Addiction

A collection of resources that can help you learn more about addiction – the types of addictions, which treatments are available to help in recovery and more.

Addiction Documentaries

Kids Are Dying: Youth Drug Use & The Opioid Crisis

"In America during 2010, we were in the beginning stages of a heroin epidemic, and I knew that I had to go out there and say something, but do it in a way visually that I can impact all audiences. I wanted to send a message to America that this was a crisis that affects all of us."

Heroin, Lost Loved Ones, Opiates/Opioids, Opioid Crisis, Overdose, Personal Stories, Prescription Pills, Youth

Addiction Documentaries

Flood: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada

This documentary travels across Canada to discuss the magnitude of the opioid crisis / overdose epidemic and the importance of harm reduction initiatives across communities. You'll learn about what harm reduction entails and why it is essential to combating this crisis because "since 2016, more than 12,800 Canadians lost their lives due to fatal overdoses."

Harm Reduction, Opiates/Opioids, Opioid Crisis, Overdose, Public Health

Screenshot from Women, Trauma, & Addiction: Viewing Recovery Through A Trauma-Informed and Gender Responsive Lens; A webinar about women and Substance Use Disorders and PTSD

Addiction Lectures & Webinars

Viewing Recovery Through A Trauma-Informed & Gender Responsive Lens

This webinar seeks to address the specific needs of trauma survivors by helping them break free of the shame and stigma associated with relapse. The goal is to provide an approach that allows "women to feel safe, connected, and empowered to thrive and flourish on their limitless journey toward healing and wholeness."

Prevention & Treatment, PTSD, Recovery, Trauma, Trauma-Informed, Women

Addiction Documentaries

Brought Up By Booze: Growing Up With An Alcoholic Parent

Professional footballer George Best's son, Calum, discusses his experience of growing up with an alcoholic parent and travels throughout the United Kingdom to meet with other young people to hear their stories as well. Calum wants to find out how parental drinking is affecting their lives and confront the impact that his father's addiction still has on him today.

Alcohol, Children of Addiction, Parental Addiction, Personal Stories, Youth

Addiction Documentaries

Smashed: Breaking the Cycle of Alcohol Use Disorder

"Dr. Jeff Harries, the founder of the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society, has been working to ensure that AUD be understand and treated as a medical condition." He strongly believes that "people suffering from this disease should not be shamed or marginalized. His 20 years of experience in prescribing effective medications and spreading awareness of a more effective, compassionate approach has helped thousands of people to recover and heal." Unfortunately, his work was derailed when he was diagnosed with ALS in 2018. He passed in 2021.

Alcohol, Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Prevention & Treatment, Recovery

Screenshot from Andrew Huberman's Podcast What Alcohol Does to Your Brain, Body & Health

Addiction Podcasts

What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health

This 2-hour podcast with Andrew Huberman dives deep into this topic, providing an interesting and easy-to-understand look at how alcohol effects your brain and body. He discusses the physiological effects, genetic differences that predispose some people to alcoholism, and more.

Alcohol, Science & Research

Addiction Educational

What Alcohol Does to Your Body

This video by the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses "the pathway alcohol takes as it travels through your body." It covers the various organs and tissues that interact with alcohol and how a hangover occurs, as well as how alcohol can effect people differently. You'll see real cadavers (body parts) and it's really quite interesting.

Alcohol, Science & Research

Addiction Documentaries

Uganda’s Waragi (Moonshine) Epidemic

The VICE crew hang out with the locals where they make and drink alcohol with them. "Uganda is the alcoholism capital of Africa. One favourite type of booze the locals make is called waragi." They discovered that people were going blind and dying from drinking a dangerous version of it that is cut with industrial chemicals.

Alcohol, Homelessness, Poverty, Youth

Addiction Documentaries

Britain’s Drink Problem

Adrian Chiles wants to "know why this multi-billion pound industry [Britain's alcohol producers] is allowed to regulate itself - make up its own rules." He discusses with others, both professionals and average people, the profound impact that alcohol is having on the country.

Alcohol, Public Health

Screenshot from When Love is Not Enough; Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcohol, Recovery

Addiction Movies & Short Films

The Lois Wilson Story: When Love Is Not Enough

The novel and film "describe in compelling detail Lois’s comfortable beginnings, her attraction to a clever and persistent young man, her years of despair as drinking claimed an ever-increasing part of Bill, her joy when he sobered up, and her frustration as AA came to dominate Bill’s life."

Al-Anon, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous