Donegal film-maker Myrid Carten examines her relationship with her mother – who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism – in ...

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

In an age of deep division — social, political, economic — storytelling can be a way to find common ground. And movies are one way that storytelling reaches across those divides. That’s especially ...

A Charlottesville filmmaker’s documentary, A Bridge to Life, will air nationwide on PBS stations beginning on Sept. 1. The film, directed by Chris Farina with Rosalia Films, premiered last year at the ...

Eminem’s ability to lose himself in his addiction prompted a major change. In his new documentary Stans, the “Mockingbird” rapper reflected on his past habit of abusing prescription pills—including ...

Now, she’s back on our screens with the second instalment of her documentary, Behind It All. Part one addressed her breakup ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.