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[tense music]

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Being in a relationship
is difficult enough.

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Add to it addiction,
and you have

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a perfect recipe for a
tornado to come that you're

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not gonna be able to stop.

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There's that old saying,
misery loves company.

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I can't see it being anything
other than a nightmare.

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The worst hell you have
ever had in your entire life.

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[tense music]

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Couples in their addiction
just tear each other apart.

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You were done with that.

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We were done with that,
and you brought it back!

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The dishonesty.

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(Bleep).

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I'm going.

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I'm done.

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- The manipulation.
- The fighting.

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I got these.

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It was your fault!

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And the codependency is deep.

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The only thing harder
than fighting an addiction

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is fighting codependency
at the same time.

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[tense music]

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They're playing
that dance of death,

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and they're killing each other.

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[tense music]

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I met Garrett because he
was supplying me with drugs.

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We've been together
for almost four years.

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- Shantell?
- Hmm?

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OK, she's already slumped.

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So much of their relationship
is focused on that drug.

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There's no way
of telling how much

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fentanyl is in these pills.

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Garrett has been addicted to
drugs for upwards of 10 years.

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Shantell has probably been
addicted to drugs six years.

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How did you even get
that one off of me?

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Dummy, you still have yours.

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Our addiction just makes
us fight way too much.

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At least hold my
[bleep] hand, dude.

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[bleep] you.

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Their relationship
has literally

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been founded in drug addiction.

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[tense music]

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And I'm gonna ask you,
please, accept this help.

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This is my dying wish, for you
to fight for your life as well.

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I need to go step outside.

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No, I don't want to
hear any bull-[bleep]

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you guys have to say.

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So get away from me!

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Staying on this track, they're
either gonna go to jail or die.

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[tense music]

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My name is Garrett.

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I'm 29.

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And my name is
Shantell, and I'm 26,

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and we both live in
Omak, Washington.

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(SINGING)
Skidamarink-a-dink-a dink-a,

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dink-a, skidamarink-a-doo.

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I love you.

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I love you in the morning--

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(SINGING) --and
in the afternoon.

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You don't want to
skidamarink-a-dink with me?

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No.

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Garrett is my boyfriend,
and we've been

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together for almost four years.

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- Hi.
- Hello.

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Hello.

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He brings happiness to my life.

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[chuckles] And he
supports me in,

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like, whatever I want to do.

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Can I get a 12-ounce
white chocolate mocha?

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Yeah.

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What I love about Shantell
is that we can be ourselves.

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She is my best friend.

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We do everything together,
and without her in my life,

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it would be a lot
more depressing.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Things would be a lot harder.

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Right now, me and Garrett are
addicted to fentanyl and meth.

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Garrett and Shantell
definitely fuel each other

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in the whole situation.

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I don't know if they're
addicted to each other's company

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or more so just the
using, but I don't

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believe Garrett
and Shantell would

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be together without the drugs.

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Dude, at least walk and
hold my [bleep] hand, dude.

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[bleep] you!

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Dude, why do you always
got to [bleep] argue?

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Then don't be with me.

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I don't want to, not when
you're [bleep] being like this,

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no.

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OK, then we're done.

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I don't know what
Shantell sees in Garrett.

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I've asked myself
that a million times.

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I've even asked her that,
but I never get a answer.

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I think right now, it just
is someone to do drugs with.

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Piece of [bleep].

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[bleep] you.

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I'm [bleep] done with you.

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I'm done with this house.

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When there's tension
in our relationship,

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it's usually over drugs.

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Like, usually being out of
drugs, being stressed out,

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like, how we're gonna
get money to get drugs.

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[tense music]

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It takes over your life.

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Once you're using it, everything
revolves around fentanyl.

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We use anywhere from 10 to
20 pills a piece every day.

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[tense music]

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We need to have it in
order to do anything.

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To function normally,
not be withdrawing or sick.

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We also use meth,
and we probably

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do about a half gram a day.

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We just use meth
to wake ourselves up

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because the fentanyl
pills pass us out so much.

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[tense music]

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I believe Garrett has been
addicted to some form of drugs

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for upwards of 10 years.

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I think Garrett's been
numbing the pain of a lot

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of things he's experienced.

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And I just don't think
Garrett has the coping skills

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to face a lot of
the traumatic issues

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that have happened in his life.

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Physical changes I've
noticed in Garrett?

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Definitely his gray hair.

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He's pretty much
completely gray now.

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He's skinnier.

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And his drug use is on
a steady downhill slope.

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[tense music]

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Shantell's never came out and
said exactly what she's doing.

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I thought it was just THC,
marijuana, so on and so forth.

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I had no idea that it was
progressively getting worse.

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Shantell?

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Hmm?

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Here.

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OK, she's already slumped.

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When I first tried fentanyl,
that was probably, like,

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the highest I've ever been.

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It just kind of made
me stop thinking

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about everything for a minute
that was going on in my life.

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[tense music]

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I've noticed a lot of
changes in Shantell's

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physical appearance
because of the drug use.

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The weight gain,
the weight loss.

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She does have a lot of little
sores and stuff on her face,

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and her teeth are
pretty much gone.

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Yeah, it makes me
really embarrassed.

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It sucks.

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[chuckles]

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It's pissing
her off right now.

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I can tell.
- Yeah.

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[chuckles]

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The last three
years, Shantell's

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been arrested at least two
times that I'm aware of,

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and she ended up with a
felony for identity theft

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for check cashing.

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To pay for drugs, Shantell
has done a lot of rotten things.

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She's stolen money from me.

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She's stolen money
from the whole family.

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I mean, God only knows
what she's done for money.

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I don't like to think about it.

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35 bucks.

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I spent the rest of the
hundred and freaking 20

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that I got from my mom.

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I help Garrett and Shantell
financially every month,

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even though I'm just
on a fixed income.

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I give them money
to do yard work,

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and then that doesn't get done.

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I think this is
their last chance.

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I don't think they
can make it much

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further if they don't get help.

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[tense music]

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Their relationship
is not a healthy one.

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Staying on this track, you're
either gonna go to jail or die.

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[tense music]

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There it is.

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I really like
playing basketball.

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Basketball was, like,
my favorite sport

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once I started playing it.

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I should have started
playing a lot sooner.

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I started playing
for Omak High School.

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I played up until
my 11th grade year.

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Garrett excels at sports.

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I really thought Garrett,
when he was younger,

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would become some
type of athlete.

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But he just ended
up tucking it away.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God, dude.

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Dude--

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I've only known
Shantell in addiction.

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- Yeah.
- So I don't--

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I don't know.

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It's in the car.

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The sickness
really [bleep] sucks.

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I wish I would have never
taken that first hit

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and gotten into it.

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[tense music]

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It's not good.

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It's not the life
I wanted to live.

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[tense music]

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Garrett was a cute baby.

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He was big.

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He was 8 and 1/2 pounds.

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Garrett and I were always
basically hand-in-hand

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everywhere we went.

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Hunting, fishing, hiking,
being out in the mountains.

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We learned a lot
of stuff from my dad,

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and it got us to
be a lot closer.

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But life was pretty
rough, I guess

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you could say, growing up.

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It wasn't normal at all.

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[chuckles]

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Their dad and I had a
very volatile relationship.

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There was physical abuse.

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There was mental abuse.

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But we also used together.

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My mom's also an addict,
and my dad was, too.

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Addiction was pretty
prevalent in our lives.

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Ever since I
could remember, they

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were both addicted to cocaine.

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The cocaine is what
destroyed our relationship.

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And Garrett was four and a half
when their dad and I broke up.

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Once my parents split up,
we moved around quite a bit.

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Going house to house, school
to school for over eight years.

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It was unstable.

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It made me feel pretty scared.

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I needed my parents to
be there more for us.

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It wasn't normal,
that's for sure.

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[tense music]

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And I got into smoking
weed around 13 or so

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because my mom smoked every day.

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I even found their cocaine
once and tried that when

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she had one of her slip-ups.

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I actually thought that
I hid that from them.

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But as they got older, my boys
would snoop around in my things

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and find it.

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I eventually ended up starting
smoking weed with her, too.

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That got me into trying
out other things.

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[tense music]

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Basketball and baseball
would have been his route

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into college, but after he
joined high school sports

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and started hanging out
with the older kids,

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he was introduced to
opioids and the painkillers.

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When I was a junior
in high school,

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OxyContin got introduced
to me through the guys

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on the basketball team
that were really good.

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So we were thinking it was cool.

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That's when I got addicted.

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Like, at the end
of my junior year,

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I was smoking OxyContin
close to every day.

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His grades went down.

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His attendance and sports
started to go down.

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I barely graduated
high school.

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Yeah, it was all
downhill from there.

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After he graduated
from high school,

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he was enrolled in
community college,

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but his drug usage
had increased so much

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that he didn't go to college.

259
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When Garrett was 19 years
old, our dad passed away.

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Yeah, it was
[bleep] really sad.

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Really hit me hard.

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I mean, we were pretty close.

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We spent a lot of time
together because I

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lived with him at the time.

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He would always tell
me, like, when he'd be,

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like, passing out drunk how
much he loved me and my brother.

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Yeah, it affected me pretty--

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pretty bad.

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It was just almost
more than we could take.

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And Garrett's drug use
was markedly getting worse

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after his dad passed away.

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I guess I just didn't want
to feel anything anymore.

273
00:13:51,917 --> 00:13:54,167
I was really messed
up in the head.

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I was really sad, so I
just wanted to do nothing

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but numb the pain.

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And after that,
through the years,

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00:14:01,042 --> 00:14:02,792
I've had to bury
a lot of friends,

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a lot of family members.

279
00:14:04,417 --> 00:14:09,083
Having so many losses back
to back really takes a toll.

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The way I've always coped
is just numbing my feelings.

281
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I worry about
Garrett every day.

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Garrett and Shantell both thrive
off of each other's using.

283
00:14:20,875 --> 00:14:23,958
So eventually, this
is gonna kill them.

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[tense music]

285
00:14:41,208 --> 00:14:47,750
All right, well,
let's get going.

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00:14:47,833 --> 00:14:49,833
[tense music]

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Garrett and Shantell
have nothing in common,

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I think, besides their drug use.

289
00:15:18,667 --> 00:15:23,125
Garrett and Shantell feed off
each other, enable each other.

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00:15:23,208 --> 00:15:25,417
This is what I
needed for today.

291
00:15:28,208 --> 00:15:31,333
So much of their time
and energy together

292
00:15:31,417 --> 00:15:34,208
is spent on that drug,
focused on that drug.

293
00:15:34,292 --> 00:15:36,500
How are we gonna get it?
Where are we gonna get it?

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How are we gonna pay for it?

295
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Day after day.

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[tense music]

297
00:15:42,208 --> 00:15:44,375
I just can't see her
and Garrett continue

298
00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,167
to do what they're
doing it without ending up

299
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either in prison or dead.

300
00:15:49,708 --> 00:15:51,542
[tense music]

301
00:15:59,458 --> 00:16:01,917
[dog barking]

302
00:16:09,833 --> 00:16:12,125
Right now, me and Garrett
are living together in a home

303
00:16:12,208 --> 00:16:14,625
owned by his family friend.

304
00:16:14,708 --> 00:16:17,417
She's like, really lenient
when we don't have, like,

305
00:16:17,542 --> 00:16:18,833
enough for rent.

306
00:16:18,875 --> 00:16:20,417
Like, she'll let us
do, like, work for her,

307
00:16:20,542 --> 00:16:22,708
like, out at her house, like
cleaning out her chicken coop

308
00:16:22,792 --> 00:16:24,833
or, you know, like,
stuff like that.

309
00:16:24,833 --> 00:16:28,500
We've been living here for, I
think, like five months now.

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00:16:28,583 --> 00:16:30,375
Previously, we were
living at my mom's house,

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00:16:30,458 --> 00:16:32,792
and a situation
happened there to where

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00:16:32,875 --> 00:16:34,500
we couldn't live there anymore.

313
00:16:34,542 --> 00:16:36,542
I let her and Garrett
live at the house,

314
00:16:36,625 --> 00:16:39,500
and then a lot of things
would end up missing,

315
00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,417
and I just couldn't deal
with the drugs and stuff.

316
00:16:42,542 --> 00:16:45,917
I just couldn't
watch it anymore.

317
00:16:46,042 --> 00:16:48,125
The best part about
living here, I think,

318
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is just, like, knowing we
have a roof over our head.

319
00:16:51,125 --> 00:16:54,083
Like, we have our own place
that we can call home.

320
00:16:54,167 --> 00:16:58,292
That house is a
dangerous situation.

321
00:16:58,375 --> 00:17:00,542
It's rundown.

322
00:17:00,625 --> 00:17:02,208
You know, those
toys and the garbage

323
00:17:02,292 --> 00:17:04,833
bags around the front yard.

324
00:17:04,917 --> 00:17:06,667
There's different people
coming in and out,

325
00:17:06,750 --> 00:17:08,458
lots of cars parked out front.

326
00:17:08,542 --> 00:17:11,583
She just lives probably
six or eight blocks away,

327
00:17:11,667 --> 00:17:13,458
but I don't go anywhere
near that place.

328
00:17:13,542 --> 00:17:18,542
It's just a bunch of
druggies and creepy people.

329
00:17:18,542 --> 00:17:20,583
Yeah, I definitely
miss having a stable home

330
00:17:20,667 --> 00:17:23,083
where you don't have to worry
about all the people always

331
00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:24,708
coming in and out of
the house or, like,

332
00:17:24,833 --> 00:17:27,875
if a fight is gonna break out
or all my stuff getting stolen.

333
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,667
I didn't have to worry
about all that stuff.

334
00:17:29,750 --> 00:17:32,000
Before we fall asleep,
we'll lock our door because,

335
00:17:32,083 --> 00:17:33,792
like, people came
in and just, like,

336
00:17:33,875 --> 00:17:36,292
while I was sleeping and stole
our phone, like, off the bed

337
00:17:36,375 --> 00:17:37,667
and just, like, stuff like that.

338
00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:42,083
What makes this room
feel like home to me,

339
00:17:42,083 --> 00:17:45,125
I think just all
the pictures I have,

340
00:17:45,208 --> 00:17:47,667
different memories and stuff.

341
00:17:47,750 --> 00:17:49,333
It just makes me feel good.

342
00:17:49,417 --> 00:17:51,167
These are pictures
of me and my older

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sister and my older brother.

344
00:17:52,625 --> 00:17:54,667
We don't see each
other often, but we're

345
00:17:54,708 --> 00:17:56,708
all still really close.

346
00:17:56,708 --> 00:18:00,333
I never dreamed that Shantell
would be like she is now

347
00:18:00,375 --> 00:18:05,333
and all the problems
and just not

348
00:18:05,417 --> 00:18:09,167
care about anything or anybody.

349
00:18:09,250 --> 00:18:11,417
That's just not her.

350
00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:14,167
[tense music]

351
00:18:14,250 --> 00:18:17,500
Shantell was a happy...a happy
girl.

352
00:18:17,542 --> 00:18:19,417
My relationship with
my mom was pretty good.

353
00:18:19,542 --> 00:18:21,667
She made sure that we
got, like, what we wanted

354
00:18:21,750 --> 00:18:25,000
or what we needed and was
always there, for the most part.

355
00:18:25,042 --> 00:18:28,667
But my dad, he hasn't been in
my life since I was probably,

356
00:18:28,792 --> 00:18:31,250
I think, like six months old.

357
00:18:31,333 --> 00:18:33,583
It was just better that
he not be in the picture.

358
00:18:33,667 --> 00:18:36,458
[tense music]

359
00:18:39,333 --> 00:18:42,167
Me and my mom raised Shantell.

360
00:18:42,250 --> 00:18:43,542
My mom was working a lot.

361
00:18:43,542 --> 00:18:45,208
She'd drop us off at
my grandma's house.

362
00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:47,542
So, like, me and my grandma
were really, really close.

363
00:18:47,667 --> 00:18:49,167
She was always around.

364
00:18:49,250 --> 00:18:51,167
Grandma's been
in her life a lot.

