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Status:Available Science-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: A Guide
Published: 2001
Highlights the risk & protective factors that help determine an individual's vulnerability to substance abuse, & examines CSAP's qualitative & quantitative strategies for evaluating existing substance abuse prevention programs & developing best practices... Details >>
Status:Available Science-Based Substance Abuse Prevention: A Guide
Published: 2001
Highlights the risk & protective factors that help determine an individual's vulnerability to substance abuse, & examines CSAP's qualitative & quantitative strategies for evaluating existing substance abuse prevention programs & developing best practices... Details >>
Status:Available Promising and Proven Substance Abuse Prevention Programs
Published: 2001
Developed to help key stakeholders structure & assess scientifically defensible programs. Designed to serve practitioners, researchers, & policymakers as we work together to develop effective solutions to substance abuse... Details >>
Status:Available Inhalant Prevention Resource Guide
Published: 2001
An inhalant abuse prevention cirriculum for grades K-12. Covers the scope of abuse, abusable products, chemical ingredients in inhalants, policy approaches to prevention, school drug policy, reasons for abuse, methods of abuse, effects, signs, symptoms, a.. Details >>
Status:Available Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic
Published: 2003
Takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds and central nervous systems to explore the causes and consequences of our nation's drug crisis. We get to know the kids, the parents, the therapists and the drug treatment centers at their best and worst... Details >>
Status:Available 800-COCAINE
Around 5 million people across the country have a serious cocaine problem - and that number is growing at a startling rate. A straightforward, informative manual for anyone who needs to know about this drug problem... Details >>
Status:Available A.A. in Prison: Inmate to Inmate
Published: 1991
Personal stories of recovery as told by 32 inmates who found sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous. These people share their experiences in the hope others will find support and strength in AA... Details >>
Status:Available A Million Little Pieces
Published: 2003
Autobiography of James Frey, who entered rehab at age 23 having almost destroyed his body & mind beyond repair by using drugs & alcohol. Frey had to fight to find his own way to deal w/ the consequences of the life he had lived, & to determine what, if an.. Details >>
Status:Available A Teenager's Guide to Living With an Alcoholic Parent
Published: 1984
This comprehensive guide for young people answers questions about parental addiction and discusses issues such as dating, schoolwork, expression of feelings, and responsibilities while coping with alcoholism at home... Details >>
Status:Available A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps
Published: 1994
A guide for women that speaks to the way they experience addiction as well as self, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, & everyday life... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction: Pastoral Responses
Published: 2002
An insightful introductory guide for pastors, this book highlights practical methods for making contributions to the recovery of persons in local congregations, including identifying those needing help, encouraging them to accept referral, & facilitating.. Details >>
Status:Available Addictions Counseling
Published: 1992
A counselor's handbook which is both readable and comprehensive. Significantly, the recovery methods of AA and rational emotive therapy are shown to be complementary, an approach the author has used successfully in her own practice... Details >>
Status:Available Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception
Published: 1997
The author reveals how self-deception can undermine self esteem & threaten an addict's recovery. This revision of a classic includes updated info & research on depression & affective disorders, relapse, & the origins of addictive thought... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol and the Church: Developing an Effective Ministry
Published: 1992
Includes ann honest and comprehensive study of what the bible says about the use of alcoholic beverages, a study outline/syllabus on alcohol problems, and over 150 practical ideas for doing alcohol ministry... Details >>
Status:Available Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic
Published: 1981
This helpful guide for physicians, counselors, lawyers, ministers, and other helping professionals who must deal with the difficult problems of alcoholics and their families is easy enough to be read by a layperson... Details >>
Status:Available A Guide to Family Intervention
Published: 1987
Presents the process of confronting the addict with the problem of their addiction. Addresses the family's fears, overcoming denial, preparation, and attitude. Besides advising the family, there is a section for the mediating therapist who will handle t.. Details >>
Status:Available Alternatives: Choice-making in Daily Life
Published: 1993
Addresses all aspects of addiction- intended for high school or college classes. Each chapter includes topics for discussion, for self-examination, reading and movie lists. Very usable and thought provoking... Details >>
Status:Available Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: A Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Published: 1987
This guide teaches parents, who were themselves raised by addicted parents, how to raise their kids to be healthy, and how to parent the child within themselves. To break the cycle of addiction, parents need to learn what is to be "child-conscious"... Details >>
Status:Available Clinicians' Guide to Substance Abuse
Published: 2001
The resource you need to incorporate substance abuse treatment in to your practice. Provides a basic intro to substance abuse/treatment, outlines signs & symptoms, place ment criteria, resources for specialist referral, and medical complications... Details >>
Status:Available Denial is Not a River in Egypt
Published: 2001
This book shows you how to transform: denial into truth, stress into relaxation, depression into expression, sadness into joy, pain into pleasure, anger into kindness, addiction into health, compulsion into peace, frightful into insightful, and loneliness.. Details >>
Status:Available Drug Addiction: Learn About It Before Your Kids Do!
Published: 1987
Dr Andre shows us addiction, with a specialized focus on cocaine, and how it takes hold of its victims. We learn about addiction and what it does to us physically, about intervention, the hospitalization process, the treatment center and the follow-up in.. Details >>
Status:Available Helping the Alcoholic and His Family
Published: 1963
For pastors, contains practical explanations of problems dealing with alcoholism, offers insight into the conditions, characteristics, and motivations of the alcoholic and gives helpful direction in working with members of the alcoholic's family. Addresse.. Details >>
Status:Available How to Use Intervention in Your Professional Practice
Published: 1987
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Status:Available I Never Saw the Sun Rise
Published: 1977
A 15 year old caught up in addiction shares her very private journal of getting sick and getting well again through treatment for chemical dependency witih poems that sum up her fierce introspection and drawings that take over when words aren't enough... Details >>
Status:Available Kill the Craving
Published: 2001
A personal guide to Exposure Response Therapy, the new technique that has helped countless addicted people get and stay clean. Learn how to implement ERP, handle triggers in foolproof ways, kill even your strongest cravings, and end the powerful cycle of.. Details >>
Status:Available Living at the Edge of the World
Published: 2000
The true account of a teenager's struggle to survive on the streets of Manhattan. Tina lives in the tunnels under Grand Central Station and grapples with drug abuse, sexual assaults, and the tumultuous relationships she forms on the streets... Details >>
Status:Available Love First
Published: 2000
Dispelling the myths that an addict has to hit bottom and that intervention must be confrontational - the authors' proven approach puts love first and shows families, step by step, what to do next... Details >>
Status:Available Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps
Published: 1992
The author paves the way for a broader understanding of recovery that involves both personal & social awareness. She examines co-dependency in the context of internalized oppression & explores boundaries & sexual exploitation in groups. Also confronts the.. Details >>
Status:Available Narcotics Anonymous (3rd Edition)
Published: 1982
Many books have been written about the nature of addiction. This book primarily concerns itself with the nature of recovery. If you are an addict and have found this book, please give yourself a break and read it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Narcotics Anonymous (Third Edition)
Published: 1982
Many books have been written about the nature of addiction. This book primarily concerns itself with the nature of recovery. If you are an addict and have found this book, please give yourself a break and read it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction
Published: 1996
A self-recovery program that shows you exactly how to take control of your addictive behavior now - and how to recover totally through planned abstinence. Refutes the alcoholism disease model and brings new hope to those who have been discouraged by tradi.. Details >>
Status:Available Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Explores the secrets, fears, hopes & issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. The authors detail the challenges of control & inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding... Details >>
Status:Available Adolescents, Alcohol & Substance Abuse: Reaching Teens Through Brief Interventions
Published: 2001
Reviews a range of approaches focusing on motivationally-based brief interventions that draw on the latest addiction research. Emphasizes the benefits of working w/ kids on their "home turf" & reaching out to all kids involved in health-risking behavior... Details >>
Status:Available Rehab: A Comprehensive Guide to Recommended Drug-Alcohol Treatment Centers in the United States
Published: 1988
This guide offers an objective & comprehensive analysis of what goes on in rehabilitation facilities across the U.S. Entries describe the kind of treatment available, the physical facilities, each center's philosophy, admissions policies, cost, insurance.. Details >>
Status:Available Smoking Cigarettes: The Unfiltered Truth - 2nd Edition
Published: 2003
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Status:Available Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction
Published: 1985
The author explains that REAL recovery begins with what he calls Stage II - the rebuilding of the life that was saved in Stage I. This inspiring,guide offers new info on how to see & change learned self-defeating behavior and make relationships work - whi.. Details >>
Status:Available Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction
Published: 1985
The author explains that REAL recovery begins with what he calls Stage II - the rebuilding of the life that was saved in Stage I. This inspiring,guide offers new info on how to see & change learned self-defeating behavior and make relationships work - whi.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) The Addictive Personality
Published: 1988
Going beyond a former definition that limited addiction pri-marily to the realm of alcohol and other drugs, the author uncovers the common denominator of all addiction as he shows the emotional isolation, shame, and despair in which addicts live... Details >>
Status:Available The Chemical Brain
Published: 1988
In The Chemical Brain, written by addiction science pioneer Sidney Cohoen, interested students of the brain, of behavior, and of drug dependence can all find a brilliant summary of the latest scientific knowledge in neurochemistry and addiction... Details >>
Status:Available The Cracker Factory
Published: 1977
Picture TV's Rhoda with a drinking problem, put her into a female version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and you have "The Cracker Factory" in a barrel..... Details >>
Status:Available The Drunks
Published: 1974
A self-contained sequel to "Leo and Theodore" that follows the lapse into alcoholism and subsequent recovery of Siamese twins Leo and Teddy. The twins experience NYC's fast lane before their agonizing recovery. "Comically surreal and painfully real"... Details >>
Status:Available The Dual Disorders Recovery Book
Published: 1993
A 12 Step program for those with addiction and an emotional or psychiatric illness. Contains both real-life stories from recovering individuals, and contributions from authorities on the subject. Includes info on Dual Recovery Anonymous w/ resources... Details >>
