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Johnny Hickey

LOCAL MOVIE, MAJOR THEATER: HOW FILMMAKER JOHNNY HICKEY GETS HIS MASS FLICKS ON THE BIG SCREEN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Film

"You go to these different places and you’re not Hollywood, you’re a local guy. It was really hard the first time, but Oxy Morons earned me credit in that world—a lot of people I became connected with really came to believe in what I am doing."

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Boston, Brittany Baldi, charlestown, Chris "C.T." Tamburello, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, F.I.G.H.T. Opiates, fentanyl, films, Foxboro, Gloucester, Habit, Habitual, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, North Shore, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World, Showcase Cinema d Lux, Stiz Grimey

EXCERPT: REAL PEOPLE REAL RECOVERY BY ERIC SPOFFORD & PIERS KANIUKA

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 3, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books

While the opioid epidemic is the most glaring effect, it’s certainly not the only symptom of our societal malaise. Things are getting worse across the board—suicide, homelessness, mass incarceration, ecological disaster. Taken together, all of these factors are making life in 21st century America increasingly untenable.

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Dislocation Theory of Addiction, F.I.G.H.T., fight, Heroin, Johnny Hickey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Politics, Real People Real Recovery, Recovery, recovery drugs, Suboxone, Team Reporting, Videos

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: REAL TALK ABOUT MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT

Written by Posted May 28, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

I got people telling me, “Yes, I’m in recovery, but who the fuck are you to tell somebody how they should recover? Who the fuck are you to tell somebody that they aren’t in recovery because they are on medication?” And I’m like, “Because they’re fucking not! What the fuck are you talking about?”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Beacon Hill, F.I.G.H.T., fight, Heroin, Johnny Hickey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Politics, Recovery, recovery drugs, Suboxone, Team Reporting, Videos

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

Written by Posted February 12, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

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By 2014, it was a full-court press, with Suboxone lobbyists pushing more than 10 bills on Beacon Hill

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: BINJ, donations, F.I.G.H.T., fight, FIGHT Opiates, FOIA, Johnny Hickey, Journalism, lobbyists, money, OCPF, opiates, opioids, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Reckitt, Suboxone

HICKEY AND THE HABIT

Written by JACOB SCHICK Posted October 23, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Film

With his premiere on the enormous 80-foot screen at Jordan’s Imax Theater in Reading on Oct 30, just in time for Halloween, we spoke to the actor and director about his latest.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: asylum, FIGHT Opiates, horror, IMAX, Johnny Hickey, Moodswing, North Shore, Oxy Morons, Reading, The Habit

HALLOWEEN PREMIERE: STIZ GRIMEY ‘THORAZINE SHUFFLE’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: MUSIC

Here's the word from Team Grimey about this video which comes just in time for the goriest day of the year... 

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: CT Tamburello, Habit, Halloween, Johnny Hickey, Oxy Morons, Stiz Grimey, Thorazine Shuffle

DEAR READER: I GUESS THIS TURNED INTO OUR ANTI-OPIATE ISSUE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 11, 2017 Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

All these years later, it’s absolutely unbelievable what has become of this mess.

Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Brittany Baldi, charlestown, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, Gloucester, Habit, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World

EXCLUSIVE: HICKEY’S NEW HABIT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 11, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Film, Non-fiction

Oxy Morons writer-director returns with a drug-addled North Shore gore fest

Filed Under: FEATURES, Film, Non-fiction Tagged With: Brittany Baldi, charlestown, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, Gloucester, Habit, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World

CHARLESTOWN DRUG FLICK ‘OXYMORONS’ KEEPS THE WAR ON OPIATES RAGING

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 5, 2014 Filed Under: Film

When Johnny Hickey first cold-called DigBoston more than five years ago looking for us to write about him, he was a twenty-something Charlestown tough with an unlikely story: He had survived a plummet into the Quincy quarries, the end result of a drug deal gone wrong, and was determined to ...  read more

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: ArtsEmerson, bright lights, charlestown, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Hulu, Indie, Johnny Hickey, Netflix, Oxycontin, OxyMorons, Quincy, rehab

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