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Needle Exchange

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Spencer and Glenn met through heroin addiction and got each other out of it through tattooing. Director Colm Quinn follows the two friends as they trace how a shared habit turned into a shared trade, swapping needles used for drugs for needles used for ink. The film sits with them as they talk about the mechanics of getting clean together, the risk of one relapsing and pulling the other back down, and how tattooing gave them a routine, an income, and a reason to stay away from the old one. There's no narrator standing outside the story; it's built from Spencer and Glenn talking directly about what addiction cost them and what the tattoo shop gave back. The film stays small and specific, focused on one friendship rather than addiction policy or treatment systems in general, and it treats their recovery as ongoing rather than finished.