Jessie, a 21 year old college student studying medicine and hopes of working in medical field, has been bulimic for 3 years. She eats everything and anything she can get, and purges up to 3 times a day. She was forced to leave college, and was kicked out of her sorority for eating everyones share of food. Then she was kicked out of her parent's house because they couldn't afford to feed her anymore. Now she works as a hostess by day, and secretly is a stripper by night to support her disorder. Laurie, a mother of 3, is addicted to pain killers. She takes a variety of pills daily, up to 10 a day. Now her children live with her parents because they were taken away from Laurie. Both girls families' have interventions to save there lives, and both agree to the terms.
Genres: Documentary , Reality
Keywords: addiction , intervention , addiction-recovery , alcohol-abuse , alienation , anxious , apologetic , bad-habits , candid , cautionary , coping-mechanisms , coping-with-grief , disapproving , disheartening , disturbed , drug-addiction , drug-rehabilitation , dubious , familiar , family-dynamics , family-tensions , frustrated , group-intervention , hard , intimate , introspective , misery , narcotic-abuse , psychological-trauma , reflective , television-documentary