by AllieSev | Oct 25, 2019 | News
By Gary Goldstein March 28, 2019 1:40 PM 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...
by AllieSev | Oct 25, 2019 | News
Two recovering addicts strive to help South Florida junkies get clean in Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt’s insightful documentary. As if it weren’t difficult enough to survive their drug habits — as well as lives on the streets — addicts in Delray Beach, Fla. must also...
by AllieSev | Oct 25, 2019 | News
‘I scored 5000 pills a month from doctors’ Allie Severino, 29, works in community outreach in Boca Raton, Florida, and has been clean for 10 years. She says: “My addiction started at the age of 12 using mainly weed, cocaine and ecstasy, then moving...
by AllieSev | Oct 25, 2019 | News
I was 13 when I first experimented with drugs. Fourteen when I was regularly getting high. Seventeen when I was kicked out of my father’s house. When most kids were learning to drive, I was learning how to smoke and snort. While my friends were getting ready for prom,...
by Sam Rae | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sam Rae | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sam Rae | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sam Rae | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sam Rae | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Sam Rae | Aug 20, 2018 | News
Last month, “American Relapse” made a huge impact at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. The stirring documentary, directed by Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt, pulls back the curtain on our nation’s out-of-control heroin epidemic, as well as...
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