In the complex society we live in today, more and more people find the need to interfere with their emotions and mental states for a number of reasons. Most likely, the person takes a substance that alters his consciousness and thereby interfering with the mood, thought processes, their perceptions and behavior.. The paper is based on a 1995 film “Basketball Diaries” which follows the life of Jim Carroll, a talented high school basketball player whose life is free-falling into the pit of Heroin addiction. A combination of frustrations ranging from his sick friend, being thrown out of the team and dropping from school sees him end up in the streets of New York. There he deals drugs, robs stores, betrays friends and play tricks all in a bid to feed his heroine addiction. Jim started doing drugs at a tender age and after sometime it became an addiction. As a result of his usage of drugs, Jim displays signs of drowsiness and his mouth is dry most of the time. His addiction problem causes him to enter a dependant stage where before playing basketball he must take a dose of heroin. His mental functioning capabilities are displayed as not being able to think straight and make clear judgments as evidenced by his declining skills in playing basketball. This is a result of crowded thoughts from the use of drugs as indicated by Jeffery (2007).When in the team, Jim comes out as aggressive and rushes during the matches which cause constant collusion with others. The film “Basketball diaries” is set in high school environment in the city of New York where Jim and his friends are in the school’s basketball team are arguably the best team in the city. Jim and his friends are hooked to heroin while a friend of theirs is hospitalized with leukemia. The situation is worsened when their basketball coach runs into Jim and his colleagues in the court doing drugs, a predicament that sees them thrown out of the team and out of school and they end up in the streets. There Jim struggles with his heroin addiction and also experiments with sex. Reggie, a former heroin addict who has since reformed, bumps into Jim’s life in the height of his frustrations and makes guides him in attempt to fight his heroine addiction. In the film and the society Jim is living in, the use of heroine is a common thing with the youths. The order of the day in the streets is either making money by peddling heroine or buying the drug to be considered ‘cool’ among peers. Socializing among the youths in the society Jim lives in revolves around abusing heroin as shown by the way Jim and his friends meet and the only thing that keeps them busy and brings a feeling of commonness among them is engaging in the abuse of heroin. Nikki (2008) in her book says that night clubs which are normally places where people meet to have fun and which according to Jim and his peers, visiting them is the ultimate show of the height of enjoyment, are marred with massive use of heroine thereby signifying the degree accorded the drugs as a source of fun. Rich people on the streets are also the drug lords. A combination of these factors contributes to the eventual addiction to heroine among Jim and his basketball colleagues. Growing up in a school which has a strong linkage to the catholic doctrines, Jim a