@DocsFansSaturday, April 23, 2016 Tags :Crime,
Drugs
Pablo Escobar became the most powerful drug lord in history amassing an over 20 billion fortune. Along the way he terrorized an entire country and made many powerful enemies the Untouchable Colombian had to be stopped. In this documentary we learn about Escobar's meteoric rise and ultimate demise.
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As part of the Secret History series on UK Channel 4 Hitler's Hidden Drug Habit delves into the recently discovered American file on the health of Adolf Hitler and the journals of Hitlers personal physician Dr. Theodor Morell. Through the war years Hitler became more and more reliant on the man known as a quack and his sometimes weird concoctions. In numerous footage of Hitler we see Morrell in the background, including footage shot by Eva Braun at his home The Berghof you can see in the documentary In Love with Adolf Hitler.
Dr. Morell had by the last years of World War Two Hitler on a huge amount of medication including strangely crystal meth and bull sperm. Hitler thought only medication injected to be valid which led to him receiving up to 20 injections daily, one expert remarked The Fuehrer would have been like a pin cushion. Morell in his journals made notes on several occasions of breaking needles when administering the shots, indeed those in Hitlers circle called the Doctor "Reichsspritzenmeister” (The needle master of the Third Reich). But what if any effect did this reliance on medication have on Hitler and what does the seemingly hypochondriac tendencies say about the most infamous man in history ?
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@DocsFansThursday, January 22, 2015 Tags :Drugs,
Society
Crystal Methamphetamine is now recognized as the most addictive drug on the planet. The popularity of the TV show Breaking Bad brought knowledge of crystal Meth to the masses but it never didn't go close to telling the whole story. In 2006; Two years before Breaking Bad, director Todd Ahlberg made the Documentary simply called Meth, at the time the most in-dept documentary on the subject. With a focus on past users and active users Meth is a scary look at a lives destroyed by the drug.
