Based upon your recommendation, EEE, I watched the documentary last night. Your job in law enforcement provides you with a unique window into this sad, misery-filled world. I'd say that few of us here ever have encounters with the kinds of people portrayed in the documentary.

Here in New Hampshire, meth isn't the issue, fentanyl is. And overdoses of it skyrocketed by 1600% from 2010 to 2015. Every week or two, the local paper has an obituary of a 20 or 30 year old who died unexpectedly at home. A teacher friend lost his daughter to addition last year.

It's hard to see the lives of the Arkansas addicts changing much. If the filmmaker were to revisit them in 5 years, I'd wager that the vast majority of them would be in the same pathetic circumstances (assuming of course that they were still alive).

And so many Americans are so damn indifferent to this suffering. So many see this as a "moral failing" by weak-minded people. The GOP tax bill is emblematic of such indifference. For real change to occur, that would mean real money would have to be spent on treatment centers, mental health professionals, social workers, and job training. It would require that we jettison the disastrous and tragic war on drugs.

At the end, what hit me the most was the showing of photographs of many of the subjects, back in their childhood days, back when everything was possible. Little did they know what suffering lay ahead.

I'd urge everyone to check out this film.

Peter T.

PS: and thanks, Reg, for keeping me in the game when I couldn't log-on, and thanks for our kind overlord, Dan, for allowing for my return.