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Wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some gritty documentaries on drugs, particularly the harder ones like Heroin and Crack. I've seen a couple of the infamous ones on youtube (Crackhouse set in Liverpool, UK, and the one following the guinea pig journalist who develops addiction). Of course i've seen many of the vice documentaries but they are all very short and slightly pretentious.

What other ones am I missing ? I'm sure I remember watching ten minutes of a heroin documentary filmed in NYC which followed several addicts around...would love to find out the name of that.
 
I got a kick out of that documentary Vice did called "The Real Walter White", about some hillbilly meth cook down in Alabama whos name was...you guessed it, Walter White! I always think it's so funny the amount of pride meth cooks get from their finished product.
 
I'm pretty sure you've seen the VICE documentary about Krokodil, but that's always a good one. I don't know of any really gritty drug documentaries, but if you youtube "ancient drugs" the first video will be a very worthwhile 40 minute documentary about - you guessed it - ancient drugs to today's drugs.
 
Krokodil House. That shit is disgusting and disturbing hahaha.

My personal fave is the Drugs, inc. episode called "philly dope." i recognize all the streets they take u down and I can even point out ppl that I've seen around there. Great watch definitely check that shit out!
 
Burnt Offerings said:
I always think it's so funny the amount of pride meth cooks get from their finished product.
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I do fully understand it though, whenever you work for an outcome you become intimately attached to the end product. It happens with plants in garden, animals you raise from infancy, children, etc. Granted it is less of an emotional connection then when the object is alive and can perceive to return the love.

Also I viewed drugs inc like this: everyone wants their story told this is why people brag. The one thing we all have in common is we want someone to know what we did and to understand it. It is not inconceivable that some higher level drug deals, with egos, would just love for their story to be told through out homes in america. This becomes even more likely with lower street people who do not get a confirmed source of pride from their dealings, sure they feel important but it takes other people recognizing for you to actual think you are important. In this way i feel drugs inc is 50% real interviews, and 50% reenactment of people who they did actually interview. I do not see the point in outright lying especially when so many people volunteer information under the assumption of their ID being with held.
 
szuko000 said:
I do fully understand it though, whenever you work for an outcome you become intimately attached to the end product. It happens with plants in garden, animals you raise from infancy, children, etc. Granted it is less of an emotional connection then when the object is alive and can perceive to return the love.

Also I viewed drugs inc like this: everyone wants their story told this is why people brag. The one thing we all have in common is we want someone to know what we did and to understand it. It is not inconceivable that some higher level drug deals, with egos, would just love for their story to be told through out homes in america. This becomes even more likely with lower street people who do not get a confirmed source of pride from their dealings, sure they feel important but it takes other people recognizing for you to actual think you are important. In this way i feel drugs inc is 50% real interviews, and 50% reenactment of people who they did actually interview. I do not see the point in outright lying especially when so many people volunteer information under the assumption of their ID being with held.
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Yeah exactly. It's kind of corny when they interview those "higher-ups" on the show when they're wearing bandanas over their face and shit. Even with a bandana and shades on I'm sure everyone that knows u IRL would be able to tell it was u haha.

I feel like any REAL dopeboy that was moving weight wouldn't go on the show. It would just totally blow their shit up I would imagine. A damn pair of sunshades isn't gonna be enough to protect yourself.
 
There is one called "Ben: Diary of a heroin addict" not sure if that is the one you are saying you saw or not. Also check out "Montana Meth" it was worth the watch for sure.
 
I find that HBO enjoys showing drug users using drugs a bit too much. I recently watched a documentary on heroin use in Cape Cod, and although I do not mind it at all i worry about what others think. My younger brother just out of prison saw me watching it and because HBO cant go 5 minutes without showing someone shooting up he had to leave and said "how can you watch this" doesnt bother me but it makes it uncomfortable to watch around others lol.

Sure I spend a decent chunk of time shooting up and seeing the color of their shots brings back memories but what really bothers me is the ODs and people talking about losing loved ones, for I too have held my dead g/f begging her to come back. I get teary eyed when addicts go "why did it have to be (her/him) why not me!" as I think that was exactly what I was saying as we attempted to revive my g/f.

But yeah dont watch the HBO docs unless you dont mind the over use of drugs, zoomed in on the action of using said drugs. Like i said its nice to be edgy but we get it your filming drug addicts. Like i dont mind when they are mid story or something but some times its like "ok just another scene of them following addicts into the bathroom to use."
 
szuko000 said:
Also I viewed drugs inc like this: everyone wants their story told this is why people brag.
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Whenever my friends and I would see Drugs Inc on, we'd laugh and try to imagine what a Drugs Inc set in my hometown would be like, with the piddly-shit deals and small time bullshit that's the mainstay of the drug using community there. Like I'd be wearing a mask and fanning 20 bills (the basic unit of exchange in an Alaskan drug deal) in front of the camera, exclaiming "yeah I got those Jacksons nikkuh!"

Cameraman: "how did you attain such riches?" Me: "oh, you know, being a player in the game, pushing weight on these streets...WHOLE GRAMS of heroin!"

Cut to a tweaker arguing with another tweaker about who stole who's cell phone
 
Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is pretty good, from HBO.

I also liked The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.
 
Lots of good ones already listed here. Check out Through a Blue Lens (it's on YouTube) for a gritty yet compassionate look into several tragically downtrodden lives of good people in Vancouver. This should be mandatory viewing for all police officers because the amount of compassion they have for the addicts is exemplary. It also contains one of the most - if not the most - gruesome arm I've ever seen.

Also noteworthy is a documentary called Union Square. It's hard to find, though.
 
Burnt Offerings said:
Whenever my friends and I would see Drugs Inc on, we'd laugh and try to imagine what a Drugs Inc set in my hometown would be like, with the piddly-shit deals and small time bullshit that's the mainstay of the drug using community there. Like I'd be wearing a mask and fanning 20 bills (the basic unit of exchange in an Alaskan drug deal) in front of the camera, exclaiming "yeah I got those Jacksons nikkuh!"

Cameraman: "how did you attain such riches?" Me: "oh, you know, being a player in the game, pushing weight on these streets...WHOLE GRAMS of heroin!"

Cut to a tweaker arguing with another tweaker about who stole who's cell phone
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I actually think I teared up laughing so hard. That is some funny ass scene you painted there! You ought to be a director or something.
 
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