Status:Available The Heart of Addiction
Published: 2002
Dr. Dodes sets out to change the way we treat addictions. He describes how all addiction have at their heart certain emotional/psychological factors that, once understood, can be successfully managed. Challenges the idea that addiction is primarily physic.. Details >>
Status:Available The Awakened Heart: Living Beyond Addiction
Published: 1991
May sees our addictive and compulsive behaviors as "minor anesthesia," protecting us from the risk of loving and sharing our desires. Efficiency, upon which our culture is based, cannot fulfill our need for communion, leaving us vulnerable to addiction. O.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction & Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
Published: 1988
May describes the "processes of attatchment" that lead to addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, work, & intimacy. A compassionate & wise guide to freedom based on contemplative spirituality... Details >>
Status:Available Chemical Dependency and the African American
Published: 2002
Bell explains how issues of race, culture, and class play a vital role in treating addiction as a physical, mental, and emotional disorder. Addresses racial self-hate & internalizing of stereotypes, racial loyalty & authenticity, cultural forms of play, a.. Details >>
Status:Available Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions
Published: 1998
The newest edition of a landmark book on counseling the addict. Covers the historical origins of A.A. and the 12 Steps, a complete explanation of the etiology, treatment, and aftercare of persons w/ addictions, and newly written material on counseling tho.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction and Spirituality: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Published: 1999
A series of interfaith essays that consider theological and biblical issues without slighting traditional clinical, therapeutic, or scientific perspectives. Aims to provide insights to both religious and secular counselors, as well as theoreticians of the.. Details >>
Status:Available Tough Love: How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse
Published: 1996
A book for all parents, but especially for those whose children use drugs, Tough Love gathers real-life accounts of young drug users and their parents' role in securing help, using the Palmer Drug Abuse Program... Details >>
Status:Available Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths & Realities of Alcoholism
Published: 1981
Examines the physical factors that separate alcoholics from non-alcoholics, & suggests a stigma-free way of treating the alcoholic. Covers identifying an alcoholic, the progressive stages of addiction, how to get someone into treatment, why Rx drugs are s.. Details >>
Status:Available Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths & Realities of Alcoholism
Published: 1981
Examines the physical factors that separate alcoholics from non-alcoholics, & suggests a stigma-free way of treating the alcoholic. Covers identifying an alcoholic, the progressive stages of addiction, how to get someone into treatment, why Rx drugs are s.. Details >>
Status:Available Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover: A Guide for Parents & Other Concerned Adults
Published: 1991
A step-by-step guide. Addresses the 4 stages of recovery, problems faced by both teens & parents in each stage & how to get past them. Describes teenage recovery as a slow but steady process of growth & change unique to the developing adolescent... Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe?
Published: 2003
Addiction specialist Timmen Cermak helps parents sort through the latest facts, the known risks, & the divergent perspectives on pot. His basic message? For teens, marijuana use equals risk. Your basic message? That's up to you. Addresses intervention & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Don't Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug & Alcohol Addicted Children
Published: 1996
This recovery guide dares to focus on the needs of the exhausted parent of an addicted teen. It offers a message of hope, & teaches you how to avoid using your children's behavior as a weapon against them. Teaches parents how to start attending to their o.. Details >>
Status:Available Don't Leave It to Chance: A Guide for Families of Problem Gamblers
Published: 2000
Includes sections on what questions to ask, what to do, what not to do, advice on financial problems, hands-on exercises, and a wonderful explanation of how cognitive- behavioral treatments work. Equally appropriate for treatment professionals... Details >>
Status:Available Losing Your Shirt: Recovery for Compulsive Gamblers & Their Families
Published: 1992
A classic of recovery literature, this second edition offers true heartbreaking stories, updated material, and cutting-edge research on compulsive gambling. It remains the most complete, comprehensive resource available, offering compassion to addicts & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Beyond the Influence: Understanding & Defeating Alcoholism
Published: 2000
Based on the latest scientific research, this book explains the neurological nature of alcoholism & reveals why some drink addictively & some do not. New insights into the steps to take for an intervention, how to find the right treatment program, which p.. Details >>
Status:Available Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families & Communities
Published: 1998
Drawing on her life's work, the author addresses these FAS topics: diagnosis, services for high-risk mothers, teratology & brain damage, employment & advocacy, physical & behavioral manifestations, education, and public policy. For professionals and famil.. Details >>
Status:Available DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:Fourth Edition:Text Revision)
Published: 2000
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Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/03/2010) Drug Identification Bible: 2004/2005
Published: 2004
The definitive compilation of drug info. Includes tablet & capsule imprint ID charts, full color photos of abused prescription drugs & all illegal drugs and paraphernalia. Explicit: not for children... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services
Published: 1998
Proposes a framework for culturally competent substance abuse intervention at the micro & macro level. For educators & practitioners involved in treatment, organizational planning, research or policy development. Includes an emphasis on Latina concerns... Details >>
Status:Available Pathways from the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery: For Addiction Professionals
Published: 1990
This anthropological study of addiction & recovery as a cultural phenomenon serves as a manual for both substance abuse program design & clinical techniques in assessment & treatment. Addresses what strategies can help bond the addict to an alternative cu.. Details >>
Status:Available Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Abuse: How to Spot It, Stop It, and Get Help for Your Family
Published: 2000
Offers parents, professionals & family members info on how to spot the signs of abuse in teens, overcome family guilt, confusion, denial & excuses, find allies in the community, select quality treatment facilities, and to take care of themselves during th.. Details >>
Status:Available The Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Overcoming Secondary Disabilities
Published: 1997
Twenty-two experts on FAS/FAE describe the secondary disabilities people face, such as mental health & drug and alcohol problems, inappropriate sexual behavior, trouble w/ the law, homelessness, disrupted school experience, and difficulty caring for their.. Details >>
Status:Available Treating Adolescent Substance Abuse: Understanding the Fundamental Elements
Published: 1994
Dr. Ross outlines screening assessment & diagnostic procedures that accurately reflect the most important pathologic psychoemotional & behavioral features of substance abusing adolescents. He also shows the need for parents to be at the core of treatment... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction: Pastoral Responses
Published: 2002
An insightful introductory guide for pastors, this book highlights practical methods for making contributions to the recovery of persons in local congregations, including identifying those needing help, encouraging them to accept referral, & facilitating.. Details >>
Status:Available Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America
Published: 1998
The story of mutual aid societies, addiction treatment centers from the inebriate asylums to Hazelden, of evolving treatments from water cures & mandatory sterilization to aversion therapies & methadone. A sweeping history of an enduring problem & the bir.. Details >>
Status:Available Drug Testing and the Workplace
Published: 2003
Written by a physician, this book gives practical information on how to develop & run drug testing programs, whether you are new to drug testing & need a good foundation or have experience and are interested in supplemental information... Details >>
Status:Available Teens Under the Influence
Published: 2003
Covers common myths about addiction, crucial differences between adult & teen dependency, reasons kids get hooked, stages of adolescent addiction, the different kinds of drugs kids use & combine, treatment options & how to choose, and strategies for handl.. Details >>
Status:Available Necessary Steps: A Family's Journey
Published: 2004
The true story of how one family dealt as openly as possible with the painful reality of a child's addiction to drugs... Details >>
Status:Available Our FAScinating Journey
Published: 2002
Activist & parent of a daughter w/ a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Jodee takes us through the roller coaster ride that was raising Liz. She focuses on neurodevelopmental tactics to help the FAS brain to thrive. Packed with stories, contacts, resources,.. Details >>
Status:Available The Recovery Book
Published: 1992
An indispensible road map to every step of the process of becoming clean & sober. Covers withdrawal & detox, raising drug-resistant kids, temptation & how to thwart it, staging an intervention, sexuality, preventing and surviving relapse, quitting smoking.. Details >>
Status:Available Workplace Intervention: The Bottom Line on Helping Addicted Employees Become Productive Again
Published: 2000
Offers solid advice for executives, managers, & colleagues on addressing an employee's addiction. Covers how to recognize a problem, conduct an intervention, find and encourage treatment, handle tricky legal questions, and navigate family involvement... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction, Progression & Recovery: Understanding the Stages of Change
Published: 2004
Describes the 5 naturally-occurring stages of change on an Addiction Recovery Learning Curve that many people with the most serious addictions will have to go through on the long road to lasting recovery. Addresses assessing, educating, motivating & empow.. Details >>
Status:Available Guide for School-Based Drug Policy and Advisory Councils
Published: 2001
Details step-by-step directions for establishing & implementing an effective district drug advisory council, as mandated by the Safe & Drug-Free Schools Act. Appendices include case studies for policy development & additional resources... Details >>
Status:Available Recovering Our Children: A Handbook for Parents of Young People in Early Recovery
Published: 2003
From experience w/ thousands of kids & their families, the authors help parents recognize the signs of addiction, show how they can find help, and how they can reclaims control of their lives. Emphasis on alternative peer groups... Details >>
Status:Available Aging & Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence
Published: 2002
Primarily intended to help families & friends of older adults cease enabling, understand addiction, and encourage their loved one to seek treatment. Emphasis on prescription medications, alcohol & older women, involving the family physician and how grief.. Details >>
Status:Available Speaking Out...For Addiction Recovery
Published: 2003
"An Advocacy Handbook for Recovered People, Their Families & Friends" Aims to give voice to those touched by addiction in order to continue to erase the stigma associated w/ addiction and to guide policy toward a stronger committment to treatment resource.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/24/2009) Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading & Threatening
Published: 2004
Based on the CRAFT model, this book provides the guidance & tools you need to understand how you & your addicted loved ones interact, & how to change those patterns, improving your life while making sobriety a more rewarding option for them... Details >>
Status:Available When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin...
