Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

ReiZer0 This documentary is a very dark look into the world of young heroin addicts in the 90s. It shows these young peoples lives taking a downward spiral as their addictions take a hold of them. I personally have never been addicted to any drugs but I always find it interesting to see other people deep into drugs and the reasons behind it. You get a look into each characters lives when they are interviewed and hear the disturbing things they talk about growing up which has contributed to the state of their lives now. I got emotionally attached to the people in this documentary and you see how vulnerable they are. I found this documentary disturbing and also quite emotional especially with one girl and how her life hits rock bottom. It was sad seeing updates on some of these people and what happened to them but I know some of these people turned their lives around. I would recommend this if anyone is into these real life dark documentaries, I think it's very interesting to see what the life of a drug addict is like.

Alex C JunkieFaggot A friend of a friend is a user, so we managed to write a short but dense critique on this excellent documentary. We are both Generation Y (24-25), so it's like watching the lives of our imaginary junkie cousins.First of all, this documentary is true. Well, you're gonna say "aren't documentaries suppose to outline reality?". Yes, but this masterpiece manages to not become over-dramatic, and follow the lives of 5 very different personae.Second of all, the shocking nature of this work of art is not meant to create an atmosphere of "drugs are bad, okay?" but to portray how the misuse of such a powerful substance can lead to the destruction of many people's lives, when the information about the substance itself, its use and its pharmacology is purely street-wise due to the lack of the Internet.Today there are a lot of people who we can technically call "addicts", but they live perfectly normal lives because of the information given through the internet, even before start self-medicating with opiates.We live in a post-curt Cobain world, so when you watch this documentary, try to have in mind how these characters would be if they lived in the age of Web 2.0

Blondie_ Every kid should see this very depressing, dark, and scary, and well-made documentary to see how evil drugs really are. It should be a must in any health/safety high school class! I know the documentary was made quite some time ago and I would love to see an update on the young adults who were featured in it. I do know that Tracy, the woman with the long brown hair and glasses, sobered up and is doing well. She was on the Oprah Winfrey show about two years ago on a segment about a women's drug rehab center-she was one of the people who had made it through the program. Sadly though, some of those people featured on the HBO doc looked so near death you know they probably are dead by now.

Subes I have known a few people caught in the horror of heroin, this documentary is very accurate and done well. It is very depressing but very true. I only hope HBO will do a follow-up story (if any of the people featured are still alive).