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CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS
Connections: Building Resilience in Children of Alcoholics (Kit)
Michael's Journey focuses on the effects of alcoholic families on two young African American boys who exhibit different coping mechanisms.
AUDIENCE: Middle School
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Growing Up Isn't Easy focuses on talking about feelings as an alternative strategy to acting out destructive behaviors.
AUDIENCE: Middle School
LENGTH: 12 minutes
La Decision De Marta/Marta's Choice 24pp. Story of Marta who lives with an alcoholic father.
Life is Belonging 22pp. Native American photo album.
Life is Belonging audiotape
Also contains a program guide, reference guide, and worksheets
Counseling Children of Alcoholics: Fostering Resiliency
Part one focuses on information for school counselors, social workers, psychologists and nurses about resiliency and protective factors for children living in chemically dependent families. Part two presents school-based strategies for protective factors to foster resiliency in children from troubled families. This segment shows examples of protective factors in an elementary school; similar strategies can be applied to developmentally appropriate programs for middle or high school students. With guide.
AUDIENCE: Human Service Workers
LENGTH: 34 minutes
Focus: Children of Alcoholics
This film brings to light the feelings a child has when living with an alcoholic parent. The factors and outcomes related to growing up with an alcoholic parent are also discussed.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Counselors, Educators
LENGTH: 8 minutes
Living a Lie: The Alcoholic Family
This video takes you on a retreat with teenage COA's who are in the process of coming to terms with the reality of living with an alcoholic. Major points covered include the roles children play within the alcoholic family, the idea of the "perfect family" and characteristics found in healthy families.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family
In this moving film, you'll visit a summer camp program for children of alcoholics and hear youngsters tell their experiences in their own words. Then 15 years later, meet some of these same children as adults who received the tools they needed to grow up and lead full, healthy lives. Close captioned. Documentary
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 30 Minutes
Poor Jennifer, She's Always Losing Her Hat
Developed by the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. This video is about Children of Alcoholics (COA's). The purpose of this video is to educate adults about issues faced by COA's and to encourage them to respond to the needs of COA's. With guide.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Counselors, Educators
LENGTH: 34 minutes
When You Live in an Alcoholic Family
This video will help students learn that alcoholism is a disease characterized by addiction to alcohol and denial, and that it affects every member of the family. It will also teach children the three C's-you didn't cause your parent's alcoholism, you can't control your parent's alcoholism, and you can't cure your parent's alcoholism.
AUDIENCE: Teachers
LENGTH: 33 minutes
HIV/AIDS/STD's
AIDS and Chemical Dependency
This film discusses the topic of AIDS and its relationship to chemical dependency. Dr. David Smith gives a very informative talk providing information about myths, causes, and factors of prevention, statistics, IV drug users and the impact of AIDS in society today.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Professionals, Treatment Providers, and Policymakers
LENGTH: 29 minutes
AIDS Prevention: Choice Not Chance
The primary purpose of this video is to give students more information about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and to teach them how to protect themselves and others from infection. The HIV epidemic is made as real as possible without frightening the students. The manner in which the HIV virus can be transmitted is sensitively handled. The program identifies AIDS as a communicable disease but demonstrates how it differs from other communicable diseases familiar to the students. They see the chain of infection for these diseases followed by the way the immune system works, and reacts when invaded by the HIV virus. Students are encouraged to practice good health habits to avoid ordinary infectious diseases. They are also shown that AIDS cannot be caught through casual or ordinary contact. The information about HIV in this program helps to eliminate needless fear and strives to give students a sense of control over their health. Contains Teacher's Guide and reproducible activity masters.
AUDIENCE: Grades 4-6
LENGTH: Video - 12 minutes
Drug Abuse and HIV: Reaching Those at Risk
Shows how three intervention models educate out-of-treatment injection drug users about AIDS, about the behaviors that transmit the disease and about strategies that reduce the risk of contracting AIDS. Focuses primarily on indigenous leader community outreach.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 17 minute
HIV: Get the Picture
Taking their cues from Hollywood films, clever vignettes introduce teens to AIDS, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The program gives tips to avoid infection, builds respect and self-esteem, and focuses on the benefits of abstinence and healthy, drug-free living.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 14 minutes
In The Midst of winter
This video portrays a very sensitive and intelligent picture of individuals who are HIV positive, those who have AIDS and their caregivers. Divided into three parts, signifying the stages of the disease from identification of being HIV positive, developing AIDS and accompanying physical, mental and social problems, to death of individuals portrayed in the film.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Caregivers
LENGTH: 8 minutes
PHARMACOLOGY
Addicted
This video is hosted by Linda Ellerbe and uncovers the faces of addiction amidst facts and figures about disease, and violence and death caused by substance abuse. The faces presented are of all ages, races, and sexes, and are poor or rich, uneducated and schooled. They all have in common a past need for heroin, cocaine or crack, alcohol or nicotine, and each has a story of recovery. (1997, HBO)
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Alcohol: A Women's Health Issue (NEW!)
This video describes the health consequence of heavy drinking in women. NIAAA.
AUDIENCE: Treatment and Prevention Specialists
LENGTH: 12 minutes
Dangerous Party Drugs (NEW!)
Designer drugs, party drugs, rave drugs. They are all the same and in different circumstances can kill you. Permanent organ and brain damage can occur. These are not PARTY DRUGS. This video explains the facts as to what can happen when you take these drugs. It covers Ecstasy, 2C-B. Rohypnol, GHB, Ketamine, Psilocybin Mushrooms, PCP and Fry.
AUIDENCE: General
LENGTH: 23 minutes
The Disease of Alcoholism: Update
The Disease of Alcoholism Update is an update to the classic video Disease Concept of Alcoholism that Dr. Ohlms released in 1981 and updated in 1991. According to Dr. Ohlms, alcohol still leads the list of most abused drugs in all age groups, between men and women, and from all walks of life. Dr. Ohlms clearly and cogently describes alcoholism as a chronic, progressive, incurable disease characterized by a train of signs and symptoms. He also shares startling and convincing information on the physiological aspects of alcohol addiction and fetal alcohol syndrome.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 38 minutes
Differential Diagnosis in Psychiatry
This program focuses on alcoholism and the five areas involving psychoactive substance abuse: dependence syndrome, withdrawal state, withdrawal state with delirium, psychotic disorder and amnesiac syndrome. Interviews with several alcoholics illustrate the various mental disorders associated with the illness, their symptoms, and the differential diagnosis associated with each, including Korsakov's psychosis.
AUDIENCE: Mental Health Professionals
LENGTH: 34 minutes
A Dose of Death: Homeostasis and Substance Abuse
Leah Betts died on her 18th birthday from a powerful side effect of the designer drug Ecstasy. In this program, the mechanism of homeostasis and the life-threatening metabolic impact of Ecstasy on the kidneys are discussed. Medical professionals involved in Leah's inquest reveal the clues they followed and the techniques they used to ascertain her actual cause of death. Interviews with her father and stepmother, and best friend provide a personal dimension to this tragedy.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Drug Abuse and the Brain
This video provides a detailed look at the biological basis of drug addiction. Through animation and interviews with experts in the field, clinicians will come to understand how the brain and its reward system work and how drug abuse can cause fundamental changes in the way the brain works.
AUDIENCE: Clinicians, Students
LENGTH
Drugs: A Deadly Game
This video discusses how drugs affect the body, mind, and behavior, what addiction is and the signs of addiction.
AUDIENCE: Middle School Students
LENGTH: 17 minutes
Drugs Uses and Abuses: Narcotics
Research shows that many teenagers think smoking heroin poses no great risk?in fact, the DEA estimates that more than two million teens have tried it. This program presents a profile of narcotics as a class of drugs, and then spotlights, opium, codeine, morphine and heroin. Expert commentary is provided by a pharmacist, a nurse, police officers, addiction counselors, a historian, recovering addicts, and others. Together they discuss the history and biological effects of narcotics, scrutinizing their use, abuse, and hazards through case studies and personal experience.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 29 minutes
Drugs Uses and Abuses: Sedatives
Xanax, the popular successor to Valium, and Rohypnol, the notorious date rape drug are both members of the same family. This program offers a summary of sedatives as a class of drugs and then focuses on barbiturates, tranquilizers, and alcohol, touching lightly on narcotics as well. A doctor of pharmacology, police officers an addiction specialist, a historian, pastor, recovering
addicts and other describe the history and biological effects of sedatives, employing case studies
and personal experience to analyze their use, abuse, and hazards.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 32 minutes
Drugs Uses and Abuses: Stimulants
Beginning with an overview of stimulants as a class of drugs, this program examines caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and cocaine, in both powder and crack form. A doctor of pharmacology, police officers, an addiction specialist, a historian, recovering addicts, and others profile the history and biological effects of stimulants, employing case studies and personal experience to analyze their use, abuse and hazards?including the instantly addictive nature of methamphetamines and the effects of crack on unborn babies.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 39 minutes
GHB, Rave and Club Drugs
The illicit world of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), rave, and club drugs such as ecstasy are explored in this Webcast. The program will focus on GHB drug-trafficking, "date rape" case studies, and GHB on the Internet. Discussion also includes use, abuse, addiction, and the pharmacological effects of GHB, along with what law enforcement officers need to know to recognize a suspect on GHB.
AUDIENCE: Treatment and Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Hard Facts About Drugs: Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine & Crack
Discusses the negative emotional and physical effects of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and crack use. Describes the addictive nature of cocaine and crack. Points out the dangers of driving while intoxicated. This program uses the experiences of some members of a high school class to tell the facts about the four drugs. As the video begins, the freshman class is filing into the auditorium for the class photo session. The ensuing scenes, which take place over the next four years, show members of the class experimenting with each of the four drugs, with disastrous results. Voice over narration supplies facts and figures about each drug as the scenes are played out. By graduation, six students are missing from the class photo.
AUDIENCE: JHS & HS students
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Heroin
This powerful video explores the many devastating effects of heroin - a drug that has become increasingly popular with middle and upper class teens. Viewers meet the family and friends of Brad Taylor, a great guy who seemed to have it all - until he overdosed on heroin and died. Brad's friends and family share their anger at his senseless death, and tell of the pain it left behind. A visit with a toxicologist explains the physical effects of heroin use, how easy it is to become addicted, and the not-so-glamorous symptoms of withdrawal. Recovering addicts reinforce the message as they offer their experiences with the drug. Finally, viewers meet an addict and dealer in New York City. This program finds him in two places where he spends the most time - out on the streets and at a maximum-security jail. He tells how his addiction to heroin made him steal from those who loved him, and explains the horrible process of withdrawal. A thought-provoking video that shows the harsh realities of heroin use.
AUDIENCE: Addictions/Treatment professionals, Teens/Parents, Educators
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Heroin, What Am I Going to Do?
