1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 The End 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Youth is a happy time and a carefree time. A time of auto rides and double dates. 3 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 It's a time of fun, of pranks and jokes, of ice cream cones and chocolate sodas. 4 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Youth is a time for getting a job, for finding one's place in the world. 5 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:10,000 But sometimes in these troubled days the very thoughtlessness of youth has led to a livi... 6 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Addiction to drugs, too often acquired with tragic carelessness, may take control of a... 7 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:32,000 To these addicts, life's only work is to find money for drugs. In their desperation, no... 8 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Their only goal in life is to keep the deadening chemicals forever in their heart... 9 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:54,000 The cause of this living dead is a white powder. Innocent looking, but deadly. 10 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Once this was a poppy growing in Italy or Turkey or some other hot land. 11 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000 The dried juice of this plant produces opium, a powerful drug. 12 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Contained in opium is morphine, used by doctors to relieve severe pain. 13 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:23,000 From morphine comes heroin, outlawed even medically from the United States. 14 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 These and other derivatives form the group of drugs called opiate. 15 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Opiates are classed as depressants. 16 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 An overdose causes unconsciousness, then death. 17 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:47,000 A smaller dose taken into the bloodstream inhibits all the functions of the body by ... 18 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 But the body gradually builds up a tolerance to the drug. 19 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 More and more is needed to produce the same effect. 20 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 After continued use, the body acquires a physical dependence on opiates. 21 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:08,000 So that withdrawal of the drug causes a brief but violent illness, until the body can ma... 22 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Another depressant is marijuana, derived from the hemp plant. 23 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:22,000 It inhibits and distorts the action of the brain and nervous system in a manner somew... 24 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:28,000 A third drug, cocaine, is derived from the leaves of the coca plant. 25 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Its action is different from that of the depressants. 26 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:41,000 When cocaine enters the body, it has a strong effect on body functions by acting as an a... 27 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Cocaine causes unusual and often unpredictable feelings and actions. 28 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Instead of physical dependence, marijuana and cocaine cause profound mental and emotiona... 29 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:05,000 A large overdose of cocaine causes convulsions, then death. 30 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Government agencies charged with the enforcement of narcotics laws have been ab... 31 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 These addicts have included persons in every walk of life. 32 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Some are petty criminals who will remain drug addicts all their lives. 33 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Many addicts come from teeming slum areas, where human misery runs high. 34 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:38,000 But the grim spectres of heroin, marijuana, and cocaine are not confined to any area o... 35 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Wherever there is a troubled personality, no matter how hidden or unrecognized, there m... 36 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:58,000 So unpredictable is this habit that occasionally even one who knows the danger... 37 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Sometimes the addict may come from a wealthy family, where drugs respect neither riches... 38 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Such a victim doesn't have to steal to support his expensive habit, but the... 39 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:21,000 In recent years, there has been a shocking increase in drug addiction among young... 40 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:29,000 who take up the habit without the slightest understanding of the living nightmare they... 41 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:37,000 To get the illegal drugs, they are forced to deal with criminals who prey on those leas... 42 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,000 And to find money for their expensive habit, they often turn to crime themselves. 43 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 There's a chemical lab report on it. It's heroin. 44 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 What do you have to say, Demolon? Let's see your arms. 45 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 How long have you been taking heroin? 46 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Well, I... 47 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Speak up. 48 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 About two years, I guess. 49 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 What about before then? 50 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Well, I smoked marijuana for a while. 51 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,000 How long? 52 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Four or five months, I guess. 53 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 How did you get started on this? 54 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Well, I don't know. A friend of mine, he started me. 55 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Started by a friend. An oft-told story. For drug addiction is contagious. One addict c... 56 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Marty's story is like many of the others. It started two years ago with marijuana... 57 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Come on, it's my turn next. 58 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Gee, Duke, where'd you get them? 59 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 I, uh, I know a guy. 60 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Three for a buck. Let me try. 61 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Gee, I feel awful funny. 62 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Me too. 63 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 I feel kind of sick. 64 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Come on, Marty, pass it on. 65 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Marty got kind of sick too, but he wouldn't let on. He was determined to be one of the... 66 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 And it almost did. 67 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Several weeks later, after smoking reefers, Marty's befogged brain hit on a clever way... 68 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Later, Stan went to the hospital for swallowing broken glass. 69 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Marty badly cut the inside of his mouth, though he didn't even know it at the time. 70 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Duke was the one who got Marty on the habit. It was just a business matter to Duke, tho... 71 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Hey, Marty. Here. Okay, here. What's that? 72 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 H. 73 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 H? What's H? 74 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 That's a lot. It's heroin. 