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Title Cutting Edge Special: Raw Opium - Ep 1 of 2 / Director: Findlay, Peter D
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2010
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Summary Opium is a commodity that has tremendous power - both to ease pain and to destroy lives. For centuries, this flower has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role - not just in the lives of people who grow, manufacture and use it - but also in the increasingly tense sphere of international relations.Raw Opium is a journey around the world and through time, where conflicting forces do battle over this narcotic sap. From opium growers in southeast Asia to a UN drug enforcement officer on the border of Afghanistan hunting down smugglers; and from a former Indian drug baron, to a crusading Vancouver doctor and a group of Portuguese street workers who daily confront the realities of drug addiction - the attitudes and policies surrounding the drug are explored.Through the interconnected stories of the program, our assumptions about drug addiction and the War on Drugs are profoundly challenged. (From Canada, in English, Tajiki and Hindi, English subtitles) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 2) MA CC
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2011-03-06 at 21:30:00
Notes Classification: MA
Subject Drug control -- Evaluation.
Drug traffic -- Social aspects.
Opium abuse -- Prevention.
Opium poppy growers.
Opium trade -- Law and legislation.
Opium -- Analysis.
Afghanistan.
Tajikistan.
Form Streaming video
Author Bhattacharji, Romesh, contributor
Brannerud, Christer, contributor
Findlay, Peter D., director
Fisher, Darwin, contributor
Glenny, Misha, contributor
Mat?, Gabor, contributor
Reid, Daniel, contributor
Sharopov, Isroil, contributor
Thomas, Derek, contributor
Yusupov, Sherozkhodja, contributor