Addiction in Film
This 2000 film follows a character who enters rehab after ruining her sister's wedding when intoxicated. The film explores her journey to sobriety and the challenges she faces in maintaining it.
28 Days
China
Often offered as aftercare, this program uses medications, with psychosocial therapies and supports as needed, to provide a whole-person approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT)
This term refers to a person in recovery who is not drinking alcohol (or using other substances) but is still behaving in ways that are often associated with a substance use disorder.
Dry Drunk
An Ohio Supreme Court judge who is appointed as the nation's Drug Tsar, unaware that his own daughter is a heroin addict.
Traffic
Not necessarily imported but chemist Richard Martin is often credited as the individual who developed this drug in south Los Angeles in the early 1980's.
Crack / Cocaine
Developed in 1994, often called an alternative to AA, this program is a form of recovery support focusing less on the spiritual and more on the use of self-empowerment methods to resist cravings.
Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART)
This three-word slogan reminds us to live in the present, in this moment, to forget yesterday and choose to stop trying to predict tomorrow.
Easy Does It
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to perform his job. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing.
Flight
Purple Haze.....This drug was synthesized in 1938 by Albert Hofmann in Switzerland, it was not until 1949 that it was a recognized drug in the US.
LSD
Facilities that provide safe housing and supportive, structured living conditions for people exiting drug rehabilitation programs. These serve as a transitional environment between treatment programs and mainstream society.
Sober Living
This 6-word statement tells us to leave it alone if nothing is wrong.
If It Works, Don't Fix It
After being fired by his producer, an adult film superstar's life unravels as he gets involved deeper into the world of cocaine addiction and trafficking.
Boogie Nights
Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for this American government organization in the 1980s in an operation that would be eventually exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
CIA
Not strictly for those transitioning from a recovery program, these structured facilities are often utilized by those who are leaving corrections either on their own or court mandated in addition to those in recovery.
Half-Way House
Opposite of the James Bond movie...this 3-word statement tells us to tolerate people inside and outside of recovery meetings, just as they tolerate us
Live & Let Live
This story follows alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson as he drinks himself into oblivion in Las Vegas. When Ben meets the beautiful prostitute Sera, they strike up an unconventional relationship.
Leaving Las Vegas
The Colombian drug lord who rose to infamy as the leader of the Medellín cartel, oversaw a period marked by extreme violence, corruption, and wealth. He was arguably the world’s most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early ’90s.
Pablo Escobar
This form of aftercare treatment allows those in recovery to remain at home during treatment or at a sober living home that may be connected with the treatment program. Those undergoing outpatient treatment can continue working and remain close to family and friends.
Outpatient Treatment
Be grateful of who your friends are...if you see this statement on a bumper sticker, you know someone is a part of the AA community.
I'm A Friend of Bill W.