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.

Sean McKee
Danny

Emma Bird
Paula

Pete Postlethwaite
Paula's Father
Anna Keaveney
Council Leader

John Bennett
Chief Constable

Paul Barber
Drugs Counsellor
Gary Mavers
John

Jake Abraham
Greg
Andrew Naylor
Degsy
Philip Foster
Rollo
John Shackley
Stew

Stephen Walters
Viaduct Boy
Arthur Kelly
Bent Detective

Paul Codman
Arresting Officer

Andrew Schofield
Chief Vigilante