Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy is a road movie on opioids.

One of those cult classics well worth investigating even if you have never so much as smoked a cigarette in your life.

All the actors are used expertly, but it's Burroughs, cropping up near the end, who articulates the film's sociopolitical moral in a contemporary context.

...a slow-moving and perpetually uninvolving drama that contains few (if any) attributes designed to capture and sustain the viewer’s interest...