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A high-flying party girl gets herself a DUI and 28 days in rehab -- and ends up discovering that real happiness must come from within.

In the 1980s, Victor DeNoble was a research scientist at Philip Morris, a major tobacco company, where he was charged with the tasked of finding a substitute for nicotine in cigarettes that would not pose the risk of heart attack. In the process, DeNoble uncovered what the company had been hiding for years: that nicotine is addictive.

Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?

Howard Spence, a washed-up Western movie star, uses alcohol, drugs, and young women to escape from the pain of his life. One day he suddenly flees the set of his latest Western on horseback and goes to visit his mother in Nevada. She tells him that he might have a grown son in Montana, where he once had a fling with a local waitress. Howard sets out to meet his son with an insurance agent from his abandoned film in pursuit.

A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.

Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.

Aided by powerful new diagnostic tools, scientists are making dramatic discoveries about how addiction affects the brain. In this program, Moyers goes into the laboratory to follow researchers engaged in charting an "image of desire" in the brain. We actually see images of a cocaine user's brain as the drug takes effect, and a doctor explains how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease. Moyers observes a genetic researcher as he monitors a variety of factors that may determine who is likely to develop alcoholism.

Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. With an unexpected second chance, Cory finds himself on a powerful journey of transformation and redemption. A Christian film based on thousands of true stories, Home Run is a powerful reminder that with God, it's never too late ... freedom is possible.

Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the facade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness.

Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.

Stories of and interviews with children of alcoholics at a summer camp in 1986. The program follows up two of these children seventeen years later to learn of their experiences. Finally, the program returns to the same camp to learn that core issues remain the same for the new generation of such children.

A multipart series. First episode: Addressing the problem of substance abuse in contemporary society, this episode explores the neurobiology of substance abuse as parts of the brain that would normally control destructive behavior, become disfunctional. The neural-biochemical nature of the brain and nervous system is demonstrated by brain scanning technologies that reveal neural substrates and neural networks that are constantly changing. FMRI images have provided neuroscientists with the knowledge that substance abuse of any kind causes permanent change in the brain's dependence on certain chemicals, as an addiction or pleasure circuit is formed.

Places the alcohol problems of Native Americans within the context of the historical destruction of indigenous peoples and culture and the stereotype of the drunken Indian. Documents a growing social movement which combines ancient spiritual traditions with modern medical approaches in substance abuse recovery.

A compelling, true story about the consequences of alcoholism and substance abuse, Native American Delaney Apple of Rapid City, S.D. describes his difficult life growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial court case against seemingly insurmountable opposition.