‘Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way’ traces the history of ceratin drugs sshowing that they were not always illegal, but were a medication against many “sicknesses”, like depressions or feeling tired. Even “coke” got popular because it has extracts of the coca-leave in it.
Illegal drugs such as Crack, Cocaine, Opium, Marijuana, Heroine, etc make people addictive, shorten life-expectancy and change the social outlook too, posing a risk for the users as well as others.
This film also illustrates how in these days, drugs are often a sign of problems in people’s life as it becomes their only recourse when reality is too demanding.
