burnt for some reason.
Sylvia parsons: It's good to see you.
Ileen: It's good to see you.
Sylvia parsons: This is the largest
Intervention I've ever done.
In all of my experience in the field of addiction,
I've never seen a family as sick and broken as this family.
So I'd like to start it off with opening it up
Where you guys tell us what has been going on.
I've worried about them since I was nine years old,
And first became aware of what they were doing.
Ken seeley: How long has it been since you've seen them?
I saw joey a few years ago.
When was the last time you talked to him?
Less than a month ago we talked on the phone.
I'm really close to joey and we keep in contact.
Joey could have done anything he ever wanted to,
But I don't think joey ever had a chance
Growing up in this situation.
I had a nephew that just passed away a couple of weeks
Ago from overdose of fentanyl.
In california it's so big because we have los angeles,
San francisco, and mexico.
Those are the three big ports that it's
Coming in from, so you're right in the mecca of it all.
It's a miracle that they're all still here
For us to be able to do this.
Where do they get the money for these drugs?
It began with me supporting them,
Giving them what they asked for.
If I wanted them to eat or get out of bed,
They had to have it, and then I'd go get it.
And so I had to do it.
Ken seeley: That type of enabling is called nursing
Your loved ones to death.
Joe: I recognize that it's killing them.
That's why I got to pull back.
Sylvia parsons: Ok.
You need to put your foot down and keep it down.
None of the sober family members know
That joe is addicted to meth.
He has a lot of denial issues.
He enables his children by using with them.
He doesn't know we're going to intervene on him tomorrow
As well, but that's something we'll have to discuss
With everyone after he leaves.
So tomorrow, the way this is going to work
Is we're going to stagger the interventions.
We want mom to come in first and her boyfriend tim
Because we think christine's going to want some help.
So now she's going to say at chantal's intervention,
I'm going to get help.
I really want you to go get help.
And then we'll do the boys last.
We'll do them together.
And the reason we're doing it this way
Because I really think that the boys are
Going to be the hardest ones.
Jordan and joey got addicted so early
In life they have never experienced seeing what
A normal upbringing would be, and getting sober
Could be a really scary concept to them.
So we'll break it down to the three interventions,
Instead of just the one.
That's perfect.
You guys probably did it all.
It's about six grams of fentanyl.
I don't know.
However much I feel like putting it in.
Definitely things like losing my son.
Ken seeley: How are we going to change
The cycle of this family system so it doesn't
Go on to other generations?
Have any of you did drugs?
Have you did drugs with your siblings,
Or-- so you're the only one?
You want to explain it to them?
It's too complex to explain.
People understand my words, but they
Don't understand the situation.
Yesterday they're passing the pipe around.
I took a hit or two.
It wasn't enough to do anything to me and I don't even--
I didn't even fully inhale or take a hit like they do.
It was just that I'm one of them still.
And they can accept me and allow me to be in their world
And I can understand them better.
It doesn't mean that you smoke with them.
No, that doesn't mean you are taking it?
What do you hear your dad saying?
I hear excuses.
He doesn't like to be confronted that he has addiction issues
And he won't admit it.
Makes it continue to be ok.
But that's not what it is.
If it were, I would admit it.
Dylann: It was devastating when I found out
That my dad was using drugs.
I think he's in denial about his addiction
Because it's so normal to him.
If they got better I wouldn't have a problem because I
Wouldn't know what to do.
You're addicted and taking care of them
And, that is just as powerful as shooting fentanyl in your arm.
Sylvia and I could see that joe is struggling,
So once he's gone we're going to regroup the family
And let them know that we're going to offer joe help, too.
But the reality is is he's really sick,
And they're not going to get better
If he doesn't get better.
So we're going to offer him treatment tomorrow, too,
And we need to ask you tonight when you're writing letters
To also write him a letter.
And this way, everybody goes.
So tomorrow we're going to have you guys
Start with your letters to him.
This is going to be the largest intervention I have ever done
In my career of over 20 years.
All it will take is one to say no
And it's going to have a domino effect.
So it's do or die.
They don't really have any other options.
They're all going to treatment or they're all going
To end up overdosing and dying.
Jordan: Chantal.
Hey, chan.
Chantal?
