at the bruce steele this show is more public domain good ness yes and today we're going to take a look at two films about eighteen years apart having to do with drugs we've been doing a drug marathon here recently on steal the show the first one nineteen fifty one called the terrible truth and the second from nineteen sixty nine called drug abuse like the attitudes about drugs and drug addiction and marijuana and other kinds of things back in the day but it's interesting because this is like an eighteen year difference between the two film to anyone who'd ever tony a few years ago that we would never read headlines like he used in american newspapers i would have carlene crazy yet here we are reading them in the middle of the twentieth century in the united states of america hundreds and hundreds of peanuts boys and girls are becoming hopeless don't bad example you're it's fantastic it's unbelievable and terrible but it's true the government maintains two hospitals just to treat drug addicts at lexington kentucky and fort worth texas it used to be a rare thing for a juvenile to be admitted but look at these recent figures and remember these are only confirmed addicts who have come to the attention of federal authorities how many others are still only occasional users of marijuana or heroin martijn or in some cases sleeping pills it's pretty hard to estimate but there's one sure thing nobody is going to stay and occasional use or very long this is one game nobody beats if you use narcotics before long you'll have the habit about the hardest in the world to break and that dope addicts say well how does one become whole the simplest way to answer that is to talk to someone who has had the experience this is the home of mr and mrs walker howard they just got their teenage daughter back after a six month nightmare that even edgar allan poe couldn't have improved on this is hard agrees to let us talk to her daughter phyllis when we explained that we could use her case to help others avoid the same mistake that she looked six months ago a senior in high school thirty years of picked just recently she was released from the narcotic ward of the county jail in the custody of her parents it's hard to believe that this girl is the same as the one in the picture but it doesn't take long for the drug habit to make anyone over zealous wasn't anxious to talk about her experiences with go but she could see how her story might be used to help others and she began to talk as my girlfriend and i went around with jim and bo they both smoked pot that's just talk for marijuana and after a while and i got so that we did  but i didn't feel so good when i came home high that night my dad knew something was wrong but he didn't know what mother was sure her daughter would never do anything bad had been smoking pot for quite a while before i met  just just because they'd talk funny talk me and you hear he said it would make him feel better so i tried but i was going to be smart just take it or leave nothing was going to happen to me but before i knew it i was hooked bad i had a heroin habit is the biggest joke oben home in weeks chuck and i were married but it didn't matter very much but it didn't matter nothing good except all of a sudden hit if check upon the cops coming he might have got rid of our supply didn't care whether i lived or died and i didn't know whether i'd ever get another cat in the meantime phyllis's parents had merely gone crazy they hadn't seen or heard from their daughter in months mr howard checked every newspaper story that might by any remote chance have to do with phyllis but gradually their hopes died they were almost convinced she was dead but i was indeed i tried once to kick off the habit but i was too far gone you know the police say find a heroin addict when you find a criminal not just about it if you're hooked that it cost about thirty dollars a day for paradox myself sure i knew it was wrong but when you're hooked you can't help yourself they got me eventually too just like a good teacher when i was arrested i was almost glad i told him i wanted can't bring your nose runs when you have a high fever and then you pass out when you wake up it's dark all over our day but i was lucky i kicked it off and i had never used up saying maybe what happened to me will keep it from happening to somebody else or i don't even want to talk about it and all i hope is that one day i can forget well let's phyllis's story in the united states of america twentieth century unbelievable isn't it that such things can happen phyllis's case is typical most teenagers start off with marijuana then they decide to see of heroin has any kick it does sometimes it only takes a few days to find out they can't leave it alone in order to get money to buy it they turn to crime and that's the story there are practically no happy endings when you're poor with drugs doctors say restoring an addict to normal life is about the puppet thing in medicine well what the in force meant yes that's one of them certainly in the par used a few years back they were lining up the peddlers and shooting them in the back of the head but it didn't stop but diction it just made it harder for victims to get the stuff  know the answer is a simple one just use your head leave narcotics absolutely alone remember what happened to phillips and others like a pocket over with your parents or a school counselor somebody you have confidence in some say the reds are promoting dope traffic in the united states to undermine national morale they didn't china a few years back it's certainly true that the increased use of narcotics plays right into their hands but why not show everybody including ourselves that young american men and women have too much intelligence to make such a stupid ghastly tragic mistake let's make tomorrow's headlines read like th this is the now generation they feel disenchanted with the world around them while they may for the most part be outside the mainstream of american life they are part of the wave of the webster defines the word now as meeting at the moment or at one seldom has a nation been able to witness such an explosion a new mass mind as it takes place today we are an older generation could learn about banking from their energy is known they play hard but they are also involved they are free thinking for the most part and not afraid to voice their criticisms but many more of them have simply dropped out they have made what they consider their own peace with america and are now involved in finding out who they are discovered the inner man cannot be minimized but a nation in turmoil needs the bigger the newness of a job this exploration this search for a new band as lead into a new and dangerous area the use of narcotics and hallucinogens the brain the body indeed the freedom to do can be so jeopardized hard drugs that new politics more realistic values and a meaningful less materialistic society may never have the opportunity of becoming a reality but turned on people who seem to set many of today's lifestyles are not the only one smoking gras are being exposed to drugs that many of them believe are without lasting busy illogical or mentally backwards on the contrary these substances are extremely dangerous this trend toward drug has alarmed  the placing of the psyche and at the moment these students are striving for something in time they may become total dropouts from a world that needs desperately what they can offer to try and cut through the un you propaganda on both sides of the drug dr john a borrowed medical director of narcotics education with the los angeles district attorney's you advisory council verified the extent of the drug problem and the term addiction well i think the use of the word addiction is definitely obsolete and it's been a very