DRINKING APART: Families Under the Influence
*Recommended by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and by Psychiatric News, the Newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association.
The Ackerman Institute for the Family helps people with drug and alcohol addictions to save their relationships, their futures, and their very lives. This award-winning program examines and explains the methods used at this highly acclaimed facility. Viewers follow a husband and wife, a mother and teenage daughter, and a young couple over a three-year period as they fight their way toward recovery.
Candidly filmed at Ackerman and other facilities as well as in the subjects' homes, this gripping documentary provides valuable insights into the devastating effects of substance abuse and the methods being used to assist in breaking addictions.
"Reality television pales in comparison with the reality offered up by documentarian Ken Rosenberg in this HBO special," says the Los Angeles Times; extensive footage of family counseling sessions is only one of the reasons why.
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