How drugs work Cocaine /

How drugs work Cocaine / [videorecording] : Cocaine directed by Tom Pearson. - [UK] : BBC, 2010. - 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. - How drugs work ; no.3 of 3 . - How drugs work ; no.3 of 3 / series producer Yavar Abbas. .

Recorded off-air from BBC3 on 20 January 2011. Part of the Dangerous Pleasures season on BBC.

The effects of cocaine on the body are illustrated by computer graphics. Also three cocaine users' experiences of the drug on a night out are followed. We meet a 17-year old who had to have a pacemaker fitted after cocaine use caused a heart attack. We also meet a patient who had nose surgery after cocaine use damaged the nose.


DVD, widescreen, high definition.


Documentary films.
Drug abuse.
Drug abusers.
Cocaine abuse.
Cocaine--Physiological effect--Case studies.