“I hope to god you look at these videos and see what a mess I got myself into.”- Ben Rogers.
As a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle-class family Ben Rogers was expected to make a success of his life. Raised in a quiet, picturesque village Ben was a Boy Scout, with a passion for videography. But despite his privileged start in life Ben found himself on the road to ruin, injecting heroin up to four times a day. He began making a video diary to document how overpowered he was by addiction and wound up filming the last two years of his life.
His home videos have now been made into a documentary entitled Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict. It is now available on YouTube and is an eye opening look into addiction. It has a harsh rawness that has yet to be be captured by similar outlets such as Intervention. And while Ben is a story about heroin addiction, it’s very much a human story as well.
Rating: An eye opener and a terrifying look into heroin addiction. (8/10)
**warning** footage of needles and drug use*
Click here to watch Ben: Diary Of A Heroin Addict
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