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Drugs - Causing Bodily Harm

 

It ruins your skin, ages you like crazy and you will lose your teeth. When your on Crystal Meth, your not even aware of what is going on around you. Basically, it's like a tornado, it will take a home and destroy it in no time. Then we have the ingredients used to make Meth, for example Sudafed containing pseudoephedrine. They have made it hard to go and buy medicine.now you have to go get it behind the counter. .
             Eventually, it will be where you have to have a prescription to get medication that you could once buy on the shelf, all because of this drug. The usefulness of this documentary in my opinion was to remind people what meth will do to your body and family. Also to let you know how it is affecting our pharmacies. They are having to take things off shelves and but it behind the counter, making it inconvenient and harder to buy. As far as audience, I think the creator is just trying to get through to everyone and let it be known that this stuff is become an epidemic and is basically tearing our world apart. From my research, this film seemed to be accurate with the information they provided and was very easy to follow. As a viewer and someone who has never been around nor done meth, I was astounded at what I saw and learned what this stuff is doing to America. .
             The creator of this documentary is Carl Byker. He is a non-fiction filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles.He is a graduate of Montana State University along with two brothers and two sisters. His films have won the Primetime Emmy for best non-fiction series of the year, two Dupont awards, two Independent Documentary Associations awards, the Kodak "Vision Award" from the Producers' Guild of America, and the Peabody award. He has also won two Writers' Guild of America awards for best non-fiction television script of the year and received four WGA nominations. The reason Byker made this documentary was due to the research by reporter Steve Suo showing that Meth is perhaps unique among drugs in that supply (purity) affects demand-rather than the other way around.


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