Russell Brand’s insightful documentary highlighted the effects of addiction has on drug users and argued for the funding of abstinence-based treatments, rather than methadone-based treatments or sending addicts to prison, in order to confront the issue of addiction. Drug addiction has been a controversial subject in Britain since some people, like Peter Hitchins from the Google Debate, view addiction as a result of people’s own actions and is something people need to take responsibility on their own, while others, like Russell Brand, believe that addiction is an illness that cannot be sorted out alone. After stating his purpose of the documentary, Brand begins to show the effects that drugs has on its users. Psychologically, drugs are perceived