Part 1 of this compelling video describes the powerful allure of heroin and the using lifestyle, the initial illusion of control over the drug, the inevitable fall into a life of coping and using. Part 2 reveals the overwhelming feelings of helplessness and desperation that brought these addicts to treatment. Their matter of fact revelations show the way out of heroin addiction as they talk about the need for honesty and surrender to begin recovery, their struggles to stay clean, and the ultimate rewards of a life without drugs.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 27 minutes
In the Know: Prescription Drugs
Exciting graphics, expert testimony, and four young narrators work together to educate viewers about the unfamiliar but terrible risks of prescription drugs. The video shows the viewer the traumatic damage that unauthorized use of pharmaceutical drugs can do to their social functioning and physical mental health. The drug groups discussed in the video are tranquilizers, stimulants, and opioid painkillers. It deals with the social effects, biological functions, and the short and long-term effects of each of these substances.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Inhalants: An Adult Primer
Short presentation discusses what inhalants are, why young people use them, their effects, and possible signs and symptoms of use.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 10 minutes
Inhalants: The Silent Epidemic
Traces the lives of two recently relocated families as they experience firsthand the silent epidemic of inhalant abuse. Throughout this fictional account, the audience is exposed to the kinds of situations, factors, and environmental dynamics that influence when and where inhalant abuse may take place.
AUDIENCE: Late Elementary - Adult
LENGTH: 22 minutes
It Can Happen to Anyone: Problems with Alcohol and Medication Among Older Adults
Alcohol is a part of our social fabric. For many older adults, prescribed medications are also a fact of life. At any state of life, alcohol and drugs can pose a serious threat to health, happiness and longevity. In this video, viewers take a candid look at the role alcohol plays in the lives of some older adults.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 26 minutes
Marijuana Update - Revised
Marijuana is the most widely used drug today, and can serve as a gateway to other addictive drugs. Leo Hayden, a former college athlete, knows this all too well. Now working as a counselor for drug addiction, Leo tells viewers how he became addicted to marijuana. Other former users share their stories of how their marijuana addiction began, and how they eventually hit rock bottom. Graphics are used to demonstrate the physical effects of marijuana on the body, while former addicts share the psychological effects. This hard-hitting program should not be missed.
AUDIENCE: 12-18 Year Olds
LENGTH: 16 minutes
A Matter of Balance
This video is designed to show how the body tries to stay in balance and how drugs throw that balance off. It also gives specifics about the most widely used drugs such as alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, tobacco, and heroin. It classifies drugs into three categories, UPPERS (stimulants), DOWNERS (depressants), and ALL AROUNDERS (psychedelics). This makes it possible to understand the general effects of most substances without having to do extensive research into each separate drug. The video suggests ways to replace the desire for drugs by strengthening the brain and body's natural abilities to feel good, to feel satisfied, to feel in control.
AUDIENCE: 7-12 Grades, College, Treatment Centers, Parents, and Educators
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Mind, Body, Life: Heroin Steals All Three
This videotape is intended for law enforcement officials, but will appeal to anyone interested in the deadly effects and sorrow caused by heroin. Heroin does not discriminate against race or economic class. Its use and trafficking continue to be on the rise, affecting our communities and neighborhoods. On this video, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement illustrates some strategies to help combat this problem.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 15 minutes
The Neurobiology of Alcoholism: Simplified
This video provides and update on the exciting research underway to unravel the medical mystery of addiction. Scientists are now able to study the inner working of the human brain, the structure of our genetic makeup and the mechanisms of alcohol and drug treatment in ways not possible even a decade ago. Its is critical that those who are individually or professionally concerned with addictive disease have a current understanding of the direction science is heading in conquering these major public health challenges these major public health challenges. Included herein are suggestions and discussion questions that will help viewers derive optimum benefit from the video.
AUDIENCE: Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Prescription Drug Addiction (NEW!)
A video with discussions by Dr. David L. Ohlms, M.D. that outlines the behavioral signs and symptoms of prescription drug abuse and addiction, including tolerance, withdrawal, and rebound. Dr. Ohlms also discusses the pitfalls for people in recovery taking prescription and over the counter medications. He offers suggestions for people in recovery who face using mood altering prescription drugs in conjunction with surgery and other illness management.
AUDIENCE: All, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 33 minutes
Psychedelics and Hallucinogens
In this program, a pharmacist, an addiction counselor, a police officer, a historian, a pastor and recovering users provide background on psychedelics and hallucinogens as a class of drugs and study the history and biological effects of mescaline, psilocybin, LSD, and the designer drug MDMA. Utilizing case studies and personal experience they explore the uses, abuses and hazards of these drugs, which can include vivid flashbacks and critical serotonin depletion.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH:
Psychoactive: Club Drugs and Inhalants
The video emphasizes the reasons these drugs are used; the unpredictability of the response to psychedelic drugs especially when used together with other psychoactive drugs; the physiological and psychological effects of MDMA, GHB, and other psychedelics especially on mood and memory; the continued use and health consequences of nitrous oxide and petroleum-based inhalants; the impact of inhalants on the lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, blood cells, and brain; treatment options for bad "trips," overdoses, and polydrug use.
This video is designed to meet your prevention, education, and treatment needs.
AUDIENCE: Youth, Prevention Leaders
LENGTH3 52 minutes
The Road to Recovery: Addiction by Prescription
Discover who is misusing prescription medicines and how these addictions may differ from addictions to illicit drugs. Also, learn about how prescription medication abuse is treated in this video.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 58 Minutes
The Science of Addiction
In this program experts discuss the psychological, medical and social aspects of chemical dependence as four teenagers come to grips with the addictions that have replaced their dreams of a happy future with a reality centered on rehabilitation and the constant threat of relapse. In addition computer animations and PET imaging illustrate the impact of drugs on the brain's chemistry.
AUDIENCE: Teens, General
LENGTH: 17 minutes
Snowstorm in the Jungle
This documentary was produced in the heart of the Amazon Jungle. Its main goal is to explain and demonstrate the tragic costs of the deadly drug called cocaine, the world's most addictive drug.
AUDIENCE: Educators
LENGTH: 51 minutes
Stimulants
Beginning with an overview of stimulants as a class of drugs, this program examines caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, methamphetamines and cocaine- in both powder and crack form. A doctor of pharmacology, police officers, an addiction specialist, a historian, recovering addicts, and other profile the history and biological effects of stimulants, employing case studies and personal experience to analyze their use, abuse and hazards-including their instantly addictive nature.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Street Drugs
This video is an excellent description of drug classifications, signs and symptoms, and physical appearance of drugs. Hosted by Jimmy Smits. Straight and informative.
AUDIENCE: Middle School, Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: The Effects
This video examines how and why the physical and emotional centers of the brain are affected by psychoactive drugs and gives a general classification of drugs.
AUDIENCE: Teens and Adults
LENGTH: 31 minutes
Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: The Drugs
This video identifies the most commonly used psychoactive drugs, classifies them by effect, and shows how they are absorbed and metabolized.
AUDIENCE: Teens and Adults
LENGTH: 31 minutes
PREVENTION
Acting Out: Documentary examining "Teens Kick Off" a prevention approach using theatre to address the concerns of teens today including drugs, AIDS, suicide, eating disorders, and sexual orientation.
AUDIENCE: Jr. High, Sr. High, General
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Adolescent Violence: A View From the Street (Research in Progress Videotape)
Presents findings from a qualitative research study on violent events involving adolescents in two New York City neighborhoods with high rates of adolescent homicides: East New York (Brooklyn) and Mott Haven (South Bronx). Topics discussed include violence as a means of self-preservation, the role of violence in forming identity, the notion of an ecology of danger, and the effects of alcohol on violent behavior. Fagan concludes by discussing how this study's research methods can be applied to other studies of violence.
AUDIENCE: Clinicians, Educators, Community Coalition Groups and Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: Approx. 30+ minutes
Alcohol and the Elderly
This video discusses the elderly and the effects that alcohol has on them. It also depicts how the elderly are often overlooked as alcoholics.
AUDIENCE: Health Professionals, Adults
LENGTH:
Alcohol and Sex: Prescription for Poor Decision Making
This video helps students to understand that alcohol is not the sex enhancer it is touted to be. Instead they will find, alcohol can lead to risky or unwanted sexual situation. They will also understand how the media contributes to the perception that alcohol and sex go together. It encourages teens to make smart, sober decisions about sex by helping them to realize the danger of mixing alcohol and drugs.
AUDIENCE: Teachers, Teen
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Alcohol: Drug Undercover (NEW!)
This video exposes the truth about alcohol's effect on young people. Young people narrate, role-play and offer testimonials about the danger of alcohol in this video.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 12 minutes
Alcohol-The Substance, The Addiction & The Solution (NEW!)
Educates about the dangers of this legally sanctioned drug, including the myths of "safer" versions such as wine and beer.
AUDIENCE: Grade 9-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Animated Neuroscience & The Action of Nicotine, Cocaine, & Marijuana In The Brain
Using sophisticated 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of the three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external environment through the body to the brain, where viewers learn about the cellular targets of these and how it affects the body. Actual neurons used in the animations create a realistic effect that helps viewers understand the concepts presented.
AUDIENCE: General
LEGHTH: 25 minutes
Blueprints for Violence Prevention
The Blueprints for Violence Prevention provide step-by-step guidance for communities to plan and implement youth crime and violence prevention strategies. The compelling narrative and demonstrative cases studies highlight 10 exemplary programs throughout the country, which represent strategies as diverse in scopes, budget and geography as they are successful.
AUDIENCE: Community Leaders
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Booze and Pills (NEW!)
Some people believe that combining drinks and pills is harmless. Not knowing that such activities can lead to damage to the brain and body. Mixing alcohol and over-the-counter, prescription or illegal substances should never be done. Alone these substances can have harmful effects, especially when they are abused. When they are mixed, the consequences can be irreversible. Find out why combining booze and pills can be a dangerous risk that should not be taken.
AUDIENCE: Youth
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Brainstorm: The Truth About Your Brain on Drugs, Outreach Project
This presentation is divided into four 15-minute sections and is based on the 3-2-1 contact extra. It is fun, informative, and teaches kids to say no to drugs and why.
AUDIENCE: 8-12 Year Olds
LENGTH: 60 minutes
CADCA Across Cultures: Uniting the Community to Fight Drugs
Coalitions strive to overcome cultural blindness to break down barriers, whether racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or language, with one primary goal in mind-to reduce the use of drugs within their communities. Problems that different cultures commonly face, such as immigration status, acculturation pressures, lack of access to services, marginalization and political powerlessness, isolation, and a lack of resources, impact their well-being. This video helps local leaders to understand the data, recognize certain risk and protective factors, develop new community-wide strategies, and learn new communication skills.
