Heroin(e)

(2017)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 131 votes

Genres: Documentary, Crime

Year: 2017

Runtime: 39 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Plot

This documentary follows three women — a fire chief, a judge, and a street missionary — as they battle West Virginia's devastating opioid epidemic.

Once a bustling industrial town, Huntington, West Virginia has become the epicenter of America's modern opioid epidemic, with an overdose rate 10 times the national average. This flood of heroin now threatens this Appalachian city with a cycle of generational addiction, lawlessness, and poverty. But within this distressed landscape, Peabody Award winning filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon shows a different side of the fight against drugs; one of hope.