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Drugs, Inc. - Designer Drug Dealer Designer drugs is a term used to describe drugs that are created (or marketed, if they had already existed) so as to avoid the provisions of existing drug laws, usually by preparing analogs or derivatives of existing drugs by modifying their chemical structure to varying degrees, or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures that produce similar subjective effects to illegal recreational drugs; they are usually sold on the grey market because there are little to no regulations when it comes to these substances. [source] (click here to watch)

Drugs, Inc. - Designer Drug Dealer

Designer drugs is a term used to describe drugs that are created (or marketed, if they had already existed) so as to avoid the provisions of existing drug laws, usually by preparing analogs or derivatives of existing drugs by modifying their chemical structure to varying degrees, or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures that produce similar subjective effects to illegal recreational drugs; they are usually sold on the grey market because there are little to no regulations when it comes to these substances. [source]

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Saving Face (2012) Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid — the majority women. Many more go unreported. The new documentary SAVING FACE is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing. (click here to watch)

Saving Face (2012)

Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid — the majority women. Many more go unreported. The new documentary SAVING FACE is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing.

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Bullying: Words Can Kill (2011) As students are heading back to school for the start of a new year of learning, for many, the focus is beyond the scope of the textbook. Every day, 160,000 kids miss school because they’re afraid of being bullied, according to the National Crime Prevention Council. And when they don’t skip school, students say they walk school halls with feelings of desperation, fear and hopelessness — a constant battle that one mother told CBS correspondent Tracy Smith that she sees just dropping her son Johnny off at school. “I felt like every day, I was sending him off to war,” Lisa Cagno told Smith. CBS’ 48 Hours aired a special, Bullying: Words Can Kill, that featured several students from Birchwood Middle School in North Providence, R.I. CBS followed the students for six months to tell their stories and to delve into the school’s efforts to combat bullying. “You can be bullied for anything nowadays,” Johnny Cagno tells Smith in the segment. “You’re judged, constantly, whether it’s your orientation, your clothing, how you look. You know, everything.” Studies have shown that beyond the emotional trauma associated with being bullied, students who report being bullied see lower GPAs, especially high achieving blacks and Latinos. Most recently, New Jersey instituted in its schools what is considered to be the toughest anti-bullying law in the country, and its measures have garnered both praise and criticism. In addition to the full segment above, 48 Hours has added several Web extras that were not aired, focusing even more on the students that are featured in the special. Smith also includes a piece onwhat she was able to learn about bullying by working on the piece for 48 Hours. “If these children had knives in their hands, she would’ve been dead a long time ago,” one mother says in the piece as she reflects on her daughter being bullied. “The words can kill.” [Huffington Post] (click here to watch) *The 48 Hours presentation can also be viewed on the Huffington Post article.

Bullying: Words Can Kill (2011)

As students are heading back to school for the start of a new year of learning, for many, the focus is beyond the scope of the textbook.

Every day, 160,000 kids miss school because they’re afraid of being bullied, according to the National Crime Prevention Council. And when they don’t skip school, students say they walk school halls with feelings of desperation, fear and hopelessness — a constant battle that one mother told CBS correspondent Tracy Smith that she sees just dropping her son Johnny off at school.

“I felt like every day, I was sending him off to war,” Lisa Cagno told Smith.

CBS’ 48 Hours aired a special, Bullying: Words Can Kill, that featured several students from Birchwood Middle School in North Providence, R.I. CBS followed the students for six months to tell their stories and to delve into the school’s efforts to combat bullying.

“You can be bullied for anything nowadays,” Johnny Cagno tells Smith in the segment. “You’re judged, constantly, whether it’s your orientation, your clothing, how you look. You know, everything.”

Studies have shown that beyond the emotional trauma associated with being bullied, students who report being bullied see lower GPAs, especially high achieving blacks and Latinos. Most recently, New Jersey instituted in its schools what is considered to be the toughest anti-bullying law in the country, and its measures have garnered both praise and criticism.

