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Drugs: the the scourge of modern life, or a product of a bad press? “Drugs aren’t good, drugs aren’t bad, they just are,” says writer and ex-addict Ian Penman, in this provocative, partly dramatised documentary. <br/>With contributions from philosophers, scientists and thinkers including Terence McKenna, Professor Colin Blakemore and chemist Sasha Shulgin, Penman sets out to investigate the importance of drugs in human evolution. He questions such a role and asks why they have become such a potent symbol of evil. Innovative and controversial, Fatal Embrace, suggests that society and the individual, rather than the drug itself, are to blame for addiction.  

Drugs: the the scourge of modern life, or a product of a bad press? “Drugs aren’t good, drugs aren’t bad, they just are,” says writer and ex-addict Ian Penman, in this provocative, partly dramatised documentary.

With contributions from philosophers, scientists and thinkers including Terence McKenna, Professor Colin Blakemore and chemist Sasha Shulgin, Penman sets out to investigate the importance of drugs in human evolution. He questions such a role and asks why they have become such a potent symbol of evil. Innovative and controversial, Fatal Embrace, suggests that society and the individual, rather than the drug itself, are to blame for addiction.  

Programme Information

  • Genre: Factual

  • Subgenre: Documentary Special

  • Producers: STELLAR FILMS LIMITED

  • Broadcaster: n/a

  • Duration: 1 x 52'

  • Tags: Factual Documentary Drugs

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