365
00:18:51,208 --> 00:18:53,750
She went to school plays,
Christmas concerts, stuff

366
00:18:53,875 --> 00:18:55,542
like that.

367
00:18:55,625 --> 00:18:58,208
So she was very much involved
in her everyday life.

368
00:18:58,292 --> 00:19:00,000
Shantell did really
good in school.

369
00:19:00,042 --> 00:19:03,667
In high school, she was involved
in cheerleading and volleyball.

370
00:19:03,750 --> 00:19:06,333
She's pretty social.

371
00:19:06,375 --> 00:19:10,250
When I was a teenager, I
was around alcohol and weed

372
00:19:10,333 --> 00:19:14,375
most of the time, but I
didn't use harder drugs.

373
00:19:14,458 --> 00:19:18,250
When Shantell was about 16,
she started dating a guy who

374
00:19:18,375 --> 00:19:20,958
she seemed pretty happy with.

375
00:19:21,042 --> 00:19:22,500
We had a lot in common.

376
00:19:22,542 --> 00:19:26,625
He was really supportive,
and, like, I loved him.

377
00:19:26,708 --> 00:19:29,792
I graduated high school early,
and we moved to Spokane.

378
00:19:29,917 --> 00:19:32,917
And I had a really good
career going for myself.

379
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,500
And I was really happy.

380
00:19:34,583 --> 00:19:37,333
Everything was working out
the way it was supposed to.

381
00:19:37,417 --> 00:19:39,667
She was doing really
good for herself.

382
00:19:39,750 --> 00:19:41,167
I was pretty proud of her.

383
00:19:41,292 --> 00:19:43,167
Shantell had some
pretty big hopes.

384
00:19:43,250 --> 00:19:44,833
She wanted to do
something with her life,

385
00:19:44,917 --> 00:19:48,000
and, you know, early on, I told
her, anything you want to do,

386
00:19:48,125 --> 00:19:49,125
I'll help you get there.

387
00:19:49,208 --> 00:19:51,500
Just put your mind to it.

388
00:19:51,542 --> 00:19:53,792
Me and my boyfriend were
together for about five years.

389
00:19:53,875 --> 00:19:58,250
And then when I just had turned
21, he ended up cheating on me

390
00:19:58,375 --> 00:20:00,417
in our house with my friend
while I was sleeping.

391
00:20:03,333 --> 00:20:08,208
Their relationship coming
to an end impacted her a lot.

392
00:20:08,292 --> 00:20:09,917
It felt horrible.

393
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,625
Like, it was really hard to,
like, accept the fact that, you

394
00:20:11,708 --> 00:20:14,125
know, when you're with someone
for so long and then stuff

395
00:20:14,208 --> 00:20:16,667
like that happens,
like, unexpectedly.

396
00:20:16,792 --> 00:20:18,958
Like, I just felt
really heartbroken.

397
00:20:19,042 --> 00:20:21,708
[tense music]

398
00:20:30,042 --> 00:20:31,750
Her grandma was her world.

399
00:20:31,875 --> 00:20:35,917
She'd tell her grandma things
that she'd never tell her mom.

400
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000
It was really hard losing her.

401
00:20:39,042 --> 00:20:39,750
Sorry.

402
00:20:46,083 --> 00:20:49,333
Sorry, I get super emotional
when I talk about my grandma.

403
00:20:49,417 --> 00:20:53,167
Just her whole life
got turned upside down.

404
00:20:53,208 --> 00:20:55,208
But I think it was only
like a month and a half

405
00:20:55,292 --> 00:20:56,875
after she passed away
that I tried heroin.

406
00:20:59,583 --> 00:21:02,667
I had this one friend come
over, and she was into heroin.

407
00:21:02,708 --> 00:21:05,000
We were pretty close
friends, and she made it

408
00:21:05,083 --> 00:21:06,625
look like it wasn't that bad.

409
00:21:06,708 --> 00:21:09,000
I was still, like,
dealing with a breakup.

410
00:21:09,083 --> 00:21:11,375
I had just lost my grandmother.

411
00:21:11,458 --> 00:21:15,167
I was just feeling
really hurt and just

412
00:21:15,250 --> 00:21:18,417
wanted to forget everything.

413
00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:23,625
When I took the first hit of
heroin, I felt, like, numb.

414
00:21:23,708 --> 00:21:27,625
From there, I just started
doing it every day after that.

415
00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:35,208
Shantell, during this
time, I seen her shut down.

416
00:21:35,292 --> 00:21:37,458
It got really deep, dark.

417
00:21:37,542 --> 00:21:41,083
And her drug use was
progressively getting worse.

418
00:21:41,208 --> 00:21:42,750
And before you know
it, it was too late.

419
00:21:42,833 --> 00:21:45,125
She had gotten herself
in trouble, lost her job.

420
00:21:45,208 --> 00:21:47,500
She ended up homeless.

421
00:21:47,625 --> 00:21:49,292
So I moved back to Omak.

422
00:21:49,375 --> 00:21:51,583
It was harder to get
heroin here in Omak,

423
00:21:51,667 --> 00:21:54,667
so I slowly just switched
over to fentanyl.

424
00:21:54,750 --> 00:21:56,542
At that point, I was
like, well, everything

425
00:21:56,625 --> 00:21:58,000
can't get much more messed up.

426
00:21:58,083 --> 00:22:01,167
And, like, I slowly just
ended up losing everything.

427
00:22:01,208 --> 00:22:02,583
I was hoping
that maybe it would

428
00:22:02,667 --> 00:22:04,833
get tough enough
where she'd smarten up

429
00:22:04,917 --> 00:22:06,208
and say, hey, I need to--

430
00:22:06,292 --> 00:22:07,542
something needs to change.

431
00:22:11,583 --> 00:22:14,500
When I moved back to Omak,
I met Garrett because he

432
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:15,792
was supplying me with heroin.

433
00:22:22,208 --> 00:22:23,833
Garrett gave me the heroin.

434
00:22:23,875 --> 00:22:28,042
I did too big of a shot, and
I don't really remember much.

435
00:22:28,125 --> 00:22:30,875
Here's this girl that I
just invited over to my house,

436
00:22:30,958 --> 00:22:33,875
and she starts turning blue.

437
00:22:33,958 --> 00:22:35,250
I started freaking out.

438
00:22:35,333 --> 00:22:36,792
It scared the [bleep] out of me.

439
00:22:36,875 --> 00:22:39,167
And I tossed her in the tub
and hit her with cold water,

440
00:22:39,292 --> 00:22:40,583
and it made her come back to.

441
00:22:40,667 --> 00:22:42,917
And the only thing I
could think of to do

442
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,917
was to get her, like,
heart going fast

443
00:22:47,042 --> 00:22:48,708
again, which was by doing meth.

444
00:22:48,792 --> 00:22:58,167
So yeah, she came back to us
in a bunch of soaked clothes.

445
00:22:58,250 --> 00:23:00,458
[chuckles]

446
00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:03,833
He's the one that
actually saved my life.

447
00:23:03,875 --> 00:23:05,500
Then afterward, he
comforted me, and I

448
00:23:05,542 --> 00:23:07,167
could tell, like, he
was really freaked

449
00:23:07,208 --> 00:23:10,000
out about the situation.

450
00:23:10,125 --> 00:23:13,000
It made me realize what
life would be like without her

451
00:23:13,083 --> 00:23:17,583
and how much I liked her
and I wanted to be with her.

452
00:23:17,667 --> 00:23:19,625
When Garrett and Shantell
first started dating,

453
00:23:19,708 --> 00:23:23,833
I automatically knew it
was not a good thing.

454
00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:25,792
Garrett was already
heavily using at that time,

455
00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:28,750
and I suspected her
of also being a user.

456
00:23:28,750 --> 00:23:32,333
So it was just going to be
a codependent relationship.

457
00:23:32,375 --> 00:23:36,292
My family feels
like we are definitely

458
00:23:36,375 --> 00:23:38,292
dependent on one another.

459
00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:41,083
Yeah, and I'm not
gonna argue with that.

460
00:23:41,167 --> 00:23:42,583
[chuckles]

461
00:23:42,708 --> 00:23:46,292
But we see each other growing
old together, having kids.

462
00:23:46,375 --> 00:23:49,833
We talk a lot about
having kids and getting

463
00:23:49,917 --> 00:23:53,375
clean together and living
life like we're supposed to,

464
00:23:53,458 --> 00:23:54,917
like adults.

465
00:23:57,833 --> 00:24:01,875
Garrett and Shantell started
dating already under addiction.

466
00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:07,000
So who knows whether it's the
drugs or their actual feelings?

467
00:24:07,083 --> 00:24:09,667
I don't want them together
because Shantell needs to worry

468
00:24:09,708 --> 00:24:11,583
about herself right now.

469
00:24:11,708 --> 00:24:13,500
I don't think she
needs any relationship

470
00:24:13,542 --> 00:24:17,000
to feed her addiction.

471
00:24:17,125 --> 00:24:18,042
I don't trust Garrett.

472
00:24:18,125 --> 00:24:19,667
I don't like Garrett.

473
00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:22,833
And I don't see him in my
future or my daughter's future.

474
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,167
I just don't.

475
00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:27,292
At the end of the day,
we still love each other,

476
00:24:27,375 --> 00:24:28,958
and we go to bed happy.

477
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:37,833
[tense music]

478
00:24:43,708 --> 00:24:45,667
All right, there's
more Malt-O-Meal up here.

479
00:24:51,542 --> 00:24:54,250
Garrett and Shantell are
living with his two best

480
00:24:54,333 --> 00:24:57,833
friends, Lane, then Adrian.

481
00:24:57,917 --> 00:24:59,833
Adrian and Lane are
also addicted to drugs.

482
00:25:04,708 --> 00:25:05,958
You guys are [bleep] high.

483
00:25:08,542 --> 00:25:10,000
I don't know what they do.

484
00:25:10,083 --> 00:25:11,458
I mean, none of them work.

485
00:25:11,542 --> 00:25:14,125
Do they just sit around
and get high or what?

486
00:25:14,208 --> 00:25:15,333
It's pretty sad.

487
00:25:15,417 --> 00:25:18,125
[tense music]

488
00:25:20,292 --> 00:25:21,958
That house, it's
full of a bunch

489
00:25:22,042 --> 00:25:24,542
of users that are all
codependent on each other,

490
00:25:24,625 --> 00:25:25,708
just using in there.

491
00:25:29,250 --> 00:25:33,875
There is nothing that's
gonna get better in that house.

492
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,208
I do feel like this is Garrett
and Shantell's last shot.

493
00:25:37,333 --> 00:25:38,500
[tense music]

494
00:25:52,333 --> 00:25:56,042
Garrett, his two best
friends, Adrian and Lane,

495
00:25:56,042 --> 00:25:58,708
and Shantell all
live in the same home

496
00:25:58,792 --> 00:25:59,917
and are addicted to drugs.

497
00:26:12,042 --> 00:26:14,208
I think having Adrian
and Lane in the house

498
00:26:14,333 --> 00:26:17,000
makes it better just because
we're all there for each other.

499
00:26:17,042 --> 00:26:19,125
You know, if you get
that one pill that

500
00:26:19,208 --> 00:26:21,375
has too much fentanyl in
it, and you're not ever

501
00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:22,792
gonna know until you smoke it.

502
00:26:30,958 --> 00:26:33,833
[tense music]

503
00:26:46,917 --> 00:26:51,333
Adrian's mom, Marlene, owns
the home that we live in.

504
00:26:51,375 --> 00:26:54,333
I honestly don't know why
they're allowed to stay there.

505
00:26:54,458 --> 00:26:57,500
As a homeowner, I know that
I wouldn't want my home,

506
00:26:57,542 --> 00:27:00,167
you know, to be used
as a drug house.

507
00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:08,792
[tense music]

508
00:27:21,167 --> 00:27:23,167
Mm-hmm.

509
00:27:23,208 --> 00:27:27,083
Oh, [bleep], my mom
called 36 minutes ago.

510
00:27:27,167 --> 00:27:27,958
Hey, Mom.

511
00:27:28,042 --> 00:27:29,708
Hi.

512
00:27:29,792 --> 00:27:32,000
We're gonna be heading out
there here pretty soon, OK?

513
00:27:32,042 --> 00:27:32,875
OK.

514
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,292
OK, we'll be up there shortly.

515
00:27:35,375 --> 00:27:36,958
OK.

516
00:27:37,042 --> 00:27:39,625
Babe, jump in the
shower real quick.

517
00:28:05,125 --> 00:28:08,917
Shantell and I do fight a lot,
and it's usually over drugs.

518
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,208
Even throwing [bleep] back
and forth at each other.

519
00:28:11,292 --> 00:28:12,042
It gets pretty bad.

520
00:28:15,167 --> 00:28:18,000
[tense music]

521
00:28:23,792 --> 00:28:25,458
I know what I want.

522
00:28:25,542 --> 00:28:28,958
Are those guys on their way?

523
00:28:29,042 --> 00:28:31,667
Garrett and I get together
probably about once a month,

524
00:28:31,750 --> 00:28:33,917
and I usually take both
him and Shantell out

525
00:28:34,042 --> 00:28:37,333
to eat so we can have a
little family time together

526
00:28:37,417 --> 00:28:39,625
and kind of keep up
with what's going on.

527
00:28:39,708 --> 00:28:42,083
It's kind of a ritual for us.

528
00:28:42,167 --> 00:28:42,833
Hey.

529
00:28:42,875 --> 00:28:44,917
Hi, son, how's it going?

530
00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:45,833
Right on.

531
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:47,333
Man.
Me too.

532
00:28:47,375 --> 00:28:48,167
Hello.

533
00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:49,958
Hi, Shantell.

534
00:28:50,042 --> 00:28:52,958
Growing up, my mom was
always a really good mother.

535
00:28:53,042 --> 00:28:56,333
She always held a job.

536
00:28:56,417 --> 00:29:00,083
She partied and stuff a lot,
too, but she took care of us

537
00:29:00,167 --> 00:29:00,875
really good.

538
00:29:00,958 --> 00:29:02,333
How's your mama doing?

539
00:29:02,375 --> 00:29:03,250
Better.

540
00:29:03,333 --> 00:29:04,792
That's good.

541
00:29:04,875 --> 00:29:07,292
Of my three kids that
I have, he's the one

542
00:29:07,375 --> 00:29:08,708
that comes and helps me.

543
00:29:08,792 --> 00:29:11,333
He helps me keeping my
place clean at times.

544
00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:15,542
And if something is broken,
he can usually fix it.

545
00:29:15,625 --> 00:29:17,000
And I love him so much for that.

546
00:29:17,083 --> 00:29:18,708
Have you talked to Von at all?

547
00:29:24,375 --> 00:29:27,458
Garrett's relationship right
now with his brother, Von,

548
00:29:27,542 --> 00:29:29,250
is nonexistent.

549
00:29:29,333 --> 00:29:32,750
Von has chosen to
not speak with us.

550
00:29:32,833 --> 00:29:34,500
Won't answer his phone.

551
00:29:34,542 --> 00:29:36,792
I don't know if he's blocked
Garrett, but he's blocked me.

552
00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:38,542
We can't go to his house.

553
00:29:38,625 --> 00:29:41,125
I haven't seen Von for a year.

554
00:29:41,208 --> 00:29:44,458
I know that Von is upset because
he knows of the drugs that

555
00:29:44,542 --> 00:29:47,500
go on and that I'm still
in the picture with you

556
00:29:47,625 --> 00:29:49,917
and I will help
you, you know, and--

557
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,500
I believe my mom
enables Garrett.

558
00:29:51,542 --> 00:29:54,333
You know, there's not a
real-- a whole lot of pushback

559
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:56,083
there to get them some help.

560
00:29:56,167 --> 00:29:59,875
I can't not help you,
because you're my baby.

561
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,167
It's like hard to cut the cord.

562
00:30:02,250 --> 00:30:05,833
I help them because I
love them and I want

563
00:30:05,917 --> 00:30:07,750
them not to be on the streets.

564
00:30:12,042 --> 00:30:13,292
I could do that,
too, but you know what?

