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Jaki Hall and Dan Henson discuss addiction with Avon, a recovering addict, and Chip Silverman from the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration.","Be advised that this video may contain sensitive, triggering, and offensive language and content.","Thank you to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture for the digitization of this item."]},"provider":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["MARMIA"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["MARMIA"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/053/original/cropped-marmia-logo-copy1.png?1586173104","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/203/673/small/thumbnail_203673_1719416382.jpg?1719402028","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - open-uri20230807-555-o55biz.mp4"]},"duration":3664.118,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/203/673/small/thumbnail_203673_1719416382.jpg?1719402028","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-marmia.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/203/673/original/open-uri20230807-555-o55biz.mp4?1691444797","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":3664.118,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["AUTO_TRINT_WJZ-CTYLN-001-010.mp4 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You enjoy getting a little high? You smoke a little reefer, snort a little coke? Sure. It's fun. And it won't hurt you, will it? If you found yourself answering yes or even thinking about some of the questions, then ask. You definitely want to keep watching. You also want to keep watching if you have children of any age, because essay on drugs is a graphic portrayal of the drug world as few have ever seen it. What we are about to show you is a tape presentation entitled Essay on Drugs, Originally produced and narrated in 1981 by award winning journalist Gil Noble, who produces the show called Like It Is in New York. We profiled Gil Noble on a previous edition of City Line, but Gil Noble has put together is a very powerful conversation for youth. It is also shocking, and you may have to force yourself to watch at points because it is so graphic. Parental discretion is advised, especially for younger children. As Jackie said, essay on drugs is not pleasant to watch, but it is one of the most important documentaries that we have ever seen. And we encourage you to stay with us. If not for your sake and for that of your children. Following the essay, we're going to open the phone lines to get your reactions. We'll take a break now and return with essay on drugs one. Welcome back to special edition of City. Remember that we advise you just before we went to the break that parental discretion is advised for the rest of the show. Here then, is Gil Noble's essay on drugs. My young brothers and sisters. This is an essay just for you. I want to talk to you about getting high. I know you see me on TV and you probably think I'm straight.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=112.82,290.15"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Life don't know what's happening. Probably thinking Here comes another lecture. I'm not going to let you. I just want to talk to you about getting high. You see, it's out on the wire that a lot of you are into getting high. And I think that there are some things that you should think about. I've been hearing that as many as eight out of every ten of you are into some kind of getting high. I've been hearing that this is happening in public schools with some of you who are as young as seven and eight years old copping some kind of drug or another. In fact, some say that the place where you can get the most powerful drugs at the lowest prices is in schools. High school, too. Some of my connections tell me that if you ain't down for getting off into some kind of stuff. In high school, they'll call you a sissy. College, I hear, is much the same thing. And I hear that some are running down the line, too, that if you're smart, you can get into some beautiful highs without any danger of getting a habit. Some of these people are experts, but at least they sound like they're experts. They say that a little smoke is no more dangerous than a taste of alcohol. You'll never get a Jones from a little smoke, they say. And so I hear tell a whole lot of you young brothers and sisters. Our study into some smoke were once the only approach black people knew was the one that crawls up the wall. Now the one best known as a roach. It makes them crawl up the wall. But you love this thing, this roach. You defend it, you fight for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=290.51,399.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you're right to have it. You argue that it makes you function better. I mean, that's what you say, right? It helps you play ball better, dance better, think better, make love better. Study better. And again, what's so good about it, you say, is that you can't get a Jones from it or a habit. Well, my dear brothers and sisters, because we care about you so very much. We went out into the street and cut into some people that you just have to meet. They at one time had the same kind of arguments I just ran down. But now things are a bit different. Yet because of their deep love for you. They agreed one night to meet with me in a dark, dingy boiler room of an apartment building. They had a lot to say to me, but in actuality, they were really talking to you when you started. Did you think that you were going to get as involved as you are now? No, because when I first started, it was more out of curiosity. Curiosity? How to watch? No guys around the block. And