Louis Theroux’s new documentary about drug addiction is going to be heartbreaking
Details of Louis Theroux’s new documentary have been released – and it sounds as if it’s going to be heartbreaking.
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The filmmaker will be tackling drug dependency in America โ specifically heroin users.
For the first time in 20 years life expectancy is declining, which many put down to the thousands of fatal heroin overdoses each year.
Louis will expose this issue by befriending โan Appalachian community that is being devastated and stretched to its limits by widespread heroin useโ.
Heroin use has increased dramatically due to the crackdown on prescription painkillers opioids.
The opioid epidemicย? has been rife in the US, but with the drugs becoming increasingly more expensive addicts are turning to heroin in order to get their high.
In the city of Huntington, West Virginia, Louis Theroux embeds himself in the community where โone in ten babies in the city born dependent on opiates and a fatal overdose rate 13 times the national average.โ
The documentary, which will air on 8 October at 9pm onย?BBC Two, will act as a microcosm for Americaโs drug problem with heroin claiming more lives than both car accidents and gun crime.
Louis will spend his time getting to know struggling drug users and the stretched emergency services as they cope with the problem.
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