unfortunate thing that it is then used to try to define whether a drug is harmful or term we know that the drugs have to effect that cause dependency or the desire for the use of the drug and the most important one and the one that was not emphasized in the previous definition is the psychic dependence the dependence of the person from a mental point of view upon meeting or desiring the drug now there is also with some drugs physical dependence one important part of the drug problem is that so many substances are available or are being made available for you dr barros describe some of the major ones and their effects from the complete anaesthetics are the ones that will put you entirely to sleep we can go into the jackets so the two an all terrain bows and so forth these are all of course the barbiturate drugs that can be taken by mouth or some people prefer to take them out of the capsule and give themselves the drug intravenously other barbiturates has very severe problems with them for one thing they do produce tolerance to a certain degree and it is necessary to take more and more of the drug to produce the same effect however this tolerance is limited now under the effects of the drug there tends to be a distortion of time and of course the person is confused and the person may accidentally take more drugs than he had anticipated forgetting that he had just taken a dose a few minutes or in addition to this the barbiturates when withdrawn do produce a physical dependence or withdrawal type reaction and with the barbiturates is a marked tendency for the person to develop convulsions random all convulsions or seizures and unless these are controlled they can lead to the death of the individual after the depression and we come to the next major group of drugs which is the medicine for appetite control and in certain diseases in medicine we might give five to ten milligrams of dexedrine or benzedrine or the new drugs methamphetamine meth adrain which is known among drug users a speed as incredible as it may sound the person who is using this drug as a drug user will smack or main line that is take intravenously thousand milligram one hundred times the dose that any person would give and the medical use of this kind of drugs and the effect is overwhelming in this kind of dosage it causes a fantastic speeding up of the mind function so that the person suddenly feels a rush of tremendous numbers of ideas flashing through his mind as a matter of fact with hallucinogenic type overtones blood pressure may exceed three hundred millimeters of mercury and as you know normal blood pressure is perhaps one hundred ten or one hundred twenty millimeters at the same time his heart is beating at a fantastic rate maybe in excess of one hundred fifty b c and that normal being seventy two or so and he may develop a rhythm those of the heart that is the beat instead of being regular becomes highly irregular and there have been rare deaths reported from this as the drug begins to wear off there's a tremendous psychic reaction and they and over reaction so the person becomes markedly depressed to very depressed which in itself is enough reason for him to want to take more drugs or perhaps to take to ease this feeling of anxiety in depression or other drugs or back to meth or speed again this depression is so marked that the person may wish to and sometimes commit suicide sniffing which include gasoline ether paint thinners even sometimes the older and said the news they like all the other drugs produce a mind changing effect so that the person feels a feeling of euphoria and usual happiness a feeling of unreality these drugs have some severe physical effects if they are sniffed so that the actual materials used such as airplane can get into the nose or mouth that causes a real burning of the new this membrane and can cause rather severe damage and it is becoming overwhelmingly evident that an increasing number of children are showing up with brain damage and what we call chronic brain the a marijuana is not a separate thing this again is a drug just like l s d is a drug just like amphetamine as a drug produces the high of marijuana dr burroughs pointed out that a good deal of the confusion concerning the effects of this drug is due to its very low concentration in american marijuana or grass available i think it becomes obvious after having categorized all these drugs we now talk about all these different categories one thing keeps coming up all the time and that is the drug dependence mind changing  mind altering effect of all of these drugs the unfortunate person who gets started in this finds himself getting into an ever increasing abyss where he starts out with the idea have a kick around high and that'll do something for a while it's true these things do have a kicker obviously people will try them but the trouble is the person then gets involved in this vicious cycle the can become something that is not as good as he thought it was he finds by using his drugs that he has lost his capability to be responsible he's lost his ability to be a worthwhile successful student or successful individual so he starts to seek ways to help him and the only way he can seek since he's using the drug now to avoid the reality of his failures is to take more drugs and down and down he spends and he spends into a situation where he is virtually buried alive in a chemical this is the problem of drug dependency one of the most tragic things about all this far as teenagers are concerned is what this does to the teenager a teenager is a person who is finally grown up to the point that he can begin to struggle with making his own personal decision and he makes these decisions and finally learns how to do them and when he has gone through this decision making process he suddenly turns from a teenager too and that your adult one of the things that will stop it cold sooner than anything else is the taking of drugs because in taking the drugs the person is doing exactly the opposite of what he's trying to do as a teenager he is putting himself into a position where he cannot make this work he is only here responsible and capable of doing this and he is cutting his life well but there are other reasons not to smoke marijuana or to take dangerous drug w law banning the use sale cultivation and possession of dangerous drugs that have no useful place in medicine such as carolyn and marijuana is the gamble of drug exploration worth this is it worth a visit and mental risk as well the courts today are crowded with young offenders tragically many of them are from good homes they're well educated and have opportunities that are available in no other country in the world one immature and irresponsible action for whatever motivation can bring serious fine prison terms or both a criminal record is never an asset it can mean the end of a fine future the energy the attention the very ability to see what is and the ability to work for effective changes of any kind depends on clear and discipline mind those who take drugs to produce new wind sides or for self discovery or for a host of other romantic reasons find themselves snared and diluted illicit drugs are sold for a price the price of helplessness and suffering for the buyer or the greed and gain of the seller many of today's young people are meeting the challenges for them they are turning into a world that needs more the police they need the active cooperation and the involvement i mean like parents schools and community leaders but above all the need is for clear thinking young people who are the most involved and who have the most to lose communication has broken down between the younger and older generation it must somehow be reestablished at the same time it will be necessary for the young to communicate common sense one