On cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on face book at cspanhistory. Each week, American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that brings you context for todays Public Affairs issues. According to the centers for Disease Control prescription killednd heroin 33,000 americans in 2015, more than any year on record. The report calls this an opioid overdose epidemic. Up next, subject, narcotics, and to do for Law Enforcement officials. The film uses a question and answer format you described the dangers of narcotics and heroin addiction. Is a symbol of narcotic addiction, poisoning the blood of our country. Is a symbol of narcotic addiction, poisoning the blood of our country. It occurs when the addict is deprived of his narcotic. Hes experiencing withdrawal system. And if he cant get his narcotic . He lives from fixed to fix, and if he is lucky, he dies early, maybe from an overdose, maybe from an infected needle. He lives from fix to fix. The addict must have his drug, and to get it, he must have money. That much money comes hard. And this girl . The same. Always the same. Vice feeds on vice. In the end, life has been a tortuous search on day today. From day to day. But cant we help them . We tried, but he is long past the point of no return. Then we will stop narcotics from entering the country. We will arrest the peddlers. We will educate our young people. We will put a stop to this. Yes, we will try. But if you want to defeat your enemy, you must first know him. This is a shooting gallery, a room where addicts come to inject their narcotics and must wait their turn to use the needle. Then all these people are addicts . Some are, some arent. All will be. For one, it may take five shots, for another, 50. But the narcotic will be master. What are these narcotics . Lets take it from a scientific viewpoint. There are three general classifications of narcotics as defined by law. The opiates, the synthetic drugs, and the cocainemarijuana group. The opiates, grown and processed almost exclusively in foreign countries, include opium, morphine, and heroine. The synthetic narcotics such as demerol and methadone is a result of sciences awesome attempt to produce a nonaddictive narcotic. Attempts have failed. All synthetic narcotics are addictive. Cocaine is derived from the peruvian coca plant. It is strongly addictive. Marijuana is easily grown in many countries, including the United States. The plant can be identified by toothed leaf which always has the odd number of fingers. The underside of the leaf has a sticky feel to it. It is the leaves and flowering of this plant that contains a narcotic. This is nonaddictive. What do you mean by nonaddictive . It is meant to that the user of marijuana, when deprived of the drug, will not experience the agonies of withdrawal. It is habituating, but its use can be discontinued. Than what is its danger . Marijuana, a powerful excitement, produces unpredictable emotional results. Its greatest danger lies in the fact that it is a stepping stone to the harder drugs such as morphine and heroin. 95 of narcotic addicts again begin with the use of marijuana. Drugs asd as dangerous distinct from narcotics are the barbiturates, the sleeping pills known also as goofballs. There are a proximately 400 varieties of the barbiturates on the market and all are highly addictive. In most states, the position in the possession without a doctors prescription is illegal. Among the most common are Yellow Jackets and red devils. All narcotics and dangerous drugs have legitimate medical uses. Many are indispensable for painkilling and sleep reducing properties. In the hands of the addict, their use is perverted to secure an escape from reality. How about this man . What narcotic is he addicted to . All the people in this room are heroin users. Heroine is the strongest most , devastating opiate that exists. Its possession is entirely prohibited in the United States. A narcotic abuser will go to a shooting gallery where he will usually go to to get a eyedropper, hypodermic needle and a spent. A spin with a bit of cotton at the bottom, and is known as an outfit. The heroin in powder form is placed in spoon, water is added, and the narcotic is made to dissolve. This process is called cooking. After it has been cooked, the heroin is drawn into the eyedropper through the wad of cotton, which acts to strain out some of the impurities. It is then ready for injection directly into a vein. Arent they careful to sterilize . No, either because of ignorance or to save time. No precaution is taken. Any Communicable Disease may be directly transmitted into the bloodstream of another. For other narcotics, there are other methods of administration. For instance, black opium is usually smoked. Five or six puffs, a dreamworld beckons. Reality is left behind. But problems arent solved. Marijuana is also smoked. The reefer is smoked differently. It looks like an ordinary, handrolled cigarette, but the effects are different. Large quantities of air are in held simultaneously with the smoke. Marijuana is the most prevalent narcotic among juveniles. The pattern of escape is established. Many of them try heroine. The step two narcotic addiction is short. The barbiturates are usually taken orally. This group is classified as the dangerous drugs, and so named as a reminder to the user that they are addictive. Through continuous use, physical damage to the brain, kidneys, and liver can occur. But there is no drug as degrading and enslaving as heroin. Look at those marks. Yes, these scars on arms and legs are one of the few clues of heroin addiction. They will shoot a vein until it collapses, and then move on to the next. How do they get the stuff in the first place . Most narcotics are smuggled into the country on ships or across borders. Customs men are constantly on the lookout, but it cant all be intercepted. A great deal gets through. [car horns] narcotics are a multimillion dollar business. [car horns] narcotics are a multimillion dollar