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The Dark Stuff

16th Sep, 2009 to 16th Dec, 2009

Lifeline has produced a new short overdose awareness animation that manages the rare feat of being credible and funny while still getting its message across.

Mr Mange goes over ...

People often think that heroin overdoses are caused by variations in heroin purity, but this isn't necessarily the case and many factors can be involved.

Overdose death is often predictable with known risk factors including ...

• not being in treatment
• being older and having a long history of injecting
• poly drug use, particularly alcohol and benzodiazepines
• physical ill health ; and
• a recent history of non-fatal overdose

Produced in conjunction with Lifeline publications, "Mr Mange Goes Over" is a black comedy about overdose death ... using a darkly comic cartoon style, it is a very serious look at the causes of heroin overdose and how to avoid it.

(Warning : contains explicit language and drug references.)

Click here to view the film.