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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party is full of friends and relations who have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love. Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
2) Crisis
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market....
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"'Is addiction really a disease?' In this high-definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest neuroscientific research about addiction along the way. Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people...
4) Limitless
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall Street power broker who wants everything Eddie has, and more....
6) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells about rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Through interviews with experts and personal testimonies, this video presentation offers a guide to understanding what an addiction is, understanding the addict you love, how addition affects a family, how to respond to feelings of shame and stigma, common difficulties for loved ones, and the meaning and hope of recovery.
8) Her smell
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Forced to get sober and reckon with the past, a self-destructive punk rock superstar retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...
11) Woodshock
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kirsten Dunst (*Melancholia*) stars as a haunted young woman spiraling into confusion and chaos after she falls under the spell of a potent reality-altering drug. Official Selection at the **Venice International Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Born to win: A Manhattan street-level vice cop is out to put an ex-hairdresser with a $100 a-day heroin habit, J.J., behind bars. When J.J. tries to rip off the mob, he becomes a marked man, and it is up to the cop to nab him before the mafia snuffs him out.mart-mouthed junkie J.J. thinks he's got the world by the tail. But he spends most days looking for just one more fix.
Gold: A South African mining engineer exposes a plot to control the price...
14) Limitless
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thematic material involving a drug, violence including disturbing images, sexuality and language.
Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds...
Pub. Date
©2015.
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
English
Description
"An American Epidemic" grew out of a New Jersey project exposing the opioid and heroin epidemic and has now traversed to 40 states across the country. In every state we visited, in every country, city, township, borough, the story was the same: tragedy to so many families, so many communities. Young lives lost to heroin. Beautiful people lost to a prescription drug overdose. Prescription drug overdose deaths in the United States have tripled since...
17) Among the many: wisdom, companionship, and hope for those who have lost a loved one to drug overdose
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Deaths due to drug related overdose in the United States are 115 people every day. Thousands of families are affected by the drug epidemic in this country, and it is a serious national crisis. The parents, siblings, friends, and loved ones left behind are faced with many unanswerable questions, made worse by the stigma associated with this kind of death. The truth is that addiction is a disease, just like cancer. And while that disease leaves devastating...
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