Movies: Drug overdose

Yearning for the confidence to give his crush a New Year's kiss, Riley takes pills with unpredictable side effects....

Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty, devil-may-care rebellion and shocking sexual exploits onstage launched her to infamy before tragically dying...

Middle class teenagers Jill, Felipe and Eddie, talk about their addiction and drug-related death....

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 a coma, opens with the girl recovering in a hospital bed. This scare film from 1979 is essentially a...

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to "H," and Marty's decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and r...

Two friends, Caily and Sabine, wake up after a long night of drinking. Their make-up has faded and they are still wearing yesterday’s clothes. After getting reading for another day, they go to their desolated hangout spot and hit the bottle and do dr...

A young girl dies after a batch of deadly pills find their way into a dance club scene. Cody and Fiorelli attempt to stop others from taking the lethal cocktail as they uncover an established underground manufacturer....

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 Tarántula, a thug drug dealer....

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

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 her friends and arrests him red-handed, with heroin in his possession. It turns out that he is part o...

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 substance abuse....

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A man gets left at a motel room by his friends and his addiction is forcing him to relapse....

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

This program is an overview of best practices to keep a person who has overdosed alive between discovery and hospitalization. Practices include quickly finding or identifying the substance the person on which the person has overdosed and traveling to...