Twenty years on from Trainspotting’s cinema release ... After several years of drug and alcohol addiction he had made the decision to go straight, and to get himself fit. He attended the ...

Scotland's drug-related death rates have soared over recent years, in part as decades of abuse by the so-called "Trainspotting generation" finally take their toll. The blockbuster success of the film ...

It’s difficult to fully encompass the deepest pits of addiction-based despair while also keeping a certain amount of levity, but Trainspotting somehow manages to do both. Unlike other addiction ...

to acting as the driving plot device of movies such as Trainspotting (1996) or The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), it is clear that drugs have made a mark on modern-day pop culture. Constant exposure ...

While working as a barmaid, Macdonald responded to an open-call audition advert for Danny Boyle’s iconic drug-addiction comedy-drama, Trainspotting. Through that, she landed the role of Ewan ...