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Los Angeles Times Review: The hard realities of heroin addiction and rehab in documentary ‘American Relapse’
The documentary “American Relapse,” a gripping look at the thorny intersection of heroin addiction and its treatment in Delray Beach, Florida (“Rehab Capital of America”), proves as revealing and involving as it does reflective and heartbreaking.
Film Review: ‘American Relapse’- Variety
Nonetheless, their film captures the recurring nightmare of substance abuse, which makes enduring the unthinkable (homelessness, prostitution, crime, death) an inevitable facet of one’s day-to-day.
Allie Severino, 29, works in community outreach in Boca Raton, Florida, and has been clean for 10 years.
“I recovered by being court-ordered to nine months in a government-run treatment facility.
“While I didn’t want it to happen at the time, that saved my life.
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“Dopesick Nation” Shows Reality of Treatment Professionals Who Struggle with Addiction
As a former social worker in recovery from addiction, I was initially skeptical of the VICELAND Series Dopesick Nation because I thought it would follow the familiar formula of A&E’s Intervention and TLC’s Addicted. I was wrong. Dopesick Nation is different from...
“DOPESICK NATION”
Our friends at Viceland take us deep into our “Dopesick Nation” with two recovering addicts who are now trying to save one addict at a time. READ ON CLICK HERE --->
“Dopesick Nation” Chronicles Struggle To Find Addiction Treatment
Dopesick Nation follows Frankie and Allie as they seek treatment for two drug addicts in South Florida.Frankie and Nate Photo via YouTube A new docu-series shows the day-to-day struggle of finding help for people with substance use disorder.Frankie and Allie, who are...
Allie Severino: “I Save Lives on the Front Lines of South Florida’s Opioid Crisis”
We talked to Allie Severino, star of VICELAND’s new show 'DOPESICK NATION,' about working in her region's notorious recovery industry.When Allie Severino was in high school, she was addicted to opioid pills and at one point seemed on the verge of becoming yet another...
Allie Severino; at 17 facing Drug Trafficking
Her manicured nails, blond hair and big hoop earrings that dust her shoulders have her ready for her close-up, yet this TV show scene has Alexandria “Allie” Severino helping her friend with some of the dirtiest work there is.“Uh, is that a cockroach?” she asks,...