AUDIENCE: Coalitions
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Chasing Life: A Drug Prevention Program for Pregnant Women
"Chasing Life" uses a combination of audio and visual techniques to dramatize the lives of two young women: Roxanne, a young pregnant woman who becomes addicted to drugs, and her friend, Denise, whose life is positive and drug-free. This video also highlights the personal experiences of women in recovery and provides helpful information and recommendations from specialists about substance abuse prevention and education. A practical discussion guide accompanies the Chasing Life video. It talks about the videos message, recaps the effects of alcohol and other drugs on pregnant and contains questions (and suggested answers), which are often raised during pregnancy.
ADUIENCE: Women
LENGTH: 13 minutes
Club Drugs: From Rave to the Grave (Adults)
Combining a true-to-life scenario with the testimonials of people who have seen the problem firsthand, Club Drugs: From Rave to the Graves shows viewers the prevalence of these drugs at the all-night dance parties known as raves and the dangers of taking them. This video shows that young people going to raves is something for parents to be concerned about.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Club Drugs: From Rave to the Grave (High School)
Combining a true-to-life scenario with the testimonials of people who have seen the problem firsthand, Club Drugs: From Rave to the Graves shows viewers the prevalence of these drugs at the all-night dance parties known as raves and the dangers of taking them. The video dispels the myth that club drugs are harmless substances.
AUDIENCE: High School Students
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Cocaine: The End of the Line
This program examines what cocaine is and how it affects the body, how treatments work, and how to recognize cocaine use in others. The program also defines the typical coke user and shows how active members of the community are dragged down once they become involved with cocaine; explains why cocaine is so addictive and why addiction is so difficult to overcome; and provides a quiz on some of the myths about cocaine and some important points that need to be reinforced.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 58 minutes
Community Coalitions: Gathering Momentum
Presented by Presidents Drug Advisory Council. This video captures the essence of Forum II and the anti-drug coalition movement. As you watch, think of your own community and how your involvement can help eliminate substance abuse. Your actions at the personal, local level will determine the character of the American Way of Life.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Community Coalition Groups
LENGTH: 7 minutes
The Dangerous Frontiers of Substance Abuse: A Look at Alcohol and Drug Use Trends
Every year, people find new and often very dangerous ways to get high. Youth are now engaged in what is called "robo-tripping." This practice involves the consumption of high volumes of cold medicine, such as Robitussin, which can cause euphoria, hallucinations, and sometimes death. This show looks at the emerging trends related to underage drinking, illicit drug use, and nonmedical use of prescriptions and over-the-counter medications, as well as the challenges and successes of treatment.
AUDIENCE: Treatment and Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Debunking the Myths About Marijuana: What Can Your Community Do? (NEW!)
This seven-minute video, developed by the ONDCP National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, was designed to educate communities about the harms of teen marijuana use. It highlights the latest research about the drug, features commentary by leading experts about the effects of marijuana on youth, and encourages communities to work together to address teen marijuana use.
AUDIENCE: Prevention Groups
LENGTH: 7 minutes
Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse (From the Domestic Violence: Broken Wings Series)
The message of this new video is that substance abuse does not cause domestic violence. Viewers learn different forms of emotional and sexual violence, and common ways in which people rationalize the abuse of substances and one another. The video also provides examples of how the cycle of domestic violence and codependency can be broken by recognizing that these are learned behaviors that can be changed. For those struggling with domestic violence and substance abuse, the video offers resources and direction on group support and therapy, how friends and family can help, and which legal steps can be taken.
AUDIENCE: Adults and Teenagers, Counselors
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Drinking and Driving (NEW!)
This video shows how your reflexes, and decision-making processes are reduced when alcohol is introduced into the bloodstream. It explains the importance of making correct decisions when getting behind the wheel of a potential killer when you are under the influence of a controlled substance.
AUDIENCE: Young Adults, Adults
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Drinking, Driving and Drugs: A Deadly Mix (NEW!)
Introduces viewers to the profound dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol and other drugs. Through narratives of people whose lives have been destroyed, viewers are made aware that a split second decision to get behind the wheel while under the influence can cause irreparable tragedy. Throughout the program, young people share refusal skills and what to do if someone is trying to get behind the wheel while under the influence.
AUDIENCE: Teens, Parents
LENGTH: 20 Minutes
Drug Abuse: Symptoms of Dependency
This video shows how easy casual or occasional drug use can turn into dependency. This is illustrated by vignettes on five very different people whose loves show common symptoms of a substance abuse problem.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Drug Use and Domestic Violence (Research in Progress Videotape)
Discusses preliminary results from a 1995 community study of domestic violence incidents in Memphis, Tennessee, performed to determine the prevalence of domestic violence as well as the factors contributing to it. Survey findings show that 92 percent of assailants and 42 percent of victims used drugs during the day of the assault. In addition, the vast majority of victims had suffered a previous assault by the same assailant, and 91 percent had reported a prior incident to police. Of the assailants arrested at the scene and charged with domestic violence, 75 percent were released within 18 hours. As a result of the study findings, the medical and criminal justice communities in Memphis are collaborating to ease the plight of domestic violence victims and increase the penalties for assault in cases where alcohol, drugs, or weapons are used or children are present.
AUDIENCE: Prevention and Criminal Justice Professionals, Community Advocacy Groups
LENGTH: Approx. 35+ minutes
Drugs of Abuse Volume 1
This is a factual presentation about three categories of drugs: cannabis, depressants and stimulants. The chemical make-up and the damaging short and long-term effects of each drug category are described in easy to understand language.
AUDIENCE: All, Prevention Providers
LENGTH: 16 minutes
Ecstasy-Nothing to Rave About
Documentary style video, made in cooperation with the Florida Office of Drug Control. It uses real-life stores of people who have used ecstasy and now face the consequences. From graphic police footage of a young man convulsing from an ecstasy overdose to the painful story of a woman whose family was torn apart by her ecstasy use. This video unmasks the truth about a drug many teens believe is harmless.
AUDIENCE: Youth, Prevention Providers
LENGTH: 29 minutes
Ecstasy: What's All the Rave About (NEW!)
In this video, former ecstasy users join with experts to examine the facts, discuss raves and dispel myths surrounding this dangerous and illicit drug. Substance abuse prevention and treatment professionals discuss the latest science-based information for community audiences with varying levels of knowledge about ecstasy.
AUDIENCE: Prevention Professionals, Parents, Teens, All
LENGTH: 30 Minutes
Educate: Creating Inhalant Abuse Awareness Together
Introduction by Barry McCaffery. Explains the dangers of inhalant abuse. Interviews two families who lost a child as a result of inhalant abuse. Portrays one recovering inhalant abuser.
AUDIENCE: Parents, Educators
LENGTH: 13 minutes
Everybody's Business 2: Building Bridges
Building Bridges starts by presenting the Social Development Strategy, a proven model for the prevention of health and behavior problems. Consists of 4 sessions. The sessions move outward, showing how the principles behind this theory can be incorporated into effective school and community based service programs for adolescents. Building Bridges has been designed so that you can add a locally relevant fifth session discussing your own community resources. Facilitators guide available.
AUDIENCE: Educators, Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 1 hour
The Evolution of Madness
Michael Johnson explores how the dynamics surrounding today's addict are different from the addict of 20 years ago. He takes the viewer through the evolution of addiction, with emphasis
on the character, thought process, value systems and the objectives of today's addict. In the absence of understanding these differences, the average clinician may be ineffective, resulting in a strained and frustrating counselor client relationship, as well as counselor burnout. He provides strategies that will help overcome these obstacles.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 60 minutes
GHB, Rave and Club Drugs
The illicit world of Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), rave, and club drugs such as ecstasy are explored in this Webcast. The program will focus on GHB drug-trafficking, "date rape" case studies, and GHB on the Internet. Discussion also includes use, abuse, addiction, and the pharmacological effects of GHB, along with what law enforcement officers need to know to recognize a suspect on GHB.
AUDIENCE: Treatment and Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
FAS: Focus on Prevention
Through candid interviews with experts and parents of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) children, this program presents the facts and offers advice on the prevention of FAS. The importance of abstaining from any kind of alcohol when pregnant is stressed, and viewers will learn that help is available for mothers struggling with alcoholism.
AUDIENCE: Social Workers, Expectant Mothers
LENGTH: 19 minutes
Gambling: The Chance of a Lifetime
This video examines gambling both as a harmless social activity and as an addiction. How some people allow gambling to consume their lives, and why they do it is discussed by a treatment expert and a compulsive gambler. The effect of gambling on both individuals and their families is also examined.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 28 minutes
Gateway Drug Series: Binge Drinking Blowout
With the exception of tobacco, alcohol is the single most accessible gateway drug, a young person's introduction to the world of substance abuse. This video looks at the life threatening nature of teen alcohol use from a medical and personal perspective. Watch interviews with the mother of a girl who died from an alcohol overdose, with the family of a girl who received serious head injuries in a drunk driving car accident, and with an ER doctor who is dodging gurneys as traumatized bodies fly past him. Hip and contemporary with arresting visuals and soundtrack this video is designed to capture the attention of the hardcore teen abusers who need it the most.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 28 minutes
Gathering the Circle
Spotlights nine prevention programs designed for Native American and Alaska Native populations. You will get a clear picture of how these prevention strategies focus on the role of elders, rediscovery of traditional ways, self-determination, and the role of tribal communities. "Gathering the Circle" is a chronicle of the CSAP Native American and Alaska Native Grantee Conference, a forum for prevention professionals to share ideas for addressing substance abuse among Native peoples. The grantees have developed programs, which specialize in one of four prevention "spheres": family, adolescent, school, and community.
AUDIENCE: Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Getting Media Attention for Prevention Efforts NEW!
This interactive learning event is an opportunity for participants to learn why a communication strategy is important in the field of prevention and what is involved in effective media relations. Features three experts in the area of communications, substance abuse and the media, the broadcast will provide strategies for publicizing and disseminating information about prevention efforts with examples of effective media relations in several formats. AUDIENCE: Prevention Specialists LENGTH: 60 minutes
Going Straight: Toward a Drug-Free School
The "Going Straight" program is a comprehensive K-12 drug education program involving parents and the community; it was developed to meet set prevention criteria.
AUDIENCE: Educators
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Here's to You, Sister
The demands involve in trying to balance work with family responsibilities, as well as other causes of stress related to modern living, are taking their toll on women. Many are turning to alcohol to make it through their days and nights. In this program, women speak candidly about their addiction and what caused them to become alcoholics. The program discusses patterns of addiction, enumerates its symptoms, and examines its effects on children and partners. At a recovery program, women alcoholics learn ways to stay sober and to deal with the looming reality of relapse.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Heroin: What Am I Going to DO?
