The James Clayton Column: Medicinal Movies for Healing and Hope
The James Clayton Column: Medicinal movies for healing and hope
Filed under: drug addiction movies
No one would ever grow up to be a junkie if they were traumatised from a young age and conditioned to associate drug abuse with dead babies, grotty Edinburgh toilets, forced career moves into prostitution and terrifying monster fridge attacks.
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Marian Keyes: a life in books
Filed under: drug addiction movies
But they all deal with difficult issues: Rachel's Holiday traces a drug addict's recovery in rehab; This Charming Man is about domestic violence; Anybody Out There bereavement; The Mystery of Mercy Close is a frighteningly real, humorous look at …
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Founding Kiss drummer Peter Criss tells story of survival in memoir, 'Makeup …
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Criss' life was already a disaster — he was a twice-divorced drug casualty who exhausted the fortune he made with Kiss, a band he was no longer in — when his world began to shake, rattle and roll. … "I relieved myself, literally, of so much anger …
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