Published: 2004
Five leading experts offer practical info about addiction to painkilling drugs, including: how addiction develops, what to do if a loved one is addicted, what happens in addiction treatment, and why addiction is a family disease... Details >>
Status:Available Measuring Treatment Progress: An Outcome Study Guidebook
Published: 2003
Provides a step-by-step guide for treatment providers interested in designing & conducting outcome studies for their programs. Also features a review of the latest research in the field, forms & assessment tools, and tips for presenting outcome study resu.. Details >>
Status:Available El Pensamiento Adictivo: Comprender el Autoengano
Published: 2000
**Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception** A look at self-deceptive thinking that feeds low self-esteem and relapse, plus new information on depression & affective disorders. .. Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
Published: 2000
Explains how families & couples can lose their cohesive identity & meaning in the wake of addiction. Histories, personal stories & the latest research help readers chart their own way out of the hell of addiction & back to lasting, loving family relations.. Details >>
Status:Available Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
Published: 2003
Personal stories that show that family members don't cause their loved one's addiction, not can they control or cure it. They can find support, set boundaries, detatch w/ love, & eventually discover how to enjoy life even if the addiction persists. A book.. Details >>
Status:Available Helping a Loved One Live Smoke-Free: What Works, What Won't and Why
Published: 2002
Covers why quitting tobacco is harder than heroin, what to do before & after your loved one quits, how to enlist the help of friends, and what to do if your loved one is your child, your parent, is pregnant or chews tobacco. Compassionate & enlightening... Details >>
Status:Available Delirium Tremens
Published: 2000
A celebrated Mexican novelist interviewed people suffering from alcohol-related visions during withdrawal. Tells a powerful tale of personal, social & emotional trauma & of the courage that leads some tortured souls back to the surface of sober reality... Details >>
Status:Available The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction
Published: 1997
From the basics of brain chemistry to the workings of particular drugs such as alcohol, tobacco or marijuana, The Selfish Brain explains how individuals become trapped in destructive habits-and how various treatments and approaches lead to recovery and.. Details >>
Status:Available Accepting Ourselves & Others: A Journey into Recovery from Addictive & Compulsive Behaviors for Gays
Published: 1996
Addresses how internalized homophobia affects addiction & treatment, what models of recovery exist beyond AA, how one chooses a therapist, and what special issues gay, lesbian & bisexual people face... Details >>
Status:Available The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Methamphetamine Dependence
Published: 2002
A Reference manual for self-directed patient research.For meth users and healthcare workers, this book guides the reader to public, academic, government & peer-reviewed research. Useful websites and a chapter on peer groups are included... Details >>
Status:Available Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse: Beyond Drug Testing to Wellness
Published: 2003
Sheds light on the limitations of drug testing & demonstrates how individual & organizational wellness efforts can more effectively cut employee alcohol & drug use. Describes interventions, holistic wellness, prevention programs, and harm reduction... Details >>
Status:Available Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement
Published: 2001
Since the first drug court in 1989, 600 have opened in this country. Examines how therapeutic strategies employed by drug courts deviate from traditional judicial proceedings, and how these differences reflect changes afoot in American culture and concept.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction-Free Naturally: Liberating Yourself from Sugar, Caffeine, Food Addictions, Tobacco, Alcoho
Published: 2001
Offers gentle but effective ways to ease cravings, nourish & cleanse the body, and combat depression, anxiety & stress. Can be used in conjunction w/ psychotherapy or AA meetings... Details >>
Status:Available Stop the Chaos: How to Get Control of YOur Life by Beating Alcohol & Drugs
Published: 1999
Begins w/ an awareness-raising exploration of addiction & its symptoms; a step-by-step account that shows readers how to assess their situation. Explanations & advice are interspersed w/ exercises, quizzes & illustrations that give readers needed structur.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/08/2010) The Addiction Treatment Planner
Published: 2001
Includes treatment plan components for 37 behaviorally-based presenting problems, step-by-step guide to writing treatment plans, over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives & interventions, and a sample treatment plan that conforms to 3rd-party paye.. Details >>
Status:Available Winning the Drug War at Home
Published: 2006
One mother's struggle & heartache upon discovering her son is using marijuana, with a Christian perspective. Includes excerpts from letters her son wrote while in Utah at a court-ordered therapeutic wilderness program... Details >>
Status:Available Overcoming Perfectionism: The Key to a Balanced Recovery
Published: 1990
Perfectionism is a compulsive pattern of behavior & thought aimed at medicating shame & other painful emotions. Discusses how perfectionism may have benefits but is ultimately an obstacle to quality living as it prevents intimacy and lowers self-esteem... Details >>
Status:Available Choices & Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Published: 1987
Written for parents, teachers, doctors, clergy, etc, this book tells you precisely how you can help a teen abusing substances. Describes a step-by-step process called an intervention which can be used to stop a teen's harmful involvement with chemicals... Details >>
Status:Available Self-Discovery in Recovery
Published: 1984
Rabbi, addiction counselor & psychiatrist, Twerski exposes the roots of addiction & emotional pitfalls encountered during recovery. Using his clients' case histories, he shows how recovery offers a unique opportunity for social, psychological & spiritual.. Details >>
Status:Available Drug Testing At Work: A Guide for Employers
Published: 1998
A guide for managers, school administration, government & military, coaches, attorneys, unions, medical staff, law enforcement & legislators. Covers costs, technology, guidelines, methods used to beat the test, rationale for testing, legal issues, dealing.. Details >>
Status:Available Running With Scissors
Published: 2002
The true story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist. A harrowing, sometimes funny account of a childhood where Valium was consumed like candy & if things got dull, the electroshock therapy machine could provide e.. Details >>
Status:Available Enabling in the School Setting
Published: 1988
Explains enabling systems around students w/ alcohol or other drug problems and how it manifests itself. Includes school, parent and student enabling checklists... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 02/18/2010) Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management: Practical Exercises
Published: 2006
Learning how to manage your denial is not easy, but necessary in order to develop a really effective pain management plan. This workbook helps you look at problems that led you into this process, examine self-defeating behaviors, and evaluate your prescri.. Details >>
Status:Available From Addict to Disciple: The First Twelve Steps
Published: 2005
Local reverend David Hain presents a roadmap to the addict, showing how the light of God's Word offers hope and promise to anyone seeking a path to whole-hearted discipleship... Details >>
Status:Available Young, Sober & Free
Published: 2003
The author presents real-life stories of young adults who have survived their early years despite becoming addicted to alcohol or other drugs. These firsthand accounts are accompanied by discussions of the 12 Step principles... Details >>
Status:Available Training Families To Do a Successful Intervention
Published: 1996
Properly planned & carried out with respect, intervention is highly effective. This book provides the keys that can save lives, restore careers and bring families together. Based on the Johnson Institute intervention framework. Helpful for family & friend.. Details >>
Status:Available Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction
Published: 2006
A comprehensive guide to everything meth users & their families need to address as they confront this addiction: Meth's effects; how to stop using & stay clean; dealing w/ depression, ADD or other mental health issues; meth and sex; meth and HIV/AIDS; and.. Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
Published: 2000
Addresses the stages of addiction w/in the family, anger, how kids & couples are affected, and how hopelessness can give rise to the process of recovery. Gives special attention to how families progress through early, middle and late recovery... Details >>
Status:Available From Binge to Blackout: A Mother & Son Struggle with Teen Drinking
Published: 2006
Written by a mother & son, this book chronicles Toren's college drinking as it crosses the line into alcoholism. Includes checklists for choosing colleges, helping teens in trouble, planning spring break trips, and surviving rehab and early recovery, as w.. Details >>
Status:Available In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior
Published: 2007
With the latest statistics, recent technologies & devices, and new thinking on healthy internet usage & avoiding relapse, this book offers professional advice for achieving lasting change and healing... Details >>
Status:Available Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment
Published: 1995
A white paper highlighting promising programs and other information relating to substance abuse treatment... Details >>
Status:Available A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender..