Chantal has overdosed on fentanyl quite a few times,
So I always try to keep narcan with me or around me
Or put it on the wall so you can't miss it.
I've saved chantal's life about close to five times myself.
It's scary.
Is she breathing?
Sylvia parsons: We've talked about a lot of things
The last couple of days, and I know a lot of things
Have been on your mind.
So joe, we want to talk to you for a few minutes, ok?
Joe has no idea we're starting today's intervention with him,
But it's really important for us to get him the help
That he needs because if they all go to treatment
And he's left behind, he will fall deeper
Into his disease of addiction.
This family loves you and today they want to honor you.
Ok.
Dylann.
Dear dad, I'm writing to you today because I love you.
It's so heartbreaking the way this life
Has become normal to you.
I want to have a closer relationship with you.
I want to be proud to call you my dad.
Do this for my siblings.
They need you.
I need you. Will you please, please get help today?
So what they've offered is a treatment center for 90 days,
Just like your kids.
New dawn treatment center in fair oaks,
California for 90 days.
Sylvia parsons: If you go, joe, your children
Will also follow you.
[sighs].
I'll take care of everything, joe.
Don't worry about anything.
Just take care of you. - There's a lot to take care of.
I know.
I've been preparing for it.
I'm ok.
It'll be ok.
So joe, it's a yes or no question.
I stay for this the rest of this, right?
Ken seeley: Of course.
You're going to lead by example, and you're going to tell
Your kids you're going, too.
I'd like to go.
Sylvia parsons: Yes.
I think that's a yes.
Ileen: Oh, my sweet joe.
Oh, my sweet joe.
Joe: I'm not prepared to go, but I realize I've got to.
I can't expect these guys to go, and not
Be willing to do the same.
Ken seeley: Now you're going to be
Able to read your letters to your kids and say,
I'm going to treatment.
I'm leaving when everyone else leaves.
Dylann: I think my dad said yes because he knows that it will
Help my other siblings get help, and I think that's really
All he's ever cared about.
Thank you.
Christine: Are you ready, tim?
We'll be back in a couple of hours.
Tim: A couple of hours?
[music playing]
So how is everybody feeling?
Dylann: A little anxious.
Nervous.
I just want to get them in here.
Joe.
Don't give her an out.
Joe: I'm not going to give her an out.
[music playing]
Oh.
Christine: Hey, ma.
Joe: Hello, people.
My name's ken.
And I'm sylvia.
We've been working with your family for a couple of days
Now, ok?
And they've written letters to you
And we would like for you to listen, ok?
Ileen, would you like to read something to your daughter?
Dear christine, I am more than concerned about you.
I am terrified.
I cannot lose you to addiction.
I cannot lose my grandchildren to addiction.
The help is here now, and was sent by our heavenly father.
Sylvia parsons: Christine, we'd like to get you some help.
Ok.
Would you like to go get better?
Would you like decent treatment?
Sure.
Sylvia parsons: Yes.
Oh, thank goodness.
[clapping]
Ileen: I can do it.
I know.
She's been waiting for this day
For a long time for treatment.
Joe: I'm going, too.
Ileen: I figured.
I'm just absolutely delighted, and belated, and grateful.
Ken seeley: And tim, what about you?
Do you think you need help?
Sure.
Ken seeley: Ok.
Because we also have a place lined up
For you if you're interested.
Tim: Sure.
[clapping]
Ken seeley: So the place in san diego
Is health, life, recovery, and they're outside waiting for you
To take you to treatment.
Our christine is going to stay because we need her support
In the next few things that are getting ready to happen,
But christine, you can go outside and say goodbye to him.
Ileen: When tim said yes, I was so happy
Because I know how much that means to christine's
Treatment and success.
Am I going to go back to the house?
If there's anything you need, we'll
Have it sent to you after.
One of the family members is going to go through the house
And put together everybody's personal things.
I can't go.
I'm not going to go now.
I'm not going now.
I'm not going to san diego.
Ken seeley: If tim doesn't go, then christine may not go,
And then if christine doesn't go,
Her boys are definitely not going to go.
And it's going to be a domino effect
Sabotaging everybody's chances of getting into recovery.
I'm not going to go.
What do you mean you're not going to go?
I got other things I got to take care of first
Before I can just bounce.
She can't be around you if you're a loader.
