Sturgill Intervention
Sturgill used to be a wrestler, now he's an addict. A&E/"Intervention"

Tuesday night’s edition of Season 16 of “Intervention” is slated to be another nail-biter. The series documents struggling drug addicts and then tries to get them help at the end of the episode. Tuesday night is all about Sturgill, a wrestler who ultimately became addicted to drugs after he suffered an injury.

“I’ve lost a lot,” he says in the 30-second sneak-peek clip.

“Sturgill was a national wrestling champion,” a caption about Tuesday’s subject reads. “Injuries led to his addiction to pain pills and heroin. Methadone was prescribed to treat his addictions. Instead, they have become worse.”

Sturgill can be seen snorting a white powdery substance with an insurance card and then snorting. At the end of the clip, a cigarette falls out of his mouth while he nods off.

The street drug is more widespread than some know. “Heroin use in the suburbs is exploding,” “Intervention” said. “More than half of users are women. They are increasingly young and middle class. Heroin deaths among women have tripled in the last few years.”

On a previous episode of Season 16, a woman named Tiffany became addicted to heroin after childbirth. “From an outsider looking in, I look like a regular stay-at-home mom,” she tells the camera. “But I am anything but that. I am a full-fledged heroin addict.”

The birth of her first daughter caused a vaginal tear that required her to get 57 stiches. She first became addicted to the opiods doctors prescribed to her and then Tiffany was hooked on heroin.

“I forget about all the bad s--- in my life. If somebody's mad at me, I don't care. The fact that I've lost custody of three children? In that moment, I don't care,” she says in a in a trailer for the show. “The fact that I'm on four different probations in four different counties, I don't care. When I get high, I don't care.”

To find out if Sturgill will agree to get help, viewers must tune in to “Intervention” Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST on A&E.

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