565
00:30:13,375 --> 00:30:14,500
It's killing me.

566
00:30:14,583 --> 00:30:15,667
It's not right.

567
00:30:15,708 --> 00:30:17,667
No, it's not.

568
00:30:17,708 --> 00:30:19,000
I don't know, [bleep].

569
00:30:19,042 --> 00:30:21,333
It is what it is.

570
00:30:21,417 --> 00:30:23,500
Garrett loves his
brother, and I know

571
00:30:23,583 --> 00:30:28,500
it hurts him that his brother
thinks that way about him.

572
00:30:28,583 --> 00:30:30,167
Nice seeing you.

573
00:30:30,250 --> 00:30:30,917
Love you.

574
00:30:37,708 --> 00:30:39,000
Oh, yeah, I told
you you could.

575
00:30:39,083 --> 00:30:40,583
Yeah.

576
00:30:40,667 --> 00:30:42,542
With him not working, there's
definitely a chance that he

577
00:30:42,625 --> 00:30:44,208
is receiving money from my mom.

578
00:30:44,333 --> 00:30:48,667
And I feel she does not want
him to get help, in some way.

579
00:30:48,750 --> 00:30:51,583
So I disconnected from
that side of my family.

580
00:30:51,708 --> 00:30:53,667
Thank you.

581
00:30:53,750 --> 00:30:57,167
[tense music]

582
00:31:04,833 --> 00:31:08,500
I got a couple of blues.

583
00:31:08,583 --> 00:31:10,167
These are 30 pills.

584
00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:13,167
These are what
we're addicted to.

585
00:31:13,292 --> 00:31:15,333
There's no way of
telling how much fentanyl

586
00:31:15,375 --> 00:31:18,542
is in these pills, and if
you don't have a tolerance,

587
00:31:18,625 --> 00:31:23,208
it's very dangerous, because
you can overdose very easily.

588
00:31:23,333 --> 00:31:25,500
They have hot pills, too,
and they're called hot pills,

589
00:31:25,625 --> 00:31:27,042
you know?

590
00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:29,333
There's like every one
in five pills is, like--

591
00:31:29,375 --> 00:31:32,583
has five times more fentanyl
than, you know, the other ones.

592
00:31:32,667 --> 00:31:35,083
Somebody who has no
tolerance would OD on them.

593
00:31:35,167 --> 00:31:37,833
Or if you're drinking alcohol,
like, it amplifies it big time.

594
00:31:37,875 --> 00:31:38,875
You know what I'm saying?

595
00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:40,667
It's like Russian roulette.

596
00:31:40,750 --> 00:31:42,958
We're gonna smoke
these and get lit.

597
00:31:43,042 --> 00:31:45,458
[chuckles] All right.

598
00:31:46,542 --> 00:31:47,250
Baby?

599
00:31:47,375 --> 00:31:48,083
Shantell?

600
00:31:48,167 --> 00:31:48,833
Hmm?

601
00:31:48,917 --> 00:31:51,458
Here.

602
00:31:51,542 --> 00:31:53,208
OK, she's already slumped.

603
00:31:53,292 --> 00:31:54,292
Mm-mm.

604
00:31:54,375 --> 00:31:55,167
Mm-mm?

605
00:31:55,250 --> 00:31:56,500
[chuckles]

606
00:31:56,542 --> 00:31:57,750
I don't know.

607
00:31:57,833 --> 00:32:02,125
I haven't really
felt like I wanted--

608
00:32:02,208 --> 00:32:03,667
like I want to get clean.

609
00:32:03,833 --> 00:32:08,375
I mean, I had a lot of
[bleep]-up [bleep] happen in my
life,

610
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:14,625
and I've just been really
[bleep] careless and not really

611
00:32:14,708 --> 00:32:16,125
giving two [bleep] anymore.

612
00:32:25,167 --> 00:32:27,333
Why would you do that?

613
00:32:27,375 --> 00:32:29,417
How'd you even get
that one off of me?

614
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:30,500
I didn't, dummy.

615
00:32:30,625 --> 00:32:31,667
You still have yours.

616
00:32:31,708 --> 00:32:33,292
Then so what is this?

617
00:32:33,375 --> 00:32:35,833
This is the three that
I just went and got.

618
00:32:35,958 --> 00:32:38,333
Our addiction just makes
us fight way too much

619
00:32:38,375 --> 00:32:41,333
and have a lot of negativity
in our relationship.

620
00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:42,167
The three?

621
00:32:42,208 --> 00:32:43,500
Yeah, I only got three.

622
00:32:43,583 --> 00:32:44,625
Why?

623
00:32:44,708 --> 00:32:47,000
Because someone
else is gonna be

624
00:32:47,125 --> 00:32:48,792
coming over with some
[bleep] skills later,

625
00:32:48,875 --> 00:32:50,292
so calm the [bleep] down.

626
00:32:50,375 --> 00:32:52,333
Shantell and Garrett,
even if they did get clean,

627
00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:53,875
I don't think would be good.

628
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,583
I mean, they're always
fighting and arguing.

629
00:33:00,542 --> 00:33:03,667
I think Garrett cared
for Shantell early on.

630
00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:08,083
Now, I think he's just using
it as a handicap crutch

631
00:33:08,208 --> 00:33:09,667
because they're in
the same scenario.

632
00:33:20,333 --> 00:33:21,083
Yep.

633
00:33:23,667 --> 00:33:24,667
Nope.

634
00:33:24,708 --> 00:33:26,208
Shut the [bleep] up, dude.

635
00:33:26,292 --> 00:33:29,292
Quit being a [bleep] bitch,
dude.

636
00:33:29,375 --> 00:33:31,542
Their relationship,
so far, I haven't seen

637
00:33:31,667 --> 00:33:34,042
much positive come out of it.

638
00:33:34,125 --> 00:33:35,792
Gosh damn.

639
00:33:35,875 --> 00:33:37,833
Why do you always got to start
some [bleep] [bleep], dude?

640
00:33:37,917 --> 00:33:38,708
Like--

641
00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:42,500
I have no [bleep] idea
what you did with it, dude.

642
00:33:42,583 --> 00:33:45,458
[tense music]

643
00:33:57,333 --> 00:33:59,958
Zach, my friend, we
definitely have our hands full.

644
00:34:00,042 --> 00:34:00,917
- Very.
- Yeah.

645
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:01,875
Very full.

646
00:34:01,958 --> 00:34:03,667
My name is Mike Diamond.

647
00:34:03,667 --> 00:34:06,042
I'm a certified interventionist.

648
00:34:06,125 --> 00:34:09,583
I've been working with
addicts for 14 years.

649
00:34:09,667 --> 00:34:12,083
And I've been an
interventionist for 12 years.

650
00:34:12,167 --> 00:34:16,333
We have Shantell and
Garrett, who are a couple.

651
00:34:16,458 --> 00:34:18,833
And they are living
with Garrett's childhood

652
00:34:18,875 --> 00:34:20,333
friend, Lane and Adrian.

653
00:34:20,458 --> 00:34:22,333
And now all four
of them are using

654
00:34:22,417 --> 00:34:23,875
together in the same house.

655
00:34:23,958 --> 00:34:25,500
Okay.

656
00:34:25,625 --> 00:34:27,292
My name is Zach Livingston,
and I'm an interventionist.

657
00:34:27,375 --> 00:34:29,250
We're here to intervene
on Garrett and Shantell

658
00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:33,292
and hopefully save their life.

659
00:34:33,417 --> 00:34:36,417
Didn't Garrett bring Shantell
back to life or something?

660
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,250
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so
here's the short and sweet.

661
00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:40,875
So Garrett gets Shantell high.

662
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,625
She overdoses and crashes out.

663
00:34:42,708 --> 00:34:45,500
Garrett, to swoop in
and try to save the day,

664
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:49,042
just starts shooting her up
with meth in some kind of hope

665
00:34:49,125 --> 00:34:50,500
to, like, jumpstart her heart.

666
00:34:50,625 --> 00:34:51,333
And here's the thing.

667
00:34:51,458 --> 00:34:52,333
Like, it worked,
and the story goes

668
00:34:52,458 --> 00:34:53,917
is when she opened
her eyes, they

669
00:34:54,042 --> 00:34:56,375
was-- they was love
at first sight,

670
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:57,667
and they've just been
inseparable ever since.

671
00:34:57,750 --> 00:34:58,792
- Oh, my God.
- Yeah.

672
00:34:58,875 --> 00:34:59,625
Like something
out of Pulp Fiction?

673
00:34:59,750 --> 00:35:01,042
Yeah.

674
00:35:01,125 --> 00:35:03,208
Garrett and Shantell have
not known a sober day

675
00:35:03,292 --> 00:35:05,583
the entire time that
they've been together,

676
00:35:05,708 --> 00:35:08,708
which means the only way
they know how to do anything

677
00:35:08,792 --> 00:35:09,875
is under the influence.

678
00:35:09,958 --> 00:35:11,542
This is not love.

679
00:35:11,625 --> 00:35:12,917
This is enablement.

680
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,750
This is enmeshment.

681
00:35:14,875 --> 00:35:18,875
And this is just complete
fear of leaving the other.

682
00:35:18,958 --> 00:35:20,375
It's the house on
the right, isn't it?

683
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,667
Yeah, this blue
one on the corner.

684
00:35:22,792 --> 00:35:25,500
There's so many layers
to peel back on this one.

685
00:35:25,583 --> 00:35:27,708
Like, this whole dynamic
between all of them

686
00:35:27,833 --> 00:35:32,417
is just based in death,
trauma, and rampant addiction.

687
00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:35,375
It's quite a challenge
because Garrett and Shantell

688
00:35:35,458 --> 00:35:37,250
are codependent on each other.

689
00:35:37,375 --> 00:35:40,125
So if one person
doesn't go to treatment,

690
00:35:40,208 --> 00:35:42,542
it could trigger the
next person not to go.

691
00:35:42,625 --> 00:35:45,917
Are you OK if I take Shantell
and you take Garrett?

692
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,292
- Let's run that.
- OK.

693
00:35:47,375 --> 00:35:48,917
We got a lot of work to do.

694
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,708
We have a lot of work to do,
but if we don't do it, Shantell

695
00:35:51,833 --> 00:35:53,083
and Garrett, they're gonna die.

696
00:35:53,167 --> 00:35:55,500
There's not even a question.

697
00:35:55,542 --> 00:35:58,250
[tense music]

698
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:03,333
You ready?

699
00:36:03,417 --> 00:36:04,500
Mm-hmm.

700
00:36:04,583 --> 00:36:06,042
I think our tolerance
is pretty high.

701
00:36:06,208 --> 00:36:08,542
Yeah, the average
person, like,

702
00:36:08,542 --> 00:36:10,875
if they took one of the
size of hits that we took,

703
00:36:10,958 --> 00:36:12,750
they would probably--

704
00:36:12,833 --> 00:36:13,583
Overdose.

705
00:36:13,708 --> 00:36:14,542
Yeah, overdose.

706
00:36:14,625 --> 00:36:15,458
[chuckles]

707
00:36:15,542 --> 00:36:17,708
Go.

708
00:36:17,792 --> 00:36:20,042
He doesn't ever think
that's gonna happen because he

709
00:36:20,125 --> 00:36:21,375
thinks he's so smart.

710
00:36:21,458 --> 00:36:23,708
No, I-- I-- I would
never do that.

711
00:36:23,792 --> 00:36:26,125
The people that are ODing
and dying are dah, dah, dah.

712
00:36:26,208 --> 00:36:29,667
I'm not that dumb, you know,
and you just never know.

713
00:36:33,792 --> 00:36:36,667
[tense music]

714
00:36:38,083 --> 00:36:39,500
I'm going to Garrett's
family right now.

715
00:36:39,625 --> 00:36:42,292
I'm gonna meet with Von
and Cassie, his brother

716
00:36:42,375 --> 00:36:43,833
and his brother's fiancee.

717
00:36:43,917 --> 00:36:46,250
I'm hoping to learn about
Garrett's upbringing

718
00:36:46,333 --> 00:36:47,708
and his childhood years.

719
00:36:47,792 --> 00:36:50,250
I want to know about, you
know, the relationship

720
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,042
that he has with his
mother and why Garrett only

721
00:36:53,125 --> 00:36:56,333
has Von and Cassie
on Team Garrett

722
00:36:56,458 --> 00:36:58,792
to be involved in
the intervention.

723
00:36:58,875 --> 00:37:00,042
You must be Von.
- Yes.

724
00:37:00,167 --> 00:37:02,042
- Hey man, I'm, Zach Livingston.
- Hey.

725
00:37:02,125 --> 00:37:03,458
First of all, one,
thanks for having

726
00:37:03,542 --> 00:37:05,375
me and setting aside the time.

727
00:37:05,458 --> 00:37:07,917
We are in a life-or-death
situation right now.

728
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,167
Yes.

729
00:37:09,250 --> 00:37:11,292
That's where the
urgency comes in.

730
00:37:11,375 --> 00:37:13,000
OK, how does this start?

731
00:37:13,083 --> 00:37:14,417
Was mom and dad alcoholic?

732
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:15,875
Or were there drugs in the home?

733
00:37:15,958 --> 00:37:16,958
Definitely alcoholics, yes.

734
00:37:17,042 --> 00:37:18,042
Both of them?

735
00:37:18,125 --> 00:37:18,833
- Yes, both parents.
- OK.

736
00:37:18,875 --> 00:37:20,250
Yes, growing up.

737
00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:21,167
Can you recall around
like what age you guys

738
00:37:21,250 --> 00:37:22,667
started to see some of that?

739
00:37:22,750 --> 00:37:24,542
9, 10 years old.

740
00:37:24,625 --> 00:37:26,917
So that would make him seven
and a half, eight and half?

741
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,042
- Yeah, yes.
- OK.

742
00:37:28,125 --> 00:37:29,625
Is she still drinking?

743
00:37:29,625 --> 00:37:31,333
Is she still-- is there--
is she using anything,

744
00:37:31,417 --> 00:37:33,083
whether it's alcohol,
narcotics, whatever?

745
00:37:33,167 --> 00:37:35,000
So she's definitely drinking.

746
00:37:35,083 --> 00:37:38,458
I don't know about on the
narcotics side of things.

747
00:37:38,458 --> 00:37:39,333
OK.

748
00:37:42,292 --> 00:37:46,208
Currently, I do drink
alcohol a few nights a week.

749
00:37:46,292 --> 00:37:47,833
If we go out to
dinner, I'll have

750
00:37:47,875 --> 00:37:49,542
a nice glass of wine or two.

751
00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:51,458
But that's pretty
much the extent of it.

752
00:37:51,542 --> 00:37:56,250
And for other drugs in my life
right now, it's just marijuana.

753
00:37:56,333 --> 00:37:58,125
She's got an active role
in his life right now.

754
00:37:58,208 --> 00:37:59,667
Yes.

755
00:37:59,708 --> 00:38:01,125
They're both very
codependent on each other.

756
00:38:01,208 --> 00:38:02,167
- OK.
- Yeah.

757
00:38:02,250 --> 00:38:02,833
- So there's enablement.
- Yeah.

758
00:38:02,875 --> 00:38:04,625
Yes.

759
00:38:04,708 --> 00:38:07,333
When you look at Garrett and
what he saw in growing up--

760
00:38:07,417 --> 00:38:10,292
alcohol abuse, drug
abuse, physical, verbal,

761
00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:12,375
emotional abuse, divorce.

762
00:38:12,458 --> 00:38:15,375
I mean, he had the deck
stacked against him

763
00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:17,167
since the very start.

764
00:38:17,292 --> 00:38:19,625
So what we see as
toxic, what we see

765
00:38:19,708 --> 00:38:22,708
as unhealthy in his
relationship with Shantell,

766
00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:24,542
he sees it as normal.

767
00:38:24,667 --> 00:38:26,542
So where's Mom in all this?

768
00:38:26,625 --> 00:38:28,583
Is she gonna be a part
on intervention day?

769
00:38:28,667 --> 00:38:31,292
At this point, I don't know
if that's going to happen

770
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:32,792
or how she would react.