Recovering addicts share how they reclaimed their lives through the Twelve Step Program. Provides a timely, informative update on the resurgent threat and evolving problems of heroin use.
AUDIENCE: Grade 8-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
How to Raise a Drug-Free Child
Mary Tyler Moore outlines seven basic steps to help parents deal with drug abuse and prevention. For example, set limits, talk about drugs, get involved, don't delay, look for changes, and be aware of gateway drugs.
AUDIENCE: Educators, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 30 minutes
I Ain't Drunk...I'm Just Drinkin...
This is a three part video series featuring work famous athletes, actors and motivational speakers educating both minors and adults about the legal, physiological, and physical effects of underage alcohol consumption. Volume 1: The Legal Consequences of Underage Drinking-introduced by Film & TV Actor, Gil Gerard. Volume II: The Physiological Effects of Alcohol Consumption-introduced by World Champion Boxer, Paulie Ayala. Volume III: The Physical Effects of Alcohol Consumption-introduced by Dallas Cowboy's Emmitt Smith.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 13 minutes each
In the Know: Party Drugs
Exciting graphics, expert testimony, and four young narrators work together to educate viewers about the tremendous damage that Ecstasy/MDMA, methamphetamines, GHB, Rohypnol, and Ketamine do the users' lives. The program details the social effect, biological functions, and short and long-term effects of these drugs.
AUDIENCE: Youth, Prevention Providers
LENGTH: 24 minutes
In the Know: Prescription Drugs
This video shows the viewer the traumatic damage that unauthorized use of pharmaceutical drugs can do to their social functioning and physical and mental health. The group of drugs discussed in this video are tranquilizers (barbiturates and benzodiazepines). Stimulants (amphetamines), and opiod painkillers (Vicodin, OxyContin). It also details the social effects, biological functions, and short and long term effects of each of these substances.
Audience: All, Prevention Providers
LENGTH: 15 minutes
It Sure Beats Sitting in a Cell
Filmed inside correctional facilities in the United States and Canada, this film tells the story of four young A.A.s who were in prison as a result of drinking, yet today are sober in Alcoholics Anonymous.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 17 minutes
Kids of Survival: The Life and Times of Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
This is three-30 minute videos plus a 50- page leader's guide. Filmed over the course of five years in the South Bronx, this documentary plays like an educational version of Hoop Dreams, and was in fact favorably compared with that film by the L.A. Weekly. Filmed in an art studio which grew out of the New York Public Schools, the video depicts the gripping story of young people being reclaimed through art and education and how the best practices can effectively change the lives and academic performances of even the most troubled, impoverished young people.
AUDIENCE: Students
LENGTH: 30 minutes each
Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part II. Building Healthy Youth: Strategies and Services
Part II of this series helps to identify useful tool and models for helping to keep youth away from alcohol and drugs. The video promotes the use of science-based prevention programs for youth and provides specific examples of effective programs for youth. A panel of experts discusses the strategies they have used.
AUCIENCE: Educators, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 116 minutes
Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part IV. The First Line of Defense in Prevention
In this videotape teleconference, key scientific findings to help parents prevent substance abuse in their children are discussed. The video examines various risk and protective factors, including parental substance abuse management practices, and family bonding. Part IV also stresses the importance of parent-child communication and suggests ways for parents to encourage discussion of substance abuse with their children.
AUDIENCE: Educators, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 116 minutes
Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part V. Social Problems and Substance Abuse: Organizing for Effective Solutions
Research has shown that violence, AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, youth crime, and substance abuse are interrelated. This video explores these issues and looks at the strategies some communities have used to prevent social problems.
AUDIENCE: Educators, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 120 minutes
Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part VI. Media and Culture: Empowering Youth for Prevention
Youth are often influenced by powerful messages found on TV programs, and in movies, advertising, and music. These messages often relate to substance abuse and other risk behaviors; however, media can also convey positive, healthy messages. This video presents and overview of some of the research done on the effects of media on youth.
AUDIENCE: Educators, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 129 minutes
Looking Forward to Tomorrow: Medical Aspects of Seniors and Substances (NEW!)
This is an awareness video for older adults and their families focusing on how to maximize their health for the future. A must see for anyone providing services for seniors. It also addresses issues regarding the use of alcohol, prescription and over the counter medications.
AUDIENCE: All, Addiction Specialists
LENGTH: 28 minutes
Marijuana: Escape to Nowhere (NEW!)
In this video, personal stories are interwoven with interviews from a treatment professional and a research pharmacologist to uncover the devastating effects of long-term marijuana use on the body, mind, and spirit. The video ends on a message of hope as recovering addicts share their accomplishments and dreams fulfilled since breaking the chains of marijuana addiction.
AUDIENCE: Grade 9-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Marijuana Vacancy: The Life of a Pot Smoker (NEW!)
This video gives young people the realities about using this drug. The controversy over marijuana's medicinal properties and its high profile in the media has caused many misunderstandings. The video provides the conclusive facts about marijuana's dangers. Young narrators run through the negative physical and mental effects of marijuana, and present evidence tot it addicting qualities. Candid interviews with teen discuss instances where they have encountered marijuana and why they've refused to fall into its trap.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 12 Minutes
Marijuana: Weeding Out the Hype (NEW!)
Viewers will learn some of the latest facts about marijuana, including trends in the use of the drug, the strength of today's marijuana, its effects, and the encouraging efforts being made in prevention and treatment. Experts refute the myth that "everybody" is using marijuana as well as claims that it is harmless.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Meth ...The Great Deceiver
This video presents a powerful argument for avoiding one of the most dangerous drugs today, methamphetamine. Teens and drug experts provide critical information on what meth does physically, mentally, and socially to the lives of people choosing to use this "Crack" of the 90's.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 16 minutes
Murals Reflecting Prevention
Murals Reflecting Prevention is a creative and collaborative hands-on project, which engages people in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention activities through art.
AUDIENCE: Youth
LENGTH: 10 minutes
The Physician Does Make a Difference: Recognizing the Faces of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
This video is intended for use by a physician educator with some background in alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) or by presentation/training teams composed of a physician educator and a resource person with AODA experience. Developed to raise physician awareness of AODA; motivate physicians to become involved in recognition and management of AODA problems in their patients; and encourage physicians to take an active role in the education of their patients and their communities on AODA issues.
AUDIENCE: Physicians and Health Care Providers
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Prescription for Danger (NEW!)
The misuse of prescription medicine is a growing problem. This program outlines six common sense questions every patient should ask when given a prescription, like what activities should be avoided, and possible side effects. It also explains the importance of communication between patient, physician and pharmacist to avoid potential problems. Saving medication, borrowing it from friends, and failing to take medication as prescribed are discussed as potential pitfalls.
AUDIENCE: Adult
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Preventing Drug Abuse Among Youth
An overview of Community, Family, and School-Based Programs. This is the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's June, 1997, teleconference. This satellite teleconference is designed to:
- Share promising program strategies related to drug abuse among youth.
- Identify factors that put youth at risk for drug use.
- Provide an opportunity for viewers to interact with experts and local project directors.
AUDIENCE: Youth & Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: about 3 hours & 50 minutes
The Prevention Story: Programs That Make a Difference Part II
(1997, CSAP) The Prevention Story Part II picks up where Part I left off by highlighting the next three stages of the health communications process to design prevention messages and materials. The stages covered are: implementing the program, evaluating the program, and using feedback to refine the program. Examples of successful communications projects funded or supported by CSAP are featured.
AUDIENCE: Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 16 minutes
Psychedelics and Hallucinogens
In this program, a pharmacist, an addiction counselor, a police officer, a historian, a pastor and recovering users provide background on psychedelics and hallucinogens as a class of drugs and study the history and biological effects of mescaline, psilocybin, LSD, and the designer drug MDMA. Utilizing case studies and personal experience they explore the uses, abuses and hazards of these drugs, which can include vivid flashbacks and critical serotonin depletion.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH:
Relapse Prevention
This video helps practitioners understand the common phenomenon of relapse due to drug use among patients in treatment.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Relapse Prevention Skills with Difficult Clients
This 12 part series by Terence T. Gorski covers the following.
Tape 1 An Overview of CENAPS: Dual Diagnosis System
Tape 2 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and RP, Part 1
Tape 3 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and RP, Part 2
Tape 4 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and RP, Part 3
Tape 5 Antisocial Personality Disorder and RP, Part 1
Tape 6 Antisocial Personality Disorder and RP, Part 2
Tape 7 Antisocial Personality Disorder and RP, Part 3
Tape 8 Antisocial Personality Disorder and RP, Part 4
Tape 9 Craving and Relapse Prevention, Part 1
Tape 10 Craving and Relapse Prevention, Part 2
Tape 11 Craving and Relapse Prevention, Part 3
Tape 12 Craving and Relapse Prevention, Part 4
AUDIENCE: Counselors
LENGTH: Varied
Safe Spaces: Drug and Alcohol Prevention Education for Special Needs and Drug Exposed K-2 Children
Staff developed program for K-2 special needs educators. Part I: Awareness, Skills, and Practice (15 minutes). Why alcohol and other drug prevention education is important for special needs children; dispelling myths of what drug-exposed means; skills and curriculum for responding to children's concerns; and creating "safe spaces" classroom environments. Part II: Intervention and Family Collaboration (12 minutes). The vital roles of early intervention and family-school collaboration in alcohol and other drug prevention education for young children with special needs.
AUDIENCE: Educators
LENGTH: 27 minutes (2 parts)
Saying Goodnight to the Sun
This culturally specific video profiles the Rural Providers Conference; a gathering geared toward substance abuse prevention and intervention strategies for the Alaska Natives population. Viewers are shown conference activities that stress the importance of "creative power" enabling the Alaska Native community to clarify their vision to live alcohol and drug-free lives, commit to carry forth the vision, and develop values which are consistent with their commitment and vision.
AUDIENCE: Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Scared Straight 20 Years Later
This video looks back at the original Oscar and Emmy Award winning documentary showcasing New Jersey's Rahway State Prison and its bold attempt to scare youthful offenders into changing their lives by bringing them face to face with real convicts. The remainder of the 2-hour special will revisit those same kids and convicts today, exploring what impact that original meeting had on their lives over the past 20 years and reveal if the convicted are still in prison and if the kids, now in their mid 30' s, stayed out of prison.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Substance Abuse Among Latinos
This program looks at culturally specific approaches being generated within the Latino community to combat drug and alcohol abuse, and examines such factors as language, religion, and family ties in reaching and teaching Latino population at risk for AID and/or substance abuse.
