The War on Opium | Addicted to Pleasure | BBC Studios

Brian Cox learns the origins and history of the war on opium. Taken from Addicted To Pleasure.

[mrheimdall]

Instead of being called "addicted to pleasure" shouldn't the title be "Drug pushers from across the sea."

[Macolicious]

Brian Cox not only is an incredible actor but excellent narrator as well.

[riwjbff]

Documentaries like this is the reason why I like BBC.

[joshomalin]

Can anyone tell me what kind of music is in 1:40? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[karlashdown]

So the Red statue with the Cannon at it's centre is the guy on the top meant to look like Lenin?

[Anon_Anon]

The East India Company (EIC) was an English and later British joint-stock company founded in 1600.[2] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies.[3] The company is also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company, [4] Company Bahadur, [5] or simply The Company, mainly involved in Drug trafficking (Opium).

[thehuntress]

Of Course Details of Opium war aren’t well described in British school books BUT

the East remembers !

[abubardewa]

20 millions Chinese died because of this dirty tactics

[CCHPhilip]

Western are good at open trade with their strategies method.

[jacktian]

No developed countries did not get their hands dirty on their ways of development.

[blessingmasawi]

*Imagine watching the BBC'S version of this and still wondering why China's armung up😂😂* that's why i watch both tbh

[PennyDreadful]

Isn't everyone addicted to pleasure?

[ydoic]

So when they burned the opium using lime did the just make morphine?

[SrimanArcharyaJBC]

Please also note that China is as also called India until its formation of the Maoist Communist party that named it China after the INA Army’s success in defeating the WeJi. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

[minus_]

The Triangular trade -
Lancashire & Manchester(East India Company), To gain & balance trade(fulfilling European's tea demand at zero cost) forced Bengal peasants(people massacred who spoke against Britishers) to cultivate opium, illegally traded in canton from Calcutta port, made Chinese people addicted as Chinese emperor was aware addictive properties so it was banned in China.
In 1839 the Chinese Emperor sent Lin Ze-xu(Special Commissioner
) to Canton to stop the opium trade. When he made arrests(1600 men) & impounded 11k pound opium, Britishers declared war(1837-42) defeated & humiliated Chinese by making them accept to legalize trade.

Interestingly - Smoking opium was strictly banned in Britain but they made Chinese addicted.

[tenchhofaiyongsawa]

William jardine was one of the famous opium sellers where is he a hero in?

[b.benevolent]

stuffed chickens with opium and feed it to them is how they did it smh

[udz]

The documentary is an hour long. BBC is not making the full length available and it would be very helpful in combatting opiate addiction. There is a scene where Vox get a CAT scan and they show the difference in a normal brain and an addicted brain. Just from its first usage the area that lights up for reward for accomplishment starts to darken. I can’t stress how significant this is. Think of Amy Whinehouse receiving a prestigious award and she didn’t care all she wanted to do was leave the venue and go get high. How terrible this drug can become in someone’s life. No sense of accomplishment no matter what you do or achieve. Just go get high again to feel good. Unbelievable

[khanimran]

Its always the priests be it America or Asia jesus loves you

[FreemanIntegrity]

Chinese people will never forget...never