I know. That's fine.
So you're breaking up with her right now?
Tim, I've invested 10 years with you.
Ken seeley: So she's sitting here right now
Waiting for you to go to detox.
Yeah.
It's about getting sober, so she'll have somebody
To come home that's sober, too.
Christine: Tim.
I'm going to go.
Sylvia parsons: This family has some serious co-dependency.
Just like christine as a unit with her family, her children,
She's also a unit with tim, her boyfriend.
And it is very important that tim
Go to treatment, so christine will go to treatment.
Ken seeley: Bye, guys.
Thank you.
I love you, tim.
Thank you.
We can do this.
Thank you.
I don't know if he would have got in there without you.
[music playing]
I'm going to take off.
I'll see you guys in a couple of hours.
[music playing]
Today I brought my bong.
This should help keep me awake.
All right.
My legs are weak.
[music playing]
Oh, my god.
You're so beautiful.
Let's you right in there
In between your mom and dad?
Ken seeley: And my name's ken.
Sylvia parsons: And I'm sylvia.
Ken seeley: And we were called in by your family
To see if we could help you guys and see if there's anything we
Could do, because it sounds like there's a lot
Of suffering in this family.
Dylann, did you have something you wanted to say?
Dear chantal, I'm here today because
Of the unconditional love that I have for you.
I remember when I first got to meet your son,
My nephew, he was only a few weeks old.
I saw the light in your eyes when you looked at him,
And you were an amazing mother.
You were so joyful and proud to have made
That amazing little boy, and I can't
Imagine the hurt you feel that he's no longer in your life.
My beautiful sister, drugs have taken you from me for so long.
Chantal, I love you, my beautiful, shining sister.
I love you too.
Dad, do you want to go?
Dear chantal, where is my little trooper?
You've been on the brink of death too many times.
I'm sorry this disease has gotten the best of both of us.
I'm sorry I couldn't continue to be your rock.
Please take this gift and run with it,
All the way back to your son who's waiting
For you at the finish line.
I'm going, too.
Will you please go today?
A fresh new start.
Ken seeley: Even though I know it's really hard that you
Walked away from your son for all these years,
You did the right thing.
But now it's time to come back and come back healthy.
Sylvia parsons: Everybody in this room
Knows how desperately you need help, but you need to say yes.
You need to say you will go.
I'll go.
You'll go?
Dylann: When I heard chantal say yes, I felt a lot of relief,
And I was just really excited.
Chantal: I'm sorry.
I never meant to hurt you.
Sylvia parsons: We have been in a marathon of interventions--
Eight straight hours.
So far, we've gotten four people to say yes to treatment,
But there are a number of things that could
Go wrong with this next one.
So what we'd like to do now is do the intervention
On your brothers, and we realize they're
Going to be the harder ones.
Yeah.
With you participating in their intervention
It's going to make all the difference.
Oh, I knew my daughter chantal was ready to go to rehab,
And now that her brothers will have something to look up to,
I'm hoping jordan and joey will make the right choice.
Sylvia parsons: Hey.
And both chantal and her mom have said if the boys don't go,
They're not going to go, and we're
A little afraid that they're going
To backtrack on their illness.
Oh, my god.
We've got to get him out of here right now.
Ok. Let's get the van.
Sylvia and I wanted to get joe, chantal, and christine out
Of the house because if those boys
Say no, they would change their mind and they wouldn't go.
[music playing]
Ken seeley: So everybody has flights
That are already booked, and these are
The last flights of the day.
As long as we can get joey going,
That's the most important.
Sylvia parsons: We'll do it.
Y'all are going to have to go get on your flight.
Like right now, so--
I'm not going to leave without seeing my son,
Because he doesn't trust anybody.
But we've got to get you to treatment,
Otherwise you'll miss your flight.
Sylvia parsons: You know, then it's going to be
The same old thing over again.
You're going to go back to the house.
They won't.
Celeste: He'll trust us christine because he'll
Know you're gone and doing it. - They're going to be here.
She's going to be here.
And we I promise.
I'm not going to fight. I'm not going to fight with you.
Sylvia parsons: Don't fight it. - I'm not going to fight it.
Sylvia parsons: No, don't fight it.
Dad, you got to go, too.
Come on.
