Battling Addictions

When Alyson was high, she often would lash out at her sister, Kara. They would often fight, and at one point Kara said, "I dread the fact knowing my sister's [at home]. You just never know what to expect. What drama I may be walking into."

But mostly Kara said she felt sadness about Alyson's addictions. "She could have been something so wonderful in life and she just threw it away," Kara said.

Now, however, Alyson is out of rehab and is seeing Kara for the first time since the intervention. Kara says she's proud of her sister's accomplishment in getting sober, and says she has hopes that they can reestablish a loving relationship. "I think it is possible as long as she stays on this path that she is on," Kara says. "She's a very beautiful human being. She just found another way to cope with life for some reason."