PAY OFF IN PAIN 1948 NARCOTIC DRUG SCARE FILM HEROIN COCAINE ADDICTION XD46274
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 Canadas 30minute Drug Addict, provides a documentary look at the world of narcotic addiction, using footage of reallife heroin and cocaine users to argue that rehabilitation offers society more longterm benefit than carceral justice (TRT: 10:53). Opening titles. The logo of the NFB of Canada. PayOff 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 worldwide 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:
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