Drug Addiction Movies

In this honest and deeply personal account of living with addiction, a young man talks about the realities and challenges of living in the...

Lindstrom’s powerful documentary takes an unflinching look at the daunting difficulties in overcoming addictions and the dynamic within...

A man's life is about to change when he wakes up in a motel room and discover the body of a dead woman.

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's...

Trevor, an obsessive, alcoholic, drug-addicted writer, is disturbed from his rigorous routine when he loses the ending to his latest novel....

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...

Educational film about drug addiction.

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

A portrait of a strung-out heroin addict scrambling through New York City to score some cash for his next fix.

Joachim is 25 years old. His charming smile veils the daily battle he fights within himself as he struggles to manage a heroin addiction. He smokes...

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

Élène is a sweet and tender young woman in a relationship with her lovely partner, who seems to lead a more or less normal life. But...

After a series of unexplainable night terrors Tess (Syd Stauffer) becomes obsessed with finding her estranged sister, Janie (Karisa Hope). Tess and...

In this feature-length documentary, photographer Nance Ackerman describes the havoc prescription painkiller OxyContin wreaked in the already weakened...

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...

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

Albeit unaware, we all have an opinion: guys without a job, a cigarette in one hand, a beer can in the other... It's easy to label them as junkie,...

A scare film used for police training, reusing footage from The Narcotics Story (1958) with new narration.