Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Director of Photography: Barry McCann
Writer: Jimmy McGovern
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Danny
Paula
Paula's Father
Council Leader
Chief Constable
Drugs Counsellor
John
Greg