The film does not shy away from showing the extent of AM’s demons, his fiendish excess with food, sex, drugs, smoking, sneaker collecting, DJ'ing and finally sobriety.

Isolation is the breeding ground not just for loneliness but for depression and negative thoughts to take over like some evil dictator.

Nathaniel V. Dust's breathwork for sobriety blows Amy Dresner's mind.

Twenty years after entering my first sober living, I'm running one.

The Fix Q&A with TSOL's lead singer on his take on the 12 steps.

“Say Everything—In Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté and Ione Skye” capped off the final night of the 7th Annual Reel Recovery Film Festival in North Hollywood on Thursday, October 29. Dr. Maté, the renowned but subversive addiction specialist and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts among other books, engaged in a casual back-and-forth chat with actress Ione Sky, most famous for her 1989 film, Say Anything.

I’m a totally different person than I used to be. It’s pretty remarkable… I mean, I’m not abusive at all. I’m incredibly loving in this relationship. You know, a decent human being.

This whole situation made me angry at people who abused medications and got us into this whole Big Brother-esque situation in the first place. And then I remembered…oh wait, I am one of those people.

There’s a big difference between a crack house in your neighborhood and a sober house in your neighborhood, but they're both equally unwelcome to NIMBY types.

The Fix's Amy Dresner talks to The Fix's Amber Tozer about Sober Stick Figure, Amber's illustrated memoir of alcoholism and recovery.

Musician and author Mishka Shubaly tells Amy Dresner how he got his mojo back and came up with the brilliant I Swear I'll Make It Up to You.

Bucky Sinister is a poet, a comic, an actor and an author. He is one of us and writes for us. Take, for instance, his self-help book Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos.

Sam Polk, author of the memoir For the Love of Money, on wealth addiction, the Wall Street narrative, and making his life about contributing instead of accumulating.

(And 2 reasons to fire a sponsee.)

Sometimes you have to Brexit.

Over my two decades of being in and out of the program, I’ve had more sponsors and sponsees than I’ve had needles in my neck (and, unfortunately, that’s a lot).

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert

More creative? When I was 36 and shooting cocaine, trying unsuccessfully to write a novel and get sober, my father sent me that quote. “Print it out, frame it, tape it to your wall. Something, Ames,” he said.

You’re gonna stop smoking eventually. You can do it when you’re healthy or you can do it when you’re sick.

His advice on quitting: don't resist urges to smoke.

As my determination and endorphins kicked, I started to pound my fists on his chest. “See! You have NO idea how hardcore I am! I’m HARDCORE!” What IS the truth about cryotherapy?

We speak with the writer of "The Motherf*cker with the Hat" about his play, sleazy sponsors and his friendship with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Artists pretend not to care, but they do. If you don’t know who Stephen Adly Guirgis is then I don’t know what you’ve been doing with your life. He’s one of those multi-hyphenates that makes us all feel pathetically unaccomplished: actor-playwright-screenwriter.

Could a three day seminar cure a lifetime of Amy Dresner's issues? What do you think? Landmark as a tool for treating alcoholism.

Didn’t he realize that nobody would ever love him the way I did? Was it because I was an addict? Didn’t he realize that it’s because I’m an addict that I love so hard?

Heartbreak is an odd hybrid of grief and rejection.