This short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.This short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.This short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.
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Paul Newman: [narrating] There are oases of comfort throughout the world. However, the earth offers few pleasures for most of its inhabitants. For his 10,000 years of grubbing a living off the planet, man has found life, for the most part, to be cruel. Disenchantment abounds. Fatigue, hunger and cold. However, nature, almost as an afterthought, softened her terms. She sprinkled the harsh earth with a variety of plants, each offering momentary escape, a passport from reality. Their protective effects have been known since the time of the ancients.
It does a few things that were probably viewed as progressive for the time, such as recommend treatment for addicts rather than just locking them up, the value of a community for ex-users that is similar to AA for alcoholics, and the value of studying the brain activity of addicts to get to the underlying cause of addiction.
It is mainly of historical value at this point in time.
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- Nov 30, 2018
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- The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness
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