Horizon - Awakening the Frozen Addicts (4 January 1993) [VHSRip (DivX)]

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An account of a medical mystery that occurred in California in 1982 when a group of illicit drug users exhibited the symptoms of advanced Parkinson’s disease after inadvertently taking heroine contaminated with the toxic chemical MPTP. This tragic event led to important discoveries about Parkinson’s disease, including the controversial use of transplanted foetal brain cells to relieve the symptoms.

The programme follows two Parkinsons sufferers who have travelled to Sweden to undergo this experimental surgery.



Producer - Jon Palfreman

Series Editor - Jana Bennett



First shown on BBC2 4 January 1993.



Duration - 50m 29s

File size - 519 MB



Video codec - DivX 5.0

Video bitrate - 1304 kb/s

Audio codec - MPEG 1 Layer 3

Audio bitrate - 128 kb/s



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