The Top Ten Most Authentic Films About Addiction
…snorts it, thinking it’s cocaine, but it’s actually heroin. She overdoses, convulsing and spouting blood from her nose. Vincent drives her to the house of his dealer, where he administers…
…snorts it, thinking it’s cocaine, but it’s actually heroin. She overdoses, convulsing and spouting blood from her nose. Vincent drives her to the house of his dealer, where he administers…
…would sample the product while they rationed it out. Alex didn’t work aside from selling cocaine. “He just came over to my house one day and never left,” Jennifer says….
…therefore distanced himself from the rest of the band. He was also a heavy user of cocaine, in addition to amphetamines, marijuana, and psychedelics. In the late ‘60s or early…
…While drummer Lars Ulrich had a cocaine problem until 2008, frontman James Hetfield never touched coke or heroin. Alcohol was his drug of choice. But while his bandmates cooled off…
…by increased energy, delusions of grandeur, and sometimes psychosis, paranoia, and hallucinations. Mania is a perpetual high that feels like doing cocaine without actually snorting it. Those who struggle with…
…teenage years. She admitted to doing cocaine on the set of The Empire Strikes Back, in an interview with an Australian newspaper. Also in Wishful Drinking, Fisher recounts a manic…
Jason is a successful businessman with a checkered past. He’s been to rehab or detox a whopping 17 times. From corrupt cons and crack cocaine to a successful and sober…
…known that Jimi did copious amounts of drugs including LSD, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin. “Well I think I’ll go and turn myself off and go on down / All…
Illustration by Ana Mouriño Alcohol. Heroin. Cocaine. Crack Cocaine. Ecstasy. Ketamine. These were all of Amy Winehouse’s drugs of choice. She took them to excess, therefore rendering her Lithium treatment…
Kelly is a bipolar actress who got hooked on crystal meth and cocaine. In this excerpt from The Eccentrics, we see the irony of her addiction as it relates to…