771
00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:34,167
Mm-hmm.

772
00:38:34,208 --> 00:38:35,667
Is there any moment
that you could magnify

773
00:38:35,708 --> 00:38:37,625
in your head where
you're like, OK, here's

774
00:38:37,708 --> 00:38:39,500
where I saw a turn with Garrett?

775
00:38:39,583 --> 00:38:41,000
Just a lot of his
friends passing.

776
00:38:41,083 --> 00:38:42,750
Who-- who passed
and how'd they go?

777
00:38:42,833 --> 00:38:46,083
When Garrett was 19 years
old, he was in a car wreck,

778
00:38:46,167 --> 00:38:49,375
and the driver of
the car passed away.

779
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:52,500
Garrett and two other
girls took some Molly,

780
00:38:52,542 --> 00:38:54,083
and then they went
driving around.

781
00:38:54,167 --> 00:38:57,333
And the girl was driving fast
and didn't make the corner,

782
00:38:57,417 --> 00:39:02,542
and they went over a
285-foot embankment.

783
00:39:02,625 --> 00:39:05,208
They were all thrown
from the vehicle.

784
00:39:05,292 --> 00:39:11,292
Garrett was thrown up
into a tree somewhere.

785
00:39:11,375 --> 00:39:13,333
The driver, she passed.

786
00:39:13,417 --> 00:39:15,125
She died.

787
00:39:15,208 --> 00:39:17,625
We were pretty close friends.

788
00:39:17,708 --> 00:39:20,833
We did a lot of things
together growing up.

789
00:39:20,958 --> 00:39:24,917
I switched from pills to
heroin after my car accident.

790
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,792
It was pretty-- pretty bad,
though, pretty traumatic.

791
00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:30,583
And then after
that, my dad died.

792
00:39:32,958 --> 00:39:33,750
How?

793
00:39:44,208 --> 00:39:45,333
[clears throat]

794
00:39:45,417 --> 00:39:46,208
Take your time.

795
00:39:46,292 --> 00:39:47,000
It's OK.

796
00:39:54,083 --> 00:39:55,792
So, yeah, my dad passing--

797
00:39:55,875 --> 00:39:58,625
he was at a friend's
house the night before.

798
00:39:58,708 --> 00:40:02,333
And he was drinking because
he was still a heavy drinker.

799
00:40:02,375 --> 00:40:04,042
And it was winter.

800
00:40:04,125 --> 00:40:08,500
And he ended up slipping off
the porch and broke his neck.

801
00:40:08,583 --> 00:40:10,583
I was really messed
up in the head.

802
00:40:10,667 --> 00:40:13,667
I was really sad, so I just
wanted to do nothing but numb

803
00:40:13,750 --> 00:40:16,792
the pain and just
started using a lot more,

804
00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:20,917
and that was actually around
the time I started shooting up.

805
00:40:21,042 --> 00:40:22,583
What came next?

806
00:40:22,667 --> 00:40:26,625
Five years ago, he had his
best friend, Alex, overdose.

807
00:40:26,708 --> 00:40:28,667
What did you see from
Garrett after Alex died?

808
00:40:28,792 --> 00:40:30,250
It's just been a
steady progression down.

809
00:40:30,333 --> 00:40:32,000
OK.

810
00:40:32,042 --> 00:40:33,625
And that's when I had, like,
the serious talk with him

811
00:40:33,708 --> 00:40:35,208
and, like, hey, like, you're
seeing your friends die

812
00:40:35,333 --> 00:40:36,708
from this stuff now.

813
00:40:36,792 --> 00:40:38,708
Like, it's-- you know,
you can die from this.

814
00:40:38,792 --> 00:40:40,958
Did that bring him closer
or push him away further?

815
00:40:40,958 --> 00:40:42,667
I think it might have
just pushed him away more.

816
00:40:42,708 --> 00:40:44,000
OK.

817
00:40:44,083 --> 00:40:45,875
Well, I think after his
death, they really all just

818
00:40:45,875 --> 00:40:47,500
really numbed themselves.
- Yeah.

819
00:40:47,583 --> 00:40:48,917
Exactly.
Like, it's been--

820
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,167
It was down--

821
00:40:50,208 --> 00:40:51,333
--like, the worst
it's ever been.

822
00:40:51,375 --> 00:40:52,625
--really extra
downhill from there.

823
00:40:52,708 --> 00:40:54,250
How worried about
him are you right now?

824
00:40:54,375 --> 00:40:55,375
This is the last straw.

825
00:40:55,458 --> 00:40:57,292
Like, he's gonna die from this.

826
00:40:57,375 --> 00:40:58,542
I've told him that.

827
00:40:58,625 --> 00:41:00,167
You've seen your
friends die from this.

828
00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:01,375
Like, this is gonna kill you.

829
00:41:01,458 --> 00:41:03,167
Garrett has experienced
a lot of trauma,

830
00:41:03,250 --> 00:41:04,792
and it's all been back to back.

831
00:41:04,875 --> 00:41:08,750
And what Garrett has done is
use it as fuel to the fire.

832
00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:11,417
I mean, it's the perfect
reason for him to continue

833
00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:12,917
to do what he's doing.

834
00:41:13,042 --> 00:41:14,375
Like, don't you guys know
what I've been through?

835
00:41:14,458 --> 00:41:15,833
Like, that kind of mentality.

836
00:41:15,917 --> 00:41:18,083
Ultimately, that's the
same kind of mentality

837
00:41:18,167 --> 00:41:20,167
that's gonna kill him.

838
00:41:20,250 --> 00:41:23,125
[tense music]

839
00:41:30,542 --> 00:41:32,333
Shantell called
about a hour ago,

840
00:41:32,458 --> 00:41:33,875
said she was gonna stop by.

841
00:41:33,958 --> 00:41:36,042
I told her, you know, I'm
not always gonna be here,

842
00:41:36,167 --> 00:41:39,417
and we need to spend some
time together and talk

843
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:41,833
about things because,
you know, I really

844
00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,458
want to see you get some help.

845
00:41:44,542 --> 00:41:49,708
So I'm just waiting
for her to get here.

846
00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:52,875
I normally have to wait.

847
00:41:52,958 --> 00:41:54,333
She'll say, I'll
be there, and two

848
00:41:54,458 --> 00:41:56,375
or three days later, you know?

849
00:41:56,458 --> 00:41:58,083
I've waited for a week.

850
00:41:58,083 --> 00:42:00,833
And then all that
time, I sit and worry.

851
00:42:00,917 --> 00:42:03,667
She just lives six
blocks down the road.

852
00:42:03,708 --> 00:42:05,333
That's what's so hard
is that she's so close,

853
00:42:05,417 --> 00:42:09,375
but yet, she's so far away, and
I know what goes on over there.

854
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:13,083
It just sometimes
drives me crazy.

855
00:42:13,167 --> 00:42:17,375
She doesn't want to
make things harder,

856
00:42:17,458 --> 00:42:19,000
and sometimes it does get hard.

857
00:42:19,125 --> 00:42:24,375
I mean, because it's
just a bad situation.

858
00:42:24,458 --> 00:42:25,333
Hello.

859
00:42:25,375 --> 00:42:27,333
Hi, Mom.

860
00:42:27,417 --> 00:42:29,708
Long time, no see.

861
00:42:29,792 --> 00:42:31,333
How are you feeling?

862
00:42:31,333 --> 00:42:33,250
I'm good.

863
00:42:33,250 --> 00:42:35,833
These days, Garrett is not
allowed in our house at all.

864
00:42:35,875 --> 00:42:38,583
If he even attempted
to knock on the door,

865
00:42:38,708 --> 00:42:40,333
I don't think he would get far.

866
00:42:40,417 --> 00:42:41,250
Did you have dinner?

867
00:42:41,333 --> 00:42:42,042
No.

868
00:42:46,625 --> 00:42:49,000
I know you're always
hungry when you come over.

869
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,708
[chuckles]

870
00:42:50,792 --> 00:42:54,042
I think my addiction causes
a lot of stress on my family.

871
00:42:54,125 --> 00:42:57,583
But my relationship with my
mom currently is pretty good.

872
00:42:57,667 --> 00:43:00,708
I know she wants to see
me clean and whatnot.

873
00:43:00,792 --> 00:43:04,458
But I think for the most
part, it's pretty good.

874
00:43:04,542 --> 00:43:06,917
What do you guys
do over there?

875
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,167
Nothing.

876
00:43:08,208 --> 00:43:09,083
Just watch DVDs.

877
00:43:12,042 --> 00:43:14,667
I'll be glad when you get some
help and get your own place.

878
00:43:19,875 --> 00:43:22,000
Well, I just think if you
got out of the situation

879
00:43:22,083 --> 00:43:25,875
that you're in, you might
have a better outlook.

880
00:43:25,958 --> 00:43:30,083
You always just kind of
avoid what's really going on.

881
00:43:32,875 --> 00:43:35,250
What's scary is, I mean,
you could smoke something

882
00:43:35,333 --> 00:43:37,167
and be dead in a minute.

883
00:43:37,292 --> 00:43:39,583
When I look at Shantell,
it just breaks my heart

884
00:43:39,667 --> 00:43:41,333
because I see
somebody whose life

885
00:43:41,417 --> 00:43:46,042
could be totally different if
she would just accept the help.

886
00:43:46,167 --> 00:43:48,875
I'd like to see you do
something to get better.

887
00:43:48,958 --> 00:43:50,500
So if something
does happen to me,

888
00:43:50,542 --> 00:43:52,708
I would feel a
little better knowing

889
00:43:52,792 --> 00:43:55,333
that you're gonna be OK.

890
00:43:55,458 --> 00:43:56,833
Well, you think
you can work on it?

891
00:43:56,875 --> 00:43:58,583
Yeah, definitely.

892
00:44:02,208 --> 00:44:03,167
I think I'm done.

893
00:44:03,167 --> 00:44:04,417
OK.

894
00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:06,542
Thank you for dinner.

895
00:44:06,625 --> 00:44:10,583
So it's really hard when
she goes out that door.

896
00:44:10,667 --> 00:44:12,250
I love you.

897
00:44:12,333 --> 00:44:13,625
Love you, Mom.

898
00:44:13,708 --> 00:44:15,167
She'll probably
go home and get

899
00:44:15,208 --> 00:44:16,833
high and just forget
about everything

900
00:44:16,917 --> 00:44:20,000
we talked about, you know?

901
00:44:20,042 --> 00:44:22,708
You know, it just scares me.

902
00:44:22,792 --> 00:44:24,167
She needs to get some help.

903
00:44:32,375 --> 00:44:36,417
Me and Garrett, we're
addicted to fentanyl and meth.

904
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,042
When Garrett and Shantell
first started dating,

905
00:44:38,125 --> 00:44:41,500
I automatically knew
it was just going to be

906
00:44:41,583 --> 00:44:42,917
a codependent relationship.

907
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,583
How did you even get
that one off of me?

908
00:44:44,708 --> 00:44:45,625
I didn't, dummy.

909
00:44:45,708 --> 00:44:47,167
You still have yours.

910
00:44:47,250 --> 00:44:49,375
I do not think Shantell
and Garrett would be together

911
00:44:49,458 --> 00:44:50,917
if they weren't using drugs.

912
00:44:50,917 --> 00:44:52,500
Sorry, I get
super emotional when

913
00:44:52,583 --> 00:44:54,000
I talk about my grandmother.

914
00:44:54,083 --> 00:44:55,958
When my grandma had passed
away, Shantell shut down,

915
00:44:55,958 --> 00:44:58,708
and her drug use was
progressively getting worse.

916
00:44:58,833 --> 00:45:00,375
Garrett's experienced
a lot of trauma,

917
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:01,917
and it's all been back to back.

918
00:45:02,042 --> 00:45:04,375
It started with the car
crash where the driver died.

919
00:45:04,458 --> 00:45:06,000
Then his father passed away.

920
00:45:06,042 --> 00:45:08,708
What Garrett has done is
use it as fuel to the fire.

921
00:45:08,708 --> 00:45:09,833
That's the same
kind of mentality

922
00:45:09,875 --> 00:45:11,125
that's gonna kill him.

923
00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:12,583
Where's Mom in all this?

924
00:45:12,583 --> 00:45:14,375
They're both very
codependent on each other.

925
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:15,375
So there's enablement?

926
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:16,208
Yes.

927
00:45:18,042 --> 00:45:19,625
- Oh, yeah.
- We got a lot of work to do.

928
00:45:19,708 --> 00:45:21,667
But if we don't do
it, Shantell and Garrett

929
00:45:21,708 --> 00:45:22,667
are gonna die.

930
00:45:22,792 --> 00:45:23,625
There's not even a question.

931
00:45:23,750 --> 00:45:26,667
[tense music]

932
00:45:34,875 --> 00:45:38,000
So right now, I'm on my
way to meet Shantell's mom,

933
00:45:38,083 --> 00:45:40,917
Peggy, and Shantell's sister.

934
00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:44,875
I'm really interested in getting
Peggy's take on Shantell's

935
00:45:44,958 --> 00:45:49,708
relationship with
Garrett, because Shantell

936
00:45:49,708 --> 00:45:52,708
was in a relationship
when she was in Spokane.

937
00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:54,542
And that didn't go well.

938
00:45:54,625 --> 00:45:56,333
And then she started using.

939
00:45:56,375 --> 00:45:57,625
Hi.
- Hi.

940
00:45:57,708 --> 00:45:59,042
I'm Jody.
- Mike Diamond.

941
00:45:59,167 --> 00:46:00,417
Lovely to meet you.
- Nice to you.

942
00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:02,208
Thank you.

943
00:46:02,292 --> 00:46:04,042
So I really want to find out if
having these bad relationships

944
00:46:04,125 --> 00:46:07,625
and then relapsing is
a pattern and hopefully

945
00:46:07,750 --> 00:46:09,167
break that pattern.

946
00:46:09,167 --> 00:46:12,083
So I'm here today just to
ask you a few questions

947
00:46:12,208 --> 00:46:14,833
so it'll help me
construct a better

948
00:46:14,917 --> 00:46:16,375
intervention to help you.
- OK.

949
00:46:16,458 --> 00:46:17,292
- OK?
- Yeah.

950
00:46:17,375 --> 00:46:18,875
OK.

951
00:46:18,958 --> 00:46:20,625
Does she talk to you about
her using or anything?

952
00:46:20,708 --> 00:46:21,958
No, she's never.

953
00:46:22,042 --> 00:46:23,083
- How about you?
- No.

954
00:46:23,167 --> 00:46:24,583
What do you think she's using?

955
00:46:24,667 --> 00:46:26,167
You know, I really don't know.

956
00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:28,792
I'm thinking that they're
smoking pills or something.

957
00:46:28,875 --> 00:46:30,542
Yeah, fentanyl.

958
00:46:30,542 --> 00:46:31,542
Yeah.

959
00:46:31,625 --> 00:46:32,667
They're going pretty hard.

960
00:46:32,708 --> 00:46:34,917
It's deadly.

961
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,625
What would trigger her to just
take such drastic measures?

962
00:46:37,708 --> 00:46:40,167
Well, my mom had passed away.

963
00:46:40,250 --> 00:46:42,000
And she was very
close with her, right?

964
00:46:42,042 --> 00:46:44,542
Oh, yeah, because we pretty
much lived with my mom.

965
00:46:44,667 --> 00:46:46,917
Mom basically was
their other mom.

966
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,500
And just, like,
her whole life just

967
00:46:48,625 --> 00:46:50,083
went upside down and sideways.

968
00:46:50,167 --> 00:46:51,667
That's when her
personality changed.

969
00:46:51,708 --> 00:46:52,500
Yeah.

970
00:46:52,583 --> 00:46:53,833
Friends changed.

971
00:46:53,875 --> 00:46:55,667
So what's the
story with Garrett?

972
00:46:55,708 --> 00:46:58,000
I don't like Garrett.

973
00:46:58,083 --> 00:46:58,917
Yeah.

974
00:46:58,917 --> 00:47:01,042
I didn't start out that way.

