this program contains subject matter and language that may be disturbing to some viewers viewer discretion is advised it feels give I told you for baby you're the best thing that happened to me in life are you going to make me blush my name is Tommy and my name is mey and we are both 19 and we both live live live I can honestly say like you're my first love and you were the only one that was able to make me happy me and Millie have been dating for about a year and a half it's pretty
awesome I love him he is the sweetest and the nicest dude I have ever met we are currently addicted to fentel and myth Tommy's relationship with Mell I feel like they could do so much better and would be better but they just have that drug right there like bringing them down so it's it's tough honestly if they were clean I don't know if Tommy and Melly would still be together I don't know if he would choose to be with her or she would choose to be with him it could go both ways that they wouldn't
be together Tommy and Melly will boost for money um that's their big thing they've been trespassed from stores and I worry about him because I don't want him to get hurt we just went in and out to get what we're getting but we got candy because that's what our people want Tommy's lifestyle that he's living now is very dangerous I got nervous because that that one guy with the long hair he kept staring you know I kept telling you the hurry haur in the last year he's probably been in out of jail maybe four times
for stealing [Music] the drugs physically are changing Tommy and Melly my son went from 180 lb down to 110 he's passed out in the heat because he's so skinny and he won't eat he always worried about his appearance and now he cares less about it Melanie has lost a lot of weight her face has a lot of like marks on it she looks very dead I hate to see them like this but they're both on the same fence and all drugs so they stick together cuz they know they could get high together they can steal
together they could do anything together it sucks to say this but sometimes I got to get high in order for me not to feel anything I want my life to be better than it is now and I just want my life to go good for me and Millie I hate being at this house you think I want to be here I never say you did melan's currently living with Tommy and his uncle's and his aunt's house inside of one house is my nana Anthony my Uncle Rob B me Millie be is a kind-hearted person that's
why so many people live in her house being in that house got Tommy and Melly off the streets but it at the same time it's an enabling house because it just you can do what you want to it's horrifying to walk in that house everybody in there is on fenyl so is my mother Kathy and my brother Robert there's so many people people in there dealing and smoking it's not a home it's a house of [Music] poison I appreciate you so much I'm glad I met you I am glad me too because if it wasn't
for you who would know where I would be at right now she helped me learn to love myself again honestly because she said if I can't love myself then I can't love her ended up working out and I love life and I love her Julian's birthday is already coming up in like 10 11 days now I was 14 when I found out I was pregnant I was like excited but scared at the same time my boyfriend he was pretty much locked up and so I was lost the moment I even thought I was pregnant I
stopped smoking M I had to stop but my boyfriend he did keep getting high the first time I held my son oh my God I I didn't even want to let him go I would go back to that day a million times over and over even though he's not here right now there could be a chance that he know I can get him back it's really up to you to get your together and see what you can do and try to be in his life going I prove it to him exactly me getting high is
the only way I can stop feeling all that pain I feel from not having him with me anymore love you I love you [Music] too you you're trying to rob my bike Rob your bike I'm my you don't get the out little the beginning of the camera and after bounce [Music] that old school bike is my friend it's mine I bought it somebody talking about who brought that bike I don't know don't lie who brought that bike I don't know who brought that grab a camera battery I'm ready to go he's being a about he
Mellie stop mom mom relax mie get up and go outside I'm talking to tummy so you're saying he's got to be a about it I didn't already I keep on telling him not to call you a you want to keep talk go outside go outside okay well go outside now go Mellie now you're just sitting down go I'm going to pull you by your hair if you don't get up yes you I'm telling you to get up and get out you w get up get out if you don't mind can you step out while I
get out my real please I just want to get my stuff and go thank you hope you're happy grabing the out of room I just like how you li about it ass heater I a even mind so when Melanie shows up I want everybody to stand up and hug her and love her and welcome her a this is cool hi Melanie hello I'm Vicki and there's some people that want to see you here that love you what everybody's here everybody's here they love you you all right come on come sit down come see your mom
come on let's sit down and let's read our letters we're interven I ists and this is your intervention everybody came to support you we heard you getting pretty tired of it huh so much yeah so when then having to deal with everything at home yeah it's a lot H we understand that this isn't who you are that this is what you're doing there's nothing but love here okay all right Daniela you go first cousin we understand that drugs have been a way for you to survive the pain you carry we're asking you to let us
help you heal and get the chance to live your best life I'd love to continue having your endless conversations about life for many more years to come I'm scared we won't be able to create more memories if you continue to use these drugs that are killing you we hear you have a son and I know how hard this must be I know because I'm a mom and I got my kids back and I can tell you that it's never too late to become a good mom Monica for so Melanie are you willing to go to
