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 Blue Lady
 Booze Culture
 My Name is Jane
 Gladiator: the Norm Hewitt story
 Open Door - Problem Gambling

Synopsis

This Inside New Zealand doco takes a calm, no nonsense look at one man’s encounter with heroin addiction — a habit he estimates cost him a seven figure sum. Far from being the clichéd junkie loser, Tim was a husband, father and successful businessman who remarkably didn’t think twice about dabbling with a drug that had already taken the life of one of his sisters. Nine years after it led him to detox and rehab, Tim and his mother and sister talk about his addiction and its impact on their lives — without glamorising or demonising the drug or its users.

Credits (8)

 Amanda Robertshawe

Amanda Robertshawe
Director

 Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald
Producer

 Andrew Stroud

Andrew Stroud
Camera Assistant

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Produced by

Ultimate Productions

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Teacup Productions

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Quotes

You don’t think about the disaster your life is becoming as long as you’re stoned — but the more often you’re stoned, the bigger disaster your life becomes.  

– Tim, the subject of the doco

It’s only fun for a bit and then it becomes a chain that drags you down so badly eventually that it will just take everything from your life. Everything. And the worst of those things that it takes is your passion for living. There’s no passion left. Just drugs. 

– Tim, the subject of the doco

Neither is there the usual shock-horror approach to the subject. It's a documentary about a disease. As Tim says, would you say to somebody with clinical depression or diabetes, "Get over it?" 

– Michele Hewitson (New Zealand Herald, June 27th, 2001)