Published: 2001
Full Title: "A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals" Covers homophobia, cultural, legal & health issues, interpersonal violence, counselor competence, gender identity, administrative.. Details >>
Status:Available A Collection of NIDA Notes: Articles That Address Drugs And AIDS
Published: 2002
Reprints of NIDA Notes articles relating to substance abuse and HIV/AIDS, including Hepatitis C, gender, cost to society, tuberculosis, methamphetamine, paraphernalia, and other topics... Details >>
Status:Available Making Your Workplace Smokefree: A Decision Maker's Guide
Published: 1990
This up-to-date guide draws on years of research & first- hand experience to offer practical & proven strategies for implementing policies in a variety of work settings. Health issues provide ample justification for restricting smoking, but there are othe.. Details >>
Status:Available The Science of Prevention
Published: 1997
Explores ways to bring greater methodological rigor to prevention research. The methods discussed, while focusing on drug & alcohol abuse, are pertinent for many kinds of research, including smoking, risky sex, health problems, poor school performance, an.. Details >>
Status:Available 101 Ready-To-Use Drug Prevention Activities
Published: 1999
Curriculum-based & reproducible for grades 2-6, most of these activities can be done using materials usually found in classrooms. They range from those designed to help kids develop a firm decision-making process, to creative ways to make your Red Ribbon.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: September 2003
Published: 2003
Articles include: An Alderian-Based Method of Treating Addictions; Assisting Gay & Lesbian Clients; The Professional in Recovery: Be Sensitive to Professional Culture; Helping Clients Overcome 'Family Culture of Pain'; Multiple Tools to Treat Pathological.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: November 2003
Published: 2003
Articles include: Harm Reduction: Where Should Professionals Stand?; Beware of Your Clients' Medicine Cabinet; Making the Most of Training Opportunities; Addressing The Aging Face of Addiction; Gambling; Workplace Issues... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: Better Aftercare for the Dually Diagnosed; Do School & Recovery Mix?; Addiction & Child Welfare Professionals; Who Should Speak for the Cause?; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy; The Public Health Case for Needle Exchange; Opiate Addiction;.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: July 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: Treating the Couple When One is Addicted; Improving Intervention: Two Better than One?; Counselors Must Help Plan Clients' Aftercare; Addiction Summit Group Begins to Build Strategy for Elevating the Field.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: November 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: The Future & Science of Addiction Services; 'Weighty' Matters During Recovery; Healing Emotional Wounds: Substance Abuse & Feelings; Clergy & Sexual Boundaries: Addiction & Sexual Orientation; Managing Pain with Coexisting Addictive Diso.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: January 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Clients in Gangs; Compensation Trends in Behavioral Healthcare; Group Psychotherapy; Gambling; 'Treatment Works!': Is it Time for a New Slogan?'; New Hope for Treating Alcoholism: Will Professionals Embrace the Latest Medication Options?.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Attracting Medical Specialist to the Addiction Field; Your Clients' Support Groups; Prevention Program Guidance; Trends in Counseling; Understanding Gambling's Addictive Process; Using Dreams in Treatment; The Kubler-Ross Grief Model... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: May 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Complexities of Culture; Eating Disorders; Gambling Screening Tools; Defining Success with Treatment of Adolescents; Six Skills for Loved Ones; Impulsivity, Risk & Recovery; Using Motivational Interviewing to Overcome Ambivalence... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: July 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: New Medication for Opiate Addiction; Harm Reduction; Workforce Development Strategies; Body Image in Adolescent Girls; Teens with Addicted Parents; Treating a Gambling Disorder; Do I Want to Be a SAP?... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: September 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Dealing With Client Reluctance; Women's Treatment that Addresses Trauma; Hope for Youths with Learning Problems; Motivational Interviewing & Stages of Change; Recovery & Tobacco Use... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: Jan/Feb 2006
Published: 2006
Articles include: Meth Use & Risk in Gay Men; Challenges in Treating Asian-Americans; Who Will Lead the Profession?; Depression 101 for Addiction Counselors... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March/April 2006
Published: 2006
Articles include: Counseling on Campus; Trials With Buprehorphine; Can Your Work Be Done Online?; Maximizing the Usefullness of Clinical Staffings; Assessing Nutritional Status; Telephone Recovery Support; Using Myers- Briggs Type Indicator... Details >>
Status:Available Substance Abuse: The Nation's Number One Health Problem
Published: 2001
Report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for educators, treatment & prevention providers, policymakers, researchers, the media, & others. Beginning w/ the patterns of use & ending w/ ways to combat the D&A problem, it shows trend data on use & percept.. Details >>
Status:Available A Portrait of Adolescents in America, 2001
Published: 2001
Explores the health & health care experience of 2,000 adolescents ages 13-17 surveyed on-line. Focuses on three groups- Risky Health Behaviors, Symptoms of Depression, & Special Health Care Needs. These groups are less healthy, less confident, & less conn.. Details >>
Status:Available 2003 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report
Published: 2003
A report on the behavior, attitudes & knowledge concerning alcohol, tobacco, drugs & violence of secondary school students in Lancaster County. Presents findings in 3 sections: 1. risk & protective factors 2. drug use 3. anti-social behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available 2003 Pennsylvania Youth Survey Report
Published: 2003
A report on the behavior, attitudes & knowledge concerning alcohol, tobacco, drugs & violence of secondary school students in Lancaster County. Presents findings in 3 sections: 1. risk & protective factors 2. drug use 3. anti-social behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol and Drug Abuse in America: Policies for Prevention
Published: 1994
Six recommendations for effective public policies & respon- sible funding approaches to end substance abuse-fueled violence. Working together, the major institutions of every community- families, faith, community, education, health care, criminal justice,.. Details >>
Status:Available Ending Discrimination Against People With Alcohol and Drug Problems
Published: 2003
Recommends that addiction be viewed as a public health problem and that people in recovery should be free of legally imposed bans or barriers. Addresses health care, employment & public benefits... Details >>
Status:Available A Community Substance Abuse Indicators Handbook
Published: 1997
Written to assist community coalitions & other groups fight--ing substance abuse to describe the scope & nature of local problems. Includes 20 indicators & guides community leaders to the best data sources to start local studies. Outline important interpr.. Details >>
Status:Available Getting Out of the Game: The Trap of Drug Dealing (DVD)
Published: 2004
In Getting Out of the Game, a group of ex-dealers grapple with real-life issues and share techniques that have helped them stay out of drug dealing. DVD includes facilitator's guide with reproducible worksheets. .. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 02/19/2010) The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much
Funny, touching, and entertaining explanation of the addictions process. Deals with addiction in a positive, non-threatening way, using live action cats. Simple enough for young children, but engaging for adults as well. A timeless classic... Details >>
Status:Available Conquering Cocaine: Cocaine and Young People
Published: 1986
During recovery from cocaine addiction, young people must fight its high potency & easy availability while they develop a new inventory of feelings, form new relationships and start new activities. A teen describes her own addiction & recovery. .. Details >>
Status:Available Conquering Cocaine: Cessation- Early Stages of Recovery
Published: 1986
The early stage of withdrawal from cocaine is described by medical experts & recovering addicts, including detox and counseling. Emphasizes that recovery is a life-long process, and that being part of an aftercare or self-help group will help ensure sobri.. Details >>
Status:Available Conquering Cocaine: Mind & Body in Crisis
Describes physiological & psychological consequences of excessive cocaine use. Provides a checklist to help viewers determine if they're at risk for addiction. A recovering addict makes clear that work, school, money, food, hygiene, family & friends don't.. Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana and Human Physiology
Published: 1986
Dispels the belief that marijuana is harmless recreation and shows its effects on the mind and body... Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Co-Dependency
Published: 1986
Covers the physical & emotional effects that a chemically dependent person has on family, friends, and co-workers. Addresses family roles, sexuality, medical diseases, and what happens to the family system when even one member seeks help. Great informatio.. Details >>
Status:Available Intervention Pros and Cons: Part 1
Published: 1989
A training seminar taped at the Freedom Center in Pittsburgh PA on Vernon Johnson's intervention techniques. Emphasizes that interventions are surprises & forced crises, not punishments, and that they always work because they heal families. Good informat.. Details >>
Status:Available El Gato que Bebia y Usaba Demasiado
Published: 1986
**The Cat Who Drank & Used Too Much** Pat the cat has a problem, and his family wants to help. Adorable live action film, shows how Pat gets help. Kids from 1 to 93 will enjoy the feline antics and get the anti-drug message to boot!.. Details >>
Status:Available Drug Testing (Employee Version)
Addresses needs of both employer and employee to ensure accuracy and reliability of test results, and how to access the company's EAP benefits... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Testing (Employer Version)
Explores the options available for a drug testing component in an Employee Assistance Program. Addresses needs of both employer and employee to ensure accuracy and reliability of test results... Details >>
Status:Available Back to Reality
Published: 1988
Hugh Downs presents information on addition, enabling, and intervention. Vignettes depict workplace and family situation. Helps family & friends see that they aren't alone in their feelings and enabling behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Prevention
Published: 1976
Your choices will indicate what you think of yourself. If you look on yourself as a garbage can, you'll treat yourself like one. If you value yourself, you'll act accordingly. If you choose to drink, don't just use your mouth - USE YOUR HEAD; BE SENSIBLE... Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Addiction: Withdrawal & Detoxification
Videotaped conference w/ Pat Stewart.. Details >>
