Peter Santello creates “videos about a world the media fails to capture” (source). In this video, he travels to Kensington, Philadelphia to speak with a local man named Buddy Osborn, who reached out to him to tell him about “the horrific realities of open-air drug markets.” Buddy and his organization, The Rock, help “to get kids out of crime and drugs and into a healthier environment built upon confidence and clarity.”
British people take more MDMA per session than anywhere else, averaging 420 milligrams—twice as much as Germans. While ecstasy remains one of the safest drugs, ecstasy-related deaths hit a decade-high last year, bringing it back into the spotlight. Some blame…
A population of young people in Kenya, known as the “Zombies of Nairobi,” wander the streets in a daze, seemingly half alive due to consuming dangerous inhalants. The campsites where they live are filled with mounds of garbage and create a desolate…
Building on the success of Fentanyl: The Drug Deadlier than Heroin—one of the first documentaries to reveal the scope of Canada’s opioid crisis—filmmaker Patrick McGuire partnered with VICE Canada and CTV’s W5, the country’s leading investigative news program, to create…
This short film shows the devastating effects of a gambling disorder and how it affects not just the individual themselves, but those around them. In the film, teenager Brady Thornhill takes out a loan from an online payday site to…
Ketamine has emerged as a defining drug for a generation of young Brits dubbed Generation K. A report from November 2020 revealed that 1-in-30 young people had used ketamine in the past year — the highest rate ever recorded and…
Follow Guyon Espiner, an award-winning journalist living in New Zealand, as he talks with several individuals who provide insight into the effects of alcohol and drinking culture, specifically the associated harms felt by community members. He even speaks to someone from…
Uganda has the highlest level of alcohol consumption for African countries, which has contributed to their poverty rates. This documentary by VICE travels to Uganda to learn about the culture of Waragi, their version of moonshine. They discovered that people…
Calum Best, the son of football legend George Best, is not only known for his father’s footballing greatness but also for growing up as the child of an alcoholic. In this raw and emotional BBC Children in Need special, Brought…