Davey’s mother Reiny says that he and his brother Marlon were inseparable. “From childhood.” When Davey’s parents split up when he was three years old, it was revealed that Reiny was manic-depressive. “It’s just really hard for a kid to find his way around when your mother is depressed.” When the brothers move out, twin brother Marlon starts using drugs. Davey also participates. “They started smoking weed when they were 16. I don’t know when they started doing other things,” says mother Reiny.
In the end, things go all wrong during drug use. Davey calls his mother in panic, who at first thinks her dog has been run over. Then a police officer tells her that one of her sons has died. “Then I collapsed. All I could do was scream. We didn’t know what to do. We didn’t know anything.” It later turned out to be a drug overdose.
After Marlon’s death, both Davey and Mother Reiny start taking drugs. “If you’re in that flow, you can’t help each other either.” Reiny has been admitted. “That did me good. I climbed out and I want him to climb out too.” She talks about it in the video below.
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Davey has since lost his house due to the heavy use of drugs. He gave up his job as a roofer. He lives with his mother again. The first step to a new life is the intervention. But Davey isn’t expecting that in the least. He even tries to climb over the fence of the garden, after which he starts cursing. “I don’t need your help,” he yells several times. “I’m really not going with you. I won’t!”
After a lot of racing, Davey finally calms down a bit. After Maarten talks to him for a long time, he suddenly says: “Fuck itI’ll do it.” Before he goes to the clinic, his mother reads another letter to him. “I have seen you change from a sweet and affectionate boy to someone who is sometimes a stranger to me. You now have this opportunity. Take it.” Davey says he mainly uses the drugs so that he doesn’t think about his deceased brother every day. “If I use it, I don’t think about it anymore.”
Although Davey seems willing to be admitted, after three days in the clinic, that willingness is gone. He decides to end his recording. Mother Reiny is disappointed. She refused to pick up her son, given what has happened. “Then I heard that his father picked him up.” But he also ran away there, Reiny knows. “I don’t know where he is now, whether he’s on the street, yes or no.” And that worries her. “I have to let it go, but that’s very difficult.”
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Three months after the intervention, Ewout and Maarten spoke to the family. Reiny has now become a grandmother of a grandson. “It’s a bright spot.” She has consciously chosen that her son Davey’s situation is no longer her daily activity. And she doesn’t know how Davey is doing now. “When I see him now, I don’t observe him anymore. He’s there, we drink a cup of tea and then he goes away again. At least he doesn’t visit me under the influence anymore.”
All in all, the intervention was a success for Reiny. “It has helped me a lot. And it has also loosened up something in him. Because he has a girlfriend, with whom he wants to take a different path.
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