Status:Available Recognition of Denial & Strategies for Intervention
Videotaped conference w/ Michael Flaherty.. Details >>
Status:Available Personal Touch: Jason Robards on Alcoholism
Gives the personal story of actor Jason Robards' struggle with alcoholism. Affirms that there is much support to be found everywhere... Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Mind Altering Drugs
Published: 1980
Mental and physical effects of drugs and their withdrawal symptoms are explored. Six major categories are discussed: marijuana, sedative hypnotics, narcotics, inhalants, hallucinogens, and stimulants... Details >>
Status:Available It's Not My Problem
An introduction to co-dependency and family systems, with emphasis on the families of newly recovering addicts... Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today: Orientation (Non-Union) Tape 1
Published: 1985
Orientation gives viewers the basics of employee assistance - who it's for, how it works, and its purpose. Actual client success stories inspire viewers to use the EAP... Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today: Self-Referral (Non-Union) Tape 2
Published: 1985
Self Referral features real-life intervention techniques and demonstrates the effectiveness of early self-referrals to the employee assistance program in the workplace... Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today: Supervisor's Training (Non-Union) Tape 3
Published: 1985
Helps educate supervisors on ways to overcome their five biggest objections to referring an employee to the EAP... Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today: Orientation (Union) Tape 1
Published: 1985
Orientation gives viewers the basics of employee assistance - who it's for, how it works, and its purpose. Actual client success stories inspire viewers to use the employee assistance program... Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today: Self-Referral (Union) Tape 2
Published: 1985
Self Referral features real-life intervention techniques and demonstrates the effectiveness of early self-referrals to the employee assistance program... Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today: Supervisor's Training (Union) Tape 3
Published: 1985
Supervisor Training helps educate supervisors on ways to overcome their five biggest objections to referring an employee to the employee assistance program... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Babies
Examines the impact of drug affected infants on mothers, social services, foster care, education, and treatment. Discusses prevention and early intervention... Details >>
Status:Available J.R.'s Story: The Disability of Chemical Dependence
Published: 1992
This film addresses the special challenges of the chemically dependent person with disabilities. J.R.'s story is that of a strong-spirited young man whose problems with substance abuse are both physically and emotionally exacerbated by the fact that he is.. Details >>
Status:Available Secret Addictions: Women, Drugs, and Alcohol
Published: 1991
This hard-hitting documentary offers insights from medical doctors, psychologists, and other experts involved in recovery programs for addicted women... Details >>
Status:Available Secret Addictions: Women in Treatment
Published: 1991
Women in treatment, single and married, mothers and their children, describe their own experiences in treatment and recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery and Human Physiology: Drugs
Published: 1992
Offering up-to-date medical information, explanatory visuals and testimonials from former addicts, this video documents the common after-effects, both mental and physical, experienced by those in recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Dependencia De la Droga: Las Muestras De la Detección temprana
Published: 1984
**Drug Dependency: The Early Warning Signs** Provide drug abusers as well as their friends, family, and employers with a recognition guide of symptoms of possible drug abuse... Details >>
Status:Available Back to Reality
Hugh Downs presents information on addition, enabling, and intervention. Vignettes depict workplace and family situation. Helps family & friends see that they aren't alone in their feelings and enabling behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Marketing Booze to Blacks
The film exposes the messages in alcohol ads which target African-Americans. It also examines the impact of alcoholism in the black community... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/08/2010) Alcohol and Human Physiology
Published: 1984
Explains the ill effects of alcohol on the digestive, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, urogenital, and nervous systems are demonstrated, and are interwoven with interviews with 6 recovering alcoholics who briefly recount the physiological damage to their.. Details >>
Status:Available The Physician Does Make a Difference: Recognizing the Faces of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Published: 1991
Physicians discuss ways to diagnosie D&A abuse in hospitalized & emergency room patients, & to take an active role in the education of their patients. Covers barriers to diagnosis, signs to look for, interviewing techniques, info on FAS, & importance of.. Details >>
Status:Available America in Jeopardy: The Young Employee and Drugs in the Workplace
Fast-paced video contains interviews w/ recovering addicts. Warns that taking drugs is a dead end, & that mixing drugs w/ work is a big mistake. Encourages viewers to get help for themselves, & how to talk to a co-worker they think may have a problem... Details >>
Status:Available Drugs at Work (Employee Version)
Describes costs of drug use in the workplace and actions being taken by the government and the private sector... Details >>
Status:Available Drugs at Work (Employee Version)
Describes costs of drug use in the workplace and actions being taken by the government and the private sector... Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Alcohol - Part I
Dr. Max Schneider - effects of alcohol on the liver, heart, pancreas, kidneys, and other organs of the body... Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Alcohol - Part II
Dr. Max Schneider - effects of alcohol upon the brain and nerve tissue... Details >>
Status:Available Family Violence in America
Links substance abuse to domestic violence and explains the cycles of violence. Reveals myths related to domestic violence,including that the victim "deserves" it. Discusses related legal matters: viewers hear from victims, as well as legal officials and.. Details >>
Status:Available Breaking the Chains
Recovery problems that afflict the segment of society that doesn't seem to relate to middle class recovery values... Details >>
Status:Available Relapse
How to work the tenth step and how to stay accountable for behaviors... Details >>
Status:Available Family Issues for the Chemically Dependent
Family issues clients commonly face after treatment such as: gaining trust, communication, setting boundaries, coping, forgiving, etc... Details >>
Status:Available Double Trouble- Part I
Dual disorders (chemical dependency and psychiatric illness). Assessment and treatment... Details >>
Status:Available Double Trouble - Part II
Dual disorders (chemical dependency and psychiatric illness). Assessment and treatment... Details >>
Status:Available It Won't Happen To Me
Portrays a teenage problem drinker who is forced to confront his problem in an intervention group. .. Details >>
Status:Available Getting Help (Employer Version)
Shows the value of having an employee assistance progam and the importance of confidentiality... Details >>
Status:Available Drugs at Work (Employer Version)
Describes costs of drug use in the workplace and actions being taken by the government and the private sector... Details >>
Status:Available Using the ASI to Assess Client Needs and Treatment Planning - A Training Videotape: Part I
ASI training video... Details >>
Status:Available Heroin: The Street Narcotics
Gives information on heroin's devastating effects on the user and society. Also discusses historical background... Details >>
Status:Available Prescription Narcotics: The Addictive Painkillers
Provides information on the use and abuse of prescription narcotic drugs... Details >>
Status:Available The Party's Over
Published: 1990
Shows three real-life interventions, recreated by the actual families involved. Deals w/ roles that family, friends & co-workers play, methods used by professionals in the intervention, and the impact confrontation mixed w/ love has upon the addict. Power.. Details >>
Status:Available Cancelled Lives: Letters from the Inside
A portrait of the Criminal Justice system as seen through the eyes of the incarcerated. Detailed letters exploring their experience in prison... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Testing (Employer Version)
Explores the options available for a drug testing component in an Employee Assistance Program. Addresses needs of both employer and employee to ensure accuracy and reliability of test results... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Testing (Employee Version)
Addresses needs of both employer and employee to ensure accuracy and reliability of test results, and how to access the company's EAP benefits... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol: Crisis for the Unborn
This video, by the March of Dimes, depicts children with the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)... Details >>
Status:Available All Bottled Up
Animated stories about children of alcoholics encourage teens to tell a friend or any adult they trust if they have an alcoholic parent, and not to keep feelings ALL BOTTLED UP... Details >>
Status:Available Get the Message
Published: 1970
This video shows how certain messages from the advertising industry, sports stars, parents, rock stars, and other groups can give children mixed messages about alcohol and other drugs. Made in the 1970s... Details >>
Status:Available The Wizard of No
Young viewers deal with conflicting messages from parents, peers, and advertising. This video speaks directly to kids with practical advice concerning self-esteen, tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. The Wizard of No encourages them to discover the amazi.. Details >>
Status:Available Heroin
Published: 1997
This powerful video explores the many devastating effects of heroin. We watch family & friends share their devastation at the death of a loved one from overdose, a toxicologist explains heroin's effects, and recovering addicts offer their experiences with.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Portrait of Addiction
Published: 1998
Program that features the real experts; recovering addicts, who reveal their lives distorted by drugs and alcohol and transformed by recovery. Their personal stories give us a look into the common struggles that addicts share during addiction and througho.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Hijacked Brain
Published: 1998
Moyers follows researchers engaged in making an "image of desire in the brain". Images are viewed of a cocaine user's brain as the drug takes effect, & doctors explain how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Changing Lives
Published: 1998
The 2nd video in the series addresses treatment and recovery, stressing the need for individualization of treatment plans. Visits two programs that serve the needs of different populations... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Politics of Addiction
Published: 1998
The 5th video in the series tells the story of how our society meets the challenges of translating what scientists, doctors, counselors, and recovering addicts have learned into public policy. Looks at Arizona's Proposition 200, which emphasizes treatment.. Details >>
