Jeff Van Vonderen, a firefighter with no prior history of alcohol abuse, rescues a fellow firefighter from a burning building, can no longer enter a burning building because of the emotional trauma, then starts abusing alcohol, then his life falls apart as he develops full-blown alcoholism, then A&E records his alcoholism intervention.
In America we call that alcoholism manifested as self-medication from PTSD. But apparently Canada has never heard of PTSD, otherwise his loved ones would have helped him before his alcoholic self-medication cost him his livelihood, wife, son and physical health.