it was like a new adventure. You know, growing up, you know, like you had certain idols, you know? I wanted to see why Tommy over there was doing all this and why he was bending over like this. And then after we got into it, I kind of liked it a little bit. And after a while, you would have to just badger, just feel numb. How much do you have to shoot now just to feel normal? Well, I first, I would spend $25 and call it a half a quarter and have to get that first shot in me. It would like settle me, get my nose back, because you'd be all nervous and be true to the part where your eyes would be running or you got to throw up or your bowels would break after that first shot in that second shot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=399.38,514.98"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I would be like, Well, so trying to get high. So it would be like $50 or $50 shot. How much do you shoot a day now? Roughly about two, three, 4 hours, 3 to 4 hours a day. How much is that? Cause it's $50 quarter sometimes. Like if you buy regular for one guy, he would give it to you for $40. Cause that's like. That's like $60 a day. How about you? When did you get involved? How old were you? I was about 19 or 20 when I first started. And it was more or less out of curiosity, like the brother said. And then it became a necessity, you know? And now it's not about even getting high in the movie. It's just about, you know, just trying to feel normal. How much do you shoot a day in Dallas? Oh, sometimes two or $300 a day varies to $300 a day. Where do you have to shoot? I notice your hands look kind of messed up. Well, like now I can't. I was going in my hand. Now I can't. I was going in my arms. I can't go on. The more I was going in the leg, my legs and stuff, I can't go there anymore. I was going in my neck. I can't do it anymore. And I started going in the wrong. And that just wound up this morning. So I don't know where I'm going to go now. You're going in your neck? Yeah. Show me where. I don't know whether you can still see. Do you know? Swallow one time now, Duane. More just in and. Yeah. And sometimes I get someone else to do it. Someone else to shoot in your neck? Yeah, man. How can you shoot a dirty needle in your neck? Well, no, when you see, you know, when you try to get there for a shed, you know, you don't care.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=515.34,635.27"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you got to get hit in the nose, you get to be shot and you know you're not concerned about whether it's in the neck or on the arm or in your foot in the for some people go in the foyer, you know, you don't even where you can find a vein and that's where you want to shoot it. Is that what has caused the scars on your head? Yeah. From, you know, going in certain spot so many times you start to know, start the kill, kill the area, you want to start leaving. Tracks will look like both man's is full of knocking him going to the head and show me where you were shooting right in the skin here. Yeah, they did. Until it formed an ulcer. Right. What about you be or mine? Here you can see the cells already. And basically it came from me being, like, nervous when I was shooting and I was a little ill and cocaine misuse. He makes a bad also like that. Heroin misusing don't make a bad also like that just makes a hard spot You see it comes from a combination of cocaine and heroin and then these terrible ulcers. Let me see. You have, you know, all over. You can see my very bad and very bad. I have them all the way up my arm. But let me see other. And each of these spots are where you put a needle in right now. So sometime it gets to the point that if they're not treated or some type of and it gives them taken one else or spread to another by like your pores might be open to perspiration and some of the passing germs get into the pores outside of your skin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=636.02,738.34"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, and it makes sense now, but also just continue to spread. Isn't it painful and very painful? These I try to cure myself. I got pulled out a drain. The pus is cool. You have to get out and I pull it out, you know, painstakingly. But I want them off. I wasn't ready to kick, so I wasn't going to ask you where do you where do you shoot now? You can't shoot on your own. No, no, I can't shoot my arms now. Now I go under my arms as I'm going on my legs. I'm with my boy all also, I went in my fingers. Now go on my side. You had veins on the side of my chest. I go there now. Hmm. Where do you shoot, brother? Well, I would tell you. No. I have been lonely every place on my body. Oh, like with my neck. Finger. Two feet. Let me just show you my feet. This is what drugs can do to children, to all the young children in the country today. Stay away from drugs. Look at this. Look at my day. Look at the size of my leg. I'm literally a deformed man. And this is this is too good. This is a good leg. This is good leg. What kind of a life is it that you need? I mean, well, how do you function like this, man? Well, we have to. You do live from day to day. You don't know whether you're going to live or you don't. You. You work. I speak for myself sometimes. I just totally giving up on life. Just to. Just more or less give me a world I can hide in. You know, with everyone, it seems no present did and no, you know, Governor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=738.65,877.19"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And everyone is the same. We're all junkies. What are you talking about when you say that we're all junkies? What do you mean? I'm just saying, in in the drug community, you know, everyone is basically the same. We all looked upon as stupid. You know, you got a cold. I notice you're all stopped up. Or is it because of drugs? You would do drugs. Lower your body resistance? Very little. You know, with C I might have a cold now, Ray, but as I use the drugs, you know, the drug more or less suppresses the symptoms. Oh, you know, with I have had pneumonia for over a month but didn't know it until I see maybe the time when I didn't have just for long period. And your body? Yeah. Like when when you put the drugs in your body. Except, you know, you keep constantly putting drugs in your system. Your body in turn start, except as far as substance. Now, when you take it out, your body turns on you like. So you all started using drugs in the sixties? In the latter sixties for myself. 