Status:Available Pack of Lies: Targeting You for Tobacco
A physician explains the many ways and reasons that tobacco companies target their products to teens... Details >>
Status:Available And Down Will Come Baby
This video examines women who have used drugs during pregnancy. It explores the difficulties and frustrations that confront chemically dependent mothers... Details >>
Status:Available The Teen Files: The Truth About Drugs
Published: 2000
Leeza Gibbons hosts this powerful program which graphically demonstrates to teens the effects of various types of drugs on their self, friends, babies, and family. It illustrates the dangers of drugs, such as rape, homelessness, suicide, jail time, and t.. Details >>
Status:Available The Power of No: The Wizard Returns
Published: 1995
The Wizard of No helps Alice understand that her father suffers from alcoholism, and that saying no to alcohol herself is not the same as rejecting her friends... Details >>
Status:Available The Teen Files Flipped: The Reality of Drug Use
Published: 2001
MTV "flips" 4 teens who use marijuana and other drugs regularly and don't want to stop. When set up, each teen must confront his/her drug use in a different way. The teens react strongly to the dramatized situations, vowing they want to avoid real-life co.. Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana
Published: 1997
Delbert Boone speaks to prison inmates about the real life dangers of marijuana. Boone discusses how chemicals in pot collect in brain cells, resin accumulates in the lungs, and users make bad choices which may result in incarceration. As always, a fresh.. Details >>
Status:Available In the Know: Tobacco, Alcohol & Marijuana
Published: 2001
Four young narrators present the social, physical and mental effects of each substance using graphics and expert testimony. These gateway drugs dramatically increase the odds that a user will go on to abuse cocaine or heroin... Details >>
Status:Available Step 1 for Adolescents
Published: 2004
Teens in recovery candidly share their triumphs & setbacks in working Step One, struggling with powerlessness, recognizing unmanageability, and overcoming secret-keeping. Video guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Step 2 for Adolescents
Published: 2004
Teens in recovery candidly whare their triumphs and setbacks in working Step 2: defining a higher power, overcoming negative perceptions about religion, and developing a spiritual connection. Discussion guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Cross-Addiction: The Back Door to Relapse
Published: 1999
Cross-addiction is the single greatest relapse factor. Firsthand testimony from addicts and professionals dispel the myth that there is any such thing as a "safe" substance for people in recovery. Ends with a message of hope for the recovering individual... Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol: The Substance, The Addiction, The Solution
Published: 1999
Recovering alcoholics & treatment professionals speak candidly about the symptoms of alcoholism, such as loss of control & denial, effects of alcohol on the brain, the rewards & challenges of recovery, and perhaps the most valuable message of all; that th.. Details >>
Status:Available Cocaine and Crack: Back From the Abyss
Published: 1998
Testimony from recovering addicts is interwoven with that of chemical dependency counselors and physicians. Part I explains the complex effects of cocaine, and why relapse rates are so high. Part 2 gives viewers the practical tools to get thru cravings, i.. Details >>
Status:Available Cocaine and Crack: Back From the Abyss
Published: 1998
Testimony from recovering addicts is interwoven with that of chemical dependency counselors and physicians. Part I explains the complex effects of cocaine, and why relapse rates are so high. Part 2 gives viewers the practical tools to get thru cravings, i.. Details >>
Status:Available Methamphetamine: Deciding to Live
Published: 1998
Through documentary-style interviews w/ recovering addicts & professionals, the devastating consequences of meth are revealed. Part 1 begins w/ an explanation of the effects of meth on the brain. Part 2 offers hope for those in recovery, revealing the spi.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Street Smarts
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5: Learning to Avoid Relapse. An introduction to key urban relapse prevention strategies, using inspiring interviews w/ credible role models. Focuses on complete abstinence, accepting disappointments, coping w/ chronic stress, resisting easy mon.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Back on the Block
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5: Credible urban role models focus on the first weeks home after rehab or prison, including finding a sober place to live, creating & using a support system, keeping busy, and preparing to handle triggers to use. Ethnically diverse narrators... Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Recovering Relationships
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5 Credible urban role models discuss ways to recognize & avoid relapse traps. Addressed are ways to cope w/ an unsupportive family, avoiding rescuing others, sober sex, dealing w/ guilt and the stress of parenting in recovery. Both men's & wom.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Catchin' Feelings
Published: 1996
Part 4 Credible urban role models teach new ways of dealing with feelings without picking up. Emphasis on "emotional danger zones" including anger, shame, guilt, self-pity, illness like HIV/AIDS, and feelings engendered by racism. Narrated by recovering.. Details >>
Status:Available Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Making It Happen
Published: 1996
Part 5 Credible urban narrators illustrate the importance of building a satisfying life to long-term recovery, including getting & keeping work, dealing w/ financial stress, going back to school, giving back to the community, having fun sober, & reclaimin.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction: The Problems, The Solutions
Published: 1991
Examines the whys and hows of addictive behavior using interviews w/recovering addicts & addiction professionals. Explores concept of addictive personality, myths, & cross-addiction, & advises people to ask themselves: Am I doing something repetitive and.. Details >>
Status:Available America in Jeopardy: The Young Employee and Drugs in the Workplace
Fast-moving video contains interviews with recovering drug users; warns viewers that taking drugs is a dead end and mixing drugs with work is a very big mistake. Explains how drugs affect body & mind;encourages viewers to get help for themselves or for co.. Details >>
Status:Available Bulking Up: The Dangers of Steroids
Professional athletes explain why they started using steriods and how they came to regret their decision. Risks, problems, and severe psychological effects are also described. Program emphasizes taht there are no short cuts to a well-developed body. Bruce.. Details >>
Status:Available Downfall: Sports and Drugs
Profiles junior high, high school and professional athletes whose careers either never began or were destroyed by drugs and alcohol. Good segment on steroids especially side effect of road rage, anger and violence by athletes using steroids. Includes, alc.. Details >>
Status:Available Best Pills Worst Pills
Published: 1994
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, MD head a Ralph Nader funded organization, discusses pills and over-counter products whose addictive potentials are not known by the public who preceives them as harmless; offers substitute non-addictive medications. Phil Donahue Show Ja.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/09/2009) Alcohol, Drugs and Kids
Four teenagers in a hospital drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit share their experiences. The film dramatizes their stories in flashbacks while the teenagers talk about why they started. The teenagers in this film stress that help is available... Details >>
Status:Available Circle of Recovery
A portrait of a group of 7 African-American men healing themselves. "When I speak of the healing of the community, I speak of a whole people, not just ourselves, because when we heal, the children heal, the family heals, the mother, the grandfather, the.. Details >>
Status:Available Designer Drugs and Human Physiology: PCP, Ecstasy, Fentanyl
Published: 1989
PCP, Ecstasy and fentanyl are clinically described as concentrated synthetics devastating to the body's cardiovascular and nuerological systems... Details >>
Status:Available Designer Drugs and Human Physiology: Crack Cocaine, Methamphetamine
Published: 1989
Program traces the destructive capabilities of crack and speed from physical damage to complete interruption of person's normal lifestyle... Details >>
Status:Available Cocaine and Human Physiology
Published: 1987
Documents damage done to the body by cocaine whether snorted, injected or smoked. Includes testimonials and statistics... Details >>
Status:Available One For My Baby
Published: 1983
Film does an excellent job of defining dangers of maternal alcohol consumption for unborn child; interviews with parents of FAS children, physicians and other health care professionals... Details >>
Status:Available New Beginnings: Women, Alcohol, and Recovery
Published: 1977
Follows recovery of three women: one recovering from alcohol and drug abuse; another is the author of "I'm Black and I'm Sober" and the third is a career woman who found a new identity through her recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Dependency: The Early Warning Signs
Published: 1984
Helps break through the wall of denial. Illustrates 10 early warning signs which indicate an individual has crossed the line from using a drug of choice to dependence on a drug. Emphasizes that drug abuse is reversible and offers practical advice for gett.. Details >>
Status:Available Drugs and Adolescents: Meeting the Challenge
This video features Senator Gib Armstrong discussing the issue of drugs... Details >>
Status:Available Epidemic! Kids, Drugs & Alcohol
Published: 1982
Addresses the issue of youthful drug abuse; the deadly combination of teenage drinking and driving; and the influence of music television, motion pictures and peer pressure in America's drug culture... Details >>
Status:Available Friday Night Five
Each weekend night, as many as one out of every seven drivers is legally intoxicated. This video provides important information on the difference between alcohol & drug misuse and dependency, including behavioral symptoms... Details >>
Status:Available Enabling
Father Joseph Martin explains how people enable addicts to stay actively involved in their addiction by protecting them from the consequences... Details >>
Status:Available The Karate Kids in Goldtooth
Published: 1995
The true story of children living on the streets where drugs, alcohol and solvents are used every day. Many of them use substances for their own personal reasons and needs, and what happens to some is deadly. Also in Spanish, #718... Details >>
Status:Available Family Disease
David Bender of the Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse explains in detail the concept of family disease... Details >>
Status:Available If You Change Your Mind
Presents unique perspective on drug use and abuse; how is abuse different from addiction? Can an addict ever be rehabilitated? Just exactly how do drugs and alcohol affect body and mind? Touches on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and nicotine. Ending hopeful and p.. Details >>
Status:Available Giving Flight to the Human Spirit
Informational video about the Caron Foundation. This is one of two videos... Details >>
Status:Available It's Your Right to Say No!
