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There Are Better Ways To Learn About The Dangers Of Drug Addiction Than “Euphoria”
Sam Levinson appears to have taken to heart the old writing adage “write what you know” – and that’s especially evident in “Euphoria.”
By Luna Salinas5 min read
He told the crowd at the premiere of Euphoria in 2019: “I spent the majority of my teenage years in and out of hospitals, rehabs, and halfway houses. I was a drug addict, and I’d take anything and everything until I couldn’t hear or breathe or feel…Somewhere around the age of 16, I resigned myself to the idea that drugs could kill me, and there was no reason to fight it; I would just let it take me over and I’d made peace with that. By the time I was 19, I was in rehab, I’d checked in, and was trying to get off of opiates and onto a more productive drug like crystal meth.”