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SUBTITLE Kondo ENGLISH
SUBTITLE Roy Fr.
Roy Assenheimer Priest/Reformed
Addict ENGLISH
SUBTITLE Tsuneo
Kondo, Director Drug
& Alcohol Rehabilitation
Centres ENGLISH
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SUBTITLE Roy Hiroto
'Harry' Yamazaki, Drug Enforcement
Division, National
Police Agency Yamazaki To Camera, Walter (ENGLISH SUBTITLE) Hirota ‘Harry’ Yamazaki National Police Agency Hi-8 Video ENGLISH SUBTITLE Yamazaki ENGLISH SUBTITLE ENGLISH SUBTITLE End of High-8 Video TO CAMERA Junko
Fujioka Chief
Supervisor, Kawagoe
Juvenile Prison ENGLISH SUBTITLE ARCHIVE FILM:
“Why Amphetamines Are
Frightening” (Drug
Abuse Prevention Centre) ENGLISH
SUBTITLE Tsuneo
Kondo Drug
& Alcohol Rehabilitation
Centres ENGLISH SUBTITLE ENGLISH SUBTITLE ENGLISH SUBTITLE ENGLISH SUBTITLE Dr. Hajime Kazamatsuri Director, Matsuzawa Hospital, Tokyo ENGLISH SUBTITLE Roy ENGLISH SUBTITLE Kondo ENGLISH SUBTITLE Kondo ENGLISH SUBTITLE |
At
a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, a
new patient has come in during the night... 00:15
APPARENTLY SHE ACTED VIOLENTLY OUTSIDE.
00:18 SHE TRIED TO JUMP IN FRONT OF A
CAR. 00:22 The
woman is 22, with a record of drug
abuse ... not mental illness. It's
a view of Japan, outsiders rarely
see ... because the Japanese prefer
to deny they have a drug problem,
or a problem with how drug
addicts are treated. She'll
be locked up here, indefinitely,
for her own protection. The
system files away another burnt-out
casualty of this helter-skelter
society... Truck
drivers, entertainers, shift-workers,
night dwellers, students
cramming for exams, women
trying to lose weight. The
drug of preference for Japan's restless
multitudes is amphetamines ...
or 'speed'. This
love-affair with amphetamines goes
back to the Second World War. Soldiers,
factory workers - even nurses
- were forced to take stimulants
to stretch the nation's fighting
capacity. At
war's end, pharmaceutical companies
flooded the market ... and amphetamine
use spread rapidly. In
the 1950s, controls were imposed, but
by then the country was already addicted. Today,
Japan has some of the toughest
anti-drug laws in the world. Among
polite society, there's a belief
drug abuse is now more-or- less
confined to the criminal class. But
that's never been true. Tsuneo
Kondo was an ordinary salary- Worker,
with a ferry company, when he
got hooked on 'speed'... 02:31
I REALIZED I WASN'T GOING TO RISE
ANY HIGHER IN THE COMPANY. 02:39 ABOUT
THAT TIME I CAME IN CONTACT WITH
AMPHETAMINES. 02:44 A
truck driver gave him a shot of amphetamines
for tooth-ache. So
began a ten-year addiction. 02:52
I DIDN'T FEEL SO GUILTY. 02:55 I
HAD TO WORK LONG HOURS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE USEFUL. 03:01 THE
JAPANESE LIKE BEING HIGH. THEY LIKE
TO BE ACTIVE. Roy
Assenheimer is a Catholic Maryknoll
priest who works in one of Tokyo's
seedier neighbourhoods. He's
a reformed alcoholic... and has also
been a 'speed' user. IF
YOU'RE TAKING AMPHETAMINES YOU
CAN GAMBLE FOR DAYS ON END WITHOUT EATING OR SLEEPING. STUDENTS CAN STUDY FOR
DAYS ON END WITHOUT SLEEPING
OR EATING. AND, OF COURSE, YOU,
JAPANESE, YOU MAKE MORE TOYOTAS IF YOU DON'T SLEEP OR EAT. These
days Father Roy and Kondo are helping
addicts get clean. The
two first met over a shared amphetamine
needle. Both
went through the typical addicts'
merry-go-round: locked up in
mental hospitals to dry out... then
sent back onto the street. 04:04
THERE WERE NO HALFWAY HOUSES OR
TREATMENT CENTRES.04:08 THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE TO SEEK HELP. 04:12 So
they opened this refuge in a Tokyo
back-alley. What
's grown into a nationwide self-help
movement… the only rehabilitation program like it in the country. 04:24
I SPENT A LONG TIME IN PRISON. 04:27
BEFORE I CAME HERE, LOOKING BACK
ON MY LIFE, 04:31 THE MOST WORTHWHILE
TIME, WHEN I FELT MOST ALIVE,
04:34 WAS IN PRISON. 04:37 04:38
THE WORST THING ABOUT MY TIME IN
HOSPITAL WAS THE LACK OF STIMULATION.
