After being forced to look after her younger sisters when her parents would disappear on drug binges, a woman follows in her parents' footsteps and descends into a world of drugs and danger.

A woman acts out through alcohol and cocaine abuse and gives birth to three children in the fog of addiction.

A 25-year-old woman is caught in the same cycle of addiction that killed her mother when she was a little girl.

A man begins to spiral into addiction after his surrogate father figure is killed in a car accident.

After being raised by a single mother who struggled with addiction, a 23-year-old mother becomes addicted to cocaine and opiates.

A 38-year-old woman alternates between being a wife and mother and a rock singer who is addicted to crack cocaine.

A self-proclaimed party girl with a serious addiction to heroin spends her days on methadone and her nights injecting heroin and smoking crack.

After being devastated by his sister's suicide, a young man spirals out of control in a ceaseless sea of partying, gambling and alcohol.

A young woman with a traumatic past turns to alcohol to numb her pain, and winds up with seizures, black outs and severe mood swings.

A couple who have been together since their teens go from using marijuana and other recreational drugs to severe crack addiction.

Pain from dancing in a strip club leads a woman to become addicted to alcohol and opiates.

A sensitive, artistic boy grows up with alcoholic parents and winds up addicted to crystal meth and GHB as an adult.

A woman who was a talented dancer as a child becomes addicted to oxycontin after her father commits suicide.

After falling in with the wrong crowd at a young age, a man becomes addicted to crack and is estranged from his family.

A woman loses custody of her three children after spiraling into a dangerous dependence on hydromorphone, speed, cocaine and morphine.

A young musician becomes addicted to heroin after experiencing a tortured childhood and life on the streets.

An intelligent, young woman alienates herself in order to protect her dangerous addiction to opiates.

After a decade of crystal meth use, a man makes his living by selling meth and other drugs.

A man whose life has been filled with addiction and tragedy since childhood, is addicted to heroin and crystal meth.

A young woman suffers from a severe eating disorder, depression and suicidal tendencies.

After smoking crack cocaine for the first time and watching his world fall apart, a former businessman ends up addicted to heroin and lives on the streets.

After a man is electrocuted during a routine job cutting down a tree, he loses everything and becomes severely addicted to crack.