Music video about not drinking with the opinion of teenagers about the subject... Details >>
Status:Available Gate House for Men/Women
Description and testimonies of what The GateHouse is, how it works and what it can do... Details >>
Status:Available In the Public Interest
Video instructing kids to stay away from drugs... Details >>
Status:Available Positive Action Steps for Parents of Drug-Abusing Kids
Focuses on effective ways that parents can respond to a child abusing alcohol & other drugs. Communication, discipline, confrontation, caring and parental examples are all addressed, as well as how parents can get support from other parents, the school,.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Potrait of Addiction
Published: 1998
Program that features the real experts; recovering addicts, who reveal their lives distorted by drugs and alcohol and transformed by recovery. Their personal stories give us a look into the common struggles that addicts share during addiction and througho.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Hijacked Brain
Published: 1998
Moyers follows researchers engaged in making an "image of desire in the brain". Images are viewed of a cocaine user's brain as the drug takes effect, & doctors explain how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Changing Lives
Published: 1998
This video explores a number of options including 12-step programs, behavior modification, pharmacological treatment and inpatient and outpatient treatment... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Next Generation
Published: 1998
Focuses on prevention efforts based on community & family. Shows parents addicted to heroin being taught how to repair the damage to the family and how to raise strong, resilient children. The second part goes into the schools and looks for kids at risk.. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: Politics of Addiction
Published: 1998
This video gives examples of the challenges of translating what has been learned in the past decade about the disease of addiction into a rational, effective public health policy... Details >>
Status:Available The Mind: Addiction
Documentary focusing on all of the new discoveries regarding alcoholism and addiction. The information on this video is very similar to the "Alcohol and Cocaine" video, however, it is more current. A few personal stories are featured... Details >>
Status:Available My Father's Son
Published: 1970
Dramatic portrayal of the way vulnerability to addiction, alcoholism in particular, is genetic. When a father finds his son's drugs in the basement, he remembers his painful upbringing w/ an alcoholic father & co-dependent mother. He tries to prevent his.. Details >>
Status:Available My Name is Kate
Published: 1994
Donna Mills stars as a woman who comes to terms with her alcoholism. Co-stars Daniel Trevanti. (1994 ABC production.).. Details >>
Status:Available Pregnancy on the Rocks
An excellent film which discusses deformity and mental retardation of a baby that can result from drinking during pregnancy. It leaves viewers with a strong positive motivation to avoid drinking during pregnancy... Details >>
Status:Available Gambling: Lucky Number
A look at compulsive gambling told through interviews with gamblers, gaming industry officials, and mental health professionals... Details >>
Status:Available Shattered Spirits
Movie taped from television. Shows family interaction in the disease process. Also touches on intervention and treatment for the entire family... Details >>
Status:Available Silent Suffering: Substance Abuse in the Deaf Community
Hosted by Alan Barnwiolek, a deaf actor who works with Alcoholics Anonymous on translations of their publications, this video explores the cultural, treatment and recovery issues for the deaf and hearing-impaired addicted population... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Free Kids
Hosted by Ken Howard, this program helps parents identify and deal with the urgent problem of drug abuse. Synopsis of who does drugs, what drugs are available, and what signs to look for in your child. Role plays Give suggestions on how to confront child.. Details >>
Status:Available George Bush, Sr. Speech: Drug Watch
Former President George Bush Sr. addressed the nation concerning the national drug crisis. Bush called it the quick sand of society... Details >>
Status:Available PA Client Placement Criteria Linking Paper to Practice: Part I
This video introduces the state client placement criteria for adults, developed through a co-operative effort that brought together addiction treatment, researchers, single county authorities, managed care organization and others... Details >>
Status:Available The Physcian Does Make a Difference
Recognizing the faces of alcohol and other drug abuse... Details >>
Status:Available Intervention: Breaking the Chains of Addiction
This video gives an overview of drug and alcohol services in Lancaster County. It also discusses the nature of addiction and intervention... Details >>
Status:Available Los Ninos Karatecas en Diente De Oro
Published: 1995
**The Karate Kids in Goldtooth** This is a story about children who are on the streets where, drugs, alcohol and solvents are used every day. Life is hard for these kids. Many of them use substances for their own personal reasons and needs. .. Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home: Moyers on Addiction (Complete Collection)
Published: 1998
Bill Moyers' 5-part series on addiction. 1. Portrait of Addiction 2. The Hijacked Brain 3. Changing Lives (about successful treatment programs) 4. The Next Generation (about how children are affected by addiction) 5. The Politics of Addiction Excel.. Details >>
Status:Available Consumer Seduction: From Romance to Reality
Published: 1992
Explore the myths, messages, claims and techniques of tobacco and alcohol advertising. Discover how the addiction merchants dazzle us with images of the good life. How they sell not only their products - but dangerous and addictive lifestyles. .. Details >>
Status:Available Selling Addiction
Published: 1992
Big Tobacco & Alcohol bombard us with their products on TV, radio, billboards, and magazines. What they're actually selling is an addictive lifestyle. This video analyzes typical commercials and advertising techniques, explains target marketing and the my.. Details >>
Status:Available Parents of Drug-Abusing Kids Need Help Too!
This video examines the typical reactions of parents who discover that their child is using drugs and suggests ways that parents can avoid unhelpful responses. This video will guide parents through a maze of fear, anger, hurt, and denial... Details >>
Status:Available Methadone: Where We Are
Published: 1993
Examines the use and effectiveness of methadone as a treatment, its biological effects, the role of the counselor in treatment, and the societal stigmas and attitudes towards methadone use and patients. Viewer's guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Walking the Same Land
Published: 2001
Targets young Natives returning to traditional cultural ways to strengthen their recovery from substance abuse. Young aboriginal men from Australia share their culture and their healing with young Mohawk men from upstate New York. Offers a holistic approa.. Details >>
Status:Available Meth: What's Cooking in Your Neighborhood?
Published: 2002
Provides useful information on what methamphetamine is, what it does, and why it seems appealing and is dangerous. Covers how meth is made and how communities can prevent its use. Study guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Faces of Addiction
Published: 1997
Contains adult language. Presents firsthand accounts of how addiction devastates lives through interviews with recovering addicts, who detail their former drug use habits and the interventions that changed their lives. The first in the HBO series of the s.. Details >>
Status:Available I Can't Breath: A Smoker's Story
Published: 2001
Temporarily unavailable.. Details >>
Status:Available Ruined Lives II: The Dangers of Methamphetamine
Published: 2003
Interviews with users who's lives have been altered by meth and a dramatic story of a teen who tries meth for the first time lend a peer group reality to this program... Details >>
Status:Available Psychology of Addiction
Published: 1998
Delbert Boone explains how drugs move through the body to the brain, where psychological effects include denial, rationalization, minimization, and projection of the addict's problems. Addiction is cunning, baffling, power- ful, chronic, progressive and p.. Details >>
Status:Available Making the Right Choices
Published: 2003
Michael Johnson addresses prison inmates concerning the struggles many offenders face when returning to their old neighborhoods. He discusses the immediate gratification inherent in addiction & criminal activity vs. the humility and accountability needed.. Details >>
Status:Available Let It Not Be in Vain
Published: 1999
The true story of a teen's suicide resulting from alcohol abuse is told by his family & friends. Viewers learn how to recognize the symptoms of alcohol poisoning and what to do when a friend exhibits them, and the warning signs for suicide and depression... Details >>
Status:Available Women in Transition: The On-Going Challenge
Published: 1998
Four women who have been released from prison and are living successful, drug-free lives tell about their experiences. Viewers will learn practical ways to work toward a successful transition, the value of seeking help, and what it means to accept respons.. Details >>
Status:Available The Rules of Recovery
Published: 2003
Host Delbert Boone emphasizes that getting dry is an event and sobriety is a process. He outlines the "rules of recovery" that assist the addict on focusing on his/her physical and safety needs. Sobriety requires of addicts the ability to comply, & to tak.. Details >>
Status:Available Sobriety: Straight Up
Published: 2000
This encouraging video features Delbert Boone addressing recovering addicts in prison. While using, most addicts develop skills such as creativity, consistency, dilligence, and determination, which could be used in a positive way to maintain sobriety... Details >>
Status:Available The Road to Recovery: Alcohol & Drug Use Screening, Intervention & Referral
Published: 2004
This video looks at changing the process of screening, intervention, & referral to get more people the addiction treatment they need. Successful points of intervention are emergency rooms, primary care physicians, pediatricians, military doctors, and othe.. Details >>
Status:Available The Road to Recovery: Alcohol & Drug Use Screening, Intervention & Referral
Published: 2004
This video looks at changing the process of screening, intervention, & referral to get more people the addiction treatment they need. Successful points of intervention are emergency rooms, primary care physicians, pediatricians, military doctors, and othe.. Details >>
Status:Available The Road to Recovery: Alcohol & Drug Use Screening, Intervention & Referral
Published: 2004
This video looks at changing the process of screening, intervention, & referral to get more people the addiction treatment they need. Successful points of intervention are emergency rooms, primary care physicians, pediatricians, military doctors, and othe.. Details >>
Status:Available Inside Alcoholics Anonymous
Published: 1999
From the A&E television series Investigative Reports... Details >>
Status:Available War Against Tobacco
Published: 1997
From the series 20th Century With Mike Wallace... Details >>
Status:Available Rehab: Tough Love in Harlem
Published: 1996
From the series Investigative Reports... Details >>
Status:Available Homicide/Juvenile Intervention/Narcotics
Published: 1999
From the series L.A. Detectives. Not a prevention message, as cops are shown making mistakes... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/17/2010) The Roots of Addiction (DVD)
Published: 1999
*DVD* A highly visual video that examines the biological & environmental reasons people become addicted to legal & illegal drugs and behaviors such as eating & gambling. Covers levels of use, signs, susceptibility, and explains the relationships betwn. ri.. Details >>
Status:Available The Roots of Addiction
Published: 1999
A highly visual video that examines the biological & environmental reasons people become addicted to legal & illegal drugs and behaviors such as eating & gambling. Covers levels of use, signs, susceptibility, and explains the relationships betwn. risk fac.. Details >>
Status:Available Keep Off the Grass
Published: 1997
Interviews with teens in recovery from marijuana & their counselors are contrasted with the pro-use beliefs of one young man who suffers from severe complications of marijuana use as this film is being finished. We hear from his mother and other loved one.. Details >>
Status:Available Smoking: The Toxic Truth
Published: 2002
Ethnically diverse teens present the pros and gruesome cons of smoking. From a teen with burned skin puffing away, to a girl aged by makeup to show smoking's affects on the skin, this video stresses that smoking can kill you. Grim footage of a cancer vict.. Details >>
Status:Available My Name is Bill W.
