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Anyone for Coffee and Heroin? : Inside a Danish Narcotics Dispensary
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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, t...
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?
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- Creator
- DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012], c2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (73 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn828745834
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on October 13, 2012.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Portions with English subtitles.
- The Poppy Grand Opening (1:27) -- The Process (2:22) -- Hannah Admitted to Heroin Treatment (0:59) -- Injecting Heroin (1:43) -- Heroin Dosing (2:19) -- Methadone Evening Dose (1:08) -- Working at a Danish Narcotics Dispensary (1:31) -- Narcotics Dispensary Atmosphere (3:39) -- Staff Assist Users with Life Issues (4:56) -- Holistic Treatment (2:58) -- Patient Safety (3:30) -- Small Goals (3:17) -- Dispensary Rules (2:18) -- Taking a Smoke Break (0:47) -- Threat of Violence at Narcotics Dispensary (4:36) -- Not a Zombie Anymore (3:00) -- Does the Dispensary Help? (1:07) -- Set Back for User Max (1:26) -- Goal to Quit Using (1:27) -- Ashamed to Need Someone to Care (2:02) -- Being Proud of Being a Person (1:54) -- IKEA Dreams (0:52) -- Graduating from the Heroin Prescription Program (2:43) -- Max's Apartment (4:01) -- Epilogue: Denmarks First Narcotics Dispensary (1:31) -- Credits: Anyone for Coffee and Heroin? Inside a Danish Narcotics Dispensary (0:25)