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Documentary films about drug addiction, a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Documentary films about drug addiction (1 C, 32 P) American social guidance and drug education films (39 P) C. Documentary films about cannabis (1 C, 11 P) I.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 American biographical documentary film about photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin.The film is produced, co-edited and directed by Laura Poitras, [3] and tackles Goldin's life through her advocacy during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the ‘80s, and her fight against the Sackler family for their role in the current opioid epidemic in the United ...
Drugs, Inc. is an American documentary style television series on the National Geographic Channel that explores global narcotics production and trafficking. The series features drug dealers, recreational users , and addicts , as well as professionals in the fields of substance abuse , drug rehabilitation , and criminal justice .
The film follows the opioid epidemic in the United States, the political operatives, government regulations, and corporations that enable the abuse of opioids.Part one of the documentary focuses on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, who collaborated with Food and Drug Administration official Curtis Wright IV to get OxyContin approved for wider use. [1]
Former National Football League quarterback Johnny Manziel reveals in a new documentary his drug usage during his playing career and a suicide attempt following his release from the Cleveland ...
Through a Blue Lens is a Canadian documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film follows interactions between police officers and drug addicts and documents the extreme poverty and suffering many addicts endure.
Chemistry, not moral failing, accounts for the brain’s unwinding. In the laboratories that study drug addiction, researchers have found that the brain becomes conditioned by the repeated dopamine rush caused by heroin. “The brain is not designed to handle it,” said Dr. Ruben Baler, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.