After serving another six-month stint in jail, and proudly telling the camera that she refused to use drugs while inside, an accomplice offers to buy heroin for her. Tracey’s health and weight fluctuate wildly during the two years in which the film was shot. Tracey in Black Tar Heroin, while still using the drug.
She pleads guilty and is sentenced to nine months in jail. The viewer is told that a week later, Tracey is arrested for selling heroin. Maybe it would be kind of like a dream.” She finds a vein, injects the drug, then wanders aimlessly down a San Francisco street, so high that she’s barely able to walk. “I wondered what it would be like to be that high that you’d die. “I’d heard about heroin, and it just seemed like it would be something interesting to do as a life experience, because I always said I wanted to try to do everything once,” she says in a voice-over. “The rush is what got me.”Ī couple of minutes later, the 25-year-old is filmed dropping her pants and searching for a vein in her upper thigh. “I felt the rush, and it was pretty incredible,” she says on screen, before exhaling softly and closing her bright blue eyes. One minute into the film, she appears wearing a baseball cap backwards over her long brown hair. In 1999, Tracey Helton was one of five addicts featured in the HBO documentary Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street. “All the wrongs she did, she’s making right now.” “I think it’s her way of reversing things, of making things right,” he says. He remains in awe of the fact that a near-stranger saved his life. As the broader Reddit community convulses over the site’s handling of controversial content, Tracey’s program illustrates the unexpected good that can emerge from darker corners of the internet.īrad is unequivocal about his experience: without Tracey and her guerrilla naloxone distribution program, that dose of heroin and benzodiazepine would have been fatal. Since starting the service two years ago, Tracey says she has mailed over 700 parcels, which have helped to reverse the effects of more than a hundred opiate overdoses. It’s no wonder, then, that streetwise drug users have begun carrying these life-saving vials alongside their injection equipment.
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