Unlike the characters in high-school-age predecessors like “Superbad,” the hooligans of “21 and Over” can legally drink. But these college-kid caricatures prove that legal drinking is certainly no better, safer, or healthier than underage consumption

Netflix’s House of Cards is worth watching for its depiction of two facets of recovery: its fragility and also its power, especially when that recovery comes with full honesty, transparency, and responsibility.

This year’s Academy Award lineup featured the usual gripping historical dramas and soaring epics, but it also included stories that dealt honestly with the all-too ordinary struggle of mental health conditions and substance abuse.

FOX 5 News recently interviewed Deborah Taylor, Senior Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, and a Phoenix House client for a story about the growing problem of teen prescription drug abuse.

Shameless, the hit TV series created by Paul Abbott, is anything but subtle. It paints a portrait of addiction’s “ripple effect” on the family—an effect that is by turns violent, gross, tragic, absurd, and hilarious, but never far off the mark.