Drug Addict

Drug Addict (1948)

This film details how drug traffic operates, how the drug addict is made, and how this grim social reality may be curbed.

Date of release
1948-01-01
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
34m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Robert Anderson

Casting

Interesting facts

Drug Addict is a 1948 documentary made by Robert Anderson for the National Film Board of Canada. It is the only Canadian film that remains banned in the United States.

Production

Drug Addict was originally intended to be a training film for law enforcement personnel, social workers, and medical professionals; Anderson wrote it in 1947 with the assistance of Health and Welfare Canada and R.C.M.P. Commissioner Leonard Nicholson. For research, he followed Vancouver-area R.C.M.P., watching them kick in doors, arrest dealers, and burn a poppy field.

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