Drug Addiction Movies

The Business of Recovery examines the untold billions that are being made off of families in crisis. With little regulation or science, addiction...

Chasing The Lion is the story of Lionel Sanders' ascent from drug abuse and mental illness to one of the best up-and-coming long-distance triathletes...

After volunteering for an experimental medical trial, a schizophrenic man confronts his past actions.

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...

Junior, a young father trying to turn his life around after years of heroin addiction, joins forces with a group of fellow hepatitis-C-infected...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months...

After running away from her emotionally abusive mother, 16 year old addict Ivy takes refuge at her older friend Joey's apartment, who is a recovered...

The lives of a group of sex-workers.

Intoxicants offered Pinja a connection to her mother. What will their lives be based on when they both decide to get sober?

A man plays his last coin on a slot machine and wins. He leaves to go home. Suddenly, he notices someone is chasing him...

Why do we all get a little “rush” when we open our doors to see a shiny new package on our door step? Dopamine, and we’re all...

A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy.

Documentary on the life of Harlem Globetrotters legend, Jumpin' Johnny Kline, who barnstormed in the tumultuous Civil Rights era of the 1950s. From a...

Hilmano van Velzen, the "Homeless Poet" wants nothing more than to become famous with his poetry. But his addiction and character get in the way.

Eli Johnson struggles through high school challenged by his self-loathing and the pressure to be "normal". The recent passing of his mother due to...

Shocking, devastating and unflinchingly real. KOMO News' Eric Johnson looks at the heroin crisis in Seattle.

After serving time in a New Hampshire jail, a freed inmate faces the pull of addiction.

Life has not been kind to Giacobbe Fragomeni. He spent his childhood in the bleak outskirts of Milan, in a cruel environment. An alcoholic father who...