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Heroin's Children: Inside The US Opioid Crisis
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Heroin's Children: Inside The US Opioid Crisis

25 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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America's opioid epidemic has left a generation of children in its wake, and this film follows families torn apart by heroin addiction across the United States. Parents describe the slide from prescription painkillers to street heroin, and relatives raising grandchildren or nieces and nephews because mothers and fathers are dead, incarcerated, or too consumed by addiction to parent. Interviews with recovering users, grieving relatives, and community workers lay out how the crisis moved from pain clinics into working-class neighborhoods and small towns, leaving overdose as a routine cause of death rather than an aberration. The film keeps its focus on the domestic fallout rather than policy debates, showing caseworkers and support groups trying to hold families together while addiction cycles through them. Home footage and on-camera testimony carry most of the film, with subjects speaking plainly about relapse, loss, and the children left to make sense of it. The result is a ground-level account of a crisis usually described in statistics.