Addictions researcher Professor Sally Marlow asks what five women artists can tell us about addiction through their art, starting with how Frida Kahlo medicated her pain. Show more
Experimental novelist Anna Kavan, described as Kafka’s sister, lived a very private life and only after her death at 68 were her decades of heroin addiction revealed. Show more
Andrea Dunbar wrote plays about life on Bradford’s Buttershaw Estate, The Arbor was staged when she was just 18. But a bright legacy was blighted by cross-generational addiction. Show more
Billie Holiday sang about alcohol and broken hearts, fought racism and heroin use. But why did the state criminalise her instead of rehabilitating her for her drug use? Show more
