As a teenager, Ryan was on the fast track to professional BMX racing until his mother's suicide attempt sidelined his life. Ryan turned to drugs to deal with the trauma and silence around it. Now, at 23, he lives in his parents basement using and dealing heroin, enabled by his parents' inability to face or confront reality.
Genres: Documentary , Reality
Keywords: addiction , intervention , addiction-recovery , alcohol-abuse , alienation , anxious , apologetic , bad-habits , candid , cautionary , coping-mechanisms , coping-with-grief , disapproving , disheartening , disturbed , drug-addiction , drug-rehabilitation , dubious , familiar , family-dynamics , family-tensions , frustrated , group-intervention , hard , intimate , introspective , misery , narcotic-abuse , psychological-trauma , reflective , television-documentary