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''Crackheads Gone Wild'' is a 2006 documentary produced by Daryl Smith about
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users in
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Post release

In an interview with ''
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'' newspaper, Smith said he knew some of the people he filmed over a period of years and watched them slowly deteriorate. 'Many of these people are highly intelligent. I have footage of a lady who has a master's degree in education and used to work on
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. She got hooked on drugs and now she's
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. The point of the movie is: do not even try crack or this is what it will reduce you to. You will not have any control over your life and you will live and die for the drug.' Smith later produced a sequel, ''Scared Straight''. By June 2006, over 400,000
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copies of "Crackheads Gone Wild" were estimated to have been sold, at least partly due to viewers considering the film to be a comedy.


See also

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Crack epidemic The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. This resulted in a number of social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in Ameri ...


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