75 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Will it make me sick like the reefers did? Then go on and try it. 76 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I dare you. 77 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 How much does it cost? 78 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 This one ain't gonna cost you nothing. It's free. 79 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Go on. 80 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I dare you. 81 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:06,000 In his ignorance, Marty took that dare, little knowing the eventual horror that la... 82 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Those first capsules were free. But when Marty started asking for them, the price c... 83 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 That's right, kid. Fifteen bucks. 84 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 This ought to hold me for a while. I hucked my camera to get this, though. 85 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Where's my cup? 86 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,000 You don't get one. This kid's hooked. Go on, get some new kids if you want a cut. 87 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 He's still snorting it. 88 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 So what? Snorting our main line? What's the difference? He's hooked. 89 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Look, Louis, I gotta have my cup. It's costing me more than ever now that I'm on... 90 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 That's your problem, kid. 91 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 So, you're snorting it, huh? 92 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Yeah. 93 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Well, don't be a sucker. You're wasting it that way. 94 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 You're going to need it. Is that what you do, Louis? 95 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Listen, kid, I ain't on the stuff. 96 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 You'll never think I am. 97 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Yeah, sure. Like I'm doing it, see? The main line in it. 98 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Don't it hurt? 99 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Yeah, sure, some. I guess that vein will give up someday. But the stuff costs too much t... 100 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 That's right, kid. You ought to go on the needle. 101 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Nah, I don't want to punch myself full of holes like that. 102 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But he did use the needle, despite his fear of it. At first he shot the drug under his... 103 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,000 As his body gradually built up a tolerance, he needed more and more of the drug. 104 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,000 There was no pleasure in it for Marty. It was a bodily demand. 105 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:38,000 He was using four or five caps a day now. They cost him seven and a half dollars,... 106 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 It was more than his salary at the store could pay for. 107 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 But he was wrong. 108 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Barston didn't prosecute, but Marty no longer had a job. 109 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Drugs were becoming Marty's whole life. 110 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:07,000 He was abnormally sleepy, losing weight, cross, irritable, fearful that the punctur... 111 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,000 His former friends now let him strictly alone. 112 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,000 But with a false sense of loyalty, they didn't report him to the authorities. 113 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 They would have done him a favor if they had. 114 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,000 The only associates left for Marty were other drug addicts like Duke. 115 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,000 It didn't matter. Nothing mattered but the ever-present craving for the drugs. 116 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 He had given up interest in everything else. 117 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Marty's family saw all of these symptoms and others too, but didn't understand them. 118 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Often in the morning his pillow would be wet from perspiration. 119 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 His mother knew something was wrong. 120 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Something. 121 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Marty, have you seen the pinking shears I bought last week? 122 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Can't seem to find them anywhere. 123 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 How should I know, ma? 124 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Marty, you don't seem right, son. I'm worried about you. 125 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I'm all right, ma. Just leave me alone. 126 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,000 There's something wrong. I'm going to take you down to Dr. Bleeker's this afternoon f... 127 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 No. No, I'm all right. 128 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Well, you don't act like it, son. I don't know what it could be. 129 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Ever since you lost that job at Mr. Boston. I don't know. 130 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 I'm all right, ma. I'll snap out of it. 131 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,000 I hope so. You've lost weight. You don't have dates. 132 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 You don't go out with the fellas anymore like you used to. 133 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 There's something wrong. I know there must be. 134 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Well, boys go through all kinds of stages. 135 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Dr. Bleeker can tell us if there's anything wrong. 136 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 I hope it isn't anything serious. 137 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Marty! Marty! 138 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Marty was hooked. Physically dependent on heroin. 139 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 When he was with eye powder too long, his whole body revolted in dreadful protest. 140 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Sweat poured from him. He got the shakes. He had cold chills. 141 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 His nose ran and his eyes ran. 142 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:21,000 He was doubled up by piercing cramps, plagued by sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhea. 143 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Nothing could stop these attacks, but more of the white drug in his veins. 144 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 All right, Ken. I don't want you hanging around here. 145 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Okay, okay. Give me a chance. 146 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Heading up top, huh? 147 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I'm in the business. 148 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Okay? That's the way you feel about it? 149 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 I was just trying to help you out, that's all. 150 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Yeah, you wouldn't help your mother out of a rat hole. 151 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 How would you like to make a fast couple of bucks? 152 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 To a what? 153 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Oh, it's easy. Nothing to it. I could use some new customers. 