67. Why is that? Why did you start using around the same time? Have you ever thought about that? Yeah, as far as myself. That's when I noticed we are a little bit before that time. They had a lot of game to have, like the sports moves and the politicians and this and that. Everybody was was like a changing at that time. Everybody wanted to get into something different. It seemed like at that moment more people was getting to the drug me and putting the jitterbug and down the gang was, you know, that was that was like playing out. That was for like kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=877.85,996.26"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now everybody was getting into a hip thing and the drugs came on the set. That's when more drugs came into the community. But why at that particular time, do you have any thoughts about why it came at that particular time that you thought about that? Yes, we're doing that. It was more or less the time of the Black Panthers and Revolution and Hippies, you know, and the drug culture was just more or less blooming around it. No. And you hear, you know, at the time where I was at term, I was about 13, 14. And, you know, you hear a lot about drugs, drugs, drugs. And you in the in in the particular ghetto environment. I grew up on 19th Street, St Nicholas, in the area where the main drug was dope. MAN one Does what you started on marijuana? Oh, yes, yes. I started smoking marijuana, but the marijuana didn't lead me into drugs. It did. No know I use marijuana until, you know, I one like the old guy. A lot of older guy we use and have. And they always seem to be a lot higher than I was. You know, I was up and I wasn't as high as they were, you know. So I wanted to, you know, want to know how they were getting so high. And, you know, no one wasn't giving me this sort of thing. So but then how can you say that one didn't lead you to another? Because when you come to think of it, No, no. I wanted to use heroin because I wanted to get high. Right. I didn't, you know, didn't want it, didn't give me the fact that as to other people knew that you started on marijuana reefer to get high and then you moved elsewhere to get higher.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=996.71,1121.87"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Really. So step one led to step two. You could say that. You could possibly say that because, oh, smoking marijuana was was more or less like a teenage bad. We like high school, you know, everybody smoked, you know, And if you didn't smoke, you wasn't in, you know, someone that you had smoked. But at that time didn't do people that use drugs. And they were very small, you know, a very small community. And, you know, it wasn't that many like, see, when I was in high school wasn't very many people that was going to high school with me using drugs. Very small, you know, community drug. Yeah, but. Still, you know, Would you would you what would you say to a young person about smoking reefer? Well, I really have no no to who's starting in a world of getting high, which is usually the first step like you had? Would you tell a young person to make that first step in the world of getting high? I would tell to leave the whole thing alone because just like you said, now that I think about it, once, the getting high in itself is is a detriment to your body and your mind. You know, that can hold you in that you do it just just like cigarets Cigarets can ruin your body. Do you know to where you can't perform athletically, which is the same thing with drugs, but not only when your body to put you down mentally? What kind of life do you live? Tell me, what kind of life do you live? Do you have a woman? No, I don't. You have a love life or anything world? No. I live with no low life equal to drugs. You mean no woman wants you because of the condition that you're in physically? No, I see that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=1122.5,1258.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That that could pose a problem. But I believe if someone loves you, you know what? You. You know how you look. Physically should know better. But I wouldn't want to, you know, make love to a woman in that condition. And I mean, now physically and, you know, and so therefore, you know, I stay away from it, you know. What would you say, brother, to a young person who's making that first step into getting high similar to what they grow into? Leave it alone. Don't even begin, you know, because day they go wind up just like all you doing it us. But they're smarter than you. You down, you get hooked. They're smart. That's what they say. If they touch either one of them, then as then they're smart As they think they are. They try either one of them. Then I just move. They think they. Do you think the same thing? I think it's just a matter of time. Because. Because just like he said, he wanted to get high. And what really makes them think that they're going to be different? He was. I mean, eventually they don't want to try a different type. I'd just like be one for the first beginning, one to try to smoke because a lot of them start out drinking beer and then they go to the wine and then they get to the, um, the ah, marijuana, then from the marijuana to the dance and then, and Aaron. And so, um, so this advice would be just to leave, you know, the drugs. That alone is something deeper than that. The Nation of Islam used to talk about it. And I talked to a professor who said that the reason why drugs are made available to youth is because they don't want them to be activists.