Breathtaking drug tale

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2010)

This is an astoundingly truthful and honest depiction of drug use and abuse; and the way society deals with it. Still (unfortunately) relevant today and I fear will still be relevant in the future. It a beautiful story of addiction in all its forms woven around a story of precarious triumph; where easy gains from illegal drugs (made profitable merely by the virtue of being prohibited) can turn into an easy descent when that scarce commodity becomes scarcer. And when almost all seems lost, it shows an unsympathetic society can go further and take the rest. A damning indictment of a society that would rather fund incarceration than treatment (money well spent the sanctimonious may cry). Even the unwary and innocent are not spared as they are sucked too into the same vortex of self-abuse and addiction, only to be abused more by the cack-handed therapy of the day. A symphony of human misery. A masterpiece.