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The film focuses on the tumultuous relationship between Vidal and longtime partner Howard Austen (Michael Stuhlbarg), as Vidal struggled with depression and alcoholism.—
Leila Jordan,
IndieWire,
23 June 2025 -
Two medications used to treat alcoholism and opioid addiction have also been found to reduce the severity of gambling addiction across a handful of small clinical trials.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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Not the years battling post-traumatic stress disorder or addiction.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
24 June 2025
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In Twin Peaks, Deputy Chief Hawk and Sheriff Frank Truman—filling in for ailing brother Frank—work on following a lead phoned in by an ailing Log Lady, while Richard Horne, son of Audrey Horne and Cooper’s evil double, spiraling into depravity and addiction, kills a child in a hit-and-run.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 June 2025
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“Morphinism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morphinism. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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