How Drugs Work — Season 1, Episode 3: Cocaine
Documentary • 57 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 6.3/10
Episode synopsis
Once a drug exclusively for the rich and famous, but now the most popular class A drug in Britain, with more than 1.2 million people taking it in the UK in 2009. For some cocaine is the ideal addition to a night out, but for others taking it became a life-changing event, including the young man that needed a pacemaker fitted at just 17 after cocaine gave him a heart attack and a patient undergoing surgery to repair a nose torn apart by too many lines of coke.
About How Drugs Work
Using visual effects and CGI the effects of drugs on the human body are examine, and the myths and controversies that surround them confronted.