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=1259.19,1372.13"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They want to be docile. What do you say? I also believe that to be true to a degree. I see signs that it shows more truth and cause just passes by, slows you down, keep the crowd keeping Koran. They want people suppressed. Are you able is there any part of your life that you're able to contribute to the struggle of black people? Be honest. I have I have and can know now in this condition that there's nothing I can do except for just try to explain to the young, you know, my problems and how I got to let let's be honest about it. But as far as contributing, there's nothing I can do because you may even in a sense, be a hindrance. The right thing. Uh, I would tend, I would tend to agree with because how can you see don't do something that you're doing? And so we're not any form of example for children or young to stop using drugs because we're not projecting that type of end. But, you know, we we have new I must myself speak for myself. I have ruined my life. I feel to a degree in this particular part of my life and, you know, say, 13 and 15 years of my life, I have using drugs, you know, And I'm hoping that by me sitting here right now, telling it like it is, you know, will help, you know, will be my contribution, you know, to bless society. Because, you know, if I had maybe if I had had seen something like this, seen the type of destruction, the type of, uh, to the way that the body can be deformed by using drugs, I don't think I ever will was done with my arm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=1373.45,1496.6"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't think I ever would. It did you know, but that that drugs were, you know, something that was trying to be kept quiet and man uh, I don't know when you know at a time they say during the 60, the late sixties, during the revolutionary time, I it is seen in me observed that the drugs were being flooded in the ghetto areas. The ghetto is would be flooded with drugs. And at the turn, you know, guns were much, much higher quality and cheaper to and cheap this way than it is now and which around it. I think that's what really started a lot of was you know it was like to be told real good drugs and booze you know yeah where do you shoot now I, I get off and my grown. In. Brother. Where do you shoot now? Your arms are going sometimes and I have help. And I go under my arms or on my side. Going to make. Certain people make money because they can hit. They don't have to hustle at all. They don't have to steal. Aren't you scared you're going to kill yourself, brother? That's what I'm saying. If you don't know how to hit one, to paralyze. In the neck and groin. Certain people this hitman may make you may make up to 480 people for good reputation. Yes, Specialist Nick. Specialist groin specialist under the arm. Specialist. You know, you have to zoom through so it be better. Is improving. You can see it. You can see that by pointing to. But no one knew what. Oh, no, no, no. She. No luck in the drain. Yeah. They have all different type of asbestos hit man maybe for $500 a day because he hit in the groin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=1497.59,1707.95"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Perfect. Because he hit under the arm first. Because he hit the neck. Perfect. And all these perc, all these places under the arm and the neck and a groin. These are places where if he misses you, paralyze the person, paralyzed person. So they pay up to 8 to $10 for him. Sometime a guy might give up half his shot for a hit and that might be 60 or 50, $70, $80 worth of drugs, $50 for heroin. And these people. All this heroin and cocaine. $30 worth of cocaine. Dollars hero. And gives up half of that price. Very sure go It's for. Things you do not do. Just some of got to go to control your last moment that you didn't quite you first thing hit me. I want to know what are you going to pay in cash? Which are you paying drugs down from a good hit man? You're my first client. The first thing I'm gonna tell you. Why did you wake me up? You have a drug shot for me. How can I hit you? Good. And I don't have any drugs, So it causes you. Now, for you to get a good hit, you have to almost supply my. Happy to go. Push my. Good. Well, something's happening now. They have committed issues linked to movement issues. I mean, we tried in the NBC. People in trouble. Yeah. Things they don't pull that the U.S.. Mr.. And you're sure you want to go in there and then supposedly you want to go into that stuff. Oh. To show. US to sharpen. It's easy to. I see what you're doing. Missing a little bit. And it's the first time you've been right there. As far as I know, down to say five times six.