''Crackheads Gone Wild'' is a 2006
documentary produced by Daryl Smith about
cocaine
Cocaine (from , from , ultimately from Quechua: ''kúka'') is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant mainly used recreationally for its euphoric effects. It is primarily obtained from the leaves of two Coca species native to South Am ...
users in
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,71 ...
.
Post release
In an interview with ''
The Guardian
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Newspapers can cover a wide ...
'' newspaper, Smith said he knew some of the people he filmed over a period of years and watched them slowly deteriorate. 'Many of these people are highly intelligent. I have footage of a lady who has a master's degree in education and used to work on
Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the ...
. She got hooked on drugs and now she's
homeless
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* living on the streets, also kn ...
. The point of the movie is: do not even try
crack or this is what it will reduce you to. You will not have any control over your life and you will live and die for the drug.'
Smith later produced a sequel, ''Scared Straight''.
By June 2006, over 400,000
bootleg
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* Rum-running, the illegal business of transporting and trading in alcoholic beverages, hence:
** Moonshine, or illicitly made a ...
copies of "Crackheads Gone Wild" were estimated to have been sold, at least partly due to viewers considering the film to be a comedy.
See also
*
Crack epidemic
The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. This resulted in a number of social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in Ameri ...
References
External links
''Crackheads Gone Wild''at
NPR
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American documentary films
Documentary films about drug addiction
Documentary films about African Americans
Cocaine in the United States
Films about cocaine
2006 films
2006 documentary films
Films shot in Atlanta
Documentary films about Georgia (U.S. state)
2000s American films
Films set in Atlanta
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