It turns the user’s skin scaly and eats them from the inside out. ibid. commentary
Caffetin, formic acid, Tropikamid, then you add petrol and cook the drug. ibid. addict
The most dangerous drug in the world: Colombian Devil’s Breath. The World’s Scariest Drug, Vice 2012
You’re at the whim of suggestions … Complete elimination of free will while still active. ibid.
Borrachero tree (Drunken Binge): Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela. ibid.
These empty offices are a front for paper companies that launder cartel drug money. From trap houses across America through wholesalers, transporters and cartel cells there’s a billion dollar tide funnelling into Mexico. Now US authorities are cracking down. Underworld Inc s2e4: The Money Laundry, National Geographic 2015
Federal agencies seize about $1 billion of drug money annually. ibid.
‘Spice just hits you like a truck; it just knocks you out.’ (Drugs & Addiction) The Hard Lives of Britain’s Synthetic Marijuana Addicts, addict, Vice 2015
Although manufacturers state on the packet they’re not fit for human consumption, legal highs are used recreationally, and they make the press when students overdose on them. ibid.
A real dependency on legal highs. ibid.
‘I’m in that much pain.’ ibid. addict
During the time when I was pitching the no-hitters at San Diego I didn’t see the hitters. All I could tell was that they was at the left side or the right side … The opposing team and my teammates they knew I was high but they didn’t know what I was high on. They didn’t see it but I had acid in me. No No a Dockumentary, Dock Ellis, 2014
I pitched every game in the major league under the influence of drugs. ibid.
I put curlers in my hair. ibid.
I was anti-management. ibid.
Dexamyl: Maximum fifteen/seventeen pills. ibid.
‘Ellis: Quickest lip since Ali.’ ibid. newspaper article
‘He realised the racial tensions that were going on in the country and baseball gave him a platform to speak his mind. ibid. Dave Cash
1971 All Star game: Dock Ellis v Vida Blue. ibid.
‘Al, there’s nine brothers out there.’ ibid. colleague
‘Drugs had really taken over him.’ ibid. first wife
And I said, What happened to yesterday? ibid.
… Third batter, Dock hit him … ‘Ellis mows them down, ties major league record’. ibid. newspaper article
‘Brown Suspends Ellis Without Pay’. ibid. The Pittsburgh Press
‘Penalties Suggested To Curb Beanballs. ibid. newspaper article
Playing for the Yankees – I can remember some of that. ibid.
Anything that would get me high, I would do it. ibid.
Half of all young people will try illegal drugs. Drugs: The Lowdown on Getting High, Channel 4 2007
‘Human beings love making modifications to their consciousness.’ ibid. Mark Salter
‘Cannabis unlike most other drugs is fat soluble.’ ibid. Salter
The more drugs you take the harder the comedown’s going to be. ibid.
‘Drug dealing is a thousand times more addictive than drug taking.’ Secrets and Lines, opening lines, Channel 4 1999
‘A form of pyramid selling where the people are the most visible and the mostly to be apprehended are just those at the bottom of the pyramid. And they’re the most easily replaceable.’ ibid. Russell Newcombe, Liverpool John Moores University
‘Don’t turn your back, man.’ ibid. Dealer
This industry is worth £8 billion in the UK each year. Illegal drugs are used by over 5 million people. There are at least 20,000 dealers in London alone. Drugland I: Cocaine, Cannabis & Ecstasy, captions, BBC 2005
This is the story of a hidden industry. It is set in Britain’s capital where one in five young people regularly use recreation drugs. ibid.
The increasing use of cocaine has brought new clients to the Ticketman from all over London. ibid.
‘Cocaine just seems to be part of the landscape now.’ ibid.
Recreational drugs … represent about 95% of illegal drug use in Britain. ibid.
The Home Office estimates one million people used cocaine last year. ibid.
‘When I pick up that first drug I can’t stop.’ ibid. cocaine user
Few of the dealers I met admitted to tampering with the product. ibid.
106,053. The consumption of cocaine has risen four-fold in the last decade. ibid.
A quarter of a million UK clubbers visit Ibiza every year. Since 1999 drug taking in this group has trebled. Dealers call this island White Paradise. Drugland III: Ibiza
Since the major English nightclubs opened for business in Ibiza in the late ’80s the White Island has become a dream destination for Britain’s young clubbing fraternity. ibid.
MDMA crystals are a powerful form of ecstasy that’s sold in small bags of white powder. ibid.
The drug trade: If you have this much money you have to know what to do with it … The key element of the international economy. Daniel Estulin, lecture Alternative View 4, ‘The Shadow Masters: Real Global Terrorists’
That money is laundered through Wall Street. ibid.
Each year more than 46,000 people die from a drug overdose. Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, 2016
‘Being addicted to opiates is like chasing a dragon; you’re constantly seeking that first high.’ ibid.
Approximately one in five high school seniors reports misusing prescription drugs at least once in their lifetime. ibid.
A 2014 national survey found an estimated 1.4 million people in the US abused a prescription pain killer for the first time that year. ibid.
‘A girlfriend of mine introduced me to heroin; I could get a whole lot more for a whole lot less.’ ibid.
Most first-time abusers of painkillers obtain them from a friend or relative. ibid.
The alarm is growing more urgent and spreading further across Canada: Fentanyl – highly addictive and sometimes deadly is now a top priority across the country … an epidemic and an overwhelming crisis. Opioid Fentanyl Street Crisis, W5 CTV 2017
Drug overdoses killed nearly a thousand in this province last year. ibid.
Synthetic opioids are being cut into street drugs all across Canada. ibid.
Fentanyl has found its way into knockoff prescription painkillers, into party drugs and cocaine. People are overdosing across the country. ibid.
The pop-up tent supervises hundreds of injections a day. ibid.
‘He wasn’t my son. I don’t know who he was. He was the devil really. American Epidemic: The Nation’s Struggle with Opioid Addiction, Wall Street Journal 2016, Joe’s dad
The drug Fentanyl presents a new level of danger in the opioid epidemic. It’s up to 50 times as powerful as heroin, cheaper to make and rapidly spreading across the United States. New Hampshire had at least 238 deaths linked to Fentanyl in 2015, up from 146 deaths in 2014. ibid.
In May 2016 substances known as Legal Highs were banned in the UK. Some of these chemicals were designed to mimic the effects of cannabis. At the time this film was made these drugs could legally be bought in high street shops. Drugs Map of Britain I: Wolverhampton: Gettting Off Mamba, BBC 2016
‘Mamba is the worst drug out; worse than Class A.’ ibid. street user
‘People will be your friend because you’ve got Mamba.’ ibid.