Season 9, Episode 5

Cassie

Age: 22

Location: Coral Springs, Florida

Addicted to: Oxycodone, crack

What’s Memorable: The horrible Costa Rican and Jamaican “modification camps” her father sent her to as a teen.

Official synopsis: Cassie, 22, is a crack and oxycodone addict who was abandoned by her mother and raised by her father and his string of wives. At 13, she was sent to an overseas behavior modification school that offered her little more than imprisonment and abuse. She escaped into a life of drugs and had a baby she couldn’t care for. Now she’s turned to prostitution to pay for her drugs, and her father enables her addiction while the rest of the family wonders how to keep her from dying.

Original Air Date: January 2011

Interventionist: Candy

Categories: Candy, Childhood Physical Abuse, Childhood Violence, Pain Meds, Percocet/Oxycodone, Season 9