Requiem for a Dream, A Star Is Born, and The Lost Weekend are all among the best and darkest movies about addiction and ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction. Addiction has long been a distinctly devastating subject to capture in film. Some of the best ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Charlie Sheen stuck an ice cube up his butt at the peak of his drug addiction. The actor was filming “Free Money” at the time and found himself falling asleep during a scene at a bar — so he asked for ...

Movies about drugs and alcohol may be a dime(bag) a dozen, but James Ponsoldt’s Smashed is as much about recovery as it is about addiction, with Ponsoldt successfully making the case that the twelve ...

Mental health and substance abuse are difficult subjects to handle well on-screen. A lot of movies turn these issues into ...