Showing posts with label How Drugs Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How Drugs Work. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

How Drugs Work Season 1 Episode 3 Cocaine

Preview of 'How Drugs Work':

Documentary combining compelling real-life stories and stunning computer graphics to explore how cocaine creates its highs and its lows.

Cocaine, once a drug exclusively for the rich and famous, is now the most popular class A drug in Britain, with more than 1.2 million people taking it in the UK in 2009. The film follows three users on nights out on coke and uses cutting-edge computer graphics to journey inside their bodies and brains to find out how the drug creates its highs and its lows.

Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 20th, 2011 - Thursday

Channel: BBC THREE Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3

Episode Name: Cocaine

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

How Drugs Work Season 1 Episode 2 Ecstasy

Preview of 'How Drugs Work':

As part of the Dangerous Pleasures season, this three-part series looks at the biological process behind three of the most commonly used recreational drugs - cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy.

Using groundbreaking CGI this episode follows the effect of ecstasy on the human body. Over the past 30 years ecstasy has become one of the world's most notorious drugs. No other illegal substance has had such an effect on fashion, music and how we party. This film follows two recreational ecstasy users over one night .Through graphic effects the viewer is taken on a journey deep inside the human body and the programme explains exactly how this powerful substance takes effect on the user's vital organs. Through the tour of the human body, we learn about the fascinating and often surprising scientific reasons for how these drugs work and also the damage they can cause.

Airing Details: 9:00 PM on January 13th, 2011 - Thursday

Channel: BBC THREE Channel

Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2

Episode Name: Ecstasy