In addition to the full segment above, 48 Hours has added several Web extras that were not aired, focusing even more on the students that are featured in the special. Smith also includes a piece onwhat she was able to learn about bullying by working on the piece for 48 Hours.

“If these children had knives in their hands, she would’ve been dead a long time ago,” one mother says in the piece as she reflects on her daughter being bullied. “The words can kill.” [Huffington Post]

*The 48 Hours presentation can also be viewed on the Huffington Post article.

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I Love Being HIV+ (2006) British HIV+ journalist Ricky Dyer went undercover as an HIV “gift giver”/”breeder” for a BBC documentary, I Love Being HIV+. According to previous media reports, HIV positive men, or “gift-givers”, who want to transmit the virus to so-called “bug chasers” - HIV negative or untested men - do so in an apparently negotiated exchange. HIV positive man Ricky Dyer, who investigates the apparent bug chasing phenomenon for a BBC programme, “I love being HIV+”, says that an air of complacency about the realities of living with the virus may be one reason why infection rates have been rising. Dyer tries to find out the truth behind the reporting by going online on a gay dating website, saying he is an HIV positive man who wants to talk to bug chasers. “I’m not saying I am offering them sex…talk is all I want,” he says in the programme. However, Dyer is appalled to find dozens of apparent bug chasers contact him within days saying that they want to be “pozzed up” - infected with the virus. [BBC News | Health] (part 1), (part 2), (part 3), (part 4i), (part 4ii), (part 5), (part 6)

I Love Being HIV+ (2006)

British HIV+ journalist Ricky Dyer went undercover as an HIV “gift giver”/”breeder” for a BBC documentary, I Love Being HIV+.

According to previous media reports, HIV positive men, or “gift-givers”, who want to transmit the virus to so-called “bug chasers” - HIV negative or untested men - do so in an apparently negotiated exchange.

HIV positive man Ricky Dyer, who investigates the apparent bug chasing phenomenon for a BBC programme, “I love being HIV+”, says that an air of complacency about the realities of living with the virus may be one reason why infection rates have been rising.

Dyer tries to find out the truth behind the reporting by going online on a gay dating website, saying he is an HIV positive man who wants to talk to bug chasers.

“I’m not saying I am offering them sex…talk is all I want,” he says in the programme.

However, Dyer is appalled to find dozens of apparent bug chasers contact him within days saying that they want to be “pozzed up” - infected with the virus. [BBC News | Health]

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Graphic Sexual Horror (2009) Graphic Sexual Horror is a 2009 independent film written and directed by Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell in their directorial debut. The film is a documentary about Insex, a bondage website. [wiki] Graphic Sexual Horror takes a peek behind the terrifying facade behind the most notorious of bondage websites, exploring the dark mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal responsibility. Interviews reveal deep fascinations with bondage and sadomasochism that run parallel, and in fact become irreversibly entwined with the lure of money. (click here to watch)

Graphic Sexual Horror (2009)

Graphic Sexual Horror is a 2009 independent film written and directed by Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell in their directorial debut. The film is a documentary about Insex, a bondage website. [wiki]

Graphic Sexual Horror takes a peek behind the terrifying facade behind the most notorious of bondage websites, exploring the dark mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal responsibility. Interviews reveal deep fascinations with bondage and sadomasochism that run parallel, and in fact become irreversibly entwined with the lure of money.

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Louis Theroux - Extreme Love: Autism In the first of two explorations into how people manage to love in the most extreme of circumstances, Louis Theroux travels to New Jersey to meet children and young adults attending DLC Warren, a school providing an innovative curriculum to students on the autistic spectrum. This episode focuses on 13-year-old Joey, who is prone to violent outbursts, and 20-year-old Brian, who now lives in residential care after attacking his mother. The difficulties faced by the parents of these children are laid out with Theroux’s own brand of honesty. (click here to watch)

Louis Theroux - Extreme Love: Autism

In the first of two explorations into how people manage to love in the most extreme of circumstances, Louis Theroux travels to New Jersey to meet children and young adults attending DLC Warren, a school providing an innovative curriculum to students on the autistic spectrum. This episode focuses on 13-year-old Joey, who is prone to violent outbursts, and 20-year-old Brian, who now lives in residential care after attacking his mother. The difficulties faced by the parents of these children are laid out with Theroux’s own brand of honesty.