975
00:47:01,167 --> 00:47:04,667
You know, I wanted to help him,
and he took advantage of that.

976
00:47:04,708 --> 00:47:06,000
And she lived
with Garrett here?

977
00:47:06,083 --> 00:47:08,083
Yes, that was a nightmare.

978
00:47:08,167 --> 00:47:10,042
You know, she came to me
and said that, you know,

979
00:47:10,208 --> 00:47:11,500
Garrett didn't have
anywhere to go.

980
00:47:11,583 --> 00:47:12,750
Yeah.

981
00:47:12,833 --> 00:47:14,708
And things just
didn't go well at all.

982
00:47:14,833 --> 00:47:16,292
They were using, had
people in and out.

983
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:18,083
And, well, of course,
you know, they always

984
00:47:18,167 --> 00:47:19,375
had their bedroom door locked.

985
00:47:19,458 --> 00:47:21,542
You knock on the door,
you know, open the door.

986
00:47:21,625 --> 00:47:22,958
Are you dead or alive in there?

987
00:47:23,042 --> 00:47:24,208
You know, what's--
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

988
00:47:24,292 --> 00:47:26,000
--you know, what are
you-- what's going on?

989
00:47:26,042 --> 00:47:27,833
And my youngest brother
ended up kicking the door in,

990
00:47:27,917 --> 00:47:30,417
and then they got
into it physically.

991
00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:33,542
You know, and then
I throwed them out.

992
00:47:33,625 --> 00:47:34,417
And what about you?

993
00:47:34,542 --> 00:47:35,708
What's going on?

994
00:47:35,792 --> 00:47:37,750
Well, I just got
out of the hospital.

995
00:47:37,833 --> 00:47:39,208
It's been a week?

996
00:47:41,875 --> 00:47:43,500
I found out I had cancer.

997
00:47:43,625 --> 00:47:45,458
Oh, God.

998
00:47:45,542 --> 00:47:47,000
I'm sorry.

999
00:47:47,042 --> 00:47:48,625
The last few months
have been just--

1000
00:47:48,708 --> 00:47:49,458
Horrible.

1001
00:47:49,542 --> 00:47:51,125
Yeah.

1002
00:47:51,208 --> 00:47:53,333
I'm always nagging Shantell
about her going to treatment,

1003
00:47:53,417 --> 00:47:55,042
especially now that
I'm sick, because it

1004
00:47:55,208 --> 00:48:01,000
just worries me that I-- you
know, I'm not gonna be there.

1005
00:48:01,125 --> 00:48:03,083
With my mom, there's
definitely, like,

1006
00:48:03,208 --> 00:48:06,208
a sense of, like, urgency, and
it makes me really stressed out

1007
00:48:06,333 --> 00:48:08,958
because I don't think
anyone's gonna get

1008
00:48:09,042 --> 00:48:11,083
clean until they're ready to.

1009
00:48:11,208 --> 00:48:13,333
Because you're sick,
she can, in her mind,

1010
00:48:13,458 --> 00:48:15,875
feel trapped, like but I can't
leave because you're sick.

1011
00:48:15,958 --> 00:48:17,375
Mm-hmm, and she's
said that before.

1012
00:48:17,458 --> 00:48:18,417
Ah, see?

1013
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:19,542
I have to be there for mom.

1014
00:48:19,667 --> 00:48:20,833
No, you need to
set a boundary.

1015
00:48:20,875 --> 00:48:22,000
Yeah.
I told her.

1016
00:48:22,125 --> 00:48:23,500
I said, you know,
if I have to fight,

1017
00:48:23,542 --> 00:48:24,875
you're gonna have to fight.

1018
00:48:24,875 --> 00:48:25,875
You know?

1019
00:48:25,875 --> 00:48:27,000
I got to go through chemo.

1020
00:48:27,042 --> 00:48:29,208
I got to want to get better.

1021
00:48:29,292 --> 00:48:30,333
Yeah.

1022
00:48:30,375 --> 00:48:31,750
Say, OK, you got
six months to live.

1023
00:48:31,875 --> 00:48:34,292
My wish would be for
you to get better

1024
00:48:34,375 --> 00:48:36,458
so that I could leave
this world knowing

1025
00:48:36,542 --> 00:48:38,333
that you're gonna be OK.

1026
00:48:38,458 --> 00:48:42,667
If I were to die next
month and Shantell--

1027
00:48:42,708 --> 00:48:44,458
Wasn't sober and
healthy in herself.

1028
00:48:44,542 --> 00:48:47,042
Yeah, I mean, it would--

1029
00:48:47,125 --> 00:48:48,542
I wouldn't be able to let go.

1030
00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:49,708
I mean--

1031
00:48:49,792 --> 00:48:50,667
Yeah, we need to help them.

1032
00:48:50,708 --> 00:48:52,083
Yeah.

1033
00:48:52,167 --> 00:48:54,500
If they stay together,
they're not gonna make it.

1034
00:48:54,583 --> 00:48:56,833
Yeah.

1035
00:48:56,917 --> 00:48:59,875
[tense music]

1036
00:49:06,958 --> 00:49:08,542
How come you're driving?

1037
00:49:09,792 --> 00:49:11,417
Of course, we're
going straight there.

1038
00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:13,333
Be right back.

1039
00:49:13,375 --> 00:49:16,125
Alex was, like, one
of my best friends.

1040
00:49:17,708 --> 00:49:21,125
But he overdosed and passed
away five years ago today.

1041
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,083
Shantell and I are
going to Alex's memorial

1042
00:49:23,167 --> 00:49:25,167
with Lane, Adrian,
and our families.

1043
00:50:05,417 --> 00:50:06,750
Excuse me.

1044
00:50:06,833 --> 00:50:09,625
[tense music]

1045
00:50:21,125 --> 00:50:24,125
[somber music]

1046
00:50:31,083 --> 00:50:33,000
I have known Alex
since kindergarten.

1047
00:50:33,042 --> 00:50:36,083
I had heard from a friend
that Alex had overdosed

1048
00:50:36,167 --> 00:50:41,167
and that he was gone.

1049
00:50:41,208 --> 00:50:43,375
It was one of the worst
things that-- that's

1050
00:50:43,458 --> 00:50:44,667
ever happened to me, probably.

1051
00:50:48,333 --> 00:50:51,333
Well, I want to thank you
guys all for coming today.

1052
00:50:51,375 --> 00:50:54,292
I know it was hard,
and I know it's cold.

1053
00:50:54,375 --> 00:50:57,167
This sucks without
Shantell here.

1054
00:50:57,250 --> 00:50:58,875
We do everything together.

1055
00:50:58,958 --> 00:51:02,750
I mean, it's just a lot more
depressing and a lot harder.

1056
00:51:02,833 --> 00:51:04,417
I'm sure glad you guys came.

1057
00:51:13,333 --> 00:51:16,833
Garrett, he hasn't really
grieved or really dealt

1058
00:51:16,917 --> 00:51:18,833
with it, like, emotionally.

1059
00:51:18,917 --> 00:51:20,958
So he started using
drugs a lot more.

1060
00:51:21,042 --> 00:51:23,667
You know, that makes us
fight, and that's just

1061
00:51:23,750 --> 00:51:27,625
too much to handle sometimes.

1062
00:51:27,708 --> 00:51:29,167
It was good seeing you.

1063
00:51:29,250 --> 00:51:32,083
I thought when Garrett's
friends were dying,

1064
00:51:32,167 --> 00:51:33,792
he might snap out
of it, you know?

1065
00:51:33,875 --> 00:51:36,167
I was like, oh, my God.

1066
00:51:36,250 --> 00:51:40,667
That could happen to
me, too, but it's not.

1067
00:51:40,750 --> 00:51:41,833
I love you, too.

1068
00:51:41,917 --> 00:51:44,667
The drug use is getting worse.

1069
00:51:44,750 --> 00:51:47,583
[tense music]

1070
00:51:58,917 --> 00:52:02,083
Seeing one of my best friends
lying there dead like that,

1071
00:52:02,208 --> 00:52:04,000
yeah, I really don't want
things to end up turning

1072
00:52:04,083 --> 00:52:06,042
out like that with myself.

1073
00:52:06,167 --> 00:52:08,500
Definitely wanting to
start doing better in life

1074
00:52:08,583 --> 00:52:11,333
and actually live,
you know, and not

1075
00:52:11,375 --> 00:52:15,083
have to frigging worry about
supporting this habit anymore.

1076
00:52:24,875 --> 00:52:25,500
Sorry, Mom.

1077
00:52:26,500 --> 00:52:27,208
I don't care.

1078
00:52:27,292 --> 00:52:28,625
I'm gonna smoke this.

1079
00:52:28,708 --> 00:52:29,667
Sorry.

1080
00:52:29,750 --> 00:52:32,750
Yes, I'm afraid of death.

1081
00:52:32,833 --> 00:52:35,958
I think about death a lot
because there's so much death

1082
00:52:35,958 --> 00:52:38,000
going on around me all the time.

1083
00:52:38,083 --> 00:52:39,625
But I can't stop using fentanyl.

1084
00:52:43,750 --> 00:52:47,583
Using feels pretty amazing.

1085
00:52:47,583 --> 00:52:49,542
It feels like all my
problems have gone away.

1086
00:52:59,542 --> 00:53:02,333
Garrett's number one priority is
his addiction

1087
00:53:02,333 --> 00:53:07,083
I'm afraid he's going to get
some bad dope and O.D.

1088
00:53:07,167 --> 00:53:08,667
And that's scary.

1089
00:53:08,750 --> 00:53:11,417
[tense music]

1090
00:53:18,875 --> 00:53:20,375
How do you want to do it?

1091
00:53:20,458 --> 00:53:22,208
Well, I want to do Garrett
and Shantell together.

1092
00:53:22,292 --> 00:53:24,583
That way, we can do the
preintervention together.

1093
00:53:24,667 --> 00:53:26,292
That way, we can
have them set up

1094
00:53:26,375 --> 00:53:28,167
to do an intervention
together because I do really

1095
00:53:28,250 --> 00:53:30,958
want to use, like, the
codependency between Garrett

1096
00:53:31,042 --> 00:53:33,375
and Shantell in our favor.

1097
00:53:33,458 --> 00:53:35,083
From what you've
just told me, we

1098
00:53:35,167 --> 00:53:39,792
also have to stand strong to
make sure that Garrett's mom--

1099
00:53:39,875 --> 00:53:41,208
Mm-hmm.

1100
00:53:41,292 --> 00:53:42,833
--can't cause any
interference there.

1101
00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:43,708
Yep.

1102
00:53:43,792 --> 00:53:45,167
We know she drinks.

1103
00:53:45,208 --> 00:53:46,750
We don't to what extent.

1104
00:53:46,833 --> 00:53:49,208
But I believe that she's
probably drinking more

1105
00:53:49,333 --> 00:53:50,792
than people are letting on.

1106
00:53:50,875 --> 00:53:54,167
There's a big level of
codependency and enablement

1107
00:53:54,250 --> 00:53:56,292
between Garrett and Connie.

1108
00:53:56,375 --> 00:53:58,167
And it goes both ways.

1109
00:53:58,292 --> 00:53:59,750
They're in communication daily.

1110
00:53:59,833 --> 00:54:02,417
Like, Connie has emotional
pull and leverage.

1111
00:54:02,542 --> 00:54:05,375
Unless Connie says, I
love you, I support this,

1112
00:54:05,458 --> 00:54:07,042
I think you should get healthy--

1113
00:54:07,167 --> 00:54:09,708
unless we get that from her,
I don't think Garrett's going.

1114
00:54:09,708 --> 00:54:12,625
You're saying that Garrett
wouldn't go without Connie?

1115
00:54:12,625 --> 00:54:15,417
You don't think Shantell
going is enough leverage?

1116
00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:17,500
In and of itself, no, I
don't think it's enough.

1117
00:54:17,583 --> 00:54:19,208
We need his mom,
Connie, involved.

1118
00:54:19,333 --> 00:54:20,583
This is my plan.

1119
00:54:20,708 --> 00:54:23,500
We leave Connie out of
the preintervention.

1120
00:54:23,583 --> 00:54:24,792
OK.

1121
00:54:24,875 --> 00:54:26,583
We don't include her
at all, because then we

1122
00:54:26,667 --> 00:54:29,000
have a whole day gap between
the time we do a preintervention

1123
00:54:29,083 --> 00:54:31,542
and an intervention, and there's
a whole lot of opportunity

1124
00:54:31,667 --> 00:54:34,292
for Connie to go backdooring us
and going straight to Garrett

1125
00:54:34,375 --> 00:54:36,000
and letting him know
exactly what's going on.

1126
00:54:36,042 --> 00:54:37,292
Right, right.

1127
00:54:37,375 --> 00:54:39,417
So we don't include
her in any way,

1128
00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:41,958
shape, form, or fashion until
the day of the intervention.

1129
00:54:42,042 --> 00:54:43,542
All right, well, I'm down.

1130
00:54:43,625 --> 00:54:45,542
Come on, we got a lot of
work to do, but we got a plan.

1131
00:54:45,625 --> 00:54:47,792
So at this point, we just
need to go execute it.

1132
00:54:47,875 --> 00:54:48,750
Love it.
Let's do it.

1133
00:54:48,750 --> 00:54:50,833
Cool.

1134
00:54:50,875 --> 00:54:53,667
[somber music]

1135
00:54:57,458 --> 00:54:58,667
- Hey.
- How are you?

1136
00:54:58,750 --> 00:54:59,583
I'm good.

1137
00:54:59,583 --> 00:55:00,958
I'm Zack.

1138
00:55:01,042 --> 00:55:02,542
We don't know what the
future holds for this couple.

1139
00:55:02,667 --> 00:55:05,417
That's why we need to bring
both families together.

1140
00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:08,167
If Garrett and Shantell come
back, they relapse, they AMA,

1141
00:55:08,250 --> 00:55:11,708
anything in between, we still
need the families unified.

1142
00:55:11,792 --> 00:55:14,750
So, guys, thank you for--
for real, for being here.

1143
00:55:14,833 --> 00:55:17,208
I know we're all here for the
same reason, right , is we

1144
00:55:17,292 --> 00:55:18,792
want these two to get healthy.
- Yep.

1145
00:55:18,875 --> 00:55:20,125
Right?

1146
00:55:20,125 --> 00:55:21,208
So we need to become
a team on this.

1147
00:55:21,333 --> 00:55:23,500
I wanted to exclude
Connie from today.

1148
00:55:23,542 --> 00:55:25,250
There's a lot of time
between right now

1149
00:55:25,375 --> 00:55:27,250
and the time of intervention
tomorrow for things

1150
00:55:27,333 --> 00:55:28,583
to go sideways.

1151
00:55:28,667 --> 00:55:30,833
But we want to bring
Connie in tomorrow

1152
00:55:30,917 --> 00:55:34,833
prior to the actual intervention
to ask for her to be involved

1153
00:55:34,917 --> 00:55:38,083
in the process because
Connie's got the emotional pull

1154
00:55:38,167 --> 00:55:39,792
with Garrett.

1155
00:55:39,875 --> 00:55:43,167
If Garrett can hear his mom
say, hey, I love you, it's OK,

1156
00:55:43,250 --> 00:55:46,500
go to treatment, that's gonna
have so much pull on him.

1157
00:55:46,542 --> 00:55:47,792
Yes.

1158
00:55:47,875 --> 00:55:49,458
How do you guys feel
about the relationship

1159
00:55:49,542 --> 00:55:51,625
between Garrett and Shantell?

1160
00:55:51,708 --> 00:55:53,167
I didn't think
it was a healthy

1161
00:55:53,250 --> 00:55:54,750
relationship for 'em to be in.

1162
00:55:54,833 --> 00:55:56,917
I thought it was gonna be
pretty self-destructive.

1163
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,208
There's a lot of fighting,
a lot of arguing over mainly

1164
00:56:00,292 --> 00:56:01,958
who's got the dope and
who don't, you know?

1165
00:56:01,958 --> 00:56:04,167
They depend on each other
because they have some kind

1166
00:56:04,292 --> 00:56:05,875
of trust between them.

