Addiction I Full Documentary I NOVA I PBS

Methadone saved my life! I just celebrated 14 years in recovery and h w successfully tapered off methadone. Now I work at my former program helping other women do the same.

Wow. This video came out the same day I decided to get sober. Been drinking everyday for 7 years straight but now I am two weeks clean. Wish me luck! 🤞

God was my only way out. I have a 23 year addiction. I have been clean for 20 years and my heart goes out to people that are still battling addiction

I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to Crack. Spent my whole life fighting Crack addiction..Crack addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my fiancee recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

It took me 20 years to get clean and sober. Live in treatment programs, the 12 step program, ADHD medication and counselling helped me achieve it. 22 years sober and 18 years clean this year!

I used to watch this when i was an addict praying I'll be clean and now I'm 3 months clean never thought I could do it so happy to have my life back anyone can do it 🙏

I have been a meth addict on and off for the last 10 years. I almost had 5 years clean and I relapsed a few times. I have about 3 months clean. This video was great!

Addiction is also denying those that NEED pain medication. It took a year for liver cancer to kill my beautiful sister Lisa and she had to fight MONTHLY to get the medication she needed to ease her suffering. The last few weeks in hospice she was FINALLY given what she needed to pass relatively pain free. I miss her every day💔

I'm a paraplegic with chronic pain. Opioids like Oxycontin effectively treated my chronic pain with few significant side effects. But because of the opioid crisis it is extremely difficult to obtain the medications that made my life bearable. I realize that many are addicted and dying but there are many thousands of us who benefit from these medications.

The worst pain a mother of any kind even an animal can endure is the loss of their babies 💔

Opiate addiction is very bizarre in nature. On one hand , you love the feeling, the rush of getting drugs, etc. On the other hand, it’s the most horrific, depressing hell on earth that has destroyed your finances, relationships etc.

I’ve been 5 years on suboxone, got tapered off in hospital over a month period and am back brand new! Haven’t used once, got my psychological state back up and am enjoying my life! 😊

As a 62 yr old addict i can say Suboxone did help. Clean for almost 3 yrs but really dont know myself. Not sure if im alone feeling like this. Been using some sort of drug since i was 14. Glad im alive to talk about it but still its wierd. Love to all other survivors.❤

Thank you for the spotlight you at NOVA have put on this problem. My daughter is now in an inpatient facility as I type this. But, it took the death from Fentanyl of my 16-17 year old granddaughter to push her into treatment. I used the "16-17" age description because my granddaughter was given one (1) fentanyl pill as a "present" on the day before her 17th birthday. She was a "naive" , meaning she had no experience with narcotic drugs before this, drug user. On the night before her 17th birthday she took that pill and sat down to watch TV. She went to bed and she was found dead the morning of her 17th birthday. I am now depressed, even suicidal, and filled with rage. The cost of these drugs is much more than mere money.

My brother and I overdosed on fentenyl laced heroin and he died but I survived. Thank God for three years in recovery. Methadone has helped me begin to deal with the root cause of my life long addiction. I hope he's proud of me. RIP CHRIS 8/4/1972-9/9/2018

I was badly addicted to OC's more than 10 years ago (2003-2010). Took me 7 trips to detox and many, many attempts to stop until I finally got control. Fortunately, I never touched heroin or anything else...but it was just as bad. $400 a day. When you're addicted to opiates, you're not alive, you just exist. Your true self...who you really are is gone forever. Even though I've fully recovered and living a "normal" life, I've never been the same. Who I was died when I went through that addiction.

Yes!!!!!! Recovered addict. You can do it!!!!!! This is the most honest and truthful program about addiction I have seen. Thank you Nova.

I'm a few days away from having 6 months clean from fentanyl and methadone and my body still hurts like hell from the withdrawal. Opioid addiction is no joke

The image of that child pulling on her unconscious mother in a grocery store is heartbreaking. It brought me to tears.

To everyone in this comment section celebrating days, months, years clean/sober...from one recovering addict to another, I am here to say congratulations and I am so proud of each of you! I finally got clean from opioids 12 years ago w Suboxone. I tapered off and now I'm a counselor at the same treatment center that saved my life. We are ALL worth fulfilling, joyous, and amazing lives! ONE DAY AT A TIME! Sending love and prayers to everyone that battles their demons and overcomes them everyday from SC 💕🤘