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Addiction: Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 15, 2007
  • Season #: 1
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70 out of 100

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  • Summary: Part of HBO's multi-pronged effort to highlight substance abuse in America, this feature-length documentary is composed of nine short films dealing with the causes, costs, and treatments of drug and alcohol addicition.
  • Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    80
    A wide-ranging work and a compelling one.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: John Maynard
    80
    Gripping.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    60
    [It] has a certain instructional dryness.

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  1. EmilyM
    0
    I was a user. I am not powerless to any drug. I got clean with out phych meds. the numbers they show for people beomming clean are so discuragings, I used the 12 step approach but it failed I am not powerless of any drug and not a victiom nor do I have a deasie. I got high because I wanted to because I had NO confront. I got clean in a non tradition 100% drug free rehab, and have been for over a year. I think the program give people a reason to continue using and gives them reason to relapse because it shows that there is no hope unless you substitute one drug for another, and still relapse can occure. This may just be my view point but I feel as though I am NOT alone.… Expand
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