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The original Emmy and BAFTA Award winning mini-series that inspired the Oscar®-winning film Traffic starring Michael Douglas, Traffik is a devastating portrait of the global heroin trade extending from the poppy fields of Pakistan through the drug syndicates of Hamburg to the needle-infested haunts of London. Showing how the drug trade taints the lives of all involved, Traffik is a spellbinding chronicle of the people growing, selling, using and outlawing heroin, and stars Bill Paterson (The Singing Detective) as an English Minister trying to secure a financial-aid agreement with Pakistan to eradicate poppy production; his life is shattered however when the drug infiltrates his own family. “Like The Singing Detective, Alastair Reid's award-winning 1989 British miniseries has taken on mythic status” wrote Amazon’s Donald Liebenson of this brutal portrayal of modern opium trafficking and the war on drugs.