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=1708.31,1936.56"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Like when when King Herod is Herod. Got me running too hard. He killed my nature. Seven times. I look at the system and I regret. And I regret because I used to have a sex life. I regret because I can't have sex. Heroin and cocaine becomes to six. Any time you try and run, you're always story to take the time to say Jones will take your allergies running and that's when you shoot or anything that's rushing. You will be good adding the sick and these are things you can't tell them that. Look at my 41 myth. Can you imagine what happened? See if I would have an abscess Mr. Normal on my forehead and challenge to my brain is this. This death. One this. I'm ensuring that I have a good hit. That's what I'm doing. And backing this out. 5 minutes. He had me do something to my sex life in case I had to have one sex again. Too soon to back up our view of. I have ruined my life. I feel to a degree in this particular part of my life, you know, say 13 and 15 years of my life, I have using drugs, you know. And I'm hoping that by me sitting here right now, telling it like it is, you know, will help, you know, will be my contribution, you know, to bless society. Because, you know, if I had maybe if I had had seen something like this, seen the type of destruction, the type to the way that the body can be to form by using drugs, I don't think I ever will with the needle on my arm. I don't think I ever would have done. You've been watching City Line special essay on Drugs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=1936.92,2173.31"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was produced in 1981 by Gil Noble, UGA. You, of course, can call in and give us your reactions right now at four Floyd one 1330. We're going to come right back and get your reactions after this. All right. Now, here's this week's community calendar. The Baltimore Woman's Coalition, the YWCA of Greater Baltimore, and the Baltimore Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., invites Baltimoreans to hear the international acclaim quintet Sweet Honey in the Rock in concert on Tuesday, March six, 1984, at 8:15 p.m. at Dunbar High School, located at 1400 Orleans Street. Tickets can be purchased at the 31st Street Bookstore and at the YWCA. 128 West Franklin Street. Call 685146 out for ticket information. If your group or organization would like to announce an event, please write us in care of City Line. WJC TV Television Hill, Baltimore, Maryland 212, one, one. Or call us for further information at 46600013. Between the hours of nine and five. We're back on city land with our guests. And let me just introduce our guests real face. Avon Ross is a recovering drug addict in the Baltimore area. And Chip Silverman is the deputy director of the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration. Avon, let me just ask you, you've watched the essay on drugs by Gil Noble. That was done in 1981 in New York. This is now 1984. This is Baltimore. Is that a realistic portrayal of what the drug world is all about? Everything that was seen in in the film is real. You know, that's reality. You know, a lot of people don't want to look at it as being real, you know, But that's what the drug world is about. You know, people use to live, you know, lives are used for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=2173.76,2434.33"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My whole life extended into drugs. And that was the only thing about me, you know, that's the only thing it meant anything to me was to drugs. How did you get started? I got started from drinking, smoking reefer and advanced into I was drugs. Drinking was just the way to get high. And then marijuana was the next step. Yes. You know, each drug I was, I think, the ultimate high. How old were you when you got started and how long were you hooked? Eventually led to heroin. How long were you hooked? I said down for ten and a half years. I was afraid to my first drink at the age of 12, and I was like a weakened warrior at 15. And I just went on from there. What does Weekend Warrior mean? A Weekend Warriors. Someone who gets out just on a weekend. When I was in school, I would look forward to Friday night if I could, you know, go out and drink, put my mind with someone and drink. Okay. We're going to bring our home audience in who some of whom have been waiting a long time to talk to us. Good afternoon, your live on City Line. Good afternoon. My name is Vanessa. I am currently trying to rehabilitate myself from drug abuse by watching your program. I've tried to figure out just what's the most helpful thing that I could offer your audience. And it's this that, um, and rehabilitating drug abusers, you must remember that they owe their self-esteem motivation and they feel like no one cares. So in rehabilitating drug addicts, it's important that you remember these people are almost like babies. You have to approach them almost like children and bring them back to the world again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=2434.54,2531.65"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I think that's so important. At one time during my drug abuse, I was so down and out contemplating suicide, I called the hotline for help. I was down at the attitude of the person with the phone turned me off completely. I hung up, went, God, this is how she answered the phone. Yeah, you know, I'm complex. Suicide immediately felt and she doesn't care either, you know, and hung right up. And I think it's so important that we we learn more about drugs that we learn the root of that. And it's also important most people think that if bad for marijuana you know it starts from alcohol use the legal way of getting high and then it graduate. I know my statement must be brief there. This is such a big subject. There's so much I can say. Right. Shame for almost ten years. Oh, well, let me just ask Chip Silverman. Thank you. Director of the Maryland Drug Abuse Administrations respond. Chip, does somebody care? Yes. There are a lot of people out there that care. There are instances where perhaps a counselor in a skilled as they could be answering a hotline or a treatment program. You have to understand this field is still in its embryonic stages. It's only 15 years old, the field of treatment. And we've come a long way. How bad is the problem? The problems are extremely severe. In the state of Maryland, for example, we did an incidence and prevalence study in which we have shown that there are 101,000 people who are mentally, physically or socially dysfunctional as a use of drug abuse. 