“ DRUG ABUSE: THE CHEMICAL TOMB ” 1969 TEEN ORIENTED ANTI-DRUG FILM NARCOTIC ABUSE XD43314

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Created at the height of the hippie / free love era, when drug experimentation by youth began to take on the appearance of an epidemic, "Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb" was created by Alan Kishbaugh. This anti-drug film from 1969 offers an overview and warning on the kinds of illegal drugs available to the youth of America, while also urging that young people avoid drugs to better engender the social change society needs. Despite its semi-progressive message, you’ll see lots of staged scenes of teenagers and young people engaging in drug use, buying drugs, experiencing drugs (one girl’s “trip” offers perhaps the lamest psychedelic imagery ever captured on film), and facing the consequences of drug use. Produced by Film Distributors International, written and directed by Alan Kishbaugh, executive produced by Kenneth Holst, narrated by Chuck Bowman. 00:16 Title Card