The Drug Years

The Drug Years

2006 1 Seasons
Documentary

A documentary about drugs and their influence in the second half of the 20th century.

Seasons

1. Break On Through

2006-06-12

From the breakthrough, heroin-laced sounds of Charlie Parker, to the "bop prosody" of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, to the "tune in, turn on, drop out" psychedelic mantra of Ti…

2. Feed Your Head

2006-06-13

The counterculture is co-opted by mainstream media and the psychedelic experience is bought and sold by Madison Avenue and Hollywood in films like The Trip and Easy Rider. The pop…

3. Teenage Wasteland

2006-06-14

If the 1960s were about expanding the mind, the 1970s, in the words of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, would be about getting "stoned, ripped, twisted." It was the golden age…

4. Just Say No!

2006-06-15

Just Say No! traces America's growing drug use in the '80s and '90s: the loss of cocaine's "innocence," the Less Than Zero generation, the media firestorm over crack cocaine and h…

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