Ken seeley: Give them to somebody
And they'll read the letters for you.
Celeste: Ken and sylvia decided to get joe, christine,
And chantal out of here pretty quickly
Before joey and jordan got here at the last minute,
And I think that was exactly what needed to be done.
Ileen: I'm so proud of you, chan.
You're going to be alive and well to see your son.
That's so important. - Yes.
Yes.
You don't have to worry about that now.
Ken seeley: Having so many family members addicted,
And not only addicted, but co-dependent--
Christine: As long as my boys go.
We're going to take care of them.
I won't jump ship as long as I know, they're there.
Ken seeley: Every one of them is so
Enmeshed in each other's life that without them being
Separated, there's no chance that they're ever
Going to get into recovery.
Jordan: What's wrong, bro?
Let's get this over with.
Come on.
[music playing]
Jordan: There you go.
My concern is I think joey's not going to really
Understand what's happening.
In psychosis, they don't really connect the dots.
I will do whatever it takes.
We'll have to just keep pushing them.
I need to figure out what I'm going to do for more dope.
No money to get dope, and I honestly don't know what to do.
Sylvia parsons: Dylann.
You want to go, babe?
[music playing]
Oh, hello.
Oh. My gosh.
Jordan, hi.
Hey, how are you doing?
Good.
So good.
Hi.
Sylvia parsons: Come right over here, and sit beside dylann.
Ken seeley: So they've been trying to think of a way
To help you guys because they realize everybody's been
Suffering a little bit, and a lot of stress in your lives,
And they just want to help.
So they each wrote a little something
Down, if you don't mind, if--
Jordan: Let's do it.
This is to both of you from your dad.
Dear joey and jordan, I am sorry I let you both down.
I'm sorry I gave up on being a strong role model for you
When you needed to look up to me.
I'm sorry I lacked the ability and knowledge
To save my precious little boys from the world,
And all of its temptations.
That's from your dad.
I'd like to hear dylann read next.
Dear joey, I'm here today because I love
You more than you'll ever know.
You are the closest sibling to me.
I am angry at the way that drugs have
Stolen so much time from us.
Every time dad updates me on how you're doing,
It's always worse and worse.
I don't want to have to bury my brother having so few memories.
I can't wait to see the beautiful person
You blossom into with sobriety--
The person you were always meant to be.
I love you, joey.
My sweet guardian angel.
Sylvia parsons: So after you've listened to your family,
Do you want to go get some help?
Where's chantal?
Chantal's already on her way to treatment.
She is?
Sylvia parsons: Yes.
Ken seeley: She said yes.
She's flying there with a nurse.
Your mom is going to a beautiful place in utah.
Your father has already left and gone to treatment.
Even tim went to treatment today.
So everybody's going to a different place?
Everybody goes to a different place.
When you come back after 90 days and you all are healthy.
All right.
I'll go.
[clapping]
Sylvia parsons: Yay!
Ileen: Of course you'll go.
Of course you'll go.
Cathleen: It's overwhelming to see jordan get emotional.
It's like he's been carrying a lot of baggage,
And to see that just lift-- it was amazing.
Do you want to go get some help?
I don't know.
Your mother, your sister chantal, and your father
Have already gone.
And they are not going to stay where they
Are, joey, unless you also go.
Because they're all worried about you.
You can do this.
I just can't make a decision right now.
I can't make a decision right now.
Do you want to go outside and smoke a cigarette?
Yeah.
Celeste: Jordan said yes, and I was hoping that that would
Influence joey, but I am concerned that joey is going
To turn down the help right now, and that
If we don't get him in a van tonight, that he may never go.
Did you hear the letters?
No one's going to be able to go to treatment knowing that
You're out here on the streets.
We've never had an opportunity like this.
What do you want to smoke one more time or something?
You want to get high again?
Ken seeley: Jordan has said yes, and the only one we have left
Is joey.
And that's going to be the tough one because he seems very
Paranoid, and I'm afraid that he's not
Going to understand what is happening,
And he's going to refuse to go to treatment.
So jordan you got to get on the flight.
Ok.
So we've got to get you on the road right away.
Ok.
Bye, dylann.
I love you.
I love you, too.
I'm so proud of you.
Are you really going?
I love you, jordan.
I love you, too.
