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2009 CBI National Student Production Awards Winner: Best Student Documentary Producers: Harry Fleckenstein, Missy Stankowski Director: Steven Klink Editor: Tim Hill Camera/Audio: Anthony Mennie, Michael Gorczynski For a FREE DVD copy of this movie please visit the Rowan University Center for Addiction Study website at www. rowan. edu or call 856-863-2175 This documentary tells the story four people and their struggles with prescription drug abuse and also of one woman overcoming the death of her mother, who passed away from the disease of addiction from an overdose. This film delves into the characters introduction to the drugs, their downfall from addiction into their rock bottom, and leading into their hope for freedom from active addiction touching on their recovery process. Lisa is a beautiful woman who grew up in a good family. During college she had many injuries due to sports and was introduced to Oxycontin. After taking prescription medication, she was thrown into a world she had no control over. In the end of her addiction, she ended up homeless with her children taken away from her. Today almost 3 years clean, she shares her story of recovery. Rodney is an African-American gay man who grew up in the ghetto. He was introduced to drugs and when we tried Percocet, he was off to the races. Through the world of drugs and the lifestyle that comes with it, he now lives with AIDS. At his darkest hour he found himself living in abandoned houses. Today he has been clean and . . .
How “Pot” (that’s jive talk for marijuana) leads to a hideous “H” (HEROIN) Habit. A Judge can’t understand why so many youths are marijuana addicts, so he decides to investigate. He visits Phyllis, a high school senior and former marijuana junkie, who tells him about the horrible effects marijuana has had on her. It made her feel like she was speeding “100 miles an hour!” and she therefore became a heroin user. She managed to overcome her addiction to marijuana and heroin, but in the process ruined her hair. This leads the judge to the logical conclusion that the drug problem in the US was introduced by the godless Red Communists in an effort to “undermine morale” and that the way to stop the drug epidemic was to “use common sense” (an earlier version, apparently, of the Reagan-era “Just Say No!” campaign, and which had pretty much the same effect–ie, none).
Meredith Baxter will always be the Queen of TV movies, and this 1993 movie is one of her all-time best! This video shows highlights from the first half of the movie. Based on a true story, this movie has Meredith as a drug addicted nurse who steals drugs from the hospital she works at. She is married to another addict, and they have a daughter. Meredith learns she’s pregnant again, and when the baby is born an addict, Meredith’s character decides to give drugs to her newborn baby.
