BBC Storyville - The House I Live In - 2013-01-14

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Title: BBC Storyville 2012_2013 The House I Live In
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzz69

Storyville: As America remains embroiled in overseas conflict, a less visible
war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families and
inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. For over forty
years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the
world's largest jailer and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for
all that, drugs are more available today than ever before.

Filmed in more than twenty states, this film captures a definitive and heart-
wrenching portrait of individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From
the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the
inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside
America's longest war, revealing its profound human rights implications.

While recognising the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health,
the film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have instead
treated it as a matter for law enforcement, creating a vast political and
economic machine that feeds largely on America's poor, especially minority
communities. Yet beyond simple misguided policy, the film investigates how
political and economic corruption have fuelled the war for forty years, despite
persistent evidence of its moral, economic and practical failures.

Ultimately, the documentary seeks, through compassionate inquiry, to promote
public awareness of the history and contemporary mechanics of this human rights
crisis and to begin a national conversation about its reform.

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