"Health & Medical News"

By Bob Curley

An upcoming HBO series on addiction is being viewed as a unique opportunity to educate the public about a disease that affects more than 22 million Americans — and many more family members — but is widely misunderstood.? 

The 14-part HBO documentary series is the linchpin of the “Addiction” project, but it’s far from the only component. A collaboration between HBO, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the campaign also includes a companion book, a comprehensive addiction information website at HBO, and a national community-outreach program coordinated by Join Together, Faces and Voices of Recovery, and Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA). A four-DVD version of the documentaries will be sold for a minimal price at retail outlets and online.

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HBO’s vaunted 14-part documentary “Addiction” has won an? Emmy award? from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The series was honored with the Governors Award, the Academy’s highest honor, which is given in recognition of programming that demonstrates commitment to important social causes. The other 2007 Governors Award winner was American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back” segment.

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