nineteen fifty one not just think about it not the sixty's but from nineteen fifty one post world war two and just barely so and this is considered this second wave of anti drug films there was a real good group of first wave drug films in the late thirty's and forty's of me i saw them are just amazing but anyway this is the second wave where it's not so glamorous as it was back then and it was the second wave of drug films were about the slippery slope you know if you start with marijuana as the film you're about to see will tell you directly it creates mental disturbances in your brain which will lead you to the big h heroin yeah slippery slope second wave drug anti drug films we laugh at it today i mean a slippery slope i mean what you might but you might just want to say hey chewing gum you know and that becomes a habit and then that leads to marijuana and then that leads to her when i mean you could go anywhere with a slippery slope right anywhere in the film we have our protagonist is by the name of marty and marty experiments with marijuana and discovers that slippery slope which takes him down a path nobody wants to go on the heroin yeah and it's kind of interesting because it presents the heroin  or the heroin as an urban problem not a suburban problem if you're going to see here you know stereotypical kind of stuff it's like poor folk black folk back kind of thing you know they're the ones it doesn't it doesn't take a look at the or the upper middle class or even the middle class really as being a source of origin by the anyway i think you are going to enjoy this film just strictly for them this thousand just say it's a good laugh oh and by the way the film is made by the encyclopedia brittanica remember them before we keep pedia you don't hear too much about them anymore post we keep pedia but yeah they used to have some really  good films and in one nine hundred fifty one i got to tell you this was the this was the thinking it really was it's not like they were trying to pull anything off on the public this really was how people thought about marijuana that was part of a acquired with tragic carelessness may take control of a life and force actions  because of the living dead is a white powder innocent looking but that one thought this was a poppy growing in pettily or turkey or some other the drive to submit a plan produces opium a powerful drug contained in opium is morphine used by doctors to relieve the fear paid an overdose causes unconsciousness then dead a smaller dose taken into the bloodstream can hit all the functions of the body by an action on the brain and the central nervous system of the body gradually build up a tolerance to the drug more and more is needed to produce the same effect that the continued use of the body of wired up physical dependence on opiates so that withdrawal of the drug causes a manner somewhat different from opiate the third drug cocaine is derived from the leaves of a coca plant if the action is different from that of the depressant when cocaine instead of physical dependence marijuana and cocaine cause profound mental and emotional disturb criminals who will remain drug addict all their life many addicts come from teeming slum areas where human misery runs high but the grim effect is of heroin marijuana and cocaine not confined to any area or to any group wherever there is a problem personality no matter how hidden or unrecognized there may be a feed bad board drug at the key so unpredictable is the habit that occasionally even one who knows the dangers may become addicted before he realizes that in recent years there's been a shocking increase in drug addiction among young people often in their teens who take up a habit without the slightest understanding of the living nightmare they are so unthinkingly walking  get the illegal drugs they are forced to deal with criminals who prey on those least able to defend themselves and to find money for their expensive habit they often turn to crime themselves how did you get started on this i don't know friend of mine he died of me started by a friend and often told story for drug addiction is contagious one addict can make drive five can make twenty five marty's story is like many of the others it started two years ago with marijuana cigarettes come on it's my turn to do what i could get him i hear i know a pentagon marty got kind of sick too but he wouldn't let on he was determined to be one of the gang if it killed him and it almost did several weeks later to smoking of like that but he did use the needle despite his fear of it pretty tough the drug under his skin and then directly into the bay and his body gradually built up a tolerance was more than his salary at the store could pay for  but he was wrong martin didn't prosecute but marty no longer had a job drugs were becoming marty's whole life he was abnormally sleepy losing weight cros irritable fearful that the puncture marks on his arms would be discovering his former friend now let him strictly alone but with a bald sense of loyalty they didn't report him to the authorities they would have done him a favor  they had the only associates left from my they were other drug addicts like do it didn't matter nothing mattered but the ever present craving for the drug he had given up interest in everything else marty families all of these symptoms and others too but didn't understand that often in the morning his pillow would be wet from perspiration his mother knew something was wrong something to spread his contagion and louis well it was death business to him the capsules of heroin so necessary to marty were only so much stock to louis that docket reached him through a series of well organized underworld transactions some months back smuggled ashore in a box the pressure caught big were a number of small tubes of pure heroin a kilogram in all a little more than two pound originally bought for one thousand dollars it would resold after being smuggled into the country forty seven thousand dollars it was mixed with a similar looking white powder sugar and sold again for thirty thousand dollars these were big business transactions possible only by organized criminal syndicates many believe that syndicate in a cold blooded scheme to create a market for their drugs are directly responsible for the sudden growth of drug addicts and among in those camps the underworld made more than a quarter of a million dollars on the original one thousand dollars and but big day worth taking a few chances for especially when put to louis would take the rap but even a job that didn't last long and they had to turn to petty thieving and shoplifting to get the money he so desperately needed before long he became fairly well known to the police either the moment you have anything to say i understand that alone i believe you have part of the drug habit through ignorance if you knew then what you know now you probably never would have noticed that first marijuana cigarette well there's no way i'm doing it now and i'm going to how to get you over the physical dependence with the least amount of withdrawal to do you agree they're all right so aren't good for those already addicted to drugs the first step in rehabilitation must be commitment to a hospital where they will be under medical guidance for the addict willing to be committed or sent by the courts there are federally operated hospitals adequate local hospitals would help to cope with this problem the treatment itself lasts for a month but withdrawing the drug to make your problem i helping the addict to be a workable psychological it doesn't want to live a life which doesn't include drugs it's a difficult procedure no hospital no doctor can be sure of success in trying to take a long time at back in is old on the former addict still finds himself done by all but the attic and peddlers who are as associates before or effective treatment there must be a long term community wide program to help everybody around here i know i know but they helped me get a job in here and they went to see ma and the doctor said that if i did what is this and i'm tellin ya i can against such pressures local outpatient clinics social agencies the cure all are needed to get drug addicts out to adjust to a new life without intensive effort by all community forces very few drug addicts can ever expect to return to a normal  life and society it is important in the overall problem of drug addiction to do everything possible to stop the sale of the drug one step would be to increase the staff of enforcement agencies not only federal but state and municipal agencies to criminal syndicates might give up drug traffic entirely if nationwide laws provided for penalties to counteract the tremendous profits and if the laws were energetically enforced certainly such laws would restrict the actions of non addict peddlers like louis like to make it harder for him to reach his victims basically everything else it's a wider knowledge especially among young people of the great danger involved in any kind of experimentation with drugs they should understand but stop little curiosity about what it feels like to smoke marijuana or take a shot of heroin can lead to a lifetime for every person must take some of the responsibility for preventing the growth of the drug addict he must face the possibility that he himself may be a potential drug addict only by avoiding these drugs completely he be sure that he will remain forever safe from a vicious habit which enslaves not only one's body but the soul as well