"If anyone offers you drugs, please remember what happened to me."
A five-year portrait of Junior Rios' descent into the black hole of drug addiction which will ultimately cost him everything.
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Cecilio Junior Rios
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Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor legally and illegally, Mexican cartels fought over it with Colombia once associated with the brutal cocaine wars, and a source of tension between the American and Mexican borders on the people who are illicitly bringing in cocaine from one side of the border to another and will do anything to do it. So it can be surprising at times to the viewer throughout the course of the documentary special, that it was never always like this.
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