Acute Misfortune

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.