04:44 I WAS IN AN ISOLATION
WARD. 04:49 FROM WAY BACK, I
COULD NEVER STAND SILENCE. 04:54 Nobody
knows exactly how big Japan's
drug habit is, but Amphetamine
users alone are thought to
number half a million. THERE'S
A FREER ATMOSPHERE COMING INTO
JAPAN. MATERIALISM, THE BREAKDOWN
OF THE FAMILY. Q.
AND WITH THESE CHANGES, YOU EXPECT
DRUG ABUSE TO BECOME MORE OF A SOCIAL PROBLEM? YEH,
YEH. Q.
ARE THE AUTHORITIES READY FOR THAT? NO,
NO. ANY KIND OF A SOCIAL PROBLEM,
THE AUTHORITIES WILL BE IN DENIAL
FIRST. IT TAKES A LONG TIME FOR
THE AUTHORITIES TO ADMIT TO THEMSELVES
AND THEN TO ADMIT TO SOCIETY. FROM
MY POINT OF VIEW, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT
REHABILITATION. BECAUSE I ONLY SEE
THE DRUG ABUSERS AS CRIMINALS. Hiroto
'Harry' Yamazaki heads the Drug
Enforcement Division at the National
Police Agency. The
nickname he got while on attachment
to the New York Police Department
has stuck… I'M
TELLING EVERYBODY I'M NOT ‘DIRTY HARRY’,
I'M CLEAN HARRY. It's
late afternoon in Yokohama, the port
city next to Tokyo. ‘Clean
Harry’s’ team is making a sweep
of the docks… checking for signs
of a possible drug drop. This
Russian freighter seems to be tied
up unusually close… worth a look. Despite
their history of amphetamine abuse,
Japanese tend to regard drugs as
a problem imported from overseas. The
water police keep close tabs on any
vessel from a known narcotics centre. Police
efforts have virtually eliminated
production of illegal drugs'
within Japan… but the stronger
yen has made this a plum market
for international drug smugglers. ABUSED
DRUGS IN JAPAN HAS BEEN RECENTLY
DIVERSIFIED. STILL STIMULANTS
IS THE MAIN PROBLEM AND THE
MAIN TARGET FOR US. Back
at the station in Yokohama, Harry's
team is tallying the haul from
a recent raid. A
lot for one dealer, they say... marijuana
... pills... and 'speed' valued
at four thousand dollars. EVEN
THIS SMALL AMOUNT OF DRUG CAN PROVIDE
THE BASIS FOR A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS.
THE DEALER WILL DIVIDE IT INTO
SMALLER PACKAGES OF ABOUT ONE THIRD
OF A GRAM EACH, WORTH SOMETHING
LIKE 130 DOLLARS ON THE STREET.
ENOUGH FOR BETWEEN FIVE AND TEN
HITS. IT'S EASY TO UNDERSTAND, THEN,
WHY THE CRIME SYNDICATES PREFER
AMPHETAMINE: IT'S GOT HIGH VALUE
AND IT'S ALSO EASY TO CONCEAL. 07:40
THE DETECTIVES WILL HIDE IN THIS
EMERGENCY STAIRWAY. 07:43 THERE'S
A SPOT HERE. 07:45 The
squad is going after the man they
suspect of supplying the dealer in this case. 07:52
SINCE THIS IS A YAZUKA OFFICE, 07:55
THERE'S A RISK THERE WILL BE GUNS.
