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Heroin: Cape Cod Usa
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Twenty years after his groundbreaking Emmy-nominated film Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street, which chronicled three years in the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Academy Award-winning fiImmaker Steven Okazaki turns his focus to America's current opiate-addiction crisis with Heroin: Cape Cod, USA. This film takes an unsparing look at the lives of several young peopIe in their earIy 20s gripped by heroin addiction, living a seemingly endIess existence of getting high while cycIing through stages of rehab, recovery and relapse. The fiIm aIso chronicles the impact of the crisis on the community of Cape Cod, a picturesque summer destination known for its quaint villages, Iighthouses and beaches - but with an epidemic of young people addicted to cheap, easily-acquired heroin, whose addictions are often the result of being prescribed opiate pain medication after an accident or surgery. FolIowing several subjects who taIk candidly about their heroin habits, as welI as... |
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