Slang Terms for Drugs

Charlie, charge, chang, chaz, coke, coca paste, snow, toot, koka, sniff, atta. = cocaine
Pot, herb, mary jane, chronic, draw, ganja, zoot, draw= Marijuana
rock, smack, snowballs = Crack

MARIJUANA

Cannabis, also known as marijuana,ganjaThe herbal form of the drug consists of dried mature Flowers and subtending leaves of pistillate ("female") plants.

Heroin

Crack/cocaine is a highly addictive form of cocaine that is popular for its intense High. It is a form of the drug that is made using baking soda (sodium barcbonate) in a process to convert cocaine hydrochloride (powder cocaine) into freebase cocaine (methylbenzoylecgonine).

Definition of drug

A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in medicine, government regulations, and colloquial usage

Stastics on Drugs

500,000 - the estimated number of UK class A drug users
6,186 - the number of drug treatment and testing orders issued by courts last year
5,419 - the number of drug treatment and testing orders breached last year
£390m - the national budget for drugs action teams in 2002
£19m - the amount drug action teams spent on detox last year
£3,000 - the lowest cost for an individual detox
6,333 - the maximum number of detoxes paid for by drug action teams
3,800 - the number of users who successfully go through detox
3,500 - the number of places available for them in rehabilitation schemes
2,415 - the number who will complete the course
1,328 - the number who will emerge drug-free

Gang Documentaries Research

Production Plan

1. Crime dictionary defenition.
2.Montage of crime with contrapuntal music .
3. title CRIME in brick effect.
4.2 minute voice of god crime facts .
5. Interview with the police man with showing a drug dealing with contrapuntal music for comedic effect.
6. 3 way split screen of preparation of drugs while music is climaxing.
7. After drug is consumed the drug addict looks relified and the music slows down.
8. Interview with drug dealer, why? when? how?
9.Interview with crack head
10. Map of drug trail.
11. Part 2 robbery.

Interviews

We want to interview a high ranking police officer as to get the most detail due to experience and knowledge, his views on whether the government is (and the police) dealing with it in a suitable manner. We are hoping for the Officer to say "we have got it under control" or anything amongst them lines....! We want to get a drug dealers side of the story, and what factors - whether the stereotypical factors or other reasons - why the "bad side"? We also want to interview a 'crackhead' as to why they smoke crack and in some cases heroin, we were aiming to have someone injecting on the camera, however not all people are comfortable on the subject, so we changed the idea to smoking crack and sniffing a line of cocaine. Furthermore we want to express that in some cases it is not only 'bittys' on road who consume 'hard drugs.)

Drug Trail

Heroin
90% of UKs heroin comes from Afganistan. Half of Afganistans economy comes from the opium trade. It is hard to track as there are many borders around Afganistan and different tracks of getting to the UK.
Crack
crack addcicts are offered treatment specifically devised for heroin addicts. the help providers no too little about crack in order to offer effective help. figure show there are more crack addicts than heroin, but 12 times more heroin addicts recieve treatment.

Crime Research

MS 13 Documentary:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1hviVFKoq3s- MS 13 Documentary Part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bY8d_bEinwk- MS 13 Documentary Part 2

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ufjxhCS1EK0 - MS 13 Documentary Part 3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jFV7M5CgJko- MS 13 Documentary Part 4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-cCNgFKti8Y- MS 13 Doucmentary Part 5

Ross Kemp On Gangs:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Ct5B8Zy-ts- Ross Kemp On Gangs- Cape Town- Part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5zmcD4gYVcw&feature=related- Ross Kemp On Gangs- Cape Town - Part 2

StCocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug. The powdered, hydrochloride salt form of cocaine can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Crack is cocaine that has not been neutralized by an acid to make the hydrochloride salt. This form of cocaine comes in a rock crystal that can be heated and its vapors smoked. The term 'crack' refers to the crackling sound heard when it is heated."
Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse, InfoFacts: Crack and atistics:

In 2002, 45.3 percent of the 1,538,813 total arrests for drug abuse violations were for marijuana -- a total of 697,082. Of those, 613,986 people were arrested for marijuana possession alone. This is a slight decrease from 2000, when a total of 734,497 Americans were arrested for marijuana offences, of which 646,042 were for possession alone.
According to the UN's estimate, 141 million people around the world use marijuana. This represents about 2.5 percent of the world population.Source: United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Global Illicit Drug Trends 1999 (New York, NY: UNODCCP, 1999), p. 91. Marijuana was first federally prohibited in 1937. Today, more than 83 million Americans admit to having tried it.Sources: Marihuana Tax Act of 1937; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Summary of Findings from the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (Rockville, MD: Department of Health and Human Services, 2002), Table H.1, from the web at