April 24, 2025

The Journey from Addiction to Recovery: A Playlist of Over 40 Stories

This playlist is a powerful source of inspiration that will take you on a journey from addiction to recovery. It features real-life experiences of individuals who overcame their struggle with addiction and found a new way of life through sobriety. You’ll hear firsthand about the challenges they faced, the losses they endured, and the strength it took to get sober. But most importantly, this playlist is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit in the midst of adversity. Every story shared is a reminder that it’s never too late to change your life for the better. So, if you’re struggling with addiction or know someone who is, take heart in the powerful message of this playlist that you too can overcome and rise above your circumstances to find a better, healthier way of life.
April 24, 2025

The Road to Recovery: 6 Personal Stories

This compelling documentary features six people who detail their poignant journey from addiction to recovery, including discussions of relapse. They discuss their childhood trauma and it is evident that these distressing experiences propelled their addictions. The emotional pain, too much to bare, led to their substance abuse because, as they describe, being intoxicated was a relief, a break, from their lives. They all hit their own personal rock bottoms and each found recovery through various treatment options.
April 24, 2025

Lost Angeles: City of Homelessness

Homelessness in Los Angeles is a complex issue that’s been around for decades. Many have tried to fix the problem, but the numbers increase year after year. This documentary takes a look at the roots and causes of homelessness, arguably the largest issue currently facing Angelenos. FOX 11 spoke with experts on homelessness and those experiencing homelessness themselves on how we got here and how we can make progress toward solving the issue.
April 24, 2025

Las Vegas Homeless Community Living in Underground Tunnels

Did you know that there are 1,500 homeless people living in tunnels below Las Vegas? Directly under the billion-dollar casinos, fancy night clubs and Michelin-star restaurants is a world that you wouldn’t believe is real. Until you go down there and see it for yourself. Drew Binsky teamed up with Rob from Shine a Light Foundation, who guided him down into this underground world to meet with local residents and hear their stories.
April 24, 2025

Overdose Crisis on the US-Canada Border: Steel Town Down

Tens of thousands have died of an opioid overdose across the US and Canada in 2017, with the death count surpassing the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The weight of the crisis in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario falls on a handful of people struggling to keep their fellow community members alive, similar to countless towns in North America. Steel Town Down is an intimate portrait of the only harm reduction worker in town and a family desperate to save their son from becoming another victim of the crisis.
April 24, 2025

Methadone Mile: Inside Boston’s Drug Epidemic

In this story, we’ll peel back the layers, speaking to people from Harvard doctors to people selling crack, and from the addicts fighting for survival to those who have escaped their addiction and now work to help others. Furthermore, we aim to uncover the deeper question of how methadone mile came to be. As we unravel this mystery, we’ll reveal how a single failed infrastructure project may be a key factor behind the hundreds now living in the streets of Boston. This episode is sponsored by Better Help.
April 24, 2025

Flood: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada

This documentary travels across Canada to discuss the magnitude of the opioid crisis / overdose epidemic and the importance of harm reduction initiatives across communities. You’ll learn about what harm reduction entails and why it is essential to combating this crisis because “since 2016, more than 12,800 Canadians lost their lives due to fatal overdoses.”
April 23, 2025

Gambling Interview – Archie Karas (Soft White Underbelly)

Soft White Underbelly interviews Archie Karas, a gambler who came to Las Vegas in 1995 with $50 and turned it into 40 million in three years from gambling, only to lose it all in three weeks [Taken from YT description]. Archie passed away at the age of 73 in 2024.
April 23, 2025

Pieces of a Dream: A Story of Gambling

When Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his sister, filmmaker Michelle Wong, needed to make sense of her brother’s death. What drove him to end his life at age 36? Weaving together intimate conversations with those closest to Phillip, as well as her own candid reflections, Wong embarks on a personal journey. Gently peeling away layers of silence, she uncovers her brother’s story of gambling addiction and his lonely spiral into desperation, isolation and depression. Filmed against the backdrop of the noisy casinos of Las Vegas and the quiet town of St. Paul, Alberta, the documentary lays bare the grief of family and friends. Sifting through feelings of guilt, sadness and shame, the once-fragmented family begins to discover a new closeness. This heart-wrenching film is a sister’s uncompromising search for the truth and healing–for herself, her family, and others struggling with addiction.