I’m Trying to Find a Documentary Which Apparently Has the Journalist Get Addicted to and Tries to Beat Heroin?
Question by Joseph: I’m trying to find a documentary which apparently has the journalist get addicted to and tries to beat heroin?
I’ve heard about it from a few people but details are sketchy, maybe it is a british documentary? Apparently it was very controversial which is why I’m surprised I cant find any information on it.
Best answer:
Answer by Charles K
Journalist documents long years of heroin addiction
16/03/2009
A Croatian journalist describes to Southeast European Times correspondent Ivo Scepanovic how heroin ruined his career.
By Ivo Scepanovic for the Southeast European Times in Split — 16/03/09
Croatian journalist Slaven Relja’s journey through drug addiction is the focus of a documentary by Ivan Peric. [Ivo Scepanovic]
Croatian journalist Slaven Relja is owning up to years of fabricating interviews while under the influence of heroin.
Relja, 46, used to write for the culture sections of his country’s top daily newspapers, Vecernji List and Jutarnji List. It all went wrong for him when he was 33. He tried drugs and soon became hooked on heroin. Years of agony followed in which he stole money from colleagues in an office, sold the “family silver”, worked while addicted to drugs and ended up in a specialised community to undergo treatment.
He tells his story in a new documentary produced by the TV channel Splitska Televizija (STV), where he now works after years of rehabilitation in Cenacolo community centres in Croatia and Italy.
Directed by Ivan Peric, A Journalist’s Escape from the Hell of Drugs (http://www.splitskatelevizija.hr/index.php/novinarov-bijeg-iz-pakla-droge ) is awaiting screening at film festivals. Relja, though, agreed to tell his story to the Southeast European Times before the film’s release.
Southeast European Times: Why have you decided to open up and tell your frightening story to everyone?
There is no doubt that heroin destroyed everything in my life, Relja says.
Slaven Relja: Giving testimony about the hell we’ve passed through is an unwritten order we all take with ourselves when leaving the Cenacolo community. I got used to sharing my testimony with others in the Cenacolo community, and when returning back home I decided to go for a documentary after some friends mentioned the idea. To be honest, the filming of the documentary has forced me to break up some friendships and even to sever some family ties. That’s simply the result of the atmosphere in the society where we live. However, those facts do not affect me, as I’m absolutely sure I’m doing a fair and good thing. I see no harm in a true story about a man who stands back up after physically and morally heading towards the bottom. Doesn’t it also serve as a road sign to all those who keep claiming drugs always have the last word and that you can’t beat them? I’ve shown otherwise
More………………. http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2009/03/16/reportage-01
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