Once a Junkie Horizon : Season 5 Episode 3
BBC Two 50m
Aired: September 26th, 1968 @ 9:00 PM EST on BBC Two
In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that our system only worked when we did not have a serious addiction problem. Now we do. Does our present system make it too easy for the casual drug experimenter to become a hard-core addict? Is there anything we can learn from the American situation?
