I just saw the most heartwrenching episode of Intervention that I have EVER seen. I don’t watch the show regularly but I like to catch it when I can - a combination of car-wreck factor and some personal issues. This episode featured Leslie, an alcoholic, and her husband Craig, and their three kids. I was stunned by the depths of Leslie’s alcoholism. She basically has to be treated like a 6-year-old at all times, that’s how bad she is. She habitually drinks mouthwash whenever she can’t get alcohol. She has to be physically separated from the mouthwash or the alcohol, and her plaintive pleas of “just one swig? please?” were just appalling. Needless to say, this has utterly ruined her family’s life. Her intervention was actually postponed three weeks because she had to go to court for DUI charges, and wasn’t released on bail, so she had to serve the three weeks. She was sober when she came out, of course, and she was whisked straight to her intervention where her kids told her how awful she has made their lives. The kids and husband went to the Betty Ford Children’s and Family programs, and Leslie had to serve in a county program before going to her own treatment. It looked like it was going to be a great ending…but then they did the followup captions, and they said that she was sober for seven months before relapsing. She now lives with her mother and drinks every day…apparently the mother should have gone to treatment, too, because now she’s just enabling her. What a horrible story…I feel so bad for the family.