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Louis Theroux - Extreme Love: Dementia Louis is in Phoenix, Arizona, a city known as America’s “capital of dementia”. He’s here to see how relatives cope as their loved ones slip into a “twilight world of half-remembered reality”. Selinda, who is just 49 and has Alzheimer’s, can’t dial the numbers on a phone to make a call, while Nancy, who is cared for at home by her husband, can’t remember her own name. There are flourishes of personality, but ultimately the partners must endure the gradual loss of their loved ones with patience and love. (click here to watch)

Louis Theroux - Extreme Love: Dementia

Louis is in Phoenix, Arizona, a city known as America’s “capital of dementia”. He’s here to see how relatives cope as their loved ones slip into a “twilight world of half-remembered reality”. Selinda, who is just 49 and has Alzheimer’s, can’t dial the numbers on a phone to make a call, while Nancy, who is cared for at home by her husband, can’t remember her own name. There are flourishes of personality, but ultimately the partners must endure the gradual loss of their loved ones with patience and love.

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Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation Take a  fast-paced anthropology lesson in this engaging six-part series produced for British television in 1999, it would seem that for most of civilization, pornography hasn’t been such a secret after all. The six lively episodes take playful account of that which is on more people’s minds than will easily admit, and which has been an important, if often vilified part of world culture since humans could think about such things. (click here to watch)

Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation

Take a  fast-paced anthropology lesson in this engaging six-part series produced for British television in 1999, it would seem that for most of civilization, pornography hasn’t been such a secret after all. The six lively episodes take playful account of that which is on more people’s minds than will easily admit, and which has been an important, if often vilified part of world culture since humans could think about such things.

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Feral Children - Is It Real? While stories of children being “raised by wolves” are exaggerated, there have been a few documented cases of a child having grow up alone in the wild. Whether abandoned by parents or runaways from abusive households, these children often find reintegration into human society difficult. A common thread is their inability to learn language; having not been exposed to speech during a crucial time in their development, their brains have lost the ability to learn this most human of skills. (click here to watch) Feral children [wiki article] 10 Modern Cases of Feral Children [listverse article]

Feral Children - Is It Real?

While stories of children being “raised by wolves” are exaggerated, there have been a few documented cases of a child having grow up alone in the wild. Whether abandoned by parents or runaways from abusive households, these children often find reintegration into human society difficult. A common thread is their inability to learn language; having not been exposed to speech during a crucial time in their development, their brains have lost the ability to learn this most human of skills.

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Deadly Women - Baby Faced Killers A child is capable of anything. “They can be very, very vicious. It’s as if they’re wild animals”. When two lost girls find each other, the result is lethal, “She writes in a journal, ‘We killed an old lady today and it was fun.’”. An adolescent decides to survive on the street - she needs to kill, “You see the face of an innocent child, but that’s just a mask, and behind that mask is an evil, cold-hearted murderer”. And a teen dreams of a better life without her mother, “She says ‘Goodnight, Mom.’ then shoots her in the head”. These are not yet deadly women, they are girls who step out of their innocence and become baby faced killers. (click here to watch)

Deadly Women - Baby Faced Killers

A child is capable of anything. “They can be very, very vicious. It’s as if they’re wild animals”. When two lost girls find each other, the result is lethal, “She writes in a journal, ‘We killed an old lady today and it was fun.’”. An adolescent decides to survive on the street - she needs to kill, “You see the face of an innocent child, but that’s just a mask, and behind that mask is an evil, cold-hearted murderer”. And a teen dreams of a better life without her mother, “She says ‘Goodnight, Mom.’ then shoots her in the head”. These are not yet deadly women, they are girls who step out of their innocence and become baby faced killers.

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