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Boston now boasts the rather unflattering title as the city with the highest rate of opiate addiction and overdose. In this Vanguard documentary Gateway To Heroin investigate journalist Mariana van Zeller explores the epidemic in Boston and uncovers a disturbing link between the widespread availability of the prescription drug Oxycontin and its uglier and dirtier cousin the street drug heroin.
van Zeller meets with two addicts from Boston including a former high school football star who first became addicted to Oxycontin when he was prescribed it for pain after he injured himself during a football game and a young lady who graduated from painkiller addiction to heroin addiction; at one point she chillingly looks through her high school year book and points at numerous former school friends who now take heroin. Gateway to Heroin is a follow up to the documentary The Oxycontin Express which looked at the hub of black market Oxycontin distribution in Florida. The filmmaker also meets with law enforcement agents who state that heroin is in fashion with 18 to 25 year old’s in the city and one officer states that he hasn’t met a heroin addict under 30 who didn’t start on Oxycontin. An alarming number of Oxycontin users graduate to heroin when they find themselves unable to source Oxycontin tablets, especially as heroin is more readily available and cheaper. Video info: Frame Width: 624p Frame Height: 352p About Vanguard: Vanguard is a television documentary series broadcast on the Current TV television network that reports on such issues as the environment, drugs and the effects of globalization and conflict. The focus of most Vanguard episodes is to explore and immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show’s correspondents conduct interviews with affected peoples and the regions involved usually being led by a guide and translator who facilitates access. Since Vanguard's subject matter often involves exposés about organized crime, drug trafficking and armed revolts, the correspondents can face significant danger because of their reporting due to unstable political or security situations. Vanguard is notable for its presentation of criminals as unscrupulous. Police activity is presented in a sympathetic manner. Related Torrents
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