1167
00:56:05,875 --> 00:56:07,833
But we can all agree that
this is not a functional--

1168
00:56:07,833 --> 00:56:08,667
Yes.

1169
00:56:08,708 --> 00:56:09,417
Absolutely.

1170
00:56:09,500 --> 00:56:10,917
--healthy relationship.

1171
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:17,208
So what have we done with
good intentions that may

1172
00:56:17,292 --> 00:56:19,417
have allowed this to continue?

1173
00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:21,042
Give money.

1174
00:56:21,125 --> 00:56:23,083
Any dollar amounts or
frequency, anything like that?

1175
00:56:23,167 --> 00:56:25,167
Anywhere from $4 to $20.

1176
00:56:25,250 --> 00:56:26,667
Mm-hmm.

1177
00:56:26,750 --> 00:56:29,375
I mean, just, like, what
are you gonna do with $4?

1178
00:56:29,458 --> 00:56:31,167
You can do a lot with
$4 when it's fentanyl.

1179
00:56:31,292 --> 00:56:32,500
Yeah.

1180
00:56:32,583 --> 00:56:34,042
- It's-- it's dirt, dirt cheap.
- Yeah.

1181
00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:35,333
What about with Garrett?

1182
00:56:35,417 --> 00:56:37,333
I cut him off pretty
much in high school.

1183
00:56:37,375 --> 00:56:38,833
My mom helps him out.

1184
00:56:38,958 --> 00:56:40,583
I don't know how much
she really helps him out.

1185
00:56:40,708 --> 00:56:43,167
So she's definitely been a
part of their abuse and stuff

1186
00:56:43,292 --> 00:56:44,792
they've been doing.

1187
00:56:44,875 --> 00:56:46,542
Peggy, you've been quiet,
but you've got that look

1188
00:56:46,625 --> 00:56:48,250
of, like, real concern.

1189
00:56:48,333 --> 00:56:49,875
What's going on in your head?

1190
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,542
I mean, it's gonna be hard
because I'm sick right now,

1191
00:56:53,625 --> 00:56:58,417
and I don't want her to use
that as an excuse not to go.

1192
00:56:58,500 --> 00:57:01,458
You have to stand strong
saying it's your wish,

1193
00:57:01,542 --> 00:57:03,167
your dying wish, for
her to get better.

1194
00:57:03,208 --> 00:57:04,833
Yeah.

1195
00:57:04,917 --> 00:57:06,250
Not the excuse, well, I've
got to be there for my mom,

1196
00:57:06,333 --> 00:57:07,500
because she's not there
for you right now.

1197
00:57:07,625 --> 00:57:08,333
That's the truth.

1198
00:57:08,417 --> 00:57:09,542
Yeah, she's not.

1199
00:57:09,667 --> 00:57:11,042
I'm gonna flip that around--
- Yes.

1200
00:57:11,125 --> 00:57:12,375
--on her.

1201
00:57:12,458 --> 00:57:14,292
You know, the best thing
you could do for me

1202
00:57:14,375 --> 00:57:15,750
is go get better right now.

1203
00:57:15,833 --> 00:57:18,250
That way, if something
does happen to me,

1204
00:57:18,375 --> 00:57:22,208
I know that you're gonna be OK.

1205
00:57:22,333 --> 00:57:25,000
On tomorrow, if we
get a yes from one,

1206
00:57:25,042 --> 00:57:28,250
there's a high probability we
can get a yes from the second.

1207
00:57:28,375 --> 00:57:30,917
On the flip side,
though, if one says no,

1208
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,792
the other is, for
sure, saying no.

1209
00:57:32,875 --> 00:57:33,792
Yeah.

1210
00:57:33,875 --> 00:57:36,125
So if we're all
committed together,

1211
00:57:36,208 --> 00:57:37,458
we've got more weight.

1212
00:57:37,542 --> 00:57:38,417
They get better.

1213
00:57:38,542 --> 00:57:39,583
- Yeah.
- OK?

1214
00:57:39,667 --> 00:57:41,000
Well, we'll see
you guys tomorrow.

1215
00:57:41,083 --> 00:57:42,167
- Yeah.
- Thank you.

1216
00:57:42,292 --> 00:57:43,500
- Hey, likewise.
- Absolutely.

1217
00:57:43,583 --> 00:57:45,375
Garrett and
Shantell's relationship

1218
00:57:45,375 --> 00:57:51,250
has literally been founded in
drug addiction the entire time.

1219
00:57:51,375 --> 00:57:53,167
So what we're really
asking is that they

1220
00:57:53,208 --> 00:57:56,833
give up everything that they
know of that relationship.

1221
00:57:56,917 --> 00:57:59,500
[tense music]

1222
00:57:59,583 --> 00:58:02,833
I mean, this is a big ask.

1223
00:58:02,958 --> 00:58:06,042
There's really no way to gauge
how they're gonna react to that

1224
00:58:06,125 --> 00:58:07,833
and how it's gonna go.

1225
00:58:07,875 --> 00:58:10,583
[tense music]

1226
00:58:11,917 --> 00:58:12,667
Yeah.

1227
00:58:22,542 --> 00:58:23,833
What's up, man?

1228
00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:25,292
- How's it going, Zach?
- It's going good.

1229
00:58:25,375 --> 00:58:26,750
How are you?
- Good, good.

1230
00:58:26,833 --> 00:58:28,542
Garrett's brother
was a little concerned

1231
00:58:28,625 --> 00:58:30,917
that their mother wouldn't
be able to keep the secret.

1232
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:32,875
She's here.

1233
00:58:32,958 --> 00:58:35,417
She's been enabling
Garrett a lot lately,

1234
00:58:35,542 --> 00:58:38,833
so she doesn't know about
the intervention yet.

1235
00:58:38,875 --> 00:58:42,125
[tense music]

1236
00:58:45,542 --> 00:58:46,833
Hey.
Hey.

1237
00:58:46,875 --> 00:58:47,625
Hey.

1238
00:58:52,583 --> 00:58:55,833
So good to see you.

1239
00:58:55,917 --> 00:58:58,083
See the baby?

1240
00:58:58,208 --> 00:59:01,375
Oh, my goodness.

1241
00:59:01,458 --> 00:59:03,500
Go ahead and take
a seat right here.

1242
00:59:03,583 --> 00:59:05,500
Hi there, precious.

1243
00:59:05,625 --> 00:59:08,333
Oh, you are just a doll baby.

1244
00:59:08,375 --> 00:59:09,833
Look at you.

1245
00:59:09,917 --> 00:59:11,417
She's beautiful, Cassie.
- Mm-hmm.

1246
00:59:11,542 --> 00:59:12,833
Thank you.

1247
00:59:12,917 --> 00:59:13,917
Hey, I'm Zach
Livingston, by the way.

1248
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:15,375
- Nice to meet you.
- Yeah, you too.

1249
00:59:15,458 --> 00:59:16,500
You too.

1250
00:59:16,542 --> 00:59:17,375
Hey, one, thanks for coming.

1251
00:59:17,458 --> 00:59:18,667
Yeah.

1252
00:59:18,792 --> 00:59:19,833
I'm a substance
abuse professional.

1253
00:59:19,958 --> 00:59:21,375
I'm an interventionist.
- Mm-hmm.

1254
00:59:21,458 --> 00:59:24,042
And today, what
we really want to do

1255
00:59:24,125 --> 00:59:26,917
is be able to offer
him some help.

1256
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,667
We want to hand him, like, the
golden opportunity to, like,

1257
00:59:29,750 --> 00:59:32,958
get sober and,
like, do treatment.

1258
00:59:33,042 --> 00:59:33,833
Really?

1259
00:59:33,917 --> 00:59:34,500
[exhales]

1260
00:59:34,583 --> 00:59:36,167
I know.

1261
00:59:36,250 --> 00:59:39,500
So we really want you to be
involved in that process,

1262
00:59:39,625 --> 00:59:40,667
if you're willing.

1263
00:59:40,667 --> 00:59:42,500
We always talked
about the day--

1264
00:59:42,583 --> 00:59:44,000
Yeah.

1265
00:59:44,042 --> 00:59:46,375
--that, you know, he
would start his healing.

1266
00:59:46,458 --> 00:59:47,500
- Today's that day.
- Oh.

1267
00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:48,667
For real.

1268
00:59:48,750 --> 00:59:50,000
We're gonna hand
Garrett a miracle.

1269
00:59:50,125 --> 00:59:52,542
Today's the day, and you
get to be a part of it.

1270
00:59:52,625 --> 00:59:54,000
Now, I have to ask you, though.

1271
00:59:54,042 --> 00:59:57,500
Like, in the past, how
have you enabled him?

1272
00:59:57,542 --> 00:59:59,208
I have given him money.

1273
00:59:59,208 --> 01:00:00,625
OK.

1274
01:00:00,708 --> 01:00:02,167
And I know what he--
he-- he spends it on.

1275
01:00:02,250 --> 01:00:03,500
Mm-hmm.

1276
01:00:03,542 --> 01:00:05,750
I live in an RV,
which I kind of bit

1277
01:00:05,833 --> 01:00:07,333
off more than I
could chew and didn't

1278
01:00:07,417 --> 01:00:08,542
realize how hard it would be.

1279
01:00:08,667 --> 01:00:10,000
And so he does come and help me.

1280
01:00:10,125 --> 01:00:12,500
And I'm afraid his
rebuttal might be,

1281
01:00:12,583 --> 01:00:13,667
I can't, I got to stay here.

1282
01:00:13,708 --> 01:00:15,000
I got to help my mom.

1283
01:00:15,083 --> 01:00:16,292
Almost like he's gonna
need your permission.

1284
01:00:16,375 --> 01:00:16,833
- He can't leave me?
- Mm-hmm.

1285
01:00:16,875 --> 01:00:18,375
Yeah.

1286
01:00:18,500 --> 01:00:19,792
Like, he's gonna need to hear
you say, like, hey, it's OK,

1287
01:00:19,792 --> 01:00:20,833
I love you, and I
want you to do this.

1288
01:00:20,917 --> 01:00:22,167
Like, this is the best plan.

1289
01:00:22,208 --> 01:00:23,500
Like, go get healthy.

1290
01:00:23,542 --> 01:00:25,875
Going forward,
the enabling stops.

1291
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,000
OK.

1292
01:00:27,083 --> 01:00:28,167
That's not gonna
be an issue for me.

1293
01:00:28,292 --> 01:00:29,583
- OK, cool.
- Yeah, yeah.

1294
01:00:29,667 --> 01:00:31,000
Just to catch
you up to speed, we

1295
01:00:31,042 --> 01:00:32,583
think the best way
to go about this

1296
01:00:32,667 --> 01:00:35,167
is to do an intervention
for Shantell

1297
01:00:35,250 --> 01:00:37,375
and an intervention for
Garrett at the same time

1298
01:00:37,375 --> 01:00:38,500
with both families.

1299
01:00:38,625 --> 01:00:40,292
Yeah, that's--
that's-- that's awesome

1300
01:00:40,375 --> 01:00:43,000
because they just kind of feed
off of each other, you know?

1301
01:00:43,042 --> 01:00:44,000
Mm-hmm.

1302
01:00:44,083 --> 01:00:45,083
And she needs it
as much as he does.

1303
01:00:45,167 --> 01:00:46,167
- Yeah.
- Exactly.

1304
01:00:46,250 --> 01:00:47,833
When these two get here--
- Uh-huh.

1305
01:00:47,875 --> 01:00:49,042
--we're gonna stay calm.
We're gonna stay cool.

1306
01:00:49,167 --> 01:00:50,958
We're gonna stay collected.
- Uh-huh.

1307
01:00:51,042 --> 01:00:53,167
Me and Mike are gonna guide
you guys every step of the way.

1308
01:00:53,250 --> 01:00:54,375
OK.

1309
01:00:54,458 --> 01:00:55,292
- Let's get it done, OK?
- OK.

1310
01:00:55,417 --> 01:00:56,458
Cool.

1311
01:00:56,542 --> 01:00:59,625
[tense music]

1312
01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:11,125
Perfect.

1313
01:01:11,208 --> 01:01:12,542
Thanks, Laura.

1314
01:01:12,542 --> 01:01:13,500
- How we feeling?
- I'm nervous.

1315
01:01:13,583 --> 01:01:14,542
You guys ready?

1316
01:01:14,625 --> 01:01:15,500
Nervous?
Positive?

1317
01:01:15,542 --> 01:01:16,875
- Nervous.
- Excited.

1318
01:01:16,958 --> 01:01:17,708
Hopeful.

1319
01:01:17,875 --> 01:01:18,917
We're locked and loaded, man.

1320
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,208
Von, you ready?
- I'm ready.

1321
01:01:20,292 --> 01:01:21,000
I'm ready.

1322
01:01:26,708 --> 01:01:28,083
- OK, got it.
- Yeah.

1323
01:01:28,083 --> 01:01:29,500
Nice and easy, guys.
Relax.

1324
01:01:29,542 --> 01:01:30,667
We'll be good.
- Yeah.

1325
01:01:30,750 --> 01:01:32,625
Go time.

1326
01:01:32,708 --> 01:01:35,792
[tense music]

1327
01:01:37,333 --> 01:01:40,667
Breathe and relax, all right?

1328
01:01:51,542 --> 01:01:52,542
OK.

1329
01:01:52,625 --> 01:01:53,625
- Hey, Garrett--
- Hey, guys.

1330
01:01:53,708 --> 01:01:54,500
- --Shantell.
- Hi.

1331
01:01:54,583 --> 01:01:55,667
Hi.

1332
01:01:55,792 --> 01:01:57,042
You can come around here.

1333
01:01:57,125 --> 01:01:57,792
Come on.

1334
01:02:07,208 --> 01:02:08,500
I love you.

1335
01:02:08,583 --> 01:02:09,792
I'll just sit right here.

1336
01:02:12,958 --> 01:02:15,583
Well, guys, my name is Zach.

1337
01:02:15,667 --> 01:02:16,375
This is Mike.

1338
01:02:16,458 --> 01:02:17,833
Hi, guys.

1339
01:02:17,917 --> 01:02:19,792
And we're both substance
abuse professionals,

1340
01:02:19,875 --> 01:02:22,667
and today, we want to
have a conversation

1341
01:02:22,708 --> 01:02:24,333
about your drug addiction.

1342
01:02:24,375 --> 01:02:26,667
There's a lot of love in this
room for you on both sides.

1343
01:02:26,750 --> 01:02:28,833
They've put some time
and effort in to writing

1344
01:02:28,917 --> 01:02:30,708
their thoughts down on
paper, and they were

1345
01:02:30,833 --> 01:02:32,958
hoping to share those with you.

1346
01:02:33,042 --> 01:02:34,958
Jody?

1347
01:02:35,042 --> 01:02:38,083
"Shantell, I love you
past the moon and the stars.

1348
01:02:38,167 --> 01:02:41,833
You're kind, silly,
and when you love,

1349
01:02:41,917 --> 01:02:43,667
you love with your whole heart.

1350
01:02:43,708 --> 01:02:45,625
You've always been
very special to me,

1351
01:02:45,708 --> 01:02:47,333
and I hope you've
always felt that.

1352
01:02:47,417 --> 01:02:49,750
And I hope you see the
love and support you have

1353
01:02:49,833 --> 01:02:51,167
to help you through anything.

1354
01:02:51,208 --> 01:02:53,917
I only wish that
best for you and hope

1355
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,625
that you see this as an
opportunity that can change

1356
01:02:56,708 --> 01:02:58,083
your life for the better.

1357
01:02:58,167 --> 01:02:59,083
I love you."

1358
01:02:59,208 --> 01:03:00,500
Thanks, Jody.

1359
01:03:00,542 --> 01:03:01,667
Jason?

1360
01:03:01,750 --> 01:03:05,792
"Shantell, I
remember when we--

1361
01:03:05,875 --> 01:03:07,625
when we were a lot closer.

1362
01:03:07,708 --> 01:03:09,625
We used to take a lot
of trips together.

1363
01:03:09,625 --> 01:03:12,833
I would give anything to
make more memories like that.

