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Review of What I did for Drugs


This does not fit into the regular drug rehab narrative of hell and redemption. You feel like you’re getting it unfiltered, with no attempt to moralize. It’s just straight-ahead, hard-boiled facts. It’s a cool format… I interview you, you interview me. We both have stories worth telling. It feels real and raw. So often stories of drug use are fodder for movies and books. Here it is in all its mundane truth. The subjects have not made anything of their experience yet because, perhaps, they are still too young and close to it. It’s like a snapshot… something like a Larry Clarke photo. It has that kind of matter-of-factness. This could offer a nice change of perspective and tone within some programming about drug abuse.