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Opium is a drug with two faces. It causes violent disputes, wars and crime, but can make life worth living for those with terrible illnesses. Before opium was synthesized into heroin, medical use of the drug...
The story of Rachel Whitear’s death from heroin sparked one of the world’s biggest ever anti-drug campaigns. Rachel’s mother, step-father, sister and close-friend describe her life and she is shown...
A hard-hitting documentary account of the real-life consequences of heroin addiction in areas of inner-city Portsmouth. The video maps the pathways from casual multi-drug use - alcohol and cannabis - to the...
A video-based teaching pack on Barry Purchese’s adaptation of ‘Junk’, the Melvin Burgess novel of teenage heroin addiction. Includes: interviews with Burgess, the production team and cast of...
John Sweeney reports on the horrors of the heroin trade and the people it destroys. Large quantities of heroin are being imported via the Thames, creating a new generation of addicts.
Looks at the contribution psychology makes to the understanding of addiction. Uses heroin addiction as its example within the work of Merseyside’s drug dependency clinics. Considers both a chemical...
An insight into heroin addicts and their families in three linked films. In part 1 four young addicts explain how and why they became addicts. Part 2 examines one of them in greater depth involving her...
Attempts to answer questions about the scale on which heroin is being used and supplied, how the authorities are coping with addicts, and about the devastating effects it is having on users and their...
Examines the illicit heroin trade in Britain. Police, addicts and dealers are interviewed. Claims that Britain will follow America and the problem will increase. Some think that the way it is dealt with is...
Former addicts speak of the physical and psychological effects of the use of heroin and describe the circumstances which led to their drift to and dependence on hard drug use. The second part of the film was...
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