Drug Addiction (1951)

★★★★★ · Meanwhile. in Bobbi-Sox Land.. · Spuzz · 2003-04-26

After watching Drug Addiction, the chemical tomb and finding out the fifties were all about malt shops and bobbi-sox, it's a pleasure to find this engrossing (and more interesting) film made in 1951 about basically the same thing. After a interesting animated show of what drugs are, and what they do to you, we turn to Marty (featuring the great actor from 'Are You Ready For Marriage'.. obviously not!) as he gets busted for stealing, as he is sentenced to court, we find out the whole sordid details about how he got there. A GREAT story is told, highly entertaining, filled with sleazy…

★★★★★ · This film would have saved me; instead we got "say no to drugs" · david weston · 2023-04-17

As an addict for the last 25 years, I can vouch for everything in this film being true. It isn't campy. It's the plain truth about a dynamic complicated subject. In the 1980s-1990s, all we got was "say no to drugs" and "DARE to keep kids off drugs". These campaigns lacked any information. At first I was ok. I rejected drugs continuously until I was about 17 years old. But one weekend vacation with my best friends, they brought reefer and used it and told me they had been using it for 2 years without telling me. (they kept it secret because they had been good friends and didn't want me getting…

★★★★★ · The Sordid Past of Sue's Fiance · Christine Hennig · 2005-09-25

This 50s Encyclopedia Britannica anti-drug film is about as campy as IÂve ever seen EB get. It tells the story of Marty, a nice, clean-cut 50s teen who succumbs to peer pressure and tries reefers. Before you know it, heÂs a junkie mainlining heroin, and then experiences the inevitable downward spiral of losing his part-time job at the grocery store, worrying his parents, getting snubbed by all the other clean-cut teens, turning to shoplifting and thievery to support his habit, and finally becoming a drug pusher. Eventually he gets arrested for all of this and, after his mother tearfully tells…

★★★★ · Flawed, funny, but sadly true · Sarcasticus · 2003-07-22

The argument is flawed, the images are funny, but the message is good one. I say this as both a teacher and as a parent. When talking about slippery slope arguments in my classes, I use the drug films of this era as an example. My teachers in the 1960s showed similar films in PE class. Smoke one joint and WHAM! you are addicted to heroin. I'll admit that I laughed at the images. The drug pushers who stand in doorways wearing trenchcoats and dark glasses. The drug kingpin who keeps his stash inside a lamp on his desk (The cops will never find it in there!). And the scene with boys hopped up on…

★★★★ · Drug Addiction · Kyleco · 2004-01-26

I thought it was a well done film. Although it no different than the anti-drug ads today, it was a little informative. I have half the mind to show this to my friends and co-workers who are into weed (I'm not I'm happy to say) I can it see it be a bit laughable. By the way, did anyone noticed that the judge in the film is the same actor who defended the "Master Plan" on television in the film "How to Lose What We Have"?

★★★★ · Never never Land · Etcum-Spirit220 · 2005-10-22

Typical of most anti drug messages past and present. As one who has been there/done that I say some of the assertions are true, but most are either myths or fall short of true reality. One myth perpetrated throughout this film is the "gateway theory", i.e. marijuana leads to heroin. In real life I have met many heroin users who never once touched marijuana but virtually all consumed alcohol. Is the true "gateway theory" then that alcohol leads to heroin ? I might also add that,like most anti drug messages past and present, the film leaves out two of the most commonly used and potentially…