1364
01:03:12,875 --> 01:03:17,208
Your addiction has taken
my little sister away.

1365
01:03:17,292 --> 01:03:20,333
And that worries me.

1366
01:03:20,375 --> 01:03:22,958
I love you."

1367
01:03:23,042 --> 01:03:26,458
"Shantell, I'm writing you
this letter from my heart.

1368
01:03:26,542 --> 01:03:29,167
We have lost our way.

1369
01:03:29,208 --> 01:03:32,083
I miss the way I could fix
things when you were little.

1370
01:03:32,208 --> 01:03:36,750
Moms always have a way of fixing
stuff and making things better.

1371
01:03:36,875 --> 01:03:40,333
I know you are worried
about me being sick.

1372
01:03:40,417 --> 01:03:43,958
The best thing you can do for
me, if this were my dying wish,

1373
01:03:44,042 --> 01:03:48,042
is for you to fight
for your life as well

1374
01:03:48,125 --> 01:03:50,667
and accept this
life-changing gift

1375
01:03:50,750 --> 01:03:54,167
and fight with me so
we can both have lots

1376
01:03:54,250 --> 01:03:58,167
more time to enjoy
life as it should be.

1377
01:03:58,250 --> 01:04:02,000
So please, please,
would you fight with me?

1378
01:04:02,083 --> 01:04:05,667
I love you so much, and
we can do this together.

1379
01:04:05,708 --> 01:04:08,542
Love, Mom."

1380
01:04:08,625 --> 01:04:11,542
I'm asking you to
accept this gift

1381
01:04:11,625 --> 01:04:14,083
that they are offering you.

1382
01:04:14,167 --> 01:04:15,333
Please fight with me.

1383
01:04:18,458 --> 01:04:20,167
We would leave today.

1384
01:04:20,250 --> 01:04:23,083
[tense music]

1385
01:04:35,750 --> 01:04:37,042
It's OK.
It's OK.

1386
01:04:37,125 --> 01:04:38,375
I don't want to talk to you.

1387
01:04:42,208 --> 01:04:42,750
Are you OK?

1388
01:04:42,833 --> 01:04:43,750
It's OK, Shantell.

1389
01:04:43,833 --> 01:04:46,417
No, this is [bleep] up.

1390
01:04:46,500 --> 01:04:48,208
[tense music]

1391
01:04:52,292 --> 01:04:52,833
It's OK, Shantell.

1392
01:04:52,875 --> 01:04:54,250
No, this is [bleep] up.

1393
01:04:54,333 --> 01:04:56,000
I don't want to talk
to anyone right now.

1394
01:04:56,083 --> 01:04:59,500
Just please leave me
by myself right now.

1395
01:04:59,583 --> 01:05:02,542
[tense music]

1396
01:05:19,542 --> 01:05:21,458
Right now, yeah.

1397
01:05:21,542 --> 01:05:22,458
He's ready.

1398
01:05:22,542 --> 01:05:23,458
I think he is.

1399
01:05:23,542 --> 01:05:24,333
She's scared.

1400
01:05:24,417 --> 01:05:25,167
She's scared.

1401
01:05:26,708 --> 01:05:27,750
Yeah.

1402
01:05:27,833 --> 01:05:28,792
How strong are you right now--

1403
01:05:28,875 --> 01:05:29,833
I'm good.

1404
01:05:29,917 --> 01:05:31,000
- --emotionally?
- I'm OK.

1405
01:05:31,083 --> 01:05:32,417
Do you want to come with me?

1406
01:05:32,417 --> 01:05:34,083
Yeah.

1407
01:05:34,167 --> 01:05:36,667
The goal is not to
tear you guys apart.

1408
01:05:36,708 --> 01:05:38,167
The goal is to allow
you guys to have

1409
01:05:38,167 --> 01:05:39,375
an opportunity to be healthy.

1410
01:05:52,875 --> 01:05:54,958
Just get the [bleep]
away from me right now!

1411
01:05:55,042 --> 01:05:56,500
I'm literally about
to take off if you

1412
01:05:56,625 --> 01:05:57,875
guys don't quit following me.

1413
01:05:57,958 --> 01:05:58,667
What the [bleep]?

1414
01:06:03,292 --> 01:06:07,083
Right now, you can see how
deep the codependency runs.

1415
01:06:07,167 --> 01:06:09,417
And she's so caught
in her addiction

1416
01:06:09,500 --> 01:06:15,333
that she would rather use and
be in pain than lose Garrett.

1417
01:06:15,458 --> 01:06:17,250
And I think what
we're gonna have to do

1418
01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:19,500
is have Garrett lean
into her and say,

1419
01:06:19,583 --> 01:06:22,583
hey, you want to have a healthy
relationship, I'm going.

1420
01:06:33,875 --> 01:06:35,208
- Is Garrett with her now?
- Yeah, yeah.

1421
01:06:35,292 --> 01:06:36,542
- Are they out back?
- Yeah, yeah.

1422
01:06:36,667 --> 01:06:37,583
Cool.
Cool, cool, cool.

1423
01:06:45,208 --> 01:06:46,708
We'll go for him, get him in--

1424
01:06:46,792 --> 01:06:48,125
Mm-hmm.

1425
01:06:48,208 --> 01:06:49,583
--and then establish
the bottom lines.

1426
01:06:49,667 --> 01:06:51,750
If we got to play bottom
lines, we'll play bottom lines.

1427
01:06:51,833 --> 01:06:54,250
But let's see what Garrett
can do on his own first.

1428
01:06:54,333 --> 01:06:55,792
And she's the most
receptive to him.

1429
01:06:55,875 --> 01:06:56,625
Yes.

1430
01:06:58,542 --> 01:07:00,333
I'm sure they're
worried about each other.

1431
01:07:00,375 --> 01:07:01,000
- Yes.
- Yeah.

1432
01:07:01,042 --> 01:07:01,958
Yeah, immensely.

1433
01:07:02,042 --> 01:07:03,458
That totally what it is.

1434
01:07:03,542 --> 01:07:05,417
Because if one leaves,
and then it's like, oh, no,

1435
01:07:05,542 --> 01:07:06,167
what am I gonna do?

1436
01:07:06,208 --> 01:07:07,292
How is he gonna survive?

1437
01:07:07,375 --> 01:07:08,292
Yeah.

1438
01:07:08,375 --> 01:07:09,417
I know.

1439
01:07:09,542 --> 01:07:11,208
All right, so
Garrett's with her now.

1440
01:07:11,292 --> 01:07:13,500
And it sounds like they're
slowly making their way back.

1441
01:07:13,583 --> 01:07:14,250
OK.

1442
01:07:24,708 --> 01:07:25,667
Sorry.

1443
01:07:25,708 --> 01:07:26,542
Zach?

1444
01:07:45,958 --> 01:07:47,500
You just want to
knock and say Garrett?

1445
01:07:47,583 --> 01:07:48,292
Yeah.

1446
01:07:59,042 --> 01:07:59,833
Hey, Garrett?

1447
01:07:59,958 --> 01:08:01,125
Yeah?

1448
01:08:01,208 --> 01:08:02,292
Are you ready to
come back in, man?

1449
01:08:03,542 --> 01:08:04,292
Cool.

1450
01:08:08,583 --> 01:08:10,292
We know they're
getting high in there,

1451
01:08:10,375 --> 01:08:12,125
but now we know that
they're not slumped over

1452
01:08:12,208 --> 01:08:14,167
or [bleep] nodded out in there.

1453
01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:22,000
Are you guys
ready to finish up?

1454
01:08:22,125 --> 01:08:23,208
OK, come on.

1455
01:08:26,542 --> 01:08:28,333
You guys want to come
over to the balcony?

1456
01:08:28,417 --> 01:08:31,792
That would be out of the rain.

1457
01:08:31,875 --> 01:08:34,958
I have no idea.

1458
01:08:35,042 --> 01:08:38,458
[tense music]

1459
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:42,750
OK.

1460
01:08:48,708 --> 01:08:49,750
You want to read out first?

1461
01:08:53,417 --> 01:08:55,833
"Garrett, I always think
about the endless amount of time

1462
01:08:55,875 --> 01:08:58,000
we spent together
as kids hiking,

1463
01:08:58,083 --> 01:09:00,833
fishing, hunting,
how much fun we had.

1464
01:09:00,917 --> 01:09:04,000
You are missing out on
bonding with my daughters

1465
01:09:04,042 --> 01:09:05,958
as their uncle.

1466
01:09:06,042 --> 01:09:08,667
I love you, and I can't wait for
you to be a part of our lives

1467
01:09:08,792 --> 01:09:09,500
once again, Garrett."

1468
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,625
Connie, I know you took some
time to write something down,

1469
01:09:14,708 --> 01:09:15,500
too.
- Yes.

1470
01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:22,750
"My dear son, Garrett, who I
love more than life itself,

1471
01:09:22,833 --> 01:09:26,583
I became very frightened
and spent a lot of time

1472
01:09:26,667 --> 01:09:31,000
worrying about what can I do
for you, how can I help you,

1473
01:09:31,125 --> 01:09:33,542
especially when
I'm an addict, too.

1474
01:09:33,542 --> 01:09:37,000
You have so much to offer in
the way of things that would

1475
01:09:37,083 --> 01:09:38,958
make you happy in your life.

1476
01:09:39,042 --> 01:09:43,333
And I can't wait for the day to
see my son smiling and his head

1477
01:09:43,375 --> 01:09:46,875
and his eyes clear,
as he gets to enjoy

1478
01:09:46,958 --> 01:09:51,083
life with his girlfriend, who
is going to be clean, too.

1479
01:09:51,167 --> 01:09:53,500
And I so much want
that for you, Garrett.

1480
01:09:53,667 --> 01:09:58,667
And I'm gonna ask you, please,
please accept this help."

1481
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:06,875
Will you accept
going to treatment?

1482
01:10:06,958 --> 01:10:09,792
Are you accepting the offer?

1483
01:10:09,875 --> 01:10:11,708
[tense music]

1484
01:10:16,042 --> 01:10:20,792
And I'm gonna ask you,
please, please accept this help.

1485
01:10:24,375 --> 01:10:26,167
Are you-- are you
accepting the offer?

1486
01:10:30,167 --> 01:10:31,125
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.

1487
01:10:31,208 --> 01:10:32,167
Shantell?

1488
01:10:33,417 --> 01:10:34,083
Yeah?

1489
01:10:34,167 --> 01:10:35,417
OK, great.

1490
01:10:38,042 --> 01:10:39,833
I love you so much.

1491
01:10:39,958 --> 01:10:40,833
Big step.

1492
01:10:40,875 --> 01:10:41,583
This place is amazing.

1493
01:10:48,208 --> 01:10:50,792
I'm feeling really
good and really relieved.

1494
01:10:50,875 --> 01:10:53,500
Shantell going to treatment
is gonna be tremendous.

1495
01:10:53,583 --> 01:10:55,750
I know she's in a safe place,
and she's getting help.

1496
01:11:12,042 --> 01:11:14,750
It's not gonna be easy.

1497
01:11:14,833 --> 01:11:15,500
But she's got it.

1498
01:11:18,708 --> 01:11:20,833
Just stay strong.

1499
01:11:20,875 --> 01:11:22,708
OK.

1500
01:11:22,833 --> 01:11:24,083
Oh.
- I love you.

1501
01:11:24,167 --> 01:11:24,875
I love you, too.

1502
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:26,208
All right.

1503
01:11:26,292 --> 01:11:27,667
With happiness
and joy in my heart,

1504
01:11:27,792 --> 01:11:31,667
I can't believe
that this happened.

1505
01:11:31,708 --> 01:11:33,833
They're gonna take
care of you, honey.

1506
01:11:33,917 --> 01:11:38,083
For those kids to say yes,
I can go home this evening

1507
01:11:38,208 --> 01:11:41,833
with joy in my heart and hope.

1508
01:11:41,875 --> 01:11:43,333
Love you, too.

1509
01:11:43,375 --> 01:11:45,250
It's gonna be extremely
important for Garrett

1510
01:11:45,333 --> 01:11:47,542
and Shantell to
both remain sober,

1511
01:11:47,625 --> 01:11:50,708
and not just remain sober, but,
like, grow in their sobriety

1512
01:11:50,792 --> 01:11:53,500
if they want a shot.

1513
01:11:53,542 --> 01:11:55,625
I mean, I'm really
excited, personally,

1514
01:11:55,750 --> 01:11:58,750
to see what that looks like
for them on the other side.

1515
01:11:58,875 --> 01:11:59,833
And they're off.

1516
01:11:59,875 --> 01:12:00,875
It's a blessing.

1517
01:12:00,958 --> 01:12:02,000
It is.

1518
01:12:02,083 --> 01:12:04,917
[tense music]

1519
01:12:10,750 --> 01:12:14,500
I do see myself having
a future with Shantell.

1520
01:12:14,583 --> 01:12:17,167
I do want to spend the
rest of my life with her.

1521
01:12:17,208 --> 01:12:22,833
I'd be happy if she were to
have my kid in the future.

1522
01:12:22,917 --> 01:12:25,583
I do love her a lot.

1523
01:12:37,500 --> 01:12:39,667
We were also able
to find treatment

1524
01:12:39,750 --> 01:12:42,083
for the two friends
that were living

1525
01:12:42,083 --> 01:12:44,375
with Garrett and Shantell.

1526
01:12:44,500 --> 01:12:46,833
Getting Adrian and
Lane into treatment

1527
01:12:46,875 --> 01:12:50,875
is really important because if
Garrett or Shantell relapse,

1528
01:12:50,875 --> 01:12:54,083
the first place they could
go back to is the house.

1529
01:12:54,208 --> 01:12:56,458
And we want to avoid that.

1530
01:12:56,542 --> 01:12:59,875
[pensive music]

1531
01:13:26,542 --> 01:13:27,667
- How are ya?
- Good.

1532
01:13:27,750 --> 01:13:28,833
I'm Bill.

1533
01:13:28,958 --> 01:13:30,250
Ready to start your recovery?
- Hi, Garrett.

1534
01:13:30,375 --> 01:13:31,125
Hi.

1535
01:13:31,208 --> 01:13:32,750
I'm at detox?

1536
01:13:32,875 --> 01:13:34,542
I don't really know how to
say I'm feeling about it.

1537
01:13:34,625 --> 01:13:39,042
I'm kind of depressed right
now, but I'm feeling all right,

1538
01:13:39,125 --> 01:13:40,292
I guess.

1539
01:13:40,375 --> 01:13:42,292
Feeling tired?

1540
01:13:42,375 --> 01:13:43,750
Yeah.

1541
01:13:43,833 --> 01:13:47,417
I'm depressed because I'm
away from my girlfriend

1542
01:13:47,500 --> 01:13:50,750
when we spent every day
together, every minute.

1543
01:13:50,833 --> 01:13:52,917
I mean, we did
everything together.

1544
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,333
[chuckles]

1545
01:13:54,458 --> 01:13:56,708
This is, like, the
first step in a big step.

1546
01:13:56,792 --> 01:14:00,458
It's just something that's
a little hard to adjust to,

1547
01:14:00,542 --> 01:14:02,292
you know?

1548
01:14:02,375 --> 01:14:05,792
[tense music]

1549
01:14:13,750 --> 01:14:15,250
This morning,
everything was great,

1550
01:14:15,333 --> 01:14:17,292
but we had issues
with two airlines,

1551
01:14:17,375 --> 01:14:20,750
and the delay resulted
in her starting

1552
01:14:20,833 --> 01:14:23,542
to have withdrawal symptoms
that we weren't planning on.

1553
01:14:23,625 --> 01:14:25,708
So we decided to
abort the mission

1554
01:14:25,792 --> 01:14:30,458
and get her by ground
to the detox center.

1555
01:14:30,542 --> 01:14:33,417
[pensive music]

1556
01:14:36,375 --> 01:14:38,000
So we finally
made it to detox.

1557
01:14:38,083 --> 01:14:41,333
They're going to monitor
Shantell, check her vitals,

1558
01:14:41,375 --> 01:14:45,500
and make sure she's OK, which
is the most important thing.

