Cocaine, How Drugs Work, BBC Documentary

Documentary combining compelling reallife stories and stunning computer graphics to explore how cocaine creates its highs and its lows. Cocaine, once a drug exclusively for the rich and famous, is now the most popular class A drug in Britain, with more than 1. 2 million people taking it in the UK in 2009. The film follows three users on nights out on coke and uses cuttingedge computer graphics to journey inside their bodies and brains to find out how the drug creates its highs and its lows. For some cocaine is the ideal addition to a night out, but for others taking it became a lifechanging event, including the young man that needed a pacemaker fitted at just 17 after cocaine gave him a heart attack and a patient undergoing surgery to repair a nose torn apart by too many lines of coke. Britain s leading experts help explain the truth behind cocaine s controversial reputation the perfect pickmeup or a killer class A Part of the Dangerous Pleasures season on BBC Three.