Movies: Heroin

Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life back....

This documentary intends to contribute to the analysis of the drugs problem, by studying a huge district in a peripheral area of a large city: the Mirafiori South suburb of Turin, a vast ghetto where 15.000 people live in huge 9/10-storey buildings w...

A Roman musician meets a Heroin-addicted girl, helps her, falls in love with her and ends up getting addicted to Heroin himself....

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the types of narcotic deaths and drugs encountered by Dr. Milton Helpern in his post as Chief Medical Examiner for New York City and to describe internal and external body changes resulting from narcotis...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured....

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's childhood experiences in her world of addiction to seek the redemption of the weight that her mother has ...

This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through researching it for his book ("Charlie Says: Don't Get High On Your Own Supply"). It shows Lanre as he become...

About Addiction was created to educate the youth about proper and improper drug use. It draws a compassion between prescription drugs, alcohol, coffee, over-eating and illicit drug use. The opening scenes show the narrator informing viewers addiction...

A warm story about the fight for a decent life. Deals with teenagers having problems with alcohol and drugs....

Michael supports his addict girlfriend Jasmine, who depends on him to fund her addiction. Michael knows she will die if she keeps using, but he cannot allow her to stop. He fears that she will leave him if he does. In the end, Michael is left to pick...

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug use PSAs from National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI). The films were as...

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to addressing the issues of drug addiction, featuring the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. ...

This color propaganda ‘scare’ film is about the horrors of the drug heroin. It seems to be reel 1 and is missing its credits and its other reels. It is made circa the late 1960s in England....

This unforgettable anti-drug yarn, inspired by the educational films screened in high school health class, was made by Smith and Matt Groening in tandem, with Groening appearing on-screen....

A short film following a struggling addict's isolated journey towards recovery...

Shocking, devastating and unflinchingly real. KOMO News' Eric Johnson looks at the heroin crisis in Seattle....

This program is an overview of best practices to keep a person who has overdosed alive between discovery and hospitalization. Practices include quickly finding or identifying the substance the person on which the person has overdosed and traveling to...

ALL KINDSA GIRLS traces the evolution of garage/punk rock from its inception in the sixties through current interpretations. Focusing on the career of singer/songwriter John Felice and his band the Real Kids, the film examines the significance of mus...

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In the documentary, we follow twin brothers Mike and Chuck Rollins, former addicts who now work in addiction recovery. They know firsthand the struggles and vulnerabilities of addiction, as well as the challenges of reintegrating after treatment. For...