AUDIENCE: Community Leaders
LENGTH: 28 minutes
This Is Your Life DRUG FREE
This Your Life Drug Free is designed to teach teens the dangers of marijuana and other drugs. Many kids today perceive there is no risk in using marijuana. We will show otherwise. Using an MTV, peer-to-peer style, Daniella, Julian, and Rachel show students what their lives were like before during and after they were drug users. This show is different from drug prevention videos because it shows the latest in scientific research. In an honest and candid way, we show kids how the choices they make as teens can affect their lives now and in the future. Teens will see that marijuana and other drugs affect your health, brain, and relationships.
AUDIENCE: Youth
LENGTH: 28 minutes
Turning Away: Life on the Streets
Darci is a young woman marked by 10 year of living on the streets. Trusting and believing no one, she is a beggar and a prostitute and a long time drug addict. But, she is also a mother of two children whom she loves, though she is raising neither of them. Blair, another homeless person, is a young man who works as a "squeegee kid" and lives in an abandoned warehouse. He is charismatic, spiritual, and charitable, but also extremely violent and a drug addict. This program documents the stories of Darci and Blair- their childhoods, families and feelings and examines their reasons for wanting both to leave the streets and to stay. CONTAINS HARSH LANGUAGE.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 61 minutes
Underage Drinking: Know the Facts, Know the Risks (NEW!)
This video, along with this Teacher's Resource Book, was developed to help students understand the true face of underage drinking and how it applies to their own lives. Each activity provides an opportunity for further learning and discussion.
AUDIENCE: Teachers, Parents, Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 26 Minutes
Understanding, Controlling & Preventing Anger Part I
This video and it companion program "Understanding, Controlling and Preventing Anger, Part II are intended to be used with youngsters, ages 12-17. The videos also can be used in adult settings, especially for parents of preteens and teens. Part I helps viewers understand what anger is and how it is generated. Its purpose it to provide the necessary information to foster self-recognition of an anger problem.
AUDIENCE: Middle and High School Students, Teachers, Parents
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Understanding, Controlling & Preventing Anger Part II
This video and it companion program "Understanding, Controlling and Preventing Anger, Part I are intended to be used with youngsters, ages 12-17. The videos also can be used in adult settings, especially for parents of preteens and teens. Part II provides information for self-diagnosis, and gives control and prevention strategies.
AUDIENCE: Middle and High School Students, Teachers, Parents
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Violence Prevention: Parent Education, What Every Parent Should Know
This video program has been designed to provide parents with the tools necessary to effectively train their children to confidently solve their problems peacefully and rationally. In addition, the program provides training in crisis intervention and in step-by-step conflict resolution. This video will show parents how to assist their children is coping with conflict, preventing the escalation of a conflict into a crisis and avoiding violence, should a conflict occur.
AUDIENCE: Parents, Educators
LENGTH: 29 minutes
Violence Prevention: Teacher Training, What Middle School Teachers and Students Should Know
This program has been designed to be viewed and implemented by teachers in the middle-school setting, especially those teachers who offer conflict resolution/violence prevention classes. The main goal of the program is to encourage the use of intervention strategies in the middle-school setting to help prevent conflict form turning violent.
AUDIENCE: Teachers, Educators, Middle School Students
LENGTH: 27 minutes
Walls That Speak: The Community Partnership Mural Project
(1997, CSAP) This video documents a mural painting project in Santa Cruz County, California, which used ethnic cultural expression as a substance abuse prevention strategy. This activity brought over 300 Hispanic/Latino youth and adults together to create these three murals, which counter negative pro-drug and alcohol messages. The Community Partnership Mural Project illustrates key strategies that can be implemented into substance abuse prevention efforts. These include (1) community involvement and the empowerment of young people, (2) fostering pro-social bonding between young people and their community, (3) utilizing mass media and marketing strategies to convey a positive pro-community message, and (4) mobilizing strengths of traditional cultures through ethnic-specific images, language, and ideas. A video guide included on the inside cover of the tape cassette provides a step-by-step process for groups interested in replicating the Prevention Mural Series in their own communities. Includes both English and Spanish versions.
AUDIENCE: General, Prevention Specialists
LENGTH: 29 minutes
What Is Your Drug I.Q.?
This video covers common belief about currently abused drugs. Each belief is either proven or disputed, while honest, accurate information is delivered on alcohol, marijuana, and heroin with participation throughout by answering true/false questions.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 17 minutes
What's Wrong with Beer?
This documentary style program is designed to engage the viewer and enable him or her to identify with the young people in the video. In the process the hope is that young people will be able to evaluate their own drinking patterns and become clearer about the risks. It lies to rest the myths about beer that permeate our society. Among the myths dispelled are the common ideas that beer is somehow less harmful and less addicting than hard liquor, beer and drinking are normal parts of adult activity, having a few drinks will help make socializing better and weekend drinking has no impact on the rest of the week.
AUDIENCE: High School and College Students
LENGTH 25 minutes
Where Meth Goes Violence and Destruction Follow!
This video explores the "Methamphetamine Crisis" in America today and its high cost to society. It examines the violence, child abuse, and social damage to individuals and families that often caused this powerful drug. It also looks at the environmental impact of meth labs. The facts and stories in this dynamic video dramatically illustrate the compelling need for individuals and communities to take action to combat this devastating problem.
AUDIENCE: General
SPANISH LANGUAGE VIDEOS
America in Jeopardy: The Young Employee and Drugs in the Workplace
(In Spanish) Developed to address the requirements of the Federal Government's Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988, this video shows employees how and where to seek help for themselves and co-workers involved with drugs.
AUDIENCE: Employees/Managers
LENGTH: 13 minutes
Hablando en Serio (Straight Talk)
(In Spanish) Profiles 3 Hispanic teens from inner-city neighborhoods that have chosen not to use drugs, and their reasons for making those choices. These teens are not actors. Comes with Teacher=s Guide.
AUDIENCE: Middle School-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
La Decision de Maria (Maria's Decision)
(In Spanish) When Maria, a high school student finds out she's pregnant, a neighbor and nurse counsels her on how to have a healthy baby. Issues presented include the importance of prenatal care and proper nutrition. The negative effects and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and crack are presented.
AUDIENCE: High School Juniors and Seniors
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Libre Quiero Ser: (I Want to Be Free)
(In Spanish) The primary emphasis of this video is to introduce preteens and teens to the negative social and health consequences of tobacco use. It also demystifies the image of tobacco that advertisers try to promote: that smoking cigarettes or using chewing tobacco is a slick and sophisticated behavior. The information is presented in a music-video format interwoven with a series of live interviews with teens and preteens and is conveyed through song lyrics and on-the-spot, from-the-heart responses by the youth interviewed. The video was designed to be educational art that informs as it entertains. The music is upbeat, hip-hop style with Latin and funk influences. Its visuals are entertaining and fast paced. Includes teacher's guide with an introduction, learning objectives, summary of contents, before and after viewing discussion, and supplemental activities.
AUDIENCE: 4-8 Grades
LENGTH: 12 minutes
Mainline
(In Spanish) Story vignette of an actual hazardous chemical explosion at a factory warehouse serves as a discussion piece about the dangers of taking drugs while on the job. Supervisors, co-workers, and emergency medical technicians involved in the crisis emphasize the severity of mixing drugs and work. A severely injured worker expresses his anger and blames his drug-using co-worker.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Employers/Employees, Supervisors
LENGTH: 15 minutes
"The Whiz Kids-El Alcoholismo, El Vicio De Fumar Y Las Drogas"
(Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Abuse)
(In Spanish) This video begins by showing various drugs and drug paraphernalia. It moves on to animated babies, in utero, talking about their mothers using alcohol and other drugs and the effects that it has on them as fetuses and as newborn babies.
AUDIENCE: Expectant Mothers
LENGTH: 9 minutes
SUBSTANCE-EXPOSED CHILDREN
...And Down Will Come Baby
Illustrates the effects of alcohol and drug use on the fetus during pregnancy. Comes with Teacher's Guide.
AUDIENCE: Middle, High School
LENGTH: 17 minutes
"Cocaine's Children & Drug Paraphernalia"
This video discusses the sad reality of pregnancy and the use of cocaine. While the use of cocaine by pregnant women can have a very serious impact on the outcome of a pregnancy, most drug-exposed children have the potential for becoming productive adults.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 9 minutes
The Early Years
For children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE), early intervention is the key to helping them reach their full potential. Viewers will learn the importance of developing a routine with the FAS/FAE, communicating with them, and preparing the child for the school year. Experts explain why children with FAS/FAE behave in certain ways, and offer advice on how to handle typical situations.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 20 minutes
FAS: Focus on Prevention
Through candid interviews with experts and parents of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) children, this program presents the facts and offers advice on the prevention of FAS. The importance of abstaining from any kind of alcohol when pregnant is stressed, and viewers will learn that help is available for mothers struggling with alcoholism.
AUDIENCE: Social Workers, Expectant Mothers
LENGTH: 19 minutes
Lifelines: To Healthy Babies
Presents the dramatic stories of three, low-income women of different ethnic backgrounds who were faced with choices to make about cigarettes, alcohol, and drug use during pregnancy. Through animated graphics and narration by a doctor, the women learn how alcohol and street drugs can harm the fetus. The tape emphasizes making positive life style choices during pregnancy and urges women to seek help if they have an alcohol or drug problem.
AUDIENCE: Pregnant Women, Adolescents
LENGTH: 16 minutes
Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by Alcohol and Other Drugs (1995)
Video of a teleconference focuses on the goal to ensure that substance-exposed children get the same opportunities to succeed as other children. Panels of experts in Florida, Oregon, Illinois, and Washington, DC, which consists of educators, administrators, doctors, and social workers, discuss ways to discover the uniqueness of substance-exposed children and unlock their potential. They discuss questions like: What are the responsibilities of the schools, school districts, and teachers?
AUDIENCE: Mental Health Care Professionals, Educators
LENGTH: 52 minutes
Risk and Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected by Substance Abuse
In recent years teachers have reported an increasing number of children who display troubling behaviors and learning problems that they suspect may be related to the effects of substance abuse-either prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs or the consequences of living in families and communities where substance abuse is common. These materials (30 minute videotape, teacher's guide, and research review) draw upon research and service demonstration programs to identify specific techniques and interventions that can help teachers be effective working with these children. Specific techniques described include: creating a nurturing classroom; encouraging cooperative play; minimizing distractions and facilitating transitions; helping children manage their behavior; conducting ongoing assessment; and building strong links with families.
AUDENCE: Preschool Educators
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Sacred Trust: Protect Your Baby Against Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
(1992, USDA) This video addresses Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) among Native American and Alaska Native women, and promotes an alcohol-free lifestyle during pregnancy. Individuals from various Nations are shown giving no-use messages: the mother of a child born with FAS; a parent and foster parent of FAS/FAE children who discusses their physical and behavioral problems; a tribal elder who discusses the cultural belief that women possess a sacred trust as life givers; a health educator who offers strategies to help women avoid drinking. Native American men are encouraged by one of their own to support a woman's decision not to drink alcohol during her pregnancy.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Educators, Counselors, Pregnant Women
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Students Like Me (NEW!)
