Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 10.03 EST
While films such as Traffic and Sicario focused on the supply side of the US war on drugs, John Swabâs third feature takes on the demand part of the equation. An expletive-spattered prologue fills us in on how the Obamacare actâs obligation for healthcare-providers to cover drug-abuse treatment created a market for recovery facilities worth $12bn a year in southern California alone. Swab then zeroes in on pasty Ohio junkie Utah (Jack Kilmer), plucked from heroin deadendsville and offered free rehab on the west coast by Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams), a broker acting on behalf of treatment centres to find addicts whose stay will be funded by insurance companies.