Teenage Heroin Epidemic
Teenage Heroin Epidemic – Swansea Love Story: An award-winning look at a generation lost to heroin, as told through the tragic love story of Amy and Cornelius. In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it’s visible on the city’s streets. Early one morning we meet a young, homeless couple named Amy and Cornelius in a city centre alley. As heroin-addicted alcoholics, they’re smack in the middle of two of South Wales’s most harrowing epidemics. Originally aired on VICE in 2010: www.vice.com Directed and produced by Andy Capper and Leo Leigh. Follow Andy at twitter.com Check out the World’s Scariest Drug: bit.ly Subscribe for videos that are actually good: bit.ly Check out our full video catalog: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: vice.com Like VICE on Facebook fb.com Follow VICE on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: vicemag.tumblr.com
VIDEO REPORT: The Heroin Cure
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Johnny Tabaie, a recovering addict, runs an ibogaine clinic in Baja California, Mexico. Tabaie, fed up with western medicine, received an ibogaine treatment in 2007. Sine then he claims he's helped almost 80 people kick their addiction to heroin and …
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Heroin Use Among Youth is a Growing Concern
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The powerful substance is readily available in our communities and more and more young people are becoming addicted to it. Heroin use is rising across North Central Wisconsin, and as we've recently seen in the heroin overdose of Kayla Vanderwyst, 20, …
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