Documentaries often live and die by their characters. Fortunately for this short, Needle Exchange, director Colm Quinn has captured some truly fantastic people on screen. Both former heroin addicts, ...

Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play unbelievably gorgeous heroin junkies in Candy, a don’t-try-this-at-home melodrama adapted from Australian author Luke Davies’ aptly billed “novel of love and ...

This story first appeared in the Feb. 6, 1986, edition of WW. Tom is a heroin addict. He has been “strung out” since last summer. Before that he had been clean for almost two years. Then, he was a ...