My reaction to chasing the Dragon was shocked. One of the women from the film says that she did not think about the first time she started getting high, she just did it once, and it was done she was hooked. It has always amazed me that just trying a drug for the first time could have you hooked. It was really crazy to see these people go to jail, go through a recovery program then come out of it and start doing drugs all over again. The film was raw and real not just reading facts. I liked that they had seven different people tell their stories. It was interesting to see how differently people became addicted to opiates by either the use of others drugs at first then using opiates to get a bigger high or just simply having a first legitimate
