Tras un aterrizaje de emergencia en medio del campo gracias al cual salvan la vida un centenar de pasajeros, el comandante Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington), que pilotaba el avión, es considerado un héroe nacional. Sin embargo, cuando se pone en marcha la investigación para determinar las causas de la avería, se averigua que el capitán tenía exceso de alcohol en la sangre.
Diez años de consumo de opioides han dejado en ruinas la vida de Molly. Una nueva medicina podría darle alas para comenzar de nuevo si es capaz de mantenerse limpia durante cuatro días, algo que trata de lograr con la ayuda de su madre Deb, una mujer de ideas férreas. El amor que ambas se profesan se verá puesto a prueba como nunca antes en sus vidas.
Katie se encuentra organizando una fiesta sorpresa para su novio, pero en el transcurso descubre que su hermano Seth ha vuelto a engancharse a la heroína. Intenta por todos los medios llevarle a algún sitio de rehabilitación pero, tras fracasar, pasa una agonizante noche vigilando y distrayendo a la hija de él, mientras Seth intenta lidiar con el síndrome de abstinencia.
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Adah and Aaron are recovering addicts who are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on poppers, and become the biggest assholes in New York City.
Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left?
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services (NYCATS).
A documentary following an Appalachian family’s struggle with opioid addiction over several years.
Struggling with drug withdrawls, a teenage girl seeks comfort within love for her close friend.
Charlotte is an alcoholic trying to complete her first year of sobriety. One evening, when the urge to drink is so strong that she fears a relapse, Charlotte goes to see her sponsor, Jeanne, an alcoholic who has been sober for over five years. However, when Charlotte arrives at Jeanne's, she finds her sponsor in a state of drunkenness. With the roles of helper and cared-for now reversed, Charlotte decides to step in.
A man gets left at a motel room by his friends and his addiction is forcing him to relapse.