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

Question by : 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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Meredith Baxter as a drug-addicted nurse in “Darkness Before Dawn” GREAT TV MOVIE – Meredith Baxter will always be the Queen of TV movies, and this 1993 movie is one of her all-time best! This video shows highlights from the first half of the movie. Based on a true story, this movie has Meredith as a drug addicted nurse who steals drugs from the hospital she works at. She is married to another addict, and they have a daughter. Meredith learns she’s pregnant again, and when the baby is born an addict, Meredith’s character decides to give drugs to her newborn baby.

 

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Swollen Members' Madchild riffs on the drug addiction that nearly killed him

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I was never going to become a drug addict. I've seen Basketball Diaries, I've seen Trainspotting. … Going from once on the weekend to doing it on a Wednesday night to watch a movie at home.” “Then one day someone said, 'you know, that stuff is just …
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