Best Collection Of TV Shows About Addiction

Internet-addicted millennials fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, and connection as their online addictions spiral out of control and into the void of an alien disguised as a human female.

With no money and a sick young son, Angel returns to the underworld of fashion and luxury. Giovanna believes that Angel killed her father and will do anything to put her in jail. As a result, they start a personal war, which involves Cristiano, a private investigator.

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The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.

OTT Platforms for Dopesick are Hulu

An unsettling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes – and a miracle occurs.

OTT Platforms for Midnight Mass are Netflix

Iggy and Ace are two gay alcoholic best mates who live, work and play together but after Ace decides to get sober - a rift develops between the them as Iggy balks at the idea of recovery.

Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

OTT Platforms for The North Water are fuboTV, AMC Plus, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, DIRECTV, and AMC Apple iTunes, Vudu, and Microsoft Store.

A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most wanted burglars in Rio de Janeiro. Will a father’s love be enough to save his son’s life?

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An outwit mission between two skillful men. One is a goofy thief, the other a skillful police officer. Both got involved with a drug-dealing gang and a national influencer, and are both interested in the young female bodyguard. Each hiding their tricks, each having their own secrets. Meet with a thrilling hunt between thief and police that will take you on a ride at close range.

One rainy day, salaryman Amakusa Ryo is saved by a high school girl he doesn't know at the station. He later finds out that the girl is Arima Ichika. Ryo is somewhat of a womanizer and to repay her for saving him, he suggests giving her a kiss or going out on a date with her, in which Ichika tells him he's creepy. This, however, opens a new door for Ryo and he falls madly in love with her. Ever since then, Ryo tries to overly express his feelings to Ichika. Ichika just keeps insulting him and says he's being creepy, but he just seems to take it as her way of showing affection towards him...

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Demi Lovato holds nothing back in this powerful four part documentary series exploring every aspect that led to their nearly fatal overdose in 2018, and their awakenings in the aftermath. Director Michael D. Ratner is granted unprecedented access to the superstar’s personal and musical journey during the most trying time of their life as they unearth their prior traumas and discovers the importance of their physical, emotional, and mental health. Far deeper than an inside look beyond the celebrity surface, this is an intimate portrait of addiction, and the process of healing and empowerment.

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In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.

OTT Platforms for The Queen's Gambit are Netflix

The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.

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The series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers in a secondary school class. The teenagers struggle with bullying, including the Blue Whale Challenge, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises-a subject that is rarely portrayed on Ukrainian television-alcoholic parents, and speech disabilities. In one of the show's main plot lines, the main characters are stalked on the Internet by an anonymous person who pretends to be their friend.

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

OTT Platforms for Euphoria are HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, and Spectrum On Demand Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Vudu, and Microsoft Store.

Follow shaman Steve Hupp, as he works with people seeking healing from severe emotional and physical issues.

Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.

OTT Platforms for The First are Hulu

Recovering addicts Frankie and Allie take on the heroin epidemic by working to save as many addicts as possible.

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

OTT Platforms for Patrick Melrose are fuboTV, Showtime Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Hoopla, Showtime, DIRECTV, and Spectrum On Demand Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

A visceral, rarely-seen look into the personal stories of those most affected by ongoing national emergencies.

OTT Platforms for The Trade are fuboTV, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Showtime Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime, and Spectrum On Demand Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, and Vudu.

As a mysterious corpse gets found in the middle of nowhere, four upper-class individuals emerge as suspects.

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Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored, and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a complete mess, getting clean is the easy part.

OTT Platforms for Loudermilk are Amazon Prime Video

Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each - heroin addiction, sex trafficking and murder.

OTT Platforms for Louis Theroux: Dark States are Sky Go, Virgin TV Go Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, and Amazon Video.

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

OTT Platforms for This Is Us are fuboTV, Hulu, DIRECTV, NBC, and Spectrum On Demand Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, and Microsoft Store.

Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a sober living facility while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life. Based on the popular young adult novel by Blake Nelson.

OTT Platforms for Recovery Road are Freeform Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. John Thackery is a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite his secret addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. and Dr. Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who's been recently thrust upon him. The lively cast of characters at the hospital also includes Cornelia Robertson, the daughter of its benefactor, Captain August Robertson; surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary; Lucy Elkins; a fresh-faced nurse from the country; the crooked hospital administrator Herman Barrow; and Sister Harriet, a nun who isn't afraid to speak her mind.

OTT Platforms for The Knick are HBO Max, HBO Now, Max Go, DIRECTV, and Cinemax Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

Dr. William Rush is not your average on-call doctor. He's not attached to any hospital, he's highly discreet no matter what the ailment as long as the client can pay his cash-only premium and the doctor can party with the best of them. He has no desire to change his life or how he lives it, until an old flame and his conscience begin to stir things up.

Prostitutes are often seen as either immoral individuals or exploited victims. Rupert Everett uncovers the real story of the sex industry, going behind the stereotypes to hear the unvarnished truth from sex workers and their clients.