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  • Justice
    Go to Jail. Die From Drug Withdrawal.
    February 17, 2017
    | Julia Lurie
    Welcome to the criminal justice system.
  • Society
    10-Year-Old Boy Recalls Life With Heroin-Addicted Parents
    September 16, 2016
    | Karin Kamp
    The use of heroin has exploded since the 1998 airing of Moyers on Addiction, in which a child talked about the reality of living with addicted parents.
  • Portraits of Addiction
    February 7, 2014
    Philip Seymour Hoffman's death has focused the nation's attention on the resurgence of heroin in America. In this excerpt from Moyers on Addiction, recovering addicts talk about how their dependency began.
  • Democracy & Government
    A Houston Education Miracle? Funding Addiction Recovery and Samantha Powers on Iraq Reconstruction
    October 17, 2003 | NOW
    The Houston superintendent was tapped to be Secretary of Education — but was his model so "successful" thanks to high cheating drop-out rates? And should insurance companies treat chemical addit
  • Justice
    A Former Inmate and Drug Addict on Incarceration, What You Need to Know About Iran, and Affirmative Action in College Admissions
    June 20, 2003 | NOW
    How can the American corrections system break the cycles of addiction and incarceration? A look at the psyche of Iran, and should colleges offer race-based affirmative action?
  • The Politics of Addiction
    March 31, 1998 | Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home
    Moyers talks with people working to change American drug policy from a criminal-justice approach to a public-health model.
  • Next Generation
    March 31, 1998 | Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home
    Addiction is a cycle, passing from generation to generation. Many anti-drug programs have little effect, but there's still hope for children.
  • Changing Lives
    March 30, 1998 | Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home
    BIll Moyers visits innovative treatment programs, including the one that helped his son.
  • Portrait of Addiction
    March 29, 1998
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Nine men and women -- all recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction -- tell their stories. Their candid testimony leaves no doubt that addiction can happen to anyone...and so can recovery.
  • Health & Science
    The Hijacked Brain
    March 29, 1998 | Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home
    Bill Moyers attempts to unravel the mysteries of the addicted mind.


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