Beyond heroin: A story of loss and hope

Nobody ever thinks they'll become an addict - it's something that happens to other people. In this extremely candid interview, Elizabeth Burton-Phillips, author of 'Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?', and her husband, Tony, speak openly about the gradual descent of their identical twin sons into the nightmare of heroin addiction (running time 5 min 17 s).

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This film features clips from 'Getting Hooked', a home video in which one of the twins describes how easily he and his brother slipped into addiction.

For more information, see DrugFAM, the support service set up by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips.

This video is part of the exclusive online content for ‘Big Picture: Addiction’. Find out more about the ‘Big Picture’ series.