Documenting the Human Experience
One of the most horrifying things that I have encountered during the past 18 months of working my heroin documentary project, has been witnessing the severe abscesses many heroin addicts develop. Many long-term heroin users acquire these infections through the repeated use…
I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time with heroin addict, John Lee, lately. I really like John as a person, and it truly hurts watching him deteriorate. The first shot was taken Thanksgiving morning, 2013. The other was taken…
It is not uncommon for junkies to use dirty water to cook their heroin in. It’s absolutely frightening watching someone draw nasty water into their syringe from some discarded container found at the bottom of a stairwell.
I looked at John Lee as he plunged a needle deep into his groin, and I said, “you know John, there are only two endings to this story; one where you get clean and straighten out your life, and another…
I had a really deep conversation today about the existence of God – in a dope house with a bunch of junkies. Good conversations happen in the strangest of places. We concluded that there probably isn’t any God, at least…
UPDATE February, 2020 – [I strongly disagree that drug addiction is a medical disease, and through the course of this documentary project, I slowly came to the awareness that the disease model of addiction, actually contributes to addicts using. That…