Louis Theroux: Dark States – Heroin Town review: bleak as hell

The documentary-maker is back with a tale of America’s worst ever drug epidemic and its forgotten victims. Plus: it’s party time in John Singleton’s new LA drama Snowfall

A man named Nate has been telling Louis Theroux about his heroin addiction in the tent he lives in by the river in Huntington, West Virginia. Nate feels comfortable with his addiction, he says, and has never felt the need to go to rehab.

The conversation turns to Nate’s 12-year-old son, who he never sees – because of the drugs. He would have liked to have been there for his son, he says. He loves him, and he has missed out on so much of his life … And talking about it seems to sow a seed of doubt in Nate’s mind, about heroin being such a brilliant idea. “You’re killing me, bro,” he tells Louis, and then he deals with it, by shooting up, into a scab in his arm. And then it’s all OK again. He describes what it’s like: “It’s kind of like a stick of dynamite that’s going to do absolutely nothing in the world except make you feel as good as you can possibly feel.”

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