Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream – This gritty emotionally charged film is set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr., the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a hypnotic tale of four human bein.
New clinics open for heroin users
The methadone treatment programme, launched in HCM City and northern Hai Phong City in 2008, has been expanded to 20 cities and provinces nationwide, with 60 clinics offering maintenance therapy to nearly 13,000 addicts, Long told a conference held …
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Russell Brand's Insight Into Heroin
Russell Brand, the notorious actor and comedian, recently published an article that gives the most penetrating insight into the struggles of a heroin addict that I have ever read. "The last time I thought about taking heroin was yesterday" writes the …
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One Year Later: Why I Still Write on Addiction in the Bronx
Why post stories of addiction and personal travails on Scientific American? It's cursory to scientifically recognize heroin as a depressant and crack as a stimulant, far deeper to see the sensitivity and empathy in heroin addicts, the edginess in crack …
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