Drug Overdose Movies

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the types of narcotic deaths and drugs encountered by Dr. Milton Helpern in his post as Chief Medical...

A troubled man survives a suicide attempt. He calls an old friend to rescue him in the middle of the night. Their journey is just beginning, and by...

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie...

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to...

This program is an overview of best practices to keep a person who has overdosed alive between discovery and hospitalization. Practices include...

An educational film that depicts the widespread use of prescription drugs to treat illnesses as well as the misuse and abuse of those drugs.

The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an...

When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.

After the passing of his wife, a single father attempts to reconnect with his daughter as she crumbles under the weight of severe neglect and...

A Centron Film presentation, produced by Gordon-Kerchoff, this color film is about a teenage girl who overdoses on alcohol and pills, and winds up in...

Artistic lovers, Viv and Jay, have become trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. But when Viv’s wealthy parents hire an...

Ghada is a police officer. Her brother falls prey to bad friends and dies after taking a large dose of heroin. Ghada discovers the complex of one of...

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and...

Educational film about the dangers of drug use and abuse in high school. Framed around the death of a classmate from overdose.

Documentary on the life of late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood.

Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty,...

The late Len Bias still leaves more questions than answers. When Bias dropped dead two days after the 1986 NBA Draft, he forever altered our...

An experimental story, focusing on a group of punks disillusions with the neoliberal state, and the tendency’s towards so called filth and...

Months after the gruesome events of Ramen Hell, Alejandro and Frank try to escape to Colombia with the help of René, a mysterious driver, and...