Mental health and substance abuse are difficult subjects to handle well on-screen. A lot of movies turn these issues into ...

"He's the heart and soul of the film," Rob Reiner said about his son, Nick Reiner, who wrote the movie "Being Charlie." ...

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate perspective of his own son. After years of acrimony and ...

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 ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cory Monteith, Janis Joplin, John Belushi. Feb. 4, 2014— -- Philip Seymour Hoffman. Cory Monteith. Janis Joplin. River Phoenix. John Belushi. Those are some of the ...

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 ...

Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina is reportedly producing a movie about heroine addiction. According to TMZ, Dina's son Michael Jr will star in the project, backed by Dina's production firm Defiant Pictures ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.