07:59 The
yakuza, Japan's criminal gangs, control
the amphetamine trade… and they're
dangerous. Police
estimate the yazuka earn
six billion dollars a year selling
stimulants - one third of their
income. A
trade the gangs are determined to protect,
whatever the cost…so Harry's
team is taking no chances. I
CAN SAY THE CASES WHICH POLICE HAS HANDLED
IS JUST A TIP OF ICEBERG AND I
DO NOT KNOW AND POLICE DOES NOT KNOW
HOW BIG THAT ICEBERG IS. The
target of today's operation is a boss
of the Inagawakai - one of the
biggest yakuza groups. Japanese
crime syndicates even have registered
addresses… the stake- out
is the gangster's apartment. 08:57
IT'S ME. 09:04
GOOD MORNING. IT'S THE POLICE. Japan,
at one stage, was getting on top
of its amphetamine problem, until
the yakuza secured new supplies of
'speed' from Taiwan and mainland China. Since
then, trying to deter drug use by
cracking down on drug crime has met with as
little success as elsewhere in the world. One
in five arrests in Japan is drug-related. THE
CLASSES OF STIMULANT ADDICTS HAS BEEN
VERY DIVERSIFIED. RECENT CASES
WE ARRESTED STUDENTS OF A JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL OR WE ARRESTED JUST
ORDINARY HOUSEWIVES. This
time, no amphetamines… instead,
hidden at the yakuza's gas- meter,
some cannabis. 10:02
LOOK, THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE.
WHAT IS IT? 10:06
I HAVE NO IDEA. Under
the law here, even this amount of
marijuana will mean detention. 10:15
FOR POSSESSION OF ONE PACKET OF
DRIED MARIJUANA, 10:20 WE ARREST YOU.
10:25 PUT ON THE HANDCUFFS.
10:28 At
Kawakoe young offenders' prison outside
Tokyo, a third of the inmates
are druggies. Rather
than deal with their addiction,
the authorities prefer to stick
them behind bars. The
routine is spartan, military-like
and unvarying. The
addicts confined here may think themselves
different from the murderers
and rapists, but they're treated
exactly the same. The
prisons have a simple philosophy:
law-breakers lack discipline
and have forgotten how to work. DURING
THE WHOLE TIME WE HAVE BEEN INSIDE
I HAVE NOT HEARD ONE WORD OF CONVERSATION
PASS BETWEEN THE PRISONERS.
NOBODY HAS EVEN ATTEMPTED TO 'MAKE' EYE CONTACT WITH US. NO ONE HAS
STRAYED AN INCH BEYOND THEIR DUTY AREA. IN A JAPANESE PRISON, WORK IS NOT A
MEANS OF PASSING THE TIME, IT'S EVERYTHING. All
prisoners receive anti-drug education,
and there are counselling sessions
for users. But
Junko Fujioka, who runs this program,
says she meets resistance from
superiors who consider addicts beyond
reform. WE
HAVE NO EVIDENCE OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS
HAVE SOME EFFECT. AND ALSO YOU KNOW THE PERCENTAGE OF RECIDIVISTS
FOR DRUG ABUSERS IS VERY HIGH.
MORE THAN FIFTY PER CENT. Q.
DO YOU GET DISCOURAGED BY THAT? NO...
