addiction: skid row

Originating from the name of an area of Seattle, Washington where logs were dragged over "skids" to the saw mill, this term may refer to any deteriorated area of a city where the down and out, often addicts and alcoholics, live.

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Factotum Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens 2005

Vertigo James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes 1958