Common Read - Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

This video from Al Jazeera explores the opioid crisis by looking at children of addicts.

This video from In a Nutshell explains the negative effects of the U.S.'s war on drugs, and explores alternate options for ending the drug problem.

Many have called the opioid epidemic the greatest man-made public health crisis ever. Working closely with Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), "Do No Harm" investigates the beginning of this catastrophe, its geo epicenter, and what we can do to reverse its deadly impact.

This Frontline investigation tells the stories of individual addicts while also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.

Peter Sarsgaard -- whose own family has battled with drug addiction -- travels to Dayton, Ohio, to investigate how the city, once the very definition of industrial invention and middle-class America, has become the epicenter of a drug-related death epidemic and a symbol of our age of inequality.

Examine opium and its derivatives, from regularly prescribed painkillers like codeine and morphine to heroin, often considered the most harmful drug of abuse in the world today. Learn about the neurological effects of and treatment options for opiate drugs.

A look at the fentanyl crisis in Canada from the perspective of a community of drug users.

This video from the FBI aims to educate teens about the realities of life as an addict.

This film presents a deeply personal exploration of opiate and heroin addiction through the lives of an addict in recovery, a couple trying to get clean, a family grieving the loss of their son, and an emergency room physician trying to save one patient at a time.

"Fighting The Dragon With Luck" documents the stories of six recovering heroin addicts who attend a local community pharmacy for opiate replacement therapy.
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In this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.

Methadonia is the borderland between high and straight, where recovering heroin addicts on methadone "maintenance" exist. This film reveals the culture of addiction through the eyes and lives of men and women stuck in Methadonia, holding on to the hope they will wake up one morning and not think about getting high.