I am impressed. While I disagreed with a few things that were said by the medical professionals, the overall tone, tempo, and consideration of the first in this series was admirable.
I did not subscribe to HBO before tonight, so I had not seen any television advertisements prior to its showing. The only preview scenes I had seen were from the the website, which by the way, is well worth the vist. You can visit the site here:
Website for the Addiction Project by HBO
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The small clips from the website contained calm commentary by alcoholics, addicts, and doctors that had me hopeful that the documentary would not be rife with the emotional and embarassing outburst that A&E uses to tout its Intervention series. While I think the A&E series can impart some very useful information and may be helpful, especially to the family members and loved one's of those with addictions, I feel they use the teaser clips of shocking behavior to draw in more of an audience looking for a voyeurism experience than learning about addictions.
One problem with the presentation I have is that it is going to string out many of the individual stories throughout the series, which may make it difficult for those of us with busy schedules to follow them contiguously. While the information will be valuable even if you see these stories out of order, the emotional investment you have in them as individuals will not be the same. I'll save the content discussion for a later date, I tried to jot down many of the drugs they spotlighted as being helpful to addicts and alcoholics so I hope that I got their spelling close enough that I can do a little research before we discuss. This is a touchy point for many, including myself, using one substance to help overcome an addiction to another. A battle for another blog but I will leave you with this thought; any move toward recovery is a move in the right direction
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and their stories. Have we seen the end of the two twenty somethings being treated for opioid addiction, if we have then I feel they have cut this short. If not, it may be a month down the road before I get to view another episode and then I might see the last of their episodes instead of the middle.
I would prefer they had edited the individual stories for viewing enitrely in a single episode.
of their exploits and came across as bragging about "I should be dead" or "I did 10 shrooms". Not exactly what I expect to here from those in recovery. I didn't see the point in their comments being played.
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