How Drugs Work

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S01E03: Cocaine

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.

Overview

Using visual effects and CGI the effects of drugs on the human body are examine, and the myths and controversies that surround them confronted.

Episodes

Cannabis

S01E01 Cannabis

January 6, 2011 57 min
With exclusive access to cutting edge scientific research, the myths and controversies that surround cannabis are confronted: whether it is addictive, if it destroys our memories and if it can even lead to psychosis.
Ecstasy

S01E02 Ecstasy

January 13, 2011 57 min
With access to cutting edge research at the University of Chicago, we find out how ecstasy creates empathy in the user and how this could one day lead to the drug being used as a...
Cocaine

S01E03 Cocaine

January 20, 2011 57 min
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...

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