Chasing Heroin

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline program Chasing Heroin, broadcast February 23rd on PBS,
0:07.0	and available to view anytime at pbs.org slash frontline.
0:21.0	Tonight on Frontline, it was like a wave of heroin, a two-hour special report.
0:26.0	I lost it all and it really didn't matter to me as long as I could get high.
0:31.0	Inside an epidemic, the radical new approach, it's not all seen as a criminal justice problem,
0:38.0	or to be seen as a public health issue, or police and social workers on the ground.
0:42.0	People are going to use drugs that make it safe for them until they're ready to do something different.
0:48.0	The personal battles.
0:50.0	She's clean for a while, but this is the thing about treatment.
0:53.0	It's not a magic bullet.
0:55.0	And the new face of addiction.
0:58.0	I will not let this go.
1:00.0	Frontline investigates this very different war on drugs.
1:03.0	What can we do differently from sending people to jail?
1:06.0	And if it's working.
1:08.0	You're left with the most fundamental question, where do you send your kid for treatment?
1:14.0	Tonight on Frontline, Chasing Heroin.
1:18.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:27.0	Thank you.
1:28.0	And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:31.0	Major support for Frontline is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
1:36.0	committed to building a more just, vertent, and peaceful world.
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