Narcotics: Pit of Despair

Duration: 10:00

Year Published: 1967

Complete Record: Ominous bongos fill the soundtrack. John is a high school senior. He is on the track team, drives a sporty car, and has a cute girlfriend. His friend Pete is a drug pusher. Pete invites John to a party. Hammond organ music and dizzying camera work prepare us that drug abuse is about. John meets Helen who lures him to the garage “Take a trip from Squaresville,” says the narrator as a joint gets passed around. John gets “psychologically dependent” on pot and soon heroin abandoning his girlfriend, car and track team. He begins stealing from his own mother to buy drugs. John is left screaming in agony while going through withdrawals and winds up in the hospital. All seems well until John thinks of stopping in at Pete’s to say hello. A title appears over a shot of a spitting cobra that reads “there is no end”.