Heroin

Requiem for a Dream is about how heroin affects people’s lives from different standings.  Like how it could divide up a couple, bring a single man to his knees, and drive a sane elderly woman insane.  All of these people were victims of the addiction to the narcotic heroin, which did not just create an addiction for them but caused their lives to almost absolutely nothing. The movie gives a great view of how drugs can actually turn one’s life completely upside down.
Harry and Marion was a couple that shared a love that was torn apart because of heroin. Although they loved one another the drug was too strong for them, causing Harry to trying to go Miami to get his hand on Heroin to distribute and also for his own use.  But Harry and Tyrone were in for a rude awaking when they had gone to a hospital and got into trouble with the law and they both were taking into custody.
While Harry, Tyrone and, Marion were struggling to get drugs Harry's mother Sara was unknowingly getting addicted to "uppers" which is drugs that are prescribed from a doctor a patient gets addicted.  With Sara it was all just about getting skinny for a game show she was supposedly getting onto.  But it only drove her to keep taking the drugs to lose enough weight to fit into a dress she wore to Harry's high school graduation many years ago.  That is all it took for her to get addicted to a drug that pushed her to go out of her way of regular life and get addicted to drugs.
When it comes to Harry, he should of reacted to the fact that he knew his mother was using uppers and get her help before she abused them more.  Harry could have saved his mother’s life from a mental asylum and maybe even saved his own life and prevent the loss of his arm.
From this movie I will never allow myself to use drugs and help any loved ones around me from using the drugs.  If they already use I will do as much as I can to help them get professional help.