His involvement in Demme's documentary led to an unlikely career as an actor in more than a dozen films over the next two decades, including roles in Philadelphia, The Addiction, Beloved, and Rachel Getting Married.
Jane's Addiction | Western Addiction | The Addiction | Doubt Becomes the New Addiction | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | American Society of Addiction Medicine | The Anatomy of Addiction | The Addiction Tour 2006 | sexual addiction | Love addiction | Jane's Addiction (album) | Jane’s Addiction | Internet addiction disorder | Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy | Behavioral addiction | Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction | Addiction Research Center Inventory |
He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Finding Neverland at Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Alles in einer Nacht at Tanya Bonakdar in New York, The Addiction at Gagosian Gallery in Berlin and New Party at The Breeder Projects in Athens.
Creation of the Annual Stanton Peele Lecture, 1998, by the Addiction Studies Program, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Cohen co-founded CNS Productions, Inc. with Paul Steinbroner in 1983 to devote himself to producing content specific to the addiction field.