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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Trysh Travis finds something to like about HBO's Addiction project





Barbara Koppel’s “Steamfitters Local Union 638” is the most compelling of the nine mini-documentaries that make up HBO’s Addiction. I think I’ve made my skepticism about the multi-platform project’s obsession with addiction as a “scientifically-proven brain disease” clear in previous posts, but let me risk going just a little further over the top by saying that I think that the reason Koppel’s piece is more satisfying as cinema is directly related to its lack of interest in “disease.”

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Source: Alcohol and Drugs History Society