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Ben: Diary of a heroin addict (documentary)

Here is another one I just started watching so I'm not sure what it's like, but it was made by HBO in 1999, so it should be interesting none-the-less. It's 8 parts on youtube.

Black Tar Heroin

Black Tar Heroin is a 1999 documentary directed by Steven Okazaki. Filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, the documentary offers the viewer a sobering dose of reality about the lives of black tar heroin addicts.

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, and Oreo) during the course of three years. The film is brutal in the depiction of drug-related crimes and diseases: prostitution, male prostitution, AIDS, and lethal overdoses. The director also put a lot of emphasis on the moral sides pertaining to the junkie lifestyle: from the question of robbing other people for money to the degradation of family relations and loss of friends, a wide scale of highly unconventional problems are exposed.
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I'll tell you, this movie really made me think a lot about what I do to myself, and those around me. I just felt like I could relate to the guy so much, and watching him do that to himself was painful. It's weird how I'll have so much compassion for someone else with the exact same problem as me, but so little for myself.
 
wtf awful. the groin part wtf. I know people that have taken over an hour for them to find a vein. Really terrible. I tell myself all the time last bag last blow whatever but its never the Last. shits lame as fuck. I've been ddicted to drugs. I've never had a drug control my life as much as opiates have controlled my life. EVER.
 
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