Heroin: Facing The Dragon Trailer

Trailer for Current TV documentary - Facing The Dragon
Sarah and Cassie are two desperate heroin addicts, feeding their habits anyway they can on the streets of London and Reading. They've tried allsorts of treatments, but nothing has worked. Now they're travelling to a Thai monastery and the toughest detox in the world. But will it finally get them clean? Facing the Dragon is a hard hitting documentary, now being shown around the world to great acclaim.
Producer/Director - Richard Higson for Curve Films
Producer - Chris Armstrong
Associate Producer/DV Director Sharron Ward
Editor - Richard Higson, Nick Swinglehurst
Music - Francis Binns

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• addiction
• heroin
• Thailand
• Thamkrabok
• Monastery
• buddhism
• detox

[KatalystProductions]

It should be back online with Current TV sometime soon hopefully - current.com/groups/on-current-­tv/92471262_heroin-facing-the-­dragon.htm

[tpvalley]

the puking is dangerous, it can rupture the aesophegus (cant spell it!).

the drugs are not the devil, its the people that cause prohibition that kills, look at the desomorphine situation in russia, legs rotting away because folk cant get heroin.

if opiates r cheap and freely available people function quite normally if they wish, I used to love working when high, hate it when not; now in which situation does society gain? the one where Im spending all day scoring for fuck all or the other?

[XxC1R3xX]

how about everyone smokes weed instead!! :D

[paulyg63]

@RAYZE1ER hope your kids dont turn out junkies. its a decise.. you know it all. small fry, them monks are powerful.. the work is powerful

[tpvalley]

@Icanhaznolife

brown was cheap up here- £5 bags, similar to 1 and half pints of beer!

I heard its expensive now though (I dont use anymore).

Brown is called number 3 heroin and white number 4 incase u didnt know, the white is the salt version (hydrochloride etc) and the brown is the freebase so to speak, thats why u need citric acid to dissolve it to make diacetylmorphine citrate.

[Icanhaznolife]

@tpvalley Yeah brown isnt even that bad but because its cut to shit and expensive as fuck its lethal

[xxxxyyyyz1]

@deskreverse Yeah, I agree. Weed 99.9% of the time sucks.

[deskreverse]

@XxC1R3xX unfortunately weed is not pleasant for everyone. Some ppl (like myself) hate the effects of weed

[tpvalley]

@RAYZE1ER

why not give them a maintained dose and have them contribute to society, many people with high intellect become addicted as folk with high iq often have reduced cognative abilities and suffer depression, many are in pain.

remove the prohibition system, but make harsher penalties for stealing etc.

[tpvalley]

@MrROTD

here cannabis is a class B drug, cocaine is a class A along with heroin.

mad that amphetamines is class B also and valium class C!

A being biggest penalty, usually just a caution for all of the above on 1st offence though and when the police raid u, they are generally civil.

[MrROTD]

@RAYZE1ER I hope someone you love becomes a Junkie so you will think before you speak about such things. Making laws and persecuting drug addicts has had no positive effect on drug use in any nation that prohibits use. I bet theres someone in your family thats an alcoholic, maybe they should be on that island too hey? alcohol can be just as bad as smack

[MrROTD]

@tpvalley you're right prohibition has done nothing but criminalize the people that need help and make pharma companies rich, law enforcement bugets big and prisons full. It has caused more harm than the drugs do and stigmatized millions. I smoke weed and dont care what the gov says, its a miracle plant for medicine and pleasnt to smoke. Heroin can never be a good addiction because you can die without it, cannibis is only habit forming so why is pot classified the same as cocaine?