Word: addiction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most common transgressions. Callers admit their guilt over affairs with friends and next-door neighbors by voicing apologies intended for spouses. Others atone for past failings. Declared a recovered alcoholic: "I would like to apologize to all the people I hurt in my 18 years as an addict...
...white-collar slime mold: he's a thief, an accessory to murder and a meanie to his mom. He can't even admit he has a drug problem -- cocaine and alcohol -- until a tough-love therapist (Morgan Freeman), an A.A. veteran (M. Emmet Walsh) and a nervy fellow addict (Kathy Baker) help him see the dark before the light. Some of the early scenes ring as inauthentic as the Philadelphia accents; each supporting junkie pushes too hard, as if he were part of an Actors Lab experiment that failed. But there are home truths here. Mostly, the film shows...
...truth, these two stories of drug usage are unrelated, and the importance of drugs in either of these tragic scenarios is more than likely overblown. The wealthy, suburbanite cocaine addict more often than not is succumbing to largely psychological pressures: stress, family problems, etc. The crack dealers in the inner-city are acting largely out of sociological pressures, and more fundamentally than that, economic ones. In both cases, drugs hardly seem to be the source of either problem, they are merely an avenue of expression, dangerous though the path...
...Fountain, a former drug addict who founded the boarding school for wayward youths in 1978, refused to comply and allegedly encouraged his young charges to flee rather than be taken into custody. Despite the charges of mistreatment, many of the children's parents defended the school, which stresses religious instruction along with strict discipline. "When a child is on drugs," said one parent, "you need the help of religion...
Eric grew up in Los Angeles' posh Brentwood section, and by tenth grade was an honor student, a varsity baseball player and an accomplished cellist. He was also becoming a crack addict. With friends who were similarly hooked, Eric would hop into the white Volkswagen camper his dad had bought him and drive into the seedy Venice Beach area. There he would purchase rocks from Los Angeles gang members. Sometimes he made three trips...