“ DRUG ADDICTION “ CLASSIC 1951 DRUG USE SCARE FILM XD12644a

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black & white educational film is about the perils of drugs. This is a 1951 film. Opening credits but the title “DRUG ADDICTION“ has been cut off (:07-:12). High schoolers walk towards and get into a car. The group gets some ice cream. A boy works his after school job, another youth steals an item and leaves. A black woman asks for change. A boy mugs a younger boy with a pipe and whacks him on the head. A boy sits strung out. Pills. A poppy seed plant diagram. From morphine comes heroin. Opiates are depressant drugs. A needle sticks drugs into a body, done animated. More drugs are needed as the body becomes more dependent. Marijuana plant. Cocaine comes from a plant as well. Cocaine is an irritant on the brain. Animation shows a confused, angry man on cocaine. Overdose on cocaine can lead to death (:13-3:49). Narcotics Bureau sign on a door. An addict is brou