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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “The Answer is Understanding” is a 1970s documentary film produced by the National Institute of Mental Health. The film discusses heroin and other drug addictions and highlights the places where heroin is cultivated, how it makes its way into the United States, and who a typical user is. The official summary of the film stated: “'Suitable for high school and adult audiences, presents a detailed account of current knowledge about narcotics and dangerous drugs. It begins by recounting drug-produced legendary “highs“ of 4,000 B.C., and ends with the addiction and psychedelic dilemmas of today.“ Court room (0:37). Hippies dance in trance (1:32). Students leave school (1:36). Tenement style buildings, New York City (1:48). UCLA Royce Hall (1:59). Joseph Oteri, Boston attorney (2:25). Pedestrian traffic different cities - hippies, business men (2:48). Hippies roll joints (3:02). “Straight society” adults in living room passing joint (3:32). Heroine drawn into syringe (4:01). Woman injects syringe into arm (4:11). Addicts on city street corner (4:32). Clips seeking to evoke “urban ghetto:” empty, junk-filled lot (4:36). Addict, dealer loiter on street corner (4:40). Crates of produce on street corner in front of Kosher Deli, East Harlem (5:09). Kids outside P.S. 15 school (5:19). Hector Valez, Exodus House (5:27). Interview recovered addict (6:02). Tipped over trash (6:44). Kids throw rocks in trash-filled alley (6:46). Interview another recovered addict (7:01). Kids play wall-ball on public court (7:40). Inmates in recreation room (8:05). Patient speaks to doctor, withdrawal symptoms (8:13). VW Beetle graffitied facade (8:35). Hippies, beatniks on Spanish Steps, Rome (8:38). Interview father of addict (8:55). User narrates suicide attempt (9:46). Trevi Fountain (11:00). Notre Dame, Paris (11:04). De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam (11:08). Lions Trafalgar Square (11:10). Red double decker bus (11:22). Nelson’s Column (11:45). Eiffel Tower (11:47). Rome traffic (11:49). Hagia Sophia (11:50). Lone house amid rubble, Istanbul (12:12). Psychedelic sign “Yener’s” gathering place (12:13). Young people gathered at Yener’s (12:23). Young man walks to overlook, perhaps Jaffa (12:40). Hippies gather at Buddhist temple, Nepal (13:13). June 26 cover LIFE Magazine (13:58). Cops arrest young woman (14:27). Interview squatter in New Orleans (15:11). Prescription drugs on pharmacy shelf (15:34). Neon sign “Liquor” (15:39). New Orleans Jazz band plays in smokey room (15:47). United States Capitol Building (15:59). U.S. Supreme Court (16:03). Police break up hippie festival (16:25). Police in homes of addicts(16:46). Cruise ship enters NYC harbor (17:24). Customs inspectors search luggage (17:49). Wild poppy flower (18:04). White liquid seeps from poppy bulb (18:15). Roman ruins, Baalbek (18:23). Bustling commercial street, Turkey (18:30). Chinese opium smoking paraphernalia (18:40). Opium dens in Hong Kong (18:50). Beaker containing raw opium for refinement (18:56). Hands adjusting needle of syringe (19:05). Needle enters veins (19:14). Men at treatment center, Hong Kong (19:22). Commercial LED light displays (Coca Cola), Ginza, Piccadilly Circus, Times Square (19:27). Addicts purchase heroin on metropolitan sidewalks (19:38). Bedouin herds camels on desert road (19:50). Bustling souk, Lebanon (20:06). Man weaves fishing nets (20:16). Commercial ships, Marseille Port (20:25). Heroin powder weighed on scale (20:31). Traffic Mexico-US border, San Ysidro (21:20). Border patrol search vehicles (21:38). Customs district director in vault with seized drugs (21:49). Small private aircraft drops package in grass field (22:22). Dealer inspects heroin (22:30). Lebanese farmer wearing keffiyeh with agal (22:52). Goods hang from storefronts, Harlem (22:53). Man passed out in entryway,Manhattan (23:01). Lab Addiction Research Center, Lexington Kentucky (23:12). Patients undergo experiments (23:33). Addicts at methadone treatment center (24:02). Interview Dr. Vincent Dole, NYU (24:13). Synanon therapy groups, Santa Monica (24:50). Daytop Village (25:27). Exodus House Workshops (25:31). Youth smoke cigarettes on stoop (25:43). Road sign for California Rehabilitation Center (26:29). Men work out in rec yard (26:34). United Nations (27:02). Agricultural workers ride on tractor in Baalbek, Lebanon (27:07). Arc de Triomphe (27:19). Kids play baseball in suburban backyard (27:57). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
