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Apr 18, 1999 · Watch Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (1999) online. Documentary following the lives of five young people addicted to heroin during the two years between December of 1995 and January of 1998.
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Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (1999) is...
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Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is a 1999 television documentary film directed by Steven Okazaki. Filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, the documentary describes the lives of heroin addicts.
Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street: Directed by Steven Okazaki. With Tracey Helton, Alice McMunn, Jessica Snow. This documentary follows the lives of a number of heroin addicts in the U.S.A. It shows their heroin life stories.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Steven Okazaki
- 2000-03-17
- Tracey
- Alice
- Jake
- Jessica
- Oreo
- Summary
Tracey’s story is the most positive outcome amongst the group. Her full name is Tracey Helton Mitchell and she has been clean of drugs for 20 years. After a short stint in prison for dealing heroin, she underwent rehab, completed a master’s degree and has dedicated her life towards the care and counselling of heroin users. Tracey has earned the nic...
Alice McMunn seemed to be at an earlier stage of addiction at the time of filming. However, she has been clean since 2001 after undergoing treatment at a clinic in Portland, Oregon. Today she lives in Los Angeles and is working as an exotic dancer and model. Alice is active on Twitter and goes by the handle malice666mcmunn.
Jake was arguably the most troubled of the group. At the time of filming he was working as a rent boy and discovered he was HIV positive, but still continued to work in order to fund his addiction. Soon after filming, he surprisingly managed to overcome his habit and underwent treatment. Sadly, on January 2002, Jake was found dead from an overdose ...
Jessica was also working as a prostitute at the time of filming, despite being HIV positive, and was in denial about her illness. Little is known about her current status or whereabouts. A blog postin 2013 by Tracey states that she is still alive and clean but wishes to remain anonymous. Subsequent follow-up comments in the blog post confirm that s...
There have been conflicting reports about whether Oreo is still alive. However, in a 2016 Reddit AMAwith Tracey, she states that he is clean, is married, and does not want to be contacted in relation to the film.
Tracey: Alive, clean, and dedicated to counselling addictsAlice: Alive, clean, and working as an exotic dancerJake: Died from an overdose in 2002. RIPJessica: Alive (as of 2015)BLACK TAR HEROIN: THE DARK END OF THE STREET is an extraordinary chronicle of the lives of five young heroin addicts - Jake, Jessica, Tracey, Oreo and Alice - as they face the perils of hardcore drug addiction — crime, prostitution, rape, incarceration, AIDS, overdoses and death.
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An extraordinary look at two years in the lives of five young heroin addicts, the Emmy-Nominated "BLACK TAR HEROIN: THE DARK END OF THE STREET" offers a rare and intimate portrait of how heroin devastates young lives.
