Case Study: Amphetamines

Case Study: Amphetamines

19693 min4.9 / 10

A stark 1960s public service documentary that uses a man's personal testimony and a concrete metaphor—his inability to repair a radio—to illustrate the cognitive and functional deterioration caused by amphetamine addiction.

A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.

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