Short film ‘Ocean Boulevard’ tackles heroin addiction in Myrtle Beach

Lights, Camera, Narcan? –

Nov 23, 2019 – Bobby Brazell got hooked on booze and drugs. It was a way to avoid dealing with a terrible trauma. “It was drinking, then pot, then pain medication,” he recalled. “I developed a physical dependence (and) turned quickly to using heroin. In less than two months, I was an IV drug abuser.”

Now Brazell is founder and executive director of Midlands Recovery Center in Lexington. These two men, along with Jonathan Myers, each with their stories of drug abuse, worked closely with 20-year-old Columbia-based filmmaker Zoe Miller on her short film “Ocean Boulevard.” It’s set in Myrtle Beach and stars actor David Flannery.

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