Jack Malloy es un agente del FBI que se ha refugiado en la bebida para olvidar las heridas del pasado: unos años antes un psicópata asesinó a su esposa y a varios de sus compañeros. Para recuperarse decide ingresar en una clínica de rehabilitación para policías, pero el centro terapeútico se convierte en una una verdadera pesadilla cuando, al quedar aislado por la nieve, empiezan a aparecer pacientes muertos en circunstancias sospechosas
El exitoso guionista de Hollywood Jerry Stahl parece tenerlo todo: dinero, una atractiva mujer y un bebé en camion... pero Jerry esconde un secreto en forma de adicción a las drogas que le obligan a ir a una clínica de rehabilitación.
The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction through the use of psychedelic medicines.
Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapidly—and how, sometimes, the conditions in which they detox put them at risk.
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).
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six people; with footage shot over a period of nearly ten years, it continues their biography.
Einar is an addict who has just abandoned his wife and five-year-old daughter. While struggling to detox at his lodge near the ocean, Einar is harassed by a stranger.
A young man, overcome with grief and trauma following a life changing accident, desires to reclaim his life.