Addiction and Recovery
- Addiction: Being dependent upon the sensation afforded by a substance, behavior, or other person to the point that it’s negatively affecting one’s physical, mental/emotional, financial, professional, and/or legal health.
- Recovery: The process of unhooking from an addictive substance, behavior, or other person and returning to/maintaining a state of health, stability, and well-being.
If you haven’t been trapped by an addiction or by the field of gravity of someone who is, it’s extremely difficult to comprehend its soul-crushing force. Following are excellent illustrations of people in it, fighting it, and freeing themselves from it. Some light, some dark, all accurate.
Examples of Addiction and Recovery in Film
- Affliction
- Arthur (2011)
- Arthur (1981)
- Casino
- Crazy Heart
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Factotum
- Half Nelson
- Hancock
- I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Little Fish
- Owning Mahowny
- Permanent Midnight
- Postcards from the Edge
- Puncture
- Rachel Getting Married
- Requiem for a Dream
- Shame
- Shattered Glass
- Sid & Nancy
- Sideways
- Spanglish
- The Country Girl
- The Fighter
- The Lost Weekend
- Warrior
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Libra, INTP, English Major, 
Back from a seriously scary health relapse in mid-October and returning to action. Kudos to my patient friends and colleagues, you're the best. New programs and more unrolling this year, here's to 2012!
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