Candy Finnigan

Alyson is a 27 year old girl who lives in Texas. After she graduated high school she was chosen to be a White House intern during the Clinton administration. It is rare that interns are asked back, Alyson was asked back three times. Alyson also had a full academic scholarship to Hofstra University. In college she met a boy named Richie with whom she fell in love with. Richie introduced her to many and all types of drugs including heroin and crack. Alyson then dropped out of college one semester before her graduation. She now lives at home with her mother and her severely ill father. She gets high everyday on whatever she can while she tries to contact her dangerous boyfriend who is now imprisoned. Alyson steals morphine from her dying father. She is tearing her family apart with her volatile behavior and drug use. Alyson cannot wake up or go to sleep without using, her only hope of living is to get intensive treatment immediately. Also available on A&E

Intervention is back for another powerful season, profiling people whose dependence on drugs and alcohol or other compulsive behavior has brought them to a point of personal crisis, and estranged them from their friends and loved ones. Each episode of this gripping series ends with a surprise intervention staged by family and friends of the addict, and conducted by one of two specialists: Jeff VanVonderen or Candy Finnigan.

Trying to stop the downward spiral of the addicts in their lives, families and friends stage interventions in this gripping reality series that reveals both the struggles of those attempting to kick addictions and the sacrifices of their loved ones.

The subjects filmed for this reality show display a variety of addictions. They are initially told that they're being filmed for a documentary, but the actual agenda is an intervention involving friends, relatives and counselors.