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Airdate: Heroin: Cape Cod USA

This HBO doco looks at the lives of eight heroin addicts, in an idyllic Massachusetts community.

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Next month Showcase will air a HBO documentary Heroin: Cape Cod USA described as an unsparing look at the lives of eight heroin addicts, in an idyllic Massachusetts community.

Heroin: Cape Cod, USA is a cinema-verité look at the heroin epidemic currently sweeping America’s small towns and communities, focusing on eight young heroin addicts in idyllic Cape Cod, Mass.
There has been an alarming rise in opiate addiction in the U.S. recently. A startling 80% of heroin users started with prescription painkillers following an accident or surgery, and as more states legalize marijuana, Mexican drug cartels are replacing lost profits by pushing cheap, potent heroin into new markets.

Known for its quaint villages, lighthouses and beaches, the picturesque summer vacation destination of Cape Cod has been struck with an epidemic of young people hooked on affordable, easily acquired heroin. This harrowing film takes an unsparing look at the lives of eight heroin addicts in their early 20s, living a seemingly endless existence of getting high while cycling through stages of rehab, recovery and relapse.

Sunday October 16 at 9.30pm on Showcase.

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