Heroin: Cape Cod, USA

To quote one of the addicts in this documentary, "..Like, I just want to be with my heroin and me and nobody else."

I really used to feel bad for drug addicts, alcoholics, people hooked on meth, or some other drug of choice. Now, they have no impact on my soul anymore. Absolutely none. I had a friend who was an addict, and I saw the horrible choices she made, and rejected all the help that was offered to her, really good genuine help. I understand that heroin is truly truly addictive and all these druggies think about is the next high. But like I said, I have absolutely no empathy for them, not any more.

The fact that so many young people are hooked on this garbage is what's really sad because these are the people who would've been professionals later or good people, or good parents, or good friends to someone. But when one of these drug kids said after she got out of the hospital from an overdose and she was given Narcan, she went back out into the parking lot and shot up again. Well, if that's your choice, good riddance.

I watch these documentaries sometimes hoping to see some kind of change trending, but it doesn't. And yes I do blame the doctors for prescribing these opioids. I blame them as much as I blame these idiots making poor choices for their lives. And some of these young girls are leaving children behind. What can you do? Absolutely nothing.

I have been reading these reviews, and it just breaks my heart to see what people have to say. The girl Marissa in this movie, she was my sister. She was a beautiful soul. And we miss her so much. I think Lisa, and the entire film crew did an amazing job at trying to show the ugly truth, and raw reality of what these kids faced everyday. Little did we know that we were just getting our first glimpse at people lacing fentanyl with heroin. It has become an uncontrolled monster in America. It takes anyone and has no care of who it is. Robert de Niro just lost his grandson and my heart breaks for his family. People are showing his family an abundance of sympathy during his loss, yet our family gets called druggies and junkies. I will forever be greatful to the film crew and producers who made this project happen. I believe they did their best, and really showed the world how scary this epidemic is, and that it was only just beginning.

Many of us have been touched by the damage that Class A drugs can do, and for those affected close to home, this is a difficult watch.

We have here an unflinching documentary which is no holds barred as the interviewees are the talking heads explaining their exasperations, failures and hopes to kick the heroin addiction. Giving free reign to the interviewees is quite a brave move, but it works and you feel that you are learning something. It's good to see it let them paint themselves and not resort to filming tactics to try to humiliate them.

One of the most difficult parts is watching the help group for the parents of the addicts. They are honest and straight, and it can be quite heart sinking to see this.

There is not necessarily anything ground breaking here, it's a window into a world where those there are in a downward spiral. It's difficult viewing but still interesting.

Give it a viewing. A good job done by the documentary makers and hope others follow their example in how to tackle such a subject.

This is a documentary that you can find on HBO on-demand and it's a part of a documentary series looking at issues in different parts of the country. It's a look at heroin addicts (among some other substances connected with it, like oxycodine and painkillers), all living on Cape Cod in Massachusetes. The focus is simply on the addicts themselves, which is fine up until a certain point. It's a collection of people who are in desperate ways, some started on their paths with no desire whatsoever to do drugs (some via bad accidents where they needed something to deal with the pain, which painkillers don't really do anyway in a concrete way), and may be facing death (and some of them, sadly, lose their lives in the course of the making of the documentary - a few of them it's easy to see, but others it's a tragic case of relapsing after being sober for a while), and it's compelling. It can't help but being so when looking at such desperate characters who, by their own admission, are facing perpetual downward spirals without proper treatment.

I think if I wished for something more it would have been two things: that there was a focus on the location itself - it's in the title so it's not outside the realm of question - as Cape Cod is an interesting and captivating place where people come for vacation year in and year out (it's mentioned briefly how people who stay on the cape don't have much to do, which isn't very detailed). Why is the Cape different than other places? Is it because of the state itself and what it offers (how is it different than, say, Florida which is also a tourist destination)? Or is there something else that attracts these people to use in this place vs any other place (perhaps addiction is becoming rampant nationwide and this is just the focus, but if so why).

The other thing was a little more focus from the medical side of it, or just another perspective to mix in with all of the testimonials from the addicts; the access is without much in the way of a filter - you feel like you're often there in the room - and yet there's no other voice to talk about why heroin addiction has become so rampant in this section of the country. This isn't to say this is something to avoid, far from it - if you're on HBO and see this and are compelled to watch something new about the world of heroin addiction, this has some good moments and tragic details. But the subjects carry some depth on other programs like Intervention.

The movie just blew my mind. I was aware of the opiate epidemic in the states but this movie just exposed the underlying problems. 85% of crime is drug related. It seems that American children just have everything in material terms and have more freedom to experiment in drug use. One guy says why wouldn't you? It is really tragic seeing young people die so young especially the 23 year old with 2 young children. There is clearly no trying heroin because it is such an addictive drug. So in a moment of weakness for reasons outside your control your life can be destroyed by this drug. The west needs to get much tougher on drugs. Addicts should not go into detox. If you overdose you go to prison for 5 years and have daily drug tests with a year added every time you test positive. Dealers go to prison for life. Being in possession of class A drugs carries a 10 year prison sentence. Countries like Singapore realise how corrosive opiates are to society and the hidden costs of drug addiction. In the US it seems detox houses are big business everyone is trying to make a dollar out of a situation. I'm an addict, it is an illness. If it is an illness then the state can section you under mental health laws for your own safety. We have to improve society.