Several servicemen relax by playing pool at their base. One later visits a prostitute and contracts syphilis. As a result of his unfortunate experience, there is an opportunity for sexual health information about syphilis, how it is spread and how its spread can be prevented.
Commandité par une église, le film mettait en scène des personnes faisant une série d'actes criminels à la suite de la consommation de cannabis, actes allant du délit de fuite au meurtre, à la tentative de viol et au basculement dans la folie.
Une lycéenne se laisse entraîner par une bande de fumeurs de marijuana. Un reporter va tenter d’infiltrer le gang des jeunes drogués
dans l’espoir de la sauver et alerter la population sur le terrible danger qui guette la jeunesse américaine…
Une jeune reine de beauté se rend à New York pour poursuivre sa carrière de mannequin, mais contracte la syphilis après avoir été trompée dans une rencontre sexuelle. Elle est tiraillée entre la perspective d'une thérapie lente, intensive mais éprouvée et un prétendu remède miracle.
The advance publicity booklet on the film when it was entitled "Africa Sings", touted it as showing "what the white man achieved for himself" and "what he has done for he natives." "Africa Sings" was one of the first documentary films from South Africa to take a look at the lives of South Africans of all races. There are images of location life, schools and colleges, and a cross-section of occupations, from mine-workers to road-gangs, school-teachers to house- servants, waiters to cane-cutters. Mainstream reviewers gave the documentary a tepid response; the London Daily Worker thought it was too bland to serve a staunch liberationist purpose.
Burma se rend à une fête avec son petit-ami. Elle y fume pour la première fois de la marijuana.
C’est le début de sa chute dans la spirale infernale de la toxicomanie.
Small town girl Jane Bradford falls for Nick, a guy from the big city who offers her the opportunity to get away from her small town life. He also offers her "headache powder", she not knowing that it's cocaine and that Nick is a drug pusher. By the time they get to the city, she's hooked on her new medicine. Jane's brother, Eddie, goes to the city to look for his sister, who has not kept in touch with her family. Eddie gets a job as a carhop at a drive-in and is befriended by a drive-in's waitress named Fanny. Fanny is one of Nick's customers, and Fanny soon gets Eddie hooked on the headache powder. Due to this vice, Eddie and Fanny's life soon goes downhill. They're both fired from their jobs and are unable to find other work in their drugged out state. On the periphery of both Eddie and Jane's life is Dorothy Farley, a customer at the drive-in. Dorothy, dating Dan, comes from a wealthy family and she throws her money around easily. She's willing to assist financially those in need.
In 1994, the small town in Holtville, California near the Mexican border was rocked by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Andrea Hines at the hands of 13-year-old childhood friend Adan. Over the course of three years, Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Constance Jackson went to Holtville to interview dozens of people, including family members of the teenagers involved, in an attempt to somehow make sense of this act.