[Music] treatment yes you are and we're going to get Tommy some help too let's get going let's get her in the van and get her to treatment guys good job you got you you're strong you got this don't give up either yeah don't give up keep going I'm going make sure I get Julion back okay we'll see you later [Music] okay all right hop on in there bye drive safe please Che help him to go don't let him don't lose his life to this we find to thank you guys for staying all right here we
come hey Tommy I'm Vicki hello nice meet got some people in here that want to talk to you what's up how you doing good how about you love you love you too you want to come in and have a seat right here yeah your family came together and Melanie's family because everybody loves you and wants you to live everybody's got something to say Thomas do you want to say something I want you to know son I love you a lot boy I'm sorry for the childhood you had to grow up and I'm scared every day
boy that I'm going to get a phone call from your mom that that you died I don't want that I love you a lot boy I want you to get some out all right Mom do my son Tom I love you with all my heart and I'm so proud to be your mom you're a blessing in my life don't know what I would do without you so please son take the help I have Fai in you and I know you can do it I love you so much to so Tommy are you willing to go
to treatment today I'm willing to take it you are I'm willing to go to treatment today thank you here baby I wrote you a different big boy to know that he got here all the way and was willing to come in and accept the help was the best part ever I looky you could do it when Tommy said yes I was elated he's such a sweet kid and his family really loves him I love you son look at too you got to be strong dude and do it all right he's only 19 years old he's
a very special kid love you baby love you too Melly was ready Tommy was ready I really hope this works for him see oh yeah we did this [Music] yes no yeah I'm happy you did it I'm glad you you did it too fin know we got out that house this D it's going to take a little bit of time but I'll see you you got this okay you did too and I hate that I couldn't give you a hug or a kiss before but I soon we're going to start boarding okay well I'll let
you go so you guys can get on okay I love you love you too I'm actually glad he said yeah finally I'm like finally hi Tommy welcome my name is Selena I'm the nurse come on in welcome to First step's recovery tell me a little bit about yourself first you have a girlfriend back home yeah yeah how long have you guys been dating like a year and a half now she's getting treatment too good so you're both kind of on the same track what I really want to work on in tream is just to get
well and get my mind straight but I am really missing Millie a lot and it feels weird just knowing that tonight I'm going to be going to bed without her at the same time it makes me feel good just to know that she's going to be somewhere safe and getting better herself [Music] [Music] I am feeling pretty awesome I have energy I am able to even work out I'm able to eat better I can actually say I can do things without having to use what it was hard for the first 3060 days I started having
trouble with codependency detoxing was quite hard I was quite homesick for a while but I believed I could do it and I I did do [Music] it look nice it do I made a big change I did go by Melly that was my street name like they say so I don't need that name anymore I've gotten my life together where I can be myself again I can be Melanie again I think I got to blend it in a little bit more good after treatment I plan on getting into job core I want to get my
GED I want to get um study for [Music] nursing I will always have love for Tommy I just hope the best for him I hope he's ready to make that change in his life but right now I would tell him like I want to focus on myself right now as well as what you should be doing and therapy Melanie has been doing a lot of what we call cognitive reframing so essentially I identifying and then challenging negative core beliefs what this does is it allows a person to have a better relationship with themselves so that
they can have healthier relationships it feels awesome to be honest being able to have the opportunity to change my life around it's a blessing there's a beautiful life you can live like you don't have to live like that no more you can be happy without using I feel free I don't feel like a slave to that drug anymore and I just feel really blessed it feels really good I think you're going to be good man from like that nervous wreck sitting there shaking back and forth wanting to leave like every what 3 days I'm out
I'm out I want to go it's been a roller coaster it took took a little while like over 2 weeks to 3 weeks to finally get to the point where I'm at today and just wanting to get sobriety I'm starting to love myself again I don't want to lose that and then the respect from my dad and my family it's like that's been a big thing for you the whole time yeah earning the respect back so if we want to be the respectable kid to our parents like at the end of the day you have
to stay sober first and foremost yeah that's what yeah my plan is to start going to meetings to get a sponsor and not to put myself in in a situation I don't need to be in come on me and Millie talk every day I'm very proud of her and if we don't end up being together like I just want to wish her the best and I hope she keeps doing good in life I think a lot of the strategies that he can apply to the substance abuse things like relapse triggers and cues on his sobriety
can be applied to the relationship they're both addictions for Tommy I'm grateful and I feel blessed about everything that's happening to me and now it's time to just do the new stuff in life and really get to know who I really am [Music] [Music]
