Anyone for Coffee and Heroin? Inside a Danish Narcotics Dispensary
Description
It's early in the morning, but already several patients have gathered outside a small Copenhagen clinic. They're waiting anxiously for the doors to open so a nurse can dispense their heroin. Yes, they're addicts, many of them scarred and embittered by life on the street-but they now have a legal alternative to buying drugs from criminals. This film looks at life inside the Poppy, as the clinic is known. It illustrates both the impact of Denmark's recently crafted policy aimed at reducing drug crime and prostitution, as well as what it means in human terms to confront addiction free from physical danger, moral judgment, and legal consequences. According to the Poppy's staff and patients, the new policy is working. But will long-term results vindicate the theories behind the laws?
Runtime
73 min
Subjects
- Public health (338)
- Substance abuse (361)
- Drug abuse and crime (31)
- Health (2879)
- Drug control (44)
- Crime (296)
- Medicine (401)
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Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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