1559
01:14:45,583 --> 01:14:49,333
And it was the best decision
to get her off the plane.

1560
01:14:49,375 --> 01:14:50,167
Hi.

1561
01:14:50,250 --> 01:14:51,042
Sorry.

1562
01:14:51,167 --> 01:14:52,500
No, you're good.

1563
01:14:52,583 --> 01:14:56,083
It's really important to
have a strategic, short,

1564
01:14:56,167 --> 01:14:58,333
and comfortable detox.

1565
01:14:58,417 --> 01:14:59,125
What's up?

1566
01:15:02,375 --> 01:15:03,125
[tense music]

1567
01:15:07,667 --> 01:15:09,667
So we finally
made it to detox.

1568
01:15:09,750 --> 01:15:11,958
They're going to
make sure she's OK.

1569
01:15:12,042 --> 01:15:14,833
And it was the best decision
to get her off the plane.

1570
01:15:14,958 --> 01:15:15,708
What's up?

1571
01:15:19,125 --> 01:15:22,542
[tense music]

1572
01:15:47,875 --> 01:15:50,125
When we went to the
airport, we missed our flight,

1573
01:15:50,208 --> 01:15:53,417
and then our next flight,
my withdrawals were too bad.

1574
01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:55,167
So I had to get off the plane.

1575
01:15:55,250 --> 01:15:58,583
And then that's all I
remember from there.

1576
01:15:58,667 --> 01:16:02,667
And then I woke up to some
guy giving me an ultrasound,

1577
01:16:02,708 --> 01:16:09,208
letting me know that I'm six
weeks and four days pregnant.

1578
01:16:09,333 --> 01:16:11,375
I just want this next 90
days to be over with so I

1579
01:16:11,458 --> 01:16:15,042
can see Garrett and move on.

1580
01:16:18,500 --> 01:16:21,875
Now that Garrett and Shantell
are expecting a baby together--

1581
01:16:21,875 --> 01:16:22,458
Hi.

1582
01:16:22,542 --> 01:16:23,708
Hi.

1583
01:16:23,833 --> 01:16:25,458
--their centers
will help them prepare

1584
01:16:25,542 --> 01:16:27,708
for parenthood and sobriety.

1585
01:16:27,792 --> 01:16:30,458
All right, so we're gonna
take you into the intake room.

1586
01:16:30,542 --> 01:16:32,750
We have 90 days to
give her the tools

1587
01:16:32,833 --> 01:16:35,375
that she needs to
get sober and to stay

1588
01:16:35,375 --> 01:16:39,583
sober and also be able to
look at that relationship

1589
01:16:39,667 --> 01:16:41,333
with Garrett.

1590
01:16:41,375 --> 01:16:44,333
We really need to have that time
to separate her from Garrett

1591
01:16:44,333 --> 01:16:46,083
to start giving
her her autonomy,

1592
01:16:46,167 --> 01:16:48,833
to help her start
finding her identity,

1593
01:16:48,917 --> 01:16:53,750
and also, who is she
gonna be as a mother?

1594
01:16:53,833 --> 01:16:55,625
As long as she's
motivated to get well,

1595
01:16:55,708 --> 01:16:59,917
we will give her the
tools to be able to obtain

1596
01:17:00,042 --> 01:17:03,083
long-term sobriety,
and she can do it.

1597
01:17:03,167 --> 01:17:06,083
[pensive music]

1598
01:17:19,375 --> 01:17:23,875
Lane's friends all went to
treatment at the same time.

1599
01:17:23,958 --> 01:17:25,667
I think it's really
good for them

1600
01:17:25,833 --> 01:17:28,083
to continue their friendship,
as long as they're

1601
01:17:28,167 --> 01:17:30,250
all on the same path.

1602
01:17:30,333 --> 01:17:31,833
Lots of changes
coming, I hear.

1603
01:17:31,917 --> 01:17:33,583
I was kind of shocked
to hear that Garrett

1604
01:17:33,667 --> 01:17:34,833
and Shantell are having a baby.

1605
01:17:34,917 --> 01:17:36,333
I'm super excited for 'em.

1606
01:17:36,375 --> 01:17:37,583
I'm happy for 'em.

1607
01:17:37,667 --> 01:17:39,000
I'm excited to be an uncle.

1608
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,375
You know, I think the biggest
transformation that Adrian has

1609
01:17:48,458 --> 01:17:51,667
had in our process is just
recognizing his worth,

1610
01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:53,833
his value, and having
some confidence

1611
01:17:53,917 --> 01:17:55,917
in his newfound sobriety.

1612
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:59,917
I heard that Shantell
was actually pregnant.

1613
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,917
And Garrett, in his
letter, wrote to me

1614
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:03,667
that he wants to make
me the godfather--

1615
01:18:03,750 --> 01:18:05,250
the godfather of the child.

1616
01:18:05,333 --> 01:18:09,208
So it's just been
blessing after blessing.

1617
01:18:09,208 --> 01:18:12,708
[pensive music]

1618
01:18:24,833 --> 01:18:27,000
The journey has
been real so far.

1619
01:18:27,042 --> 01:18:28,708
I haven't felt
these emotions I've

1620
01:18:28,708 --> 01:18:30,833
been feeling in a long time.

1621
01:18:30,917 --> 01:18:33,250
My first few days,
I was really lost.

1622
01:18:33,333 --> 01:18:35,792
And then finally, Mike
Diamond gets on the phone,

1623
01:18:35,875 --> 01:18:38,458
and he's like, hey, man,
you don't got to-- like,

1624
01:18:38,542 --> 01:18:39,833
I got Shantell on the phone.

1625
01:18:39,917 --> 01:18:41,667
And she's like, I'm in
the hospital right now.

1626
01:18:41,750 --> 01:18:43,500
They woke me up
to an ultrasound.

1627
01:18:43,583 --> 01:18:45,167
I'm seven weeks pregnant.

1628
01:18:45,208 --> 01:18:47,083
So, like, right then and
there, I made the decision,

1629
01:18:47,167 --> 01:18:48,833
like, OK, like,
we got to do this.

1630
01:18:48,875 --> 01:18:50,292
I'm in it to win it now.

1631
01:18:50,375 --> 01:18:52,167
Let's don't practice,
huh, it for a little bit?

1632
01:18:52,250 --> 01:18:53,625
Cool.

1633
01:18:53,750 --> 01:18:55,958
Garrett has really become
a leader here at Legacy.

1634
01:18:56,042 --> 01:18:58,000
The guys look up
to him and see him

1635
01:18:58,083 --> 01:19:00,750
as someone who's been through
some really tough stuff

1636
01:19:00,833 --> 01:19:04,417
and is-- is making
really amazing progress.

1637
01:19:04,500 --> 01:19:08,083
He's also in the process of,
you know, becoming a father,

1638
01:19:08,208 --> 01:19:10,875
and that was very challenging,
too, to think about.

1639
01:19:10,958 --> 01:19:13,583
His father was also struggling
with substance abuse,

1640
01:19:13,667 --> 01:19:16,167
and so he wants to be able to
make sure that he's not gonna

1641
01:19:16,292 --> 01:19:18,917
have that as an element
in his relationship

1642
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,333
with his son or daughter
as he becomes a father.

1643
01:19:22,417 --> 01:19:23,333
Nice.

1644
01:19:23,375 --> 01:19:24,333
Hell, yeah.
- Yeah.

1645
01:19:24,417 --> 01:19:26,083
Nice.

1646
01:19:26,167 --> 01:19:28,750
Being a dad is, like, huge
motivation for me in my life

1647
01:19:28,833 --> 01:19:31,167
because I didn't have the
best childhood growing up,

1648
01:19:31,208 --> 01:19:33,125
and, like, I want a
good life for my kid.

1649
01:19:33,125 --> 01:19:34,958
I want to be a great father.

1650
01:19:35,042 --> 01:19:37,042
I want to be the father that,
like, I never had, you know?

1651
01:19:37,125 --> 01:19:39,625
What are your plans after
Legacy and going home?

1652
01:19:39,708 --> 01:19:40,792
I've got a kid on the way.

1653
01:19:40,875 --> 01:19:43,667
So after I find my
sober community,

1654
01:19:43,792 --> 01:19:45,667
we're gonna start looking
for jobs and stuff.

1655
01:19:45,708 --> 01:19:47,875
But we're gonna try
to be in our own place

1656
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:49,208
before the baby is born.

1657
01:19:49,292 --> 01:19:50,875
Nice.

1658
01:19:50,875 --> 01:19:53,125
I know we're, like, two
completely different people.

1659
01:19:53,208 --> 01:19:57,167
So, like, it might be hard,
but I think as long as we don't

1660
01:19:57,250 --> 01:19:59,000
stray from each other's
paths that we will

1661
01:19:59,083 --> 01:20:02,583
do well in recovering together.

1662
01:20:02,583 --> 01:20:04,500
Appreciate you, brother.

1663
01:20:04,583 --> 01:20:05,500
Love you, dude.

1664
01:20:05,500 --> 01:20:06,292
Love you, too, man.

1665
01:20:10,667 --> 01:20:14,125
[pensive music]

1666
01:20:18,125 --> 01:20:22,458
I've been sober for 95
days, and I feel really good.

1667
01:20:22,542 --> 01:20:24,167
I have self-confidence again.

1668
01:20:24,250 --> 01:20:26,792
And it feels nice
to feel my feelings

1669
01:20:26,875 --> 01:20:28,958
and not be numbing them.

1670
01:20:29,042 --> 01:20:31,000
Since arriving,
Shantell has really

1671
01:20:31,042 --> 01:20:35,042
embraced our 12-step immersion
program at Infinite Recovery.

1672
01:20:35,125 --> 01:20:38,583
She's been given a lot of
educational information

1673
01:20:38,708 --> 01:20:40,542
about motherhood
and what to expect

1674
01:20:40,667 --> 01:20:44,333
with the birthing process
and the immediate motherhood.

1675
01:20:44,417 --> 01:20:47,083
Going to treatment knowing
I was pregnant was scary,

1676
01:20:47,167 --> 01:20:49,625
but finding out I was gonna
be a mother definitely

1677
01:20:49,708 --> 01:20:51,167
motivated me a lot more.

1678
01:20:51,250 --> 01:20:53,458
So these are pictures
from my sonogram.

1679
01:20:53,542 --> 01:20:54,917
That's her.

1680
01:20:55,042 --> 01:20:57,292
I'm 20 and 1/2 weeks.

1681
01:20:57,375 --> 01:21:00,292
Shantell has been
visiting with medical teams

1682
01:21:00,375 --> 01:21:03,833
since arriving at treatment,
and all indications

1683
01:21:03,917 --> 01:21:06,583
are she has a very
healthy baby, and we're

1684
01:21:06,708 --> 01:21:10,833
anticipating no complications
during the birth process.

1685
01:21:10,917 --> 01:21:12,792
I'm really excited
that it's a girl.

1686
01:21:12,792 --> 01:21:13,583
I wanted a girl.

1687
01:21:13,667 --> 01:21:16,167
[chuckles]

1688
01:21:17,292 --> 01:21:19,708
Me and Garrett are
still together.

1689
01:21:19,792 --> 01:21:21,292
We would write
letters to each other

1690
01:21:21,375 --> 01:21:23,000
so we'd get them like
every other week,

1691
01:21:23,083 --> 01:21:26,083
and then we had like three
Zoom calls with each other.

1692
01:21:26,167 --> 01:21:28,042
Learning to know who
Garrett is sober,

1693
01:21:28,125 --> 01:21:29,833
I'm really excited for
it, but I'm also kind

1694
01:21:29,917 --> 01:21:31,083
of nervous at the same time.

1695
01:21:31,167 --> 01:21:35,250
But I'm really excited
for our future.

1696
01:21:35,333 --> 01:21:37,917
I do see myself spend the
rest of my life with Garrett.

1697
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:40,583
I know we're both gonna
be sober and be the best

1698
01:21:40,667 --> 01:21:42,667
parents that we can be.

1699
01:21:42,750 --> 01:21:46,125
[upbeat music]

1700
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:58,833
My plans are going to Portland
to stay with my sister

1701
01:21:58,917 --> 01:22:02,000
and trying to find a
job and just trying

1702
01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:03,542
to get ready to have a baby.

1703
01:22:03,542 --> 01:22:04,417
Hi.

1704
01:22:04,500 --> 01:22:06,625
Hi, love.

1705
01:22:06,708 --> 01:22:09,250
I'm really excited
to see Shantell.

1706
01:22:09,333 --> 01:22:11,042
Yeah, I'm really nervous.
My hands are sweaty.

1707
01:22:11,125 --> 01:22:12,458
Freaking-- my
armpits are sweaty.

1708
01:22:12,542 --> 01:22:13,917
I'm like, dude, no.

1709
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:15,500
[chuckles]

1710
01:22:15,625 --> 01:22:19,000
In person, the last time I
saw Garrett was like a little

1711
01:22:19,042 --> 01:22:20,667
over three months ago.

1712
01:22:20,792 --> 01:22:23,250
I'm nervous because I've never
actually been around him sober,

1713
01:22:23,333 --> 01:22:26,292
so we'll be getting to know
each other all over again.

1714
01:22:28,125 --> 01:22:30,958
I'm very excited about
my new life in Portland.

1715
01:22:31,042 --> 01:22:35,083
Really excited to prepare
for our child on the way

1716
01:22:35,167 --> 01:22:39,125
and to jump into a new
sober community around here.

1717
01:22:39,208 --> 01:22:42,000
Yeah, I'm really excited.

1718
01:22:42,083 --> 01:22:43,667
How's Shantell
feeling right now?

1719
01:22:43,667 --> 01:22:44,417
Is she nervous?

1720
01:22:45,667 --> 01:22:46,500
Maybe?

1721
01:22:46,583 --> 01:22:49,333
[chuckles] Oh, man.

1722
01:22:49,417 --> 01:22:52,333
[upbeat music]

1723
01:23:02,708 --> 01:23:03,583
Babe!

1724
01:23:03,708 --> 01:23:05,167
Hey!

1725
01:23:05,250 --> 01:23:06,000
Oh.

1726
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:07,667
I missed you so much.

1727
01:23:07,750 --> 01:23:08,917
I missed you.

1728
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,500
I got you some flowers.

1729
01:23:11,583 --> 01:23:13,042
Thank you.

1730
01:23:13,042 --> 01:23:16,000
It feels amazing to see
Shantell after 90 days.

1731
01:23:16,042 --> 01:23:18,667
Yeah, being away from her
was pretty hard for me.

1732
01:23:18,708 --> 01:23:21,333
But knowing, like, we're
in a better place now

1733
01:23:21,458 --> 01:23:24,208
and that we're gonna be great
parents doing this together,

1734
01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:26,500
and we're here to support one
another, it just feels awesome.

1735
01:23:26,583 --> 01:23:29,500
I'm so glad to finally
get to see you, though.

1736
01:23:29,583 --> 01:23:32,667
It's been such a
freaking long journey.

1737
01:23:32,750 --> 01:23:34,167
Oh, gosh.

1738
01:23:34,250 --> 01:23:36,708
I'm really excited to
get to know him sober.

1739
01:23:36,792 --> 01:23:38,000
It's going really good so far.

1740
01:23:38,042 --> 01:23:39,167
Yeah, how's the baby doing?

1741
01:23:39,250 --> 01:23:40,375
Good.

1742
01:23:40,458 --> 01:23:42,625
Oh, my gosh, look at
your little baby bump.

1743
01:23:42,708 --> 01:23:46,250
I feel like we just need to keep
pushing forward in our recovery

1744
01:23:46,333 --> 01:23:48,458
and, like, doing this
together and not straying

1745
01:23:48,542 --> 01:23:49,667
from each other's paths.

1746
01:23:49,792 --> 01:23:50,500
First step.

1747
01:23:50,625 --> 01:23:51,375
Yeah.

1748
01:23:51,458 --> 01:23:52,000
[chuckles]

1749
01:23:52,083 --> 01:23:55,750
[upbeat music]