Black Tar Heroin (1999)

Original title

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street

Directed by

Steven Okazaki

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows several young heroin addicts living in a poor San Francisco neighborhood over a few years. It shows their daily struggle with addiction, health crises, and the constant search for money and drugs.

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What happens

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is a 1999 television documentary film directed by Steven Okazaki. Filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, the documentary describes the lives of heroin addicts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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