154 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Customers? You mean suckers. I'll give you the same cut I gave Duke. 155 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 What happened to him? 156 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Oh, he's brought in everybody he knows. 157 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I can't find out. 158 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Well, I could use a dough at that. 159 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Fine. Set them on on reapers. It's easier that way, and it's cheaper. 160 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Yeah, that's the way I started. You got them? 161 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Sure. For you, two bits apiece. 162 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Well, give me two for now. That's all the dough I got, right now. 163 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,000 So Marty went out to spread his contagion. And Louie? 164 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Well, it was just business to him. 165 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,000 The capsules of heroin so necessary to Marty were only so much stock to Louie. 166 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:43,000 That stock had reached him through a series of well-organized underworld transactions. 167 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Some months back, smuggled ashore in a box of fresh caught fish were a number of small... 168 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Originally bought for $1,000, it was resold after being smuggled into this country for... 169 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:09,000 It was mixed with a similar-looking white powder, milk sugar, and sold again for... 170 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:15,000 These were big business transactions possible only by organized criminal syndicates. 171 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Many believe such syndicates, in a cold-blooded scheme to create a market for... 172 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:37,000 By the time Louie Legte got it, the heroin had been cut many times, passed through ma... 173 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 There was less than 3% heroin in those capsules. 174 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:46,000 The underworld made more than a quarter of a million dollars on the original $1,000... 175 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Big stakes, worth taking a few chances for, especially when Pusher Louie would take th... 176 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:01,000 But even Louie wasn't taking much of a chance. He had junkies, dope addicts, work... 177 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Marty had to keep going somehow to bring in the daily flow of money necessary to keep ... 178 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:19,000 When there were no new customers for Louie, Marty worked at any job he could find. 179 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:28,000 But the jobs didn't last long. Often he had to turn to petty thieving and shoplifting ... 180 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Before long, he became fairly well known to the police. 181 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Mrs. Demiloff, do you have anything to say? 182 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Yes, Judge. Marty, he isn't a bad boy. I wish you could have seen him before he started... 183 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:54,000 He always made good grades at school. He was doing so well at Mr. Barson's grocery. 184 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Judge, he's a good boy. 185 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:03,000 I understand. Demiloff, I believe you acquired the drug habit through ignorance. 186 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:09,000 If you knew then what you know now, you probably never would have touched that fir... 187 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Well, there's no way of undoing it now. I'm going to sentence you to one year in the... 188 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:24,000 However, I'll suspend sentence if you're willing to be committed to a hospital for ... 189 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 You mean to try to kick the habit? 190 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:33,000 That's right. They know how to get you over the physical dependence with the least amo... 191 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Do you agree? 192 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Yes, sir. 193 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 All right. So ordered. Next case. 194 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:51,000 For those already addicted to drugs, the first step in rehabilitation must be... 195 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,000 For the addict willing to be committed or sent by the courts, there are federally... 196 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Adequate local hospitals would help to cope with this problem. 197 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:07,000 The treatment itself lasts for months, but withdrawing the drug... 198 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:15,000 The major problem is helping the addict achieve a workable psychological adjustmen... 199 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:24,000 It's a difficult procedure. No hospital, no doctor can be sure of success in trying to... 200 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Back in his old haunts, the former addict still finds himself shunned by all but the... 201 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:43,000 For effective treatment, there must be a long term, community wide program to help the... 202 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Be it, Duke. I want no part of you. 203 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Don't be a square. What's it getting you? 204 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,000 I don't know yet, Duke. I took plenty to kick the habit. It's my chance and I'm taking it. 205 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Your chance? You ain't got no chance. They're just a junkie to everybody around here. 206 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:02,000 I know, I know. But they helped me get a job in here. And they went to see Ma. And the ... 207 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Doc says? What does he know? Listen, I'm telling you... 208 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 No, cut it. 209 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Against such pressures, local outpatient clinics, social agencies, the church, all ... 210 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Without intensive effort by all community forces, very few drug addicts can ever exp... 211 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:35,000 It is important in the overall problem of drug addiction to do everything possible t... 212 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:43,000 One step would be to increase the staff of enforcement agencies, not only federal, bu... 213 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Criminal syndicates might give up drug traffic entirely if nationwide laws provid... 214 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Certainly such laws would restrict the actions of non-addict peddlers like Louis... 215 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Basic to everything else is a wider knowledge, especially among young people, ... 216 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:30,000 They should understand the thoughtless curiosity about what it feels like to smok... 217 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Much can be done to stamp out his victims if each person who knows of a drug peddler or... 218 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:54,000 For every person must take some of the responsibility for preventing the growth o... 219 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,000 He must face the possibility that he himself may be a potential drug addict. 220 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Only by avoiding these drugs completely can he be sure that he will remain forever saf...