Students Like Me does an outstanding job of describing and depicting classroom interventions strategies that have been found to best support children with FAS…a "must see" for teachers working wit children who have FAS.
AUDIENCE: All, Teachers
LENGTH: 39 minutes
Suicide and Depression
This program provides viewers with essential information about the warning signs of, and the myths about, depression and suicide. Using profiles of real teens, scenarios, and insights from nationally recognized expert this program sensitizes viewers to the issues of depression and suicide.
AUDIENCE: All, Grades 7-12
LENGTH: 26 minutes
Teaching Children Affected by Substance Abuse
Program to help with the design and implementation of programs for children prenatal exposed to drugs. Comes with Teacher's Guide.
AUDIENCE: Elementary School Staff
LENGTH 30 minutes
What Should I Tell My Child About Drinking?
Hosted by Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, "What Should I Tell My Child About Drinking?" offers viewers advice both about good parenting and how to discuss alcohol. Actors performing in series of believable family situations make this valuable information easily accessible to parents who need an introduction to an often difficult subject.
AUDIENCE: Educators, Parents, Community Service Workers
LENGTH: 48 minutes
"The Whiz Kids: Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Abuse"
This video begins by showing various drugs and drug paraphernalia. It moves on to animated babies, in utero, talking about their mothers using alcohol and other drugs and the effects that it has on them as fetuses and as newborn babies.
AUDIENCE: Expectant Mothers
LENGTH: 9 minutes
TOBACCO
Dangerous Game
A 6-minute videotape designed to provide information and trigger student discussion about the risks of using smokeless, or spit, tobacco. It features major league baseball players, whose image as spit tobacco users has helped popularize the habit. The players talk about the negative consequences of using spit tobacco - from mouth lesions and addiction to cancer. Also featured is former amateur player Rick Bender, who talks about losing most of his jaw to oral cancer surgery.
This video has three objectives:
- To give students relevant and compelling reasons to avoid or quit using spit tobacco.
- To correct widely held myths and misconceptions about spit tobacco.
- To counteract the advertiser-glorified image of spit tobacco as integral to the lifestyle and success of major league baseball players.
Teacher's Guide included.
AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12
LENGTH: 6 minutes
Head and Neck Cancer: Bad News About the Good Life
This video is a very graphic depiction of what can happen when you use tobacco products
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 20 minutes
In the Mix: Smoking the Unfiltered Truth
Super model Tyra Banks co-hosts along with teen reporters! In the Mix, the award winning and internationally acclaimed public television series for teens, tackles smoking prevention in a high energy, in depth half-hour special that dispels common misconceptions among teens. Featured segments include a hard look at the addictive aspects of tobacco as well as the wide range of physical effects.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Kicking Nicotine: A How-To for Students
This powerful video and print package is an inspirational tool that will help encourage students to take the next step in deciding to quit smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco. The video highlights a peer support group of real teens that talk about the extremely addictive power of nicotine, and share their stories of trying to quit. These plain-speaking young people make it clear that kicking nicotine takes commitment, a plan, and hard work. Their message is reinforced by graphic interviews with laryngectomees whose stories serve as vivid reminders of what people sacrifice for their tobacco use. The video is sure to keep viewers' attention with its potent combination of young and old tobacco users fighting their battles against this poisonous killer. Students who view this will surely consider quitting smoking. Includes a Teacher's Resource Book of additional classroom activities.
AUDIENCE: 7-12 Grades
LENGTH: 29 minutes
Mara's Breathtaking Story
Mara, an adolescent girl, narrates a story of peer pressure and smoking with new friends, and the myths surrounding the "benefits" of smoking, such as weight control, being cool, parent's smoking, etc. She realizes after several months that her health is declining due to smoking, and that she cannot participate in track, can't taste her food as well, has bad breath, and also witnesses the death of her grandmother due to smoking. These events convince her to stop, and also to talk to her friends about quitting.
AUDIENCE: Teenagers
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Stop the Sale: Prevent the Addiction. Prevention Works!
Underscores the magnitude of the problem of tobacco use among young people and the importance of stopping the sale of tobacco to minors. The first 8-minute section, called "The Tempting Years," highlights some of the influences - parents, peers, tobacco company advertising and promotions - that lead young people to smoke cigarettes or use spit tobacco. The rest of the video features programs that are working to prevent tobacco sales to minors. This video is intended to raise awareness and inspire viewers to take action in their communities. If we can stop the sale we can prevent the addiction.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 26 minutes
Spit Tobacco Kills: The Extreme Danger of Chewing & Dipping Tobacco
Calling chewing and dipping tobacco "smokeless" makes this deadly substance sound as if it is safer than smoking. This documentary-style program shows viewers that the nasty habit of dipping or chewing tobacco actually kills young people. Major League baseball players and a rodeo cowgirl are among the speakers. Hard-hitting and honest, this program aims to convince viewers that tobacco is deadly, no matter how you use it. A Teacher's Resource Book with introduction, program summary, learning objectives, review questions and answers, class debate, essay assignment, research topics, and many other activities and fact information is included.
AUDIENCE: 7-12 Grades
LENGTH: 28 minutes
Tobacco Road: A Dead End
Hard hitting graphic footage and startling interviews with people stricken with tobacco related illnesses are contrasted with teen interviews demonstrating their attitudes and self-deception. This video graphically exposes the higher occurrences of lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease and vascular disease directly attributed to long-term tobacco use. This program contains explicit operating room scenes of portions of a cancerous lung being removed. It is guaranteed to stir the emotions of individuals who refuse to heed the warnings of medical professionals and continue to use and abuse tobacco related products.
AUDIENCE: Teens and Adults
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Tobacco: Smash It! (NEW!)
Raises awareness about nicotine's deadly effect to the audience most targeted by tobacco companies-young people. Narrators recount tobacco's historical rise and the scientific studies that uncovered its deadly effects. Other young people offer their perspective on tobacco use and ways to refuse this harmful drug.
AUDIENCE: Teens
LENGTH: 12 Minutes
What's Wrong With Tobacco?
As more adults kick the smoking habit, today's teens have become the target of a $4 billion tobacco advertising campaign. This is a highly informative program that educates young people about tobacco, the "hidden" drug. Interviews with teen smokers point out many common fallacies associated with tobacco. The speakers attest to the overwhelming power of peer pressure, Hollywood role models, the lure of promotional give-aways, and nicotine addiction. Among the many chilling statistics offered is that: tobacco causes more preventable deaths in the U.S. than cocaine, heroin, alcohol, murder, suicide, AIDS, car accidents, and fires combined. Includes Teacher's Resource Book with an introduction, learning objectives, summary of program, suggestions for teachers, student activities and worksheets, and classroom demonstrations.
AUDIENCE: 7-12 Graders
LENGTH: 29 minutes
TREATMENT
Addiction in the Home: Healing Lives, Families and Communities
Addiction affects more than one life: family, friends, and communities also experience the effects of a person's disorder. This program will explore the full spectrum of needs and services related to the family of someone with an addiction disorder. It will analyze key factors that can support or impede the recovery process, including employment, health care, children, mental health, and housing.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Adolescent Treatment Approaches
Emphasizes the importance of pinpointing and addressing individual problem areas, such as sexual abuse, peer pressure, and family involvement in treatment.
AUDIENCE: Adult
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Alcohol: A Women's Health Issue
This video describes the health consequence of heavy drinking in women. NIAAA.
AUDIENE: Treatment and Prevention Specialists
LENGTH: 12 minutes
Alcohol & Nutrition
This video explains the nutritional consequences of drinking alcohol and answers some commonly asked questions about how it affects nutrition.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH:
Back to Reality (A Johnson Step-By-Step System)
Someone close to you has a problem with alcohol or other drugs. This program shows you a way to help that person. It's called Intervention. And it works. This video is accompanied by a book: Intervention: How to Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help, which teaches step-by-step how the most successful Interventions happen when family members and friends are well prepared. Also included is a workbook: Recovery Is A Family Affair. This workbook will help you understand how the family gets involved with the path of the chemically dependent person's addiction. And what you can do for yourself. By definition, a chemically dependent person is out of touch with reality. Through the process called Intervention, you can play a vital role in moving the person you care about back toward reality, full recovery, and a fuller longer life.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: Video - 28 minutes
Binge Drinking and Youth: What Everyone Needs to Know
Results from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) show that 25 percent of Americans aged 17 reported binge drinking; by age 21 that percentage increased to 48 percent. This program will reveal the subcultures and behaviors that support binge drinking as well as highlighting prevention, early interventions, and treatment options.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Cocaine & Crack: Back from the Abyss
Explains that cocaine is more addictive than any other drug, creating unique needs that must be addressed before recovery can begin.
AUDIENCE: Adults & Professionals
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Cocaine & Nutrition
Most people in treatment programs have been educated about cocaine's physical and mental impact. Less well known are cocaine's serious nutrition problems. It discusses how important good nutrition is in the recovery process
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH
Cross Addiction - The Back Door to Relapse (NEW!)
Presents an overview of the nature of cross addiction-what it looks like, how it happens and why the addict is susceptible to it.
AUDIENCE: Grade 9-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
The Dangerous Frontiers of Substance Abuse: A Look at Alcohol and Drug Use Trends
Every year, people find new and often very dangerous ways to get high. Youth are now engaged in what is called "robo-tripping." This practice involves the consumption of high volumes of cold medicine, such as Robitussin, which can cause euphoria, hallucinations, and sometimes death. This show looks at the emerging trends related to underage drinking, illicit drug use, and nonmedical use of prescriptions and over-the-counter medications, as well as the challenges and successes of treatment.
AUDIENCE: Treatment and Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Dependence and Drug Treatment Needs Among Adult Arrestees (Research in Progress Videotape)
Reveals study findings estimating that more than 19,000 of approximately 61,000 adults arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, during a 12-month period were dependent on, and therefore in need of treatment for, one or more drugs. Between 12,000 and 14,000 of these arrestees were addicted to heroin. The Baltimore study suggests that even though the criminal justice system is well positioned to identify drug dependency and other public health problems and to direct those in need to medical treatment and behavior modification programs, such treatment options within the criminal justice system are often inadequate compared to needs.
AUDIENCE: Treatment professionals, Criminal Justice Specialists, Counselors
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Depression and Anger (Roadblocks to Recovery Series)
Depression and anger are often methods we use to cope with the world. These survival methods can interfere with our relationships and recovery. This video suggests strategies for dealing with people, places, and things that provoke the old reactive anger or depression.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse (From the Domestic Violence: Broken Wings Series)
The message of this new video is that substance abuse does not cause domestic violence. Viewers learn different forms of emotional and sexual violence, and common ways in which people rationalize the abuse of substances and one another. The video also provides examples of how the cycle of domestic violence and codependency can be broken by recognizing that these are learned behaviors that can be changed. For those struggling with domestic violence and substance abuse, the video offers resources and direction on group support and therapy, how friends and family can help, and which legal steps can be taken.
