Drug Addiction B/W – 1950’s No Title… Addiction ???? heroin ??? story of marty, “opiates, marijuana, cocaine”,

This black & white educational film is about the perils of drugs. This is a 1951 film.

Opening credits but the title “DRUG ADDICTION” has been cut off (:07-:12). High schoolers walk towards and get into a car. The group gets some ice cream. A boy works his after school job, another youth steals an item and leaves. A black woman asks for change. A boy mugs a younger boy with a pipe and whacks him on the head. A boy sits strung out. Pills. A poppy seed plant diagram. From morphine comes heroin. Opiates are depressant drugs. A needle sticks drugs into a body, done animated. More drugs are needed as the body becomes more dependent. Marijuana plant. Cocaine comes from a plant as well. Cocaine is an irritant on the brain. Animation shows a confused, angry man on cocaine. Overdose on cocaine can lead to death (:13-3:49). Narcotics Bureau sign on a door. An addict is brought in to the police station. Slum area. An older man takes out a needle and some drugs. A man sells drugs to a rich boy. Drug dealer sells a teen some drugs. A boy shoplifts and runs down a street as a shop owner follows, he runs into a police officer and is caught. The police officer removes drug paraphernalia from the boy. His hand holds 6 pills (3:50-6:10). The boy is in court, its heroin. The judge asks to see the boys arms. The boy is a heroin addict. The boy, Marty, explains how he became an addict. A group of boys smoke marijuana and hang out. While on marijuana the boys smash glass soda bottles. One of the boys drinks it while it has broken glass in it and this sends him to the hospital. Another boy downs a broken soda. Marty cuts the inside of his mouth and laughs. Duke, the boy who got Marty addicted, introduces Marty to heroin. He hands him some heroin. The deadly white power. Heroin pills are sold to Marty (6:11-9:22). A drug dealer gets angry, he doesn’t do his stuff. Marty does heroin in a needle now. He exits the men’s room. Marty gets fired for stealing as his boss catches him stealing. Marty plays with a ball, he tries to talk to some girls who want nothing to do with him. Duke hangs out with Marty. The ball rolls into the gutter. Marty’s mom does his bed, she knows something is wrong. Marty and his mom talk as Marty eats, Marty leaves (9:23-12:27). Marty is in pain, he needs the drugs as he’s having withdrawals. The drug dealer gives Marty a deal and some heroin. The dealer wants Marty to sell. In a box of fresh fresh was a kilogram of heroin that was smuggled into this country. Two men smoke and mix the drug (12:28-15:16). The drug dealer cuts the drug, puts it in capsules. Marty hangs out and sells drugs to new people. Marty washes windows. Marty does petty shoplifting. Back in court, Marty’s mom gives her thoughts on how Marty was a good boy before drugs, she pleads with the judge. Marty gets one year in jail but is offered a suspended sentence if he’ll go to rehab. He agrees. Marty looks at his mom as he leaves for the hospital. Pamphlet on hospitals. Marty cuts crops with a machete (15:17-18:04). Marty plays checkers, baseball, sits and talks. Marty still finds himself shunned back home. He talks with Duke and won’t do drugs anymore. Duke is still an addict. Police look at drugs. Criminal syndicate mix the drugs. The drug dealer makes his pills. Happy students leave school. Duke talks to a younger student and offers drugs. Duke grabs the boy by the jacket, the boy pushes off, runs to police, and points him out as a dealer. Happy students wave and walk off (18:05-21:06). End credits (21:07-21:14).

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