business. An ounce of heroine costing 30 in europe is worth 300 upon crossing the United States border. As the narcotic is passed from the big dealers to the smaller dealers and finally to the retailers, it is diluted until finally, from the original ounce of heroin, anywhere from five to 10 ounces have been produced. This process is termed cutting, and is usually done with milk sugar. Ounces are cut and made up into gram packages and sold to retailers who recut the bundles and package the narcotics into capsules. These capsules containing a low percentage of heroin can bring from three dollars to five dollars a piece. The price is not decrease proportionately. The original ounce of heroin has a possible retail value of 3000. Marijuana is both taken across and grown within the United States. The leaves and flowering tops of the plant are ground to the consent feed of type tobacco. The cigarettes are rolled in a double wrapping of brown paper, though the more fragile white paper is sometimes used for the purpose of camouflage. Because marijuana is not as profitable as heroin and because it is only habitforming, narcotics peddlers work pushers try to convert the youthful marijuana user to the addictive, expensive, profitable heroin. Who are the addicts . People of all races and professions. The privileged and underprivileged. How do they start . Many begin with marijuana and the pattern of his a business backlist. They then moved to the addictive drugs for bigger kicks, and soon they are hooked. Five dollars, 10, 20 a day. How do they get the money . Narcotics breed a desperate race of men. Corn [horn blaring] [alarm] can this girl be an addict . This is her third shot, and possibly her last chance to escape addiction. Then what . The need for drugs becomes need for money. No method is too degrading. There may be 10,000 women and 30,000 men and this city who are drug addicts. Each, perhaps, will initiate one new person to the use of narcotics. What are we doing about it . If we cant prevent narcotics from entering the country, weve got to crack down on every peddler. Sure thats what we should do. We are often hindered by weak laws, apathetic judges and juries, and by narcotics forces. Understaffed antinarcotics forces. Each case requires time, money, and men. [city sounds] standby. Ok, lets go. The law states that the possession of narcotics means that the suspect either has the drug on his person or that it was directly under his control at the time of arrest. Here, both officers saw this man throw the suspected narcotic. Suspects are searched on the spot, and all evidence gathered is placed in envelopes in the present of the arrested man, and data related to its seizure is recorded on the outside. There must always be at least two officers on an arrest so that there will be a corroborating witness. These officers, however, cannot testify in court that the suspected substance is a narcotic. The confiscated material must be examined by a chemist who will later testify as to its findings. So we catch the pushers, but the problem doesnt end there. There is a still the addict who, without a will of his own, has a continual craving for narcotics. There is still the addict, who, without a will of his own, has a continual craving for narcotics. While under the influence of the drug, he acts almost human. Without it, he becomes a desperate, tortured animal. But can these people be cured . Physically, yes. Mentally, there is no known cure. Deprived of narcotics, they will undergo withdrawal symptoms for about six weeks. At the end of this period, his body will no longer need drugs, but the psychological need remains. Elaborate precautions must be taken to prevent the passage of narcotics into prisons. Double fine mesh screens and a careful search of all articles intended for prisoners do much to discourage smuggling. Clothing intended for narcotics prisoners is soaked in water to dissolve any narcotic the articles might be saturated with. Now that the suffering is over, doesnt he realize the hell that awaits him if he slips back . Yes, he realizes it. And he will fight. But the addict is not fit for such a fight. Narcotics have weakened his character, deteriorated his will. He may stay off the day, a month, a year, or more. But 99 out of 100 slipped back to one capsule of day, two capsules, four capsules, back to five dollars a day, 10, 20. Back to prostitution, armed robbery, jail. Back to the desperate race of men. Then there is no hope. The hope alive in prevention. The hope lies in prevention. Our enforcement agencies must be enlarged. Be warned of the compelling, habitforming danger of marijuana and the addictiveness of the opiates. The people must be made aware. It is a social as well as a police problem. Ononday announcer American History tv, real play the time has come. As a judge, i feel i am making an impact on the economic and political life. Voting,egistration, the the participation of blacks in the democratic process is bringing about a new sense of hope and not just a nuisance of it isnd optimism, but also bringing about a sense of economic parity. Announcer American History tv on cspan3. For a complete schedule good to cspan. Org. Monday on the communicators, representatives on tech issues facing congress, the truck administration and society. They are interviewed by a Political Technology reporter. We know we are asking people to consider putting hundreds of thousands of microphones, various diagnostic equipment into their homes and bodies and we have got to get it right on whether or not youre going to do that for your own benefit if you feel that your privacy is going to be unfairly attacked. The other thing is to make uptodatee laws with the way the world works today. We have policies that are out of date that did not contemplate things like ecommerce or people having cell phones and all the information transmitted around the world. We have a lot to do. We must be more future looking as well. Announcer
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