Drug Addict

194834 minFilm: Fiction

PG

Direction: Robert Anderson

Production: Robert Anderson

Script: Robert Anderson

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare, Division of Narcotics Control, with the cooperation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

How drug traffic operates, how the drug addict is made, and how this grim social reality may be curbed. From the poppy blowing innocently in the wind to the relationship between addict and pusher, this film traces the strange progress of illicit narcotics. The story of a young first offender, who hears of the joys of addiction while in jail, shows how many people become chained to the habit, their only future a pattern of crime and jail. Different authorities offer different solutions to the complex drug problem--but all agree that for the sake of society, the problem must be solved.

Subject categories


  • Law and Crime > Drug Traffic and Substance Abuse
  • Social Issues > Substance Abuse
  • Media Education > Documentary Film
  • Health/Personal Development > Mental Health/Stress/SuicideSubstance Use and Abuse/Addiction

Credits


director
Robert Anderson
producer
Robert Anderson
script
Robert Anderson
camera
Jean-Marie Couture
editing
Victor Jobin
narrator
John Scott
music
Robert Fleming

Awards


  • First Award - jointly with Feeling of Hostility - Category: Non-theatrical (live-Action)Genie Awards