40,000 of these people are narcotic addicts. 28000 to 29000 reside in the Baltimore City area. It's the impact of all of these numbers on, let's say, the economy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=2532.03,2632.15"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, the impact staggering. A narcotic addict, a heroin shooter needs $100 a day to support his habit. That's 365 days out of the year. $36,000. No, no holidays. And the pusher does not take a credit card and he's not on credit. So he needs cash money. In order to get that cash money they have to steal. And that's shoplifting, breaking and entering, burglarizing, prostitution, all of these fields since it's tough to rob banks nowadays. So they have to go to a fence. And let's say you have a generous fence and he's given you a third or a quarter of what you're stealing. That means you're stealing three or four times what you need. It means that every heroin addict is stealing over $100,000 a year. Multiply that times are 29,000 addicts, and what you've got is $3 billion in the economy of the Baltimore metro area alone, 4 billion in the state. Evan, let's ask you, how did you support your own habit as a. Heroin addict for ten and a half years. Beg, borrow and stole whatever was necessary. No, I had a job that whole time and know my addiction and all of mine that I earned working went into my drug habit. Or any other kind of way from selling drugs to stealing from begging barn. Anything was necessary to do to support my habit had done. Okay. We're going to continue our discussion following USA on drugs right after this. Oh, by the way. If you were born and raised. All right. We're back on City Line with our special edition called Essay on Drugs. We're going to go immediately to the phones to talk to someone at home. Hello, your live on City Line. Yes. Yes. I would like to address one of the statements that one of your addicts that will be about sixties.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=2633.44,2833.26"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"During that period of time, there was a bunch of drugs dumped on the black community during the movement of the Black Panthers and things on going this particular time. I just wanted to make a statement that that element is largely responsible for this. The reason why I say that is because I believe that drugs, destruction of drugs on our youth were cause and effect on them to not be able to be confident enough to deal with being able to address the national issues. Okay. Let our guest respond to you. You've made quite a charge in your statement. Yvonne, Yvonne, the two callers raised the question about a conspiracy. Well, I can't, you know, say about it was a conspiracy or not, Not to be honest. I know drugs is a big business, you know, and as long as it is a business, it won't be there. Do you see it as a way of controlling people and therefore thereby minimizing any impact they would have on changing a system that they control? Yes, drugs do control you. You know your anything about you know, you have nothing is yours. You know, any act that you do whatsoever from sleeping to going to the bathroom is controlled by drugs. Well, you know, I can't buy any conspiracy theory whatsoever. This is a huge business, a huge industry. It's bigger than the oil industry. It's bigger than the car industry. There's billions of dollars. And and if you talk about it in racial terms, then you have to say, well, what about the cocaine? Are we or is there a conspiracy to affect the white population? And so I think it's very difficult to address that because we're in the midst of a cocaine epidemic that's going to get worse in the next three or four years, and that's going to result in another heroin epidemic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=2834.31,2957.76"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of the things that the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration does is calculate the statistics. Is it a fact that the statistics really started rising in terms of the numbers of people affected in the sixties, late sixties? Well, that's true. And that's when we started seeing a tremendous increase in drug abuse and in drug addiction. And it has continued into this decade of the eighties. And unhappily, it's going to continue into the end of this decade and probably further on. Okay. We're going to go to a question from the audience. Yes, ma'am. Yes. First of all, I really thank the guest for being on such an important topic. I have two questions. One for each. First of all, I would like to know how you made the most important decision to come off of drugs and how difficult was that? And for the Drug Abuse Administration, what is the role of the administration in letting schools know what the community availability is of help? Yvonne, if we could have you answer the first question. It was hard, you know, coming off because I knew no other way