Methadonia
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- Documentary
Overview
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services (NYCATS).
Keywords
- new york city
- support group
- drug addiction
- manhattan
- heroin
- drug addict
- despair
- poverty
- aging
- relapse
- war on drugs
- lower east side
- pharmaceutical industry
- pharmaceuticals
- detox
- methadone programme
- opioid use disorder
- drug withdrawal
- methadone
- manhattan, new york city
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 6, 2005
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Production
- HBO Documentary Films
- Director
- Michel Negroponte
- Writer
- Nick Pappas
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0485777