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Recovery Boys

2018

Action / Documentary

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh100%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright82%
IMDb Rating6.710733

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1 hr 29 min
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Reviewed by deloudelouvain7 / 10

Well done but a bit simplistic as a solution for recovery.

Hard drugs are just as easy to find as candy so prevention and warnings should be the major point of focus of governments and not imprisonment like it's mostly the case. Because in prison you still can get as much drugs as you want, but you also meet the wrong people and so prison can not be the solution for addicts because addiction is just an illness, an illness that can be cured. Recovery Boys is well done as a documentary but in my eyes a bit too soft to show awareness to young people. It's all nice to show there are places you can go to get help, but it would have been better if they showed the negative effects that happen to your body, the cold turkey, the sickness and diarrhea, the lying and thieving, in short the ugly things. Showing people praying to a God for help and a cure is just a bit too simplistic and typically American. First of all there is no God so just cut that crap, religion is from the ancient time when most of the people had no education and were very gullible. In a modern society, and certainly in those rehabilitation centers you shouldn't talk about a God to solve your addiction problem, that's just insane and it will never work. But the documentary is well done, I'll give you that, and hopeful for some, even though my experience with heroin addicts is that most of the times it's a lost cause, but luckily not for all of them. The life of a junkie is just based on lies and thieving, doing anything they can to get their next fix, and that should have been shown as well in my opinion. So all in all I'm not convinced this documentary would scare any youngster of taking drugs, and to me that should be the focal point of any documentary about hard drugs.

Reviewed by mingsphinx3 / 10

Unrealistic

The underlying message is that if more addicts got the 'treatment' they needed, America's opioid crisis can be solved. The facility at Jacob's Ladder is so nice it could probably succeed as a bed and breakfast. The documentary does not delve into the cost of the program at all, but it is clearly not cheap to have nice rooms and employ support staff to help people who have multiple felony convictions. The flip side of providing a place like Jacob's Ladder to addicts is that resources are diverted from other vulnerable people. Is that fair? Is that right?

Watch this documentary to understand why America's opioid crisis will never be resolved. The filmmaker wants to be hopeful but refuses to be realistic. She wants us to hate the addiction but love the addict at any cost. The result is destruction for everyone as whole communities become slaves to the Mexican drug cartels.

Reviewed by christysandersb8 / 10

Enjoyable

Really enjoyed what Jacob's ladder is offering to people. Jeff really was my least favorite. He cried about missing his kids but yet he did everything possible to stay out their life.

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