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Long-term use of crack cocaine can produce damage to the circulatory system and lead to heart attacks, strokes, and failures in judgment and social exchange (Crack Cocaine Addiction Treatment: Dealing with a Deadly Killer, 1999). Their sad struggle mirrors the despair of their home town. (Crack Cocaine Addiction Treatment, 2012). In the eighteenth months it took to complete this documentary, the camera follows Brenda, Dicki and Boo-Boo in and out of crack houses, rehab centers and jails. To make the film, documentarians Jon Alpert and Mary Ann DeLeo teamed up with Lowell resident and former drug addict Rich Farrell, who was able to obtain remarkable access to the townвЂ™s drug subculture. Boo-Boo has spent the last twenty years smoking crack, shoplifting, and doing whatever he has to do to stay alive. He commits robberies to support his habit.

Dicki was the вЂњPride of LowellвЂќ a boxer who once foughtВ Sugar RayВ Leonard. Yet I hate it worse than anythingвЂќ, says Brenda. Brenda was an aspiring actress now she resorts to prostituion to pay for her crack addiction. High on Crack Street:В LostВ Lives in Lowell is a harrowing documentary chronicling 18 months in the lives of three crackhouse friends whose addiction has let them to crime and despair.Д«renda, Dicki and Boo-Boo have grown up in and around Lowell. In blue-collar Lowell, Massachusetts, where disappearing industry has produced high unemployment, some residents have turned to crack for relief вЂ“ only to see their dreams of a better life go up in smoke. HereвЂ™s the description of High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell.

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Here is the trailer for the documentary, and you can watch the full doc over at SnagFilms. While heвЂ™s in jail, Dickie goes through the process of pulling himself out of this hell heвЂ™s been living. He eventually ends up in jail while trying to get some cash to help his brother train. We are shown the sad and depressing life that he leads, while an HBO documentary crew follows him around documenting his life. This is a guy who famously fought the legendary boxer вЂњSugarвЂќ Ray Leonard and knocked him down, but he ended up blowing his big shot, and flushed his boxing career down the toilet when he got hooked on smoking crack.

As you know the film is based on a true story, so this documentary actually exists.ДickieвЂ™s part in the film is equally as interesting and powerful as MickyвЂ™s story.

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Throughout the movie Christian Bale's character Dickie Eklund was filming a documentary for HBO called High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, this doc plays a very significant role in the film's story. I recently saw it for a second time and enjoyed it just as much as the first time I saw it. If you haven't seen David O' Russell's The Fighter yet you have to watch it! This is a great film.

Crack addiction documentary