of life. You know, I belong to a self-help group. You know, as people just like me. So I had not found a way out. I went to my job first. What entered into your head? I mean, what is it that said to you, Hey, I've got to get off drugs. I've got to do something? What turned you around? I lost everything that I had at home. But in material things, you know, I've been married. I put my family through a hell, but that didn't even matter what it was. And I lost my respect for me. We're going to continue our discussion. We're going to answer the second question, which was posed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=2959.08,3055.92"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But first, we'll take a break and return. Chip Silverman from the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration. Just before we went away, a question was asked of you as to what kind of programs or what kind of efforts do you make to advise people about programs and availability? Well, the state has 55 treatment programs in Baltimore City and every subdivision in Maryland. In addition, we have prevention coordinators in most of our subdivisions. The Department of Education has a very good program, kindergarten through 12th grade, in which they have prevention and education. And anyone that wants to know about what else is available, they can either contact their local health department or call the State Drug Abuse Administration. So a parent who might have watched the tape and be very much concerned about making sure that this follow up information for their children available for their children can do what we can contact the Drug Abuse Administration at 383272. Well, you can call the State Department of Education. You can contact his local health department. Let me ask Avon. Avon, what do you feel is one of the best ways to reach young people? I believe is in the school system and I believe this is started around the fifth grade. You know, like the picture was just shown. You know, people are so afraid that the kids are going to be, you know. That's reality. And I believe kids are to see reality is reality is what drugs really can lead you to. You know, keep trying to hide it from. And I like it doesn't exist. It's interesting you didn't mention the whole, you know, also in the home, you know, and then the home is a double problem because people think that they can smoke weed in front of the kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=3056.55,3293.36"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's okay because I did it myself or get drunk about it. Yes. You know what? I figured it was okay. They don't understand. But kids knowing what's going on, because they see an industry and they see their homes and it's like make them say, well, I can do this when I get older. But there is a responsibility in the home. Yes. All righty. Let's bring someone else. And good afternoon. You're on City Line, Dan, Jackie, Chip and Avon. I'd like to make a comment. I've been listening to your show all day and I am a profiteer. And I also work and I have a family and a mortgage. And I've been involved in drugs for about 20 years. And I find that there are two classes of people who deal with drugs. There are the type of people who get involved in drugs and it overwhelms them and they become a victim of it. And then there's another type of person who is involved in drugs and wants to enjoy the pleasures of drugs. Okay, Let's educating let's let our guests respond to those points. You know, for me, I don't think it's too class of people into the drug war. And I have never met a sociable dolphin. All right. You know, and to say that, you know, it's like what he did, he just made like telling kids it's okay as long as you be social. And that's I think that's bull. Okay. I think that's real bull. The telling of the to the valid because drugs is not an outlook a way out of life because that's what he is saying a drug escaping reality. Okay. Thank you for your point. We're going to continue our discussion real short period of time left, but we're going to continue our discussion right after this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673#t=3293.72,3388.7"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/103613/file/203673/transcript/47233/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I hope. If you want a ride, don't ride the Whitehall. Whitehall. We're back on City Line and we're sorry to say we're out of time. We hope that you've been able to get something out of today's special edition of City Line essay on Drugs. We'd like to thank Avon Ross. Chip Silverman of the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration. Chip, before you gave us a phone number where those who needed help or needed information could call, give us that number one more time. Well, with the state, it's 383272. Well, but they can just look in the phone book and there's addict referral and counseling in the Baltimore metro area or the local department Echo house. We've got that guys on the street addict referral and counseling you've got and can find addicts seeking help is another place to deal with it. So there are adequate places to deal with it, at least places to call Avon. Yes. And they also have Narcotics Anonymous that they can call for help. Okay. Just coming up next week, we want to remind all of you that breakdancing and rap music is the topic next week. And we're going to have all kinds of people here from the local entertainment scene to rap in and break with us again. We hope that you enjoy today's special edition of City Line. That's our show. I'm Jackie Hall. Have a good, good Sunday. I'm Dan Hanson. 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