The Man with the Golden Arm

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Poker dealer Frankie tells his friend Sparrow, "The monkey's gone." Bar tender Yantek asks Frankie, "Clean?" (0:03)

Frankie tells his heroin supplier Louie, "I kicked." Then he tells Sparrow, "You take even one fix, you're hooked again." (0:05)

Frankie tells his wife Zosch, "I'm clean. I kicked it for keeps." (0:09)

Frankie tells Zosch, "I wanted to keep my mind off the cravings." (0:11)

Frankie tells Zosch, "I'd be hooked again in no time." (0:13)

When no one is looking Zosch stands up from her wheel chair and walks easily. (0:18)

Sparrow tells Louie, "Ain't no 14 year old junkies waitin' around to see me." (0:25)

Musician agent Harry Lane tells Frankie, "They go back on the habit." (0:32)

"Dr." Dominiwsky assures Frankie, "I am a member of the American Association of Medical Hydrology, Psychology and Divine Healing." (0:34)

Louie gets heroin and paraphernalia. Frankie rolls up his sleeve. Louie prepares the syringe. Frankie, with a tourniquet on his arm, injects the heroin." (0:37)

Frankie tells Molly, referring to her friend Johnny, "He's a lush Molly, 100% habitual drunk." (0:48)

Frankie tells Molly, "I guess in the beginning you do it only for kicks."
"I thought I could take it or leave it alone... knew I was hooked... 40# monkey on my back..."
"keep leaning a fix... had my last fix." (0:53)

Zosch stands again. (0:57)

Louie tells Frankie, "I put down a craving once." (1:04)

Frankie displays tremors as he withdraws from heroin. (1:17)

Frankie rolls up his sleeve, hoping for a fix from Louie.
Louie: "A... junkie always says."
Frankie tears the room apart looking for heroin. (1:24)

Louie walks in on Zosch standing, discovers she has faked paraplegia. (1:29)

Frankie tells Molly "I feel so sick Molly. I hurt all over."
Molly: "Jump off a roof if you have to." (1:33)

Frankie asks Molly, "You mean just stop cold turkey?"
Molly, sarcastically: "Why should you hurt like other people hurt?" (1:35)

Frankie: "Kickin'. I guy can't do it by himself... Sometimes a junkie will kill... Don't try to help me with pills or dope..." (1:38)

Sparrow tells detective Bednar, "I ain't got all my marbles." (1:40) Would Sparrow meet criteria for a diagnosis?

Frankie withdraws in Molly's room. (1:41)

Bednar tells Molly, "I promise he'll get every break a junkie can get."
Molly: "He's no junkie..." (1:52)

Zosch walks toward Frankie as Bednar enters. (1:54)

Zosch runs to a railing, throws herself over, and falls to her death." (1:55)

abstinence | addict | addiction | cold turkey | craving | Factitious Disorder | heroin | Opioid Withdrawal | relapse | Substance Dependence | suicide

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