Addiction 38 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Drink, drugs, gambling and compulsive sex as the background to crimes and broken families.
- Season 2 · Episode 12
Secrets
The rape and murder of a dedicated teacher exposes her secret sex addiction, and the search for her killer runs through her students, her lovers and the sex clubs she visited.
- Season 3 · Episode 5
Tangled
A doctor is beaten to death and his wife raped in their home, and the investigation runs through his estranged son and his affairs to a mistress and her downstairs neighbor.
- Season 3 · Episode 7
Sacrifice
A young husband is shot and raped in an alley outside a gay bar, and his silence hides a family supporting a sick child through work in pornography.
- Season 3 · Episode 21
Denial
A rape victim’s grisly keepsake leads detectives to a toddler’s remains hidden in a closet for 14 years, and to a mother and grandmother each hiding a child’s death.
- Season 5 · Episode 7
Choice
A pregnant restaurant owner attacked by her estranged husband ends up in court herself when he challenges her right to an abortion and then her drinking during the pregnancy.
- Season 6 · Episode 10
Haunted
After a shooting makes him a hero, Fin is confronted by a mother whose daughter he abandoned while undercover, and sets out to find the grandson she never knew she had.
- Season 6 · Episode 19
Intoxicated
A mother who tried to have her teenage daughter’s adult boyfriend charged with rape is found beaten to death, and the young couple become the suspects.
- Season 6 · Episode 21
Blood
A young mother’s assault and her baby’s near death expose a painkiller pipeline running through a frail grandmother’s home.
- Season 7 · Episode 8
Starved
A speed-dating sting catches a controlling surgeon suspected of serial rape, and the girlfriend who could convict him becomes the subject of a right-to-die fight.
- Season 7 · Episode 13
Blast
A girl with undiagnosed leukemia is kidnapped for ransom, and the search leads back to her own family.
- Season 7 · Episode 17
Class
A scholarship student found strangled on a prostitution stroll turns out to have been paying for college with poker winnings, and her killer is the friend who shared her secret.
- Season 8 · Episode 14
Dependent
A mob lawyer’s wife is murdered at home, the evidence points to their drug-using daughter, and a death during an arrest puts Stabler’s career on the line.
- Season 8 · Episode 18
Responsible
A girl’s death at a teen drinking party leads detectives to a mother who supplies alcohol to her daughter’s friends and sleeps with one of them.
- Season 9 · Episode 3
Impulsive
A high school teacher and her 15-year-old student accuse each other of rape, and the boy’s lawyer argues that a sex addiction made him do it.
- Season 10 · Episode 3
Swing
When Stabler’s daughter is arrested after breaking into a stranger’s home, a bipolar diagnosis forces him to turn to the mother he has kept out of his life.
- Season 11 · Episode 3
Solitary
A woman’s disappearance points SVU to an ex-con Stabler sent to prison two decades ago, and the fallout puts long-term solitary confinement on trial.
- Season 11 · Episode 4
Hammered
A recovering alcoholic wakes up next to a murdered abortion doctor with no memory of the night, and his trial exposes the prosecutor’s own drinking.
- Season 11 · Episode 7
Users
The murder of a 16-year-old in a cheap hotel exposes the therapist who controls her treatment program, and Huang breaks the law to get the case’s key witness off heroin.
- Season 11 · Episode 8
Turmoil
A missing teenager pulls Stabler’s son into danger while a leaked photo and a state bar inquiry threaten Cabot’s rape case against a high school football star.
- Season 12 · Episode 10
Rescue
A partygoer’s death exposes paramedics who prey on patients, while Benson’s search for Vivian Arliss threatens her guardianship of Calvin.
- Season 12 · Episode 13
Mask
A masked serial rapist who claims to redeem his victims is traced to a sex-addiction clinic run by the estranged father of one of them.
- Season 12 · Episode 18
Bully
The death of a wine company’s timid finance chief exposes a CEO who abuses her staff and employees willing to stay silent for a fortune.
- Season 13 · Episode 2
Personal Fouls
A former player’s accusation against a revered basketball coach runs into the statute of limitations, forcing SVU to seek help from a guarded pro star.
- Season 13 · Episode 14
Home Invasions
The shooting of a gay-rights lawyer and her husband looks like a hate crime until the surviving daughter’s secret reshapes the case, while Rollins’s gambling catches up with her.
- Season 14 · Episode 9
Dreams Deferred
When a gunman goes on a killing spree, the squad turns to the aging prostitute he has visited for 25 years and tries to pull her off the street once he is stopped.
- Season 15 · Episode 9
Rapist Anonymous
A woman from Rollins’s recovery circle says a fellow member raped her; when he falls from her roof, Rollins’s loyalty and private life end up on trial.
- Season 15 · Episode 16
Gridiron Soldier
A Georgia football recruit lands in jail after attacking a man in a gay bar, and Rollins, who knows his family, suspects his would-be college team did something to him first.
- Season 15 · Episode 17
Gambler's Fallacy
Caught gambling in an illegal club, Rollins is pressured into favors for its managers, and one of them helps clear the way for a diplomat’s wife’s rape.
- Season 17 · Episode 4
Institutional Fail
After a neglected toddler wanders into a precinct, SVU finds his sister starving in a cage and Barba goes after the Child Services caseworker and bosses who faked their home visits.
- Season 17 · Episode 13
Forty-One Witnesses
A woman is assaulted in her building’s courtyard in view of many neighbors, none of whom called for help, and SVU needs one of them to testify.
- Season 19 · Episode 6
Unintended Consequences
A runaway from an exclusive rehab dies of a fentanyl overdose after being raped, and SVU finds the center and a sober house recycling addicted girls for insurance money.
- Season 19 · Episode 21
Guardian
A 16-year-old’s report of a playground gang rape leads SVU to the three teenagers who say they paid her brother and guardian for sex with her.
- Season 20 · Episode 15
Brothel
The death of a sex worker who fled a pop-up brothel leads Fin and a Vice sergeant from his past to corrupt cops and a judge who supplied the women.
- Season 21 · Episode 16
Eternal Relief from Pain
Rollins’s estranged sister, Kim, facing a parole violation, reports that her doctor demanded sex for painkillers, and the squad’s undercover work leads to a drug company that uses sex to win prescriptions.
- Season 22 · Episode 15
What Can Happen In the Dark
Garland’s neighbor turns up badly hurt, and the squad comes to suspect his wife sexually assaulted him, a case few will believe.
- Season 25 · Episode 1
Tunnel Blind
A 15-year-old girl vanishes from a store, Benson realizes she saw her in a van minutes later, and a sex doll made in the girl’s likeness leads the squad toward her abductor.
- Season 25 · Episode 5
Zone Rouge
A message on a train ticket revives the search for Maddie Flynn, and Benson teams with an FBI agent to follow her abductor along the railway.
- Season 26 · Episode 17
Accomplice Liability
Carisi, a witness instead of the prosecutor this time, pushes a Brooklyn ADA to hold the surviving deli gunman responsible for everything that happened, including a hostage’s rape.