AUDIENCE: Adults and Teenagers, Counselors
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Drug Abuse Treatment in Prison: A New Way Out
This video portrays two comprehensive drug abuse treatment approaches that have been effective with men and women in State and Federal Prisons.
AUDIENCE: Counselors
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Drug Addiction: The Promise of Treatment
This video includes the portrayal of a successful cocaine addict, interviews with leading physicians and researchers advocating that addiction must be treated as any other chronic disease, reviews cost effectiveness of treatment, and effectiveness of treatment in preventing crime.
AUDIENCE: Policymakers, Medical and Health Professionals, Community Leaders, Public, People in Recovery
LENGTH: 18 minutes
Drug Court: Miracles Happen - Drug Court Stories
This video provides and overview of the Broward County Drug Court program, one of the most innovative of its type for dealing with first time offenders. The video depicts the effectiveness of treatment and rehabilitation as an alternative to incarceration. The success of this program is illustrated by four people who have succeeded in staying clean and sober after completing this program. Their stories are intended to encourage and inspire those who suffer from the disease of addiction and those who work in the field of addiction.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Dual Diagnosis
Focuses on the problem of mental illness in drug-abusing and drug-addicted populations, and examines various approaches useful for treating dual-diagnosed clients.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Professionals, Counselors, Adults
LENGTH: 27 minutes
Enablers
This program investigates the role of enablers, who think they are helping a loved one by covering up his or her addiction while actually contributing to the abuse behavior.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 28 minutes
Getting Help
This video focuses on the recovery process and the options available to those fighting addictions. Together with Shannon, Jay and Dave, and 15 year old Erin, parents and addiction related professionals discuss 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, medical and social setting detox programs, the Minnesota model of rehabilitation, in school education programs, the reasons for relapse, and the happiness and renewed self esteem of recovering addicts.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 24 minutes
The Healing Years
This video examines the devastation by several women who were victims of child sexual abuse. Victims of sexual abuse often face emotional struggles and post traumatic stress, and they sometimes abuse alcohol or use drugs to hide their feelings. Each of the women in this video explains her personal experiences and stresses the importance of recovery.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 52 minutes
Heroin, What Am I Going to Do?
Part 1 of this compelling video describes the powerful allure of heroin and the using lifestyle, the initial illusion of control over the drug, the inevitable fall into a life of coping and using. Part 2 reveals the overwhelming feelings of helplessness and desperation that brought these addicts to treatment. Their matter of fact revelations show the way out of heroin addiction as they talk about the need for honesty and surrender to begin recovery, their struggles to stay clean, and the ultimate rewards of a life without drugs.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 27 minutes
The Individual and Familial Dynamics of Recovery
When one family member becomes addicted, everyone is affected. In fact, experts refer to addiction as a family disease. This program highlights the struggles of individuals and families in recovery and the successful strategies they use to begin the healing process and maintain sobriety.
AUDIENCE: Addiction Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Intervention: Facing Reality
Host Hugh Downs guides viewers through a series of dramatic scenes showing how one caring person begins the process of intervention and then enlists the help of others. The pre-intervention training provided in this program highlights key elements of today's improved techniques. In the final scene, an effective intervention brings everyone involved, the addict and the people who matter most in his life, face to face with reality - the first step toward recovery for all of them.
AUDIENCE: Sr. High, College, Adults, Counselors
LENGTH: 35 minutes
It's Not My Problem
The subject of this video is substance abuse. Many family members and loved ones of newly recovering addicts and alcoholics deny they are also in need of treatment. For them, this thought-provoking video starring John Bradshaw is an excellent introduction to co-dependency in family systems. This video serves primarily as a tool for counselors, to use with families in order to educate them about the ways in which families get sick and methods by which they can recover.
AUDIENCE: HS - Adult
LENGTH: 32 minutes
Methadone: Where We Are
This videotape examines many issues such as the use and effectiveness of methadone as a treatment; the biological effects of methadone; the role of the counselor in treatment; and societal attitudes and stigmas regarding methadone treatment and methadone patients. Comes with viewer's guide.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Methamphetamine: Deciding to Live
Helps clients in education, corrections and treatment settings understand how methamphetamine use affects thoughts, feelings, reasoning, relationships and the body
AUDIENCE: Grade 8-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Mutual Support Groups: What Everyone Should Know
For decades, an ever-increasing number of mutual support groups have helped individuals and families overcome addictions and lead healthy and fulfilling lives. This program explores the role of the mutual support group and highlights the reasons why mutual support groups work.
AUDIENCE: Addiction Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Offering Hope, Recovery, and Resilience to Children of Addicted Parents
In this video, leaders in the treatment and prevention fields discuss The Children's Program Kit, which was created to give young people the skills to become resilient and strong as they mature. Throughout the video, children living, or who have lived, with someone with alcoholism tell their stories and experts discuss the shame and isolation these children often feel.
AUDIENCE: Addiction Professionals
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Partners In Recovery: Creating Successful Practitioner-Consumer Alliances
This video is a compilation of interviews with people who have mental illness and with psychiatrists. The mental health consumers represent a broad array of age, cultures, viewpoints, and expectations with psychiatrist and other mental health professionals. The psychiatrists have extensive experience in treating people with mental illness. Perspectives on how to foster therapeutic alliances are shared. Topics include recovery, hope and empowerment, providing information, consumers as experts, and family and peer support-concepts basic and essential to every mental health professional in establishing a therapeutic relationship.
AUDIENCE: Mental Health Professionals
LENGTH: 18 minutes
Personal Trauma (Roadblocks to Recovery Series)
Physical or emotional injuries that happened in the past can cause pain in the present. This video helps those affected by a traumatic history develop strategies for healing that complement their recovery.
AUDIENCE: Adults
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Personality Issues (Roadblocks to Recovery Series Personality Issues (Roadblocks to Recovery Series)
This video explores personality issues and helps recovering addicts understand how aspects of their personality can work against recovery.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 19 minutes
Prescription Drugs: Killing More Than Pain
1.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs in 2000. By 2002, that number increased by 400% to six million. This video highlights how abusers are getting the drugs and how law enforcement, doctors, and pharmacists are fighting the problem. In addition, recovering addicts, treatment providers, doctors, and robbery victims speak about their experiences.
AUDIENCE: All
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Prescription Drugs: Recovery From the Hidden Addiction
Recovering addicts and treatment professionals, including a physician and registered nurse, share their perspectives on and addiction that is often underreported and overlooked, especially among older adults.
AUDIENCE: College-Adults
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Preventing Relapse
An important part of recovery from a dual disorder is being able to identify the triggers that cause a relapse and the ways to prevent it from happening. This video includes crucial information about relapse, the basic steps of relapse prevention, and personal stories that illustrate the power of an individual relapse prevention plan.
AUDIENCE: Counselors, Recovery Groups
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Rethinking the Demographics of Addiction: Helping Older Adults Find Recovery NEW!
Researchers are only beginning to realize the pervasiveness of substance use disorders among people aged 60 and older. Thousands of older adults who need treatment do not receive it, in part because they are more likely to hide their substance use and less likely to seek professional help. This program identifies ways to overcome such barriers and help older adults receive the treatment they need.
AUDIENCE: Addiction Professionals
LENGTH: 57 minutes
The Role of Faith and Community Based Systems in Addiction Treatment and Recovery
NEW!
This video explores the crucial role played by faith an community based systems and provides
useful tips on what works and how you and your organization can get involved.
AUDIENCE: Treatment and Prevention Providers
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Supporting Kids
Shannon and Jay, joined by 16 year old Dave, talk about the support they received in fighting their addictions. In addition, parents, counselors, a police drug awareness coordinator, and the directors of a detox facility and a drug and alcohol program discuss the physical and emotional signs of drug use, theories of why children are turning to drugs, the easy availability of drugs in small towns, the
difficulties parents face in addressing drug use, codependency between addicts and their families and the painful process of recovery and making amends.
AUDIENCE: General
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Through My Eyes
This video, through the voices, artwork and writings of children, conveys how children experience violence in their lives. This video helps viewers to better understand, from a child's viewpoint, the trauma children experience when they have been victims of abuse, have watched violence in their streets, or have seen their mothers beaten by their fathers. Experts in child development and mental health services for child victims provide commentary to explain the impact of children's exposure to violence, and to discuss the critical steps which lead to recovery from the devastating impact of exposure to violence as a child.
AUDIENCE: Criminal Justice, Counselors, General
LENGTH: 9 minutes
Treating Cocaine Addiction - Successfully, Parts I and II
This two-part video presents specific guidelines for helping abusers get off cocaine. Arnold M. Washton, Ph.D., an expert on cocaine addiction and recovery, explains these methods, as points are illustrated with personal accounts from recovering addicts.
AUDIENCE: Treatment professionals, Counselors
LENGTH: Part I - 48 minutes, Part II - 45 minutes
Treatment Approaches for Women
Substance use disorders present serious and unique health concerns for women. Unfortunately, few available services specifically address these needs. This program will examine how treatment services are changing to help women successfully navigate the road to recovery. It also explores other issues that can affect their recovery such as childcare, co-occurring disorders, and domestic violence.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Professionals
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Treatment Issues for Women
This video assists treatment counselors to help female patients to explore relationships with their children, with men and with other women.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Professionals, Counselors
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Treatment Solutions
The video explains that drug addiction is a treatable disease when state-of-the-art approaches are taken
AUDIENCE: Treatment Professionals, Counselors
LENGTH: 10 minutes
Treatment Solutions
Describes the latest developments in treatment research and emphasizes the benefits of drug abuse treatment, not only to the patient, but also to the greater community.
AUDIENCE: Treatment Professionals
LENGTH: 19 minutes
The Twelve Steps and Dual Disorders
This video features testimonials from people who are recovering from addiction and an emotional or psychiatric illness. An excellent source of inspiration and support for clients beginning to address their dual disorders, it helps clients see how the Twelve Steps form an integral part of their recovery.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 32 minutes
Understanding Bipolar Disorder and Addiction (Dual Diagnosis Series)
This video explains the different features of bipolar disorder and the interactions between mania and depression and chemical dependency. Examples illustrate the importance of medication, abstinence, and spirituality to achieve and maintain emotional or psychiatric stability and sobriety.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 19 minutes
Understanding Depression and Addiction (Dual Diagnosis Series)
This video explores ways to cope with the common behaviors and thoughts associated with depression and provides support for recovery from depression and addiction.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Understanding Dissociative Disorders and Addiction (Co-Occurring Disorders Series) (NEW!)
