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Summary for : Intervention In-Depth – Heroin Highway Heroin abuse in Chicago, especially along a specific area of the Eisenhower Expressway, is examined by focusing on the stories of four people struggling with addiction.source:LocateTv.com
Summary for : Intervention In-Depth – Hillbilly Heroin Prescription drugs devastate an Ohio county, accounting for 90 percent of their overdose deaths.source:LocateTv.com
Summary for : Dope Sick Love NYC Heroin Junkies (2009) Dope Sick Love is a really remarkable documentary made for HBO about two pairs of heroin addicted lovers roaming the streets of NYC. There is no narration and we never see any interviews with the subjects, the camera just follows them around, like a third eye, completely detached.
Summary for : National Geographic: The Heroin Trade Documentary Every time a heroin addict buys a bag of heroin on the street, they are supporting this bloody industry. In addition to destroying their own life and the lives of those around them, heroin addicts contribute to the death of thousands every year. Without demand, drug lords and the heroin trade would not survive.source:heroin.net
Summary for : National Geographic – Afghan Heroin: The Lost War Afghan Heroin: The Lost War is a one-hour documentary which investigates how the war on terror in Afghanistan has unleashed heroin into the mainstream.Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs on Earth. Some 90 per cent of the drug is grown in Afghanistan and this hard hitting documentary investigates how the War on Terror has inadvertently unleashed a massive supply of the deadly drug.source:LocateTv.com
Summary for : Hooked: Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way – Opium, Morphine, and Heroin An examination of the history of the poppy plant and three of its deadliest derivatives. In ancient times, the poppy was considered divine, but in the 19th and 20th centuries, its addicting and lethal qualities caused unprecedented national outrage, social upheaval, and even sparked two wars. Used by the upper classes as patent medicines, heroin became the bane of society when the working class began to use it. In 1914, Federal law banned heroin and opium, and restricted morphine to medicinal use.source:ovguide.com
Summary for : Discovery Channel : Heroin Nation Heroin Nation concentrates on the gritty underworld of cocaine use as seen through the eyes of law enforcement officers, addicts, users, therapists and scientists. The show makes connections between all aspects of cocaine, from how it is smuggled across the border of Mexico, to the way it affects teenagers in states up north.source:Discovery.com
Summary for : Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict (2008) Ben Rogers, 34, filmed what turned out to be his last few months alive to record what the drug had done to him.The diary contains graphic scenes of him injecting heroin into a vein in his groin.Mr Rogers was described as a bright schoolboy from a stable, middle-class background, who his family expected to make a success of his life.He grew up with his mother, father Mike, a design consultant who died after his son’s death, and three brothers in the village of Alton, in Staffordshire.The schoolboy began secretly drinking at 14 before moving onto cannabis and becoming a heroin addict 17.At one point, he said: “I hope that when you look at this afterwards that you don’t think I’m self-pitying, because I know that I’ve done this to myself.” source:google.com |
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