What Are Some Really Good Movies About People Struggling With Drug Addiction?

Question by Mackenzie: What are some really good movies about people struggling with drug addiction?
I am trying to find some really good movies about people struggling with drug addiction.. I have recently watched Puncture with Chris Evans in it..

Any ideas?
Is Requiem for a Dream the movie where the heroin addict looses half of his arm?

Best answer:

Answer by Dawson
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM!! Really really good movie

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Drug Addiction – Short video on heroin addiction. Produced by Friedkin Digital for Wiley & Sons, Inc. Part of a companion series for a university level textbook, “Abnormal Psychology” 11th edition by authors Ann M. Kring, Sheri L. Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, & John M. Neale. Additional footage courtesy of Greg Scott Sawbuck Productions DePaul University …dedicated to the memory of his sister, Julie. © Copyright 2009

 

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