I'M NOT. I'M ACTUALLY DISCOURAGED
BY THE SYSTEM. FOR THE CORRECTION
SYSTEM, ALWAYS SECURITY AND
REHABILITATION HAS SOME CONFLICT. For
drug addicts, crime deterrence alone
isn't working. Today,
three of Kawagoe's young inmates
are going out, their sentences
completed. They're
presented with certificates of
achievement, like school graduates. The
odds are, though, the speed ‘user'
among them is coming back. Official
Japan's policy of 'zero tolerance'
may look impressive. But
it's failing because of the Japanese
belief that, if jail doesn't
cure the addiction, it must be
a psychiatric problem. 13:21
HE'S USED AMPHETAMINES FROM THE
AGE OF EIGHTEEN. 13:25 HE'LL RECEIVE
ELECTRIC SHOCK, FROM THE 18TH TILL THE 22ND, FIVE TIMES. 13:29 In
the drug wing of Tokyo's Matsuzawa
Psychiatric Hospital, the morning
shift has come on. Their
latest admission' is a 33-year-old ‘speed’
addict. In
a psychotic frenzy induced by the
drug, he slashed himself with a knife. With
prolonged use, amphetamines cause
hallucinations and paranoid behavior…which
can recur even when
you’re off the drug, so-called ‘flash
backs’. On
the news, Japanese occasionally see
the sensational results… a ‘speed’
addict gone berserk. The
focus, though, is not why this
hyperactive nation uses stimulants…
but on the psychotic Menace
posed by those beyond recovery. 14:32
AS FAR AS THE AUTHORITIES ARE CONCERNED, USING DRUGS IS ABSOLUTELY
UNFORGIVABLE. 14:36 DRUG ADDICTS SHOULD STAY IN THE DARK FOREVER. 14:41
TO THEM. PROMOTING THE IDEA ADDICTS
CAN RECOVER, 14:45 MEANS ONLY ONE THING: THE NUMBER MIGHT INCREASE.
14:49 Only
when an addict goes berserk is
he likely to attract attention and
then, as a mental patient. While
we’re at Matsuzawa Hospital, the
doctors find ‘speed’ among the personal
effects of a patient just brought
in. 15:09
WHETHER TO HAND OVER THE PERSON CARRYING THE DRUGS TO THE POLICE.
15:15 POSES A DILEMMA 15:17 WE’VE YET TO DECIDE. 15:19 If
it were any other drug, they’d be obliged
to report it. But
‘speed’ started life in Japan peddled
by the government… and there’s
still a separate law for amphetamines,
which treats the addict
as a medical problem. While this
preserves patient- confidentiality,
the psychiatric hospitals; in
turn, become places of confinement…
doing the work of prisons. Some patients
we’re shown –
including this one-time yakuza – will probably
never leave. Q. HOW LONG
HAVE YOU BEEN IN HERE? 16:00 FOR
FIVE YEARS Q. DO YOU
EXPECT TO LEAVE SOME DAY? 16:05 YES.
BUT IT’S NOT PROMISING. THE DOCTOR
TELLS ME TEN YEARS. 16:11 For the
non-addicts at this hospital,
there’s considerable freedom… and
an active program of rehabilitation. None of this
is made available to the drug
users…some of whom, instead,
through constant sedation, end
up with another addiction. HONESTLY
SPEAKING, IN JAPAN THERE ARE
VERY POOR REHABILITATION SYSTEMS
FOR SUCH DRUG-DEPENDENT PATIENT.
THE REHABILITATION SYSTEM AND THE MEDICAL SYSTEM, HOW
TO SAY, ARE SEPARATED AND IT’S VERY
DIFFICULT TO COMBINE IT INTO
ONE SYSTEM. Tsuneo
Kondo’s rehabilitation centres
take a radically different approach. 17:10
I’M THE SURVIVOR FROM HELL, JOE.
17:14 Joe,
here, set fire to himself while on
‘speed’. But
he’s considered a hero, not a madman
because he lived to tell the tale. Addiction
is approached as a curable sickness,
not a crime. WE
HAVE NO RULES. THE ONLY RULES WE HAVE
ARE THREE MEETINGS A DAY. WE DON’T
EVEN HAVE A RULE ABOUT NOT TAKING
DRUGS. BECAUSE WE’RE POWERLESS
OVER TAKING DRUGS. 17:47
THERE IS NO VICTIM, YOU ARE THE
VICTIM. 17:51 AND ALSO THE ASSAILANT.
17:55 By
adopting a theory of addiction more
favoured in the West, Kondo has
been waiting a decade for any government
support. And, of course, he
doesn’t have all the answers. Q.
WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND AND SEE THOSE
YOUNG FACES DO YOU FEAR FOR THEM? 18:12
I WORRY ABOUT THEM. 18:14 THEY WILL
DIE. 18:16 WITHOUT SUPPORT THEY WILL
DIE. 18:23 18:26
GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT
THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE.
18:29 COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS
I CAN. 18:32 AND WISDOM TO KNOW
THE DIFFERENCE. 18:36 |