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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1948 black and white film, a condensed version of the National Film Board of Canada’s 30-minute “Drug Addict,” provides a documentary look at the world of narcotic addiction, using footage of real-life heroin and cocaine users to argue that rehabilitation offers society more long-term benefit than carceral justice (TRT: 10:53). Opening titles. The logo of the NFB of Canada. “Pay-Off in Pain” and a word of context: “Through the cooperation of medical, law enforcement and government agencies, this film is presented as a public service towards a greater understanding of a world-wide problem- DRUG ADDICTION” (0:09). Light reflected on water at a dock. Drug smugglers drop a parcel to a small rowboat. Narration mentions the opium trade (0:42). A smuggler, posing as a fisherman unloads a basket and cuts into a parcel, revealing cigarette cartons and other bundles (1:
