Mental health and substance abuse are difficult subjects to handle well on-screen. A lot of movies turn these issues into melodrama, or become preachy and didactic, or simply fail to imagine their ...

Plenty of fantastic dramas have been released in the 30+ years since The Shawshank Redemption came out, including ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cory Monteith, Janis Joplin, John Belushi. Philip Seymour Hoffman poses for a tintype (wet collodion) portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by CEG, during the ...

A man in recovery plays basketball as an outlet to help him stay sober. A musician turns to drinking to cope with his mother’s cancer diagnosis. A teacher faces a moral dilemma: Should she punish a ...

Dana Chase is co-writing a screenplay based on her self-published 2016 memoir, which chronicles how she survived her twin sons' heroin addiction. Detroit Lakes author Dana Chase gave a presentation at ...

When filmmaker Aaron Strand, originally from Athens, asked his mother-in-law to borrow her rental property between tenants to shoot his independent film, she didn’t know he would scrawl graffiti on ...

Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder – known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...