We'll let you know where he is and that he's ok.
Sylvia parsons: Bye, jordan. Bye
Bye. [interposing voices]
I love you, too.
[somber music]
Joey?
Yeah.
You want to go?
They're all gone.
Yeah, I mean, I'll go, I guess, but--
Sylvia parsons: Yay.
Ok.
Woo!
[clapping]
I love you.
Grandma loves you.
Sylvia parsons: Joey was difficult as we anticipated,
But his sister, dylann, said she would ride
With him to treatment, and that was what
Finally got him in the car.
I love you, grandma.
Bye.
I love you guys.
Sylvia parsons: You did good. - Get better.
Ken seeley: Good job, joey. Ileen: Bye.
Love you! So proud of you.
Ken seeley: Good job.
Getting six addicts to say yes to treatment today is huge,
But getting this family into detox is only the first step,
And I really hope that they could stick with it
And start a whole new chapter of their lives.
Dylann: You know I love you.
Joey: Yeah, I love you, too.
[somber music]
Jordan, I'm so proud of you.
How are you?
He's on his way to palm springs and dylann's with him
To keep calm.
All right.
I love you.
[somber music]
I feel like right now is the perfect opportunity for there
To actually be light at the end of the tunnel
For not just me, but for my family.
To know that they're doing what I'm doing is encouraging.
It gives me peace of mind, but it's not going
To change how much I miss them.
Hello.
Hi.
Any time you deal with multiple family members
That struggle with substance use disorder,
It's really difficult for those individuals
To separate their recovery from their family members recovery,
And it's going to be really important for chantal to learn
To set boundaries, so that she can maintain recovery
Whether any of her family does or not.
[somber music]
Christine: I'm ecstatic for joey.
I'm so happy he accepted treatment.
And my other two, jordan and chantal,
I'm very proud of the choice they made today.
Christine, welcome to recovery ways.
Thank you.
Christine, this is farrah.
She's going to do your admission with you.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Christine has to learn to clear her mind of all
The other stuff, so that she can be helpful to herself,
And then the challenge of being able to help
Those around her, too.
Christine: I think I'll be able to sleep
Very well tonight knowing my children are all in treatment.
[upbeat guitar music]
Joey: Oh, that was nice.
Now that I'm in treatment.
I feel healthier.
I feel more joy.
I feel more coherent.
I feel like I have better focus.
Nice.
In there, right?
Right in there.
Joey's mental state has really, really improved
In the last two months.
When joey arrived, he was in psychosis, and thank god,
When he was detoxed, those symptoms dissipated,
And joey hasn't had any of those symptoms since he's been here.
Well, I have some really good news for you.
You're going to get ready to transition
Over to our outpatient program.
You've met all of the expectations
From a clinical perspective.
Yeah, I'm so stoked on that.
That's what's up.
Ken seeley: Even though joey is doing great,
The rest of the family is not.
With the exception of christine's boyfriend, tim,
They all left treatment within a few weeks.
What has it been like knowing that you made the decision
To stay in treatment even though your other family
Members are not still in treatment
At the current moment?
It was messing with me a little bit,
Because I was like, I wanted to go do the same thing,
But I'm not going to do that.
I think joey's biggest challenge moving forward
Is going to be staying away from his family members
That decide to stay out using.
Joe: I was at kemah palms for about 19 days
And it was amazing, but I thought
That I was willing and ready.
But getting off of fentanyl-- it was really hard for me,
And since returning back to california,
I've also returned back to using.
I'm still way more open minded to recovery in the future,
But the fact of the matter is I don't have my son in my life,
And that is my reason for life.
So I'm not giving up.
Jordan: I went to oregon trail recovery,
And I stayed for about 24 days, but
Knowing that my sister left, and I found out my mom
Had left, too.
So everyone was leaving one by one.
I mean, the whole point of it was to all get sober together
And that just wasn't going to be a reality anymore so I just
Didn't see a point to be there.
The future I want for myself is just to be off drugs one day,
To be able to support myself.
Ken seeley: The reality is fentanyl
Is the most potent drug there is,
And that means it's one of the most difficult addictions
To kick.
So even though jordan and chantal left treatment,
I'm hoping that they tap into that experience that they had,
And they go back and they continue to work on themselves.
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