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Louis embeds himself in a small West Virginian community that is stretched to its limits by heroin use. He spends time with the user community and the struggling emergency services.

Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each: opioid and heroin addiction in Huntington, sex trafficking in Houston, and murder in Milwaukee.

Primary Title
  • Louis Theroux: Dark States
Episode Title
  • Heroin Town
Date Broadcast
  • Thursday 25 January 2018
Start Time
  • 21 : 35
Finish Time
  • 22 : 50
Duration
  • 75:00
Episode
  • 1
Channel
  • Prime
Broadcaster
  • Sky Network Television
Programme Description
  • Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each: opioid and heroin addiction in Huntington, sex trafficking in Houston, and murder in Milwaukee.
Episode Description
  • Louis embeds himself in a small West Virginian community that is stretched to its limits by heroin use. He spends time with the user community and the struggling emergency services.
Classification
  • AO
Owning Collection
  • Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
  • Documentary television programs--United Kingdom
  • Drugs--United States
  • Heroin--United States
  • Heroin industry--United States
  • Heroin abuse--United States
  • Heroin abuse--Treatment--United States
Genres
  • Documentary
Hosts
  • Louis Theroux (Presenter)
Subjects
  • Documentary television programs--United Kingdom
  • Drugs--United States
  • Heroin--United States
  • Heroin industry--United States
  • Heroin abuse--United States
  • Heroin abuse--Treatment--United States