Heroin Addiction: Eastday-Escaping the Grip of Heroin Addiction
Heroin Addiction: Eastday-Escaping the grip of heroin addiction
AFTER handing over her seven-month-old son to a couple she didn’t know, Dai Jingwen took the money and left weeping, without looking back. “I was crying, but I couldn’t help myself from using the money to buy drugs,” said the 32-year-old Shanghai native, recalling her past as a heroin addict.
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Heroin Addiction: INVISIBLE Part 5/6
The bulgarian film INVISIBLE, part 5/6; “Invisible” a documentary by Konstantin Bojanov. After the crumbling of the Soviet empire, heroin flooded the streets of many cities behind the former Iron Curtain. Heroin offered an alternative lifestyle largely unknown until then. In the late 1990s heroin addiction in Eastern Europe had reached epidemic proportions. Invisible takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria and follows a group of six young people on a three year journey through the highs and lows, dreams and tribulations of living with heroin addiction. The story bypasses the social problems and dynamics associated with addiction and focuses on the existential views and philosophies of the participants. The film provides a platform for their ideas and concepts of the world surrounding them. The participants represent a group of “social outcasts”, who remain largely invisible in society. They are members of a generation eager to discover and explore the new “commodities”. Invisible is unprecedented in the intimacy with which it portrays its subjects. The film presents perspectives influenced by euphoria as well as the sobering reality that follows, without passing judgments, trivializing, denigrating, or exploiting the subjects.
Heroin Addiction: ‘Bath salts’ considered emerging Ohio drug trend
The designer drug marketed as “bath salts” is appearing statewide as an emerging drug trend, according to officials from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.“We are seeing it in some of the different regions, but it is hard for us to say just how big of a problem it is right now,” said Brad DeCamp, the department’s assistant chief of treatment and recovery services.
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Heroin Addiction: Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband jailed
The ex-husband of singer Amy Winehouse has been jailed for 32 months for carrying out a domestic burglary with an accomplice “while in the grip of heroin addiction”.
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