This film focuses on a strung-out youth who started popping peg pills aged 17, after his mom - worried he was overweight - sent him to the doctor for chemical help to shed the flab. Three years later, the boy has burned off 42 pounds of fat and flesh and spiralled into crystal meth addiction.
On the plus side, he reveals, speed makes you talkative and confident, which means more dates. On the minus, you could find yourself staying up for six days-and-nights straight, and in your fidgety state you might caught up in the syndrome that pharmacologists term “punding”: repetitive and obsessive-compulsive actions. In this hapless lad’s case, he would start “repairing” a wireless and end up several hours later sitting amid the ruins of three dismantled radios.
This film was made by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, for reasons unknown - were too many of their engineers getting wired and over-tired on the job, resulting in faulty jet engines and dodgy navigational systems?