This video explains the different types, causes, and symptoms of dissociative disorders, and it explores how to navigate the stages of recovery.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LLENGTH: 23 Minutes
Understanding Major Anxiety Disorders and Addiction (Dual Diagnosis Series)
Anxiety disorders are among the most common types of mental health problems among adults in the United States. Recovering from an anxiety disorder and addiction is a double challenge. This video provides a step-by-step process to identify anxiety triggers and ways to change thoughts and reactions.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Understanding Personality Problems and Addiction (Dual Diagnosis Series)
This video illustrates the interconnection between chronic personality problems and chemical dependency. Clear definitions and examples help viewers understand the importance of dealing with their problematic personality traits to achieve and maintain emotional or psychiatric stability and sobriety.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction (Dual Diagnosis Series)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addiction are two diseases that often go hand in hand. This video suggests plans for dual recovery and relapse prevention and ways to handle the emotional pain and flashbacks to trauma.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Understanding Schizophrenia and Addiction (Co-Occurring Series) (NEW!)
Long before recovery happens, a primary goal of treating schizophrenia is to dispel the shame that often accompanies it. That's what this informative, encouraging video does. First-person testimonials, let clients know that they are not alone, that recovery is possible, and that a positive, productive life is in their future.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Understanding Suicide and Addiction (Co-Occurring Disorders Series) (NEW!)
Thoughts of suicide can be transformed into a readiness to face new truths and change. This gentle, hopeful video helps clients through the courageous act of re-examining their lives. Clients will understand how to challenge negative thinking, and how to overcome the reluctance to ask for help.
AUDIENCE: Adults, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 22 Minutes
Walking Through Fear: Women and Substance Abuse
Increasing numbers of women are addicted to alcohol and drugs, yet only one in five patients in treatment centers is a woman. Why aren't women seeking or getting the help they need to overcome their addiction? This program investigates the problems women face when they seek such help and four women tell what it was like before they sought help and how their lives changed after recovery.
AUDIENCE: Clinicians, Treatment Providers
LENGTH: 25 minutes
Witnessing with Anonymity: Dispelling the Misconceptions That Silence the Voices of Recovery NEW!
For many, the thought of speaking out and sharing a recovery experience with friends, coworkers, community leaders, civic groups, and policymakers is a daunting proposition. This program fo cuses on how people in recovery can provide testimonials and recount their successful recovery journeys and still be respectful of Twelve Step traditions.
AUDIENCE: Addiction Professionals
LENGTH: 60 Minutes
WORKPLACE
America in Jeopardy: The Young Employee and Drugs in the Workplace
This fast-moving video contains interviews of recovering drug users warning viewers that taking drugs is a dead end, and mixing drugs with work is a very big mistake. The host explains how drugs affect the body and the mind, and encourage viewers to get help for themselves if they have and AOD problem or to talk to someone else if they think a co-worker is having a problem with drugs. With guide.
AUDIENCE: Employers and Employees
LENGTH: 20 minutes
Drugs at Work (Employer Version)
Intended primarily for employers, this video presents information about the nature and scope of AOD problems in the workplace and about the Federal Government's initiative to prevent and reduce the problem. The video stresses the importance of the four components of an effective workplace program: education, and employee assistance program, supervisor training, and drug testing. It explains how a urine drug-testing program can be incorporated into a comprehensive drug-free workplace program, and describes the procedures that have been developed and implemented to operate a fair and accurate testing program.
AUDIENCE: Employers, Adults
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Drugs at Work (Employee Version)
This version differs from the employer version only by the addition of comments by the employees of a private corporation, reflecting their perception of an employee assistance program policy and program. It explains how drug use affects individuals, and their performance in the workplace. It also outlines a five-component strategy for creating a drug-free workplace, a strategy that has been adopted by Federal Government agencies and many private sector employers.
AUDIENCE: Employees, Adults
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Finding the Solutions
Drug use in the workplace is portrayed as a community-wide problem. Emphasizing the need to deliver accurate and credible information to the workforce, promote workplace peer involvement, and build community partnerships. Explores alternative approaches, such as stress reduction and attitudinal behavioral change, as tools for personal wellness, as well as reducing drug use. Facilitator's Guide to Finding the Solutions should be read prior to viewing the tape. Discusses how drug use effects safety on the job and contributes to violence in the community. Discusses approaches taken by businesses to address the drug problem.
AUDIENCE: Employer/Employee, Prevention Professionals
LENGTH: 19 minutes
Getting Help (Employer Version)
Highlights the benefits of an effective Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to employees and employers through comments by business, labor, and government leaders and EAP professionals; presentation of three model programs; and EAP client interviews. Describes the elements of a successful EAP program regardless of the number of employees or the nature of the work. It also describes a range of responses to an employee with drug and/or alcohol problems, and how EAP's can be used to help individuals with these problems.
AUDIENCE: Employers, EAP Professionals
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Getting Help (Employee Version)
The employee version differs from the employer version by the addition of more employee assistance program client interviews and by fewer industry, labor and government leader comments. Was developed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to address the topic of drugs in the workplace. It describes a range of responses to an employee with drug and/or alcohol problems, and how Employee Assistance Programs (EAP's) can be used to help individuals with these problems.
AUDIENCE: Employees, EAP professionals
LENGTH: 23 minutes
Mainline (1992, DOL)
A story vignette of an actual hazardous chemical explosion at a factory warehouse serves as a discussion piece about the dangers or taking drugs while on the job. Supervisors, co-workers, and emergency medical technicians involved in the crisis emphasize the severity of mixing drugs and work. A severely injured worker expresses his anger and blames his drug-using co-worker.
AUDIENCE: Employers and Employees
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Toward a Drug-Free Workplace
Drug use is a hot topic today. If you are not an alcohol or other drug user, it is easy to look at it as having nothing to do with you. The fact is, for every person that uses AOD's in the workplace; at least four other people will feel the impact. This video describes the 1989 Drug-Free Workplace Act and the responsibilities/requirements of the employer and employee. U.S. businesses lose billions of dollars a year in productivity, absenteeism, and medical costs as a result of employee drug use. A description is given of different types of drugs and their effects along with interviews of former drug users and how their using affected their employment and their co-workers. Employee assistance for AOD is discussed, as this is one of the requirements of the DFW Act.
AUDIENCE: EAP Professionals, Employers/Employees, General public
LENGTH: 15 minutes
Workplace Violence: Recognizing and Defusing Aggressive Behavior
This video and program is designed to make supervisors more aware of the issues related to workplace violence and to give them tools to help recognize, diffuse and prevent it. Participants will learn common causes of violent and aggressive behavior, the destructive results that even mild forms of aggression can create, and the warning signs that might mean an employee or other person poses a risk to a safe, secure workplace. All information in related to supervisory duties, taking the legal, operational, and psychological implications into account.
AUDIENCE: EAP Professionals, Employers, Supervisors
LENGTH:
YOUTH
AIDS Prevention: Choice Not Chance
The primary purpose of this video is to give students more information about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and to teach them how to protect themselves and others from infection. The HIV epidemic is made as real as possible without frightening the students. The manner in which the HIV virus can be transmitted is sensitively handled. The program identifies AIDS as a communicable disease but demonstrates how it differs from other communicable diseases familiar to the students. They see the chain of infection for these diseases followed by the way the immune system works, and reacts when invaded by the HIV virus. Students are encouraged to practice good health habits to avoid ordinary infectious diseases. They are also shown that AIDS cannot be caught through casual or ordinary contact. The information about HIV in this program helps to eliminate needless fear and strives to give students a sense of control over their health. Contains Teacher's Guide and reproducible activity masters.
AUDIENCE: Grades 4-6, Recommended for All Students
LENGTH: Video - 12 minutes
Alateen Tells It Like It Is
The sharing of Al-Anon and Alateen members in this 15-minute film captures the essence of the program. Alateen, a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, is for younger members who use the Al-Anon program to recover from the effects of someone else's drinking. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems. They do this by practicing the Twelve Steps.
AUDIENCE: Teens, COA's
LENGTH: 16 minutes
Alcohol: Facts, Myths, and Decisions
Interweaves vignettes illustrating common teen experiences with alcohol and facts from a narrator, to help teens make healthy decisions about alcohol use. Beer has the same effect as any alcoholic beverage, as Steve finds out to his dismay. Beer drinking for teens often means binge drinking, which can lead to blacking out or bouts of nausea, as Dawn learns too late. Advertising image of drinking, as part of the good life is tough to resist, the narrator says. But teens can get drunk and also addicted more rapidly than adults. Other vignettes show how alcohol use can be a factor in teen violence, or cloud good judgment, such as having unprotected sex when drunk. The narrator advises viewers: Before you make a decision about drinking, don't let myths about alcohol cloud your thinking. You know the facts. Use them. Teacher's guide.
AUDIENCE: 7-12 Grades
LENGTH: 22 minutes
Alcohol and Sex: Prescription for Poor Decision Making
This video helps students to understand that alcohol is not the sex enhancer it is touted to be. Instead they will find alcohol can lead to risky or unwanted sexual situation. They will also understand how the media contributes to the perception that alcohol and sex go together. It encourages teens to make smart, sober decisions about sex by helping them to realize the danger of mixing alcohol and drugs.
AUDIENCE: Teachers, Teens
LENGTH: 24 minutes
Alcohol-The Substance, The Addiction & The Solution (NEW!)
Educates about the dangers of this legally sanctioned drug, including the myths of "safer" versions such as wine and beer.
AUDIENCE: Grade 9-Adult
LENGTH: 30 minutes
Brainstorm: The Truth About Your Brain on Drugs, Outreach Project
This videocassette and activity guide, developed by the Children's Television Workshop, use scientific inquiry and current technology to help young people learn how drugs affect the human brain and body. This presentation is divided into four 15-minute sections and is based on a 3-2-1 CONTACT Extra. It is fun, informative, and teaches kids to say no to drugs and why.
AUDIENCE: 8-12 Year Olds
LENGTH: 60 minutes
Changing Channels
Tells the story of 5 teenagers who are pressured to go to a party to drink. Reminds them that alcohol is not a normal part of growing up, and that they have the potential to make healthy decisions. Comes with Teacher's Guide.
AUDIENCE: Middle School
LENGTH: Approx. 20 minutes
Circle of Fear
This video takes a dramatic look at "swarming" - the phenomenon whereby teenage gangs intimidate, attack, and beat up on innocent individuals for excitement and kicks. The story centers around one such group of teenagers and their effect on three young males - one who refuses to join in their activities, one who succumbs to his need "to belong" and one victim.
AUDIENCE: JHS & HS Age | 
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