This film from 1971 is a Sid Davis Film in the series of educational films “Learn Your Lessons from Sid Davis”. This film titled “Users-Losers” shows newly transferred eighth-grader David, who makes friends with Henry and his older brother, drug dealer Mitch. David is lured to try drugs and ends up stealing from his mother to afford his new habit. One day he and Henry discover a girl dead from an overdose. He learns about the dangers of drugs, only to discover his younger brother is using drugs.

A school bell rings and students rush inside a junior high school (00:08). Views of a student, Barry’s, home and his younger brother, Eddie, and his mother (00:47). David and his new friend Henry eat lunch (01:13). Henry’s older brother and his girlfriend Karen pass by (01:23). David and Henry and other students are sitting together outside of school smoking marijuana (01:39). David declines the offer to smoke (01:57). Henry pressures David (02:05) and David caves (02:14). Students play in the school yard (02:27). Henry leads David to a secluded location (02:50). Henry reveals a hidden pill stash (03:11). Henry’s older brother, drug dealer Mitch, and Karen arrive (03:19). David takes one pill (03:34). He swallows it (03:45). David and Henry meet Mitch at a party on a hotel roof (03:52). A juice vending machine (04:35). David leaves the vending machine without buying a drink to save money (04:43). David steals coins from his mother’s purse (04:59). David meets Henry (05:13). They arrive at a small house and hide as kids run out from the building (05:40). They enter the house (06:13) and discover Karen dead on the floor (06:31). They leave (06:47). Views of the school yard (06:52). David stands alone (07:00). Henry arrives (07:10). A police car arrives at the school (07:28). Henry runs (07:35). A police officer enters the school (07:39). David watches another officer speaks to students (07:45). Mitch is arrested by the police (07:55). Students walking on the school’s halls (08:24). David throws a paper plane (08:35). It lands in the lap of a guy sitting and reading (08:38). The guy throws it back (08:41). They start talking (08:46). David sits down next to him (08:50). The paper plane is made from a narcotics information flyer, and they start conversing about drugs (08:57). They start walking together (09:23). Marijuana is explained (10:41). A group of students smoke marijuana (10:31). They watch a boy riding a bike (10:58). They continue passing a joint around (11:12). The boy riding the bike is nearly hit by a car (11:15). David’s mother attends to David (11:28). Articles about marijuana (11:42). Students walking around (11:55). A pharmacy (12:16). The pharmacist hands a customer her prescription medicine (12:27). Mitch sells drugs in the school’s bathroom (12:37). The categories of pills and caps are explained; amphetamines and barbiturates (12:47). Methamphetamine in pill and powder form (13:10). A doctor’s office and a patient (13:18). Two boys start fighting in the street (13:26). A hospital (13:33). Barbiturate pills (13:37). Emergency entrance (13:54). David continues walking with the guy he met previously (14:09). LSD in tablet, powder, and liquid form (14:30). Youngsters are sitting in a room on an LSD trip (14:40). A heroin user (15:07). Two guys are talking (15:17). One buys drugs (15:35). A police car arrives at a police station with boys, who’ve been arrested (15:38). Mitch runs from the house where Karen died (16:04). Mitch and Henry (16:23). A police officer handing informational flyers to students (16:32). Views drugs users sitting on a hotel roof (16:39). David and the guy are sitting on the school’s stadium’s tribunes (17:04). Environmental pollution and drug pollution are compared (17:31). A group of kids at a construction site smoking marijuana (17:58). The guy hands David the narcotics flyer (19:03). David picks up his brother, Eddie from school (19:15). He asks other students where to find Eddie (19:19). David visits the construction site (19:35). He discovers his brother using drugs (19:48). Flashing shots of Eddie’s possible future life as an abuser (19:58). Eddie and David leave together (20:11). The End.

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