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Cash on Demand is a 1961 British black and white second feature [2] neo noir crime thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing and André Morell. [3] The screenplay was adapted from the 1960 Associated Television Theatre 70 teleplay The Gold Inside, also directed by Lawrence, and featuring André Morell and Richard Vernon in the same roles.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1961: Bomb in the High Street: Peter Bezencenet, Terry Bishop: Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh, Jack Allen: Drama: The Breaking Point: Lance Comfort
Until 1916 drug use was hardly controlled, and widely available opium and coca preparations commonplace. [1]: 13–14 Between 1916 and 1928 concerns about the use of these drugs by troops on leave from the First World War and then by people associated with the London criminal society gave rise to some controls being implemented. [1]
Drug films are films that depict either illicit drug distribution or drug use, whether as a major theme, such as by centering the film around drug subculture or by depicting it in a few memorable scenes. Drug cinema ranges from gritty social realism depictions to the utterly surreal depictions in art film and experimental film.
Drug policies are usually aimed at combatting drug addiction or dependence addressing both demand and supply of drugs, as well as mitigating the harm of drug use, and providing medical assistance and treatment. Demand reduction measures include voluntary treatment, rehabilitation, substitution therapy, overdose management, alternatives to ...
Breaking the Taboo is a 2011 Brazilian documentary film about the War on Drugs. The film recounts the history of the war on drugs, beginning with the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs . Breaking the Taboo explores the conclusion reached by the Global Commission on Drug Policy in 2011 that drug liberalization is the best approach in ...
McLellan, who served as deputy director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy from 2009 to 2011, recalled recently talking to a despairing parent with an opiate-addicted son. The son had been through five residential treatment stays, costing the family more than $150,000.
The first report is also known as The Report of the Second Inter-departmental Committee on Drug Addiction, [1] and it was published in 1961. It stated that the incidence of addiction to dangerous drugs in Great Britain was small. [2] This was the same conclusion drawn by the previous committee, The Rolleston Committee, in 1926. [3]