Published: 1989
James Woods & James Garner play Bill Wilson & Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. A true, powerful story of how two lives intersected at a crucial time... Details >>
Status:Available Life Sentences: Confessions About Smoking
Published: 2001
Produced by a doctor who interviewed his own patients for the program, this straightforward investigation into smoking bridges the gap between smokers at the beginning and end of their addictions, and graphically shows why one should never start... Details >>
Status:Available Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
Published: 2002
This documentary follows the lives of a teenager & his younger brother as they cope with their mother's battle w/ addiction. She continues to relapse despite rehab attempts, and soon her legal parental rights are threatened. Through it all, the brothers s.. Details >>
Status:Available Drunks
Published: 1995
Richard Lewis, Dianne Wiest & Faye Dunaway star. The first film to take an in-depth look at the inner workings of a 12 step program, Drunks is a journey into the lives of recovering alcoholics who gather in a Times Square church basement for AA meetings... Details >>
Status:Available When a Man Loves a Woman
Published: 2000
Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia star. The story of a once-stable marriage rocked by the wife's increasing dependence on alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available Therapy Games
Published: 2003
Host Michael Johnson addresses the various game addicts play in therapy. He explores denial, attitude, anger, blame & identifying your true self. Provides strageties for using therapy to focus on personal issues rather than just trying to say what's expec.. Details >>
Status:Available Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Published: 2003
Delbert Boone discusses Maslow's theory that human beings are motivated by unsatisfied needs, and that once the basics are met, one can pursue higher needs. Boone shows how addiction destroys one's ability to meet needs for love & belonging, then the basi.. Details >>
Status:Available Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse, Addiction & Psychiatric Ilness
Published: 1988
Therapists discuss the etiology, diagnosis & treatment of patients who are both mentally ill & addicted. They explore the difficulty of distinguishing between these 2 separate issues and developing treatments for both simultaneously. 3 groups that address.. Details >>
Status:Available Alibi vs. Denial
Published: 2001
Delbert Boone presents an innovative treatment approach, noting that therapists accuse clients of being in denial, while clients often desperately attempt to create alibis for their behavior. Boone shows how addicts how these alibis can be broken down thr.. Details >>
Status:Available Secrets Through the Smoke
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand risked his career when he became the tobacco industry's highest ranking executive to publicly acknowledge the dangers of smoking. Here he shares his experiences, including his testimony for the tobacco settlement trials. Can be viewed i.. Details >>
Status:Available Under the Influence: The Science of Drug Abuse
Published: 1999
Medical experts discuss how drugs dramatically affect the body, particularly the brain. Emphasizes the sneaky way that drugs, primarily alcohol, nicotine, marijuana & cocaine, trick the brain into feeling good w/out earning it. Addresses fetal effects, b.. Details >>
Status:Available Are You Addicted?
Published: 1992
Addresses addictions, including eating, gambling, etc. from a psychological standpoint, stressing that addiction is a progressive process that ends in sickness, homelessness, death, OR recovery; the process continues until it gets you or you get help. Exc.. Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: The Gateway Drug-DVD
Published: 1999
**DVD** Multi-cultural, mixed gender teens relate stories lost friends, families, jobs, possssions, and the ability to think and concentrate, all from their use of marijuana. Good music and graphics with a convincing prevention message. Also in VHS... Details >>
Status:Available Smoking: The Toxic Truth-DVD
Published: 2002
DVD**Ethnically diverse teens present the pros and gruesome cons of smoking. From a teen with burned skin puffing away, to a girl aged by makeup to show smoking's affects on the skin, this video stresses that smoking can kill you. Grim footage of a cancer.. Details >>
Status:Available Getting Stupid: How Drugs Damage Your Brain-DVD
Published: 2003
**DVD** Researchers show & tell us how drugs & alcohol permanently damage the brain in this stimulating & visual video. Kids will enjoy watching real brains being poked & prodded and the amazing swimming rat experiment! Uses teen sarcasm to hold interest.. Details >>
Status:Available The Truth About Drugs
Published: 2000
Leeza Gibbons hosts this powerful program which graphically demonstrates to teens the effects of various types of drugs on their self, friends, babies, and family. It illustrates the consequences of drug use, such as rape, homelessness, suicide, jail tim.. Details >>
Status:Available Just for Today: Narcotics Anonymous
Published: 1994
This video explains what NA is by recreating NA meetings and following an addict, Mary, from her introduction to NA through her recovery process. In the meetings, many other stories about addicts, their addiction, and their recovery with NA are shared... Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: Weeding Out the Hype!
Published: 2000
Teleconference for adults deals with marijuana facts, current trends, changes in potency, documented effects, and treatment. Includes interviews w/ teens in recovery and tips for parents. Emphasis is on behavior modification, with examples of risk & prote.. Details >>
Status:Available What Families Can Do To Prevent and Intervene With Alcohol and Drug Problems
Published: 2001
Discusses and illuminates key issues related to the 2001 Recovery Month observance (September). This session discusses how families can overcome denial of a drug or alcohol problem or intervene in a loved one’s addiction. .. Details >>
Status:Available Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Other Infectious Diseases
Published: 2004
Highlights progress in efforts to improve treatment for persons with co-existing alcohol and drug use disorders and infectious diseases and gives critical insights into proven approaches for providing appropriate services across collaborative systems of c.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Understanding Your Rage
Published: 2002
Part 1 of 3 addresses the connection between anger & addiction, anger "blackouts" and "highs", how anger can lead to relapse, its roots, causes from childhood, how triggers "make sense", and deciding to change. Real people tell their stories. Useful for n.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Tools for Managing Anger
Published: 2002
Part 2 of 3 presents 8 realistic, proven strategies for controlling anger. Real people in recovery explain how they successfully use tools such as knowing triggers, recognizing danger zone signs, removing oneself from the situation, using self-talk & othe.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Anger Reduction and Long-Term Change
Published: 2002
Part 3 of 3 has recovering addicts talk about how to be a less angry person by reconstructing faulty beliefs, healing the wounds of childhood, assertive conflict resolution, forgiving oneself, and stress reduction. Ends w/ glimpses of changed lives. For n.. Details >>
Status:Available The Science of Methamphetamine: An Informed Recovery
Published: 2005
Separates the facts from fiction about meth treatment. Former users speak honestly about their meth experiences. Great for clients and clinicians both who have been told that recovery from meth is almost impossible; offers insight, experience and hope... Details >>
Status:Available Meth and Violence
Published: 2005
The meth addict's strong tendency toward violence is explained by a former teenage user & a drug task force officer. For adults not familiar w/ meth, this video shares telltale signs of someone in the crucial, oftentimes violent, tweaking phase of use, &.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/17/2010) Methamphetamine: A Prevention Trilogy
Published: 2006
3 films: Meth...The Great Deceiver provides insight from teens into how meth damages young lives. Where Meth Goes... Violence & Destruction Follow looks at how communities are responding to the meth epidemic. Hidden Dangers: Meth Labs offers tips for spot.. Details >>
Status:Available Understanding Major Anxiety Disorders and Addiction
Published: 2003
Addresses the effects drugs & alcohol have on anxiety disorders, relapse triggers for both MH and D&A, specifics of anxiety disorders, the importance of family & other support in recovery, how exposure therapy works, and how the physician can be an ally a.. Details >>
Status:Available Understanding Personality Problems and Addiction
Published: 2003
Defines personality problems & addresses how addiction affects them. Covers relapse triggers for both MH and D&A issues, family support and 12-step groups, and how our past shapes who we are today... Details >>
Status:Available Tobacco: Something to Chew On
Published: 1999
This video outlines the dangers and consequences of "chew" in an entertaining fashion by a youthful cast, who confront not only the medical facts but also the ugly social effects of chewing... Details >>
Status:Available Tabaco 101: El Fumar Es Un Asunto De Toda La Familia- DVD
Published: 2004
**Smoking is a Family Matter** In both English & Spanish; a brief plea to quit smoking. La primera cosa que debe saber acerca de fumar es que causa la muerte. La segunda cosa que debe saber acerca de fumar es que puede dejar de hacerlo. No es nada facil,.. Details >>
Status:Available Tobacco 101: Smoking is a Family Matter- DVD
Published: 2004
In both English & Spanish; a brief plea to quit smoking. Smoking kills, but you can quit smoking. It isn't easy, but you can do it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Tobacco 101: Smoking is a Family Matter- DVD
Published: 2004
In both English & Spanish; a brief plea to quit smoking. Smoking kills, but you can quit smoking. It isn't easy, but you can do it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Methamphetanime on Oprah
Published: 2005
Oprah Winfrey's November 28, 2005 show on teenage methamphetamine users... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/17/2010) Prescription for Trouble (DVD)
Published: 2003
Adolescents are abusing prescription & over-the-counter drugs in record numbers. Here, teens in recovery come clean about which meds they used, when & why they started, and how their addictions severely damaged their lives. Other experts discuss the impac.. Details >>
Status:Available Gambling: Against the Odds
Published: 2003
Five compulsive gamblers in recovery share their stories, shedding light on the psychology & pathology of this powerful habit. Treatment options are discussed by leading experts... Details >>
Status:Available Getting High: Not in the Job Description
Published: 2003
Designed to help employees, whether they work on an assembly line or write computer programs, understand their rights & responsibilities on the job and to increase their protection from co-workers whose critical thinking & decision-making skills may be im.. Details >>
Status:Available EAP Today (DVD)
3 videos on 1 disk. Orientation: gives the basics of employee assistance. Self Referral: features real-life intervention techniques and the effectiveness of early self- referral. Supervisor Training: educates supervisors on ways to overcome the 5 biggest.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction (DVD)
Published: 2007
*DVD* HBO's critically acclaimed documentary is aimed at helping Americans understand that addiction is a brain disease. Four 30-minute discs and 5 hours of extra materials feature stories from addicts and loved ones as well as authorities on addiction .. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction (DVD)
Published: 2007
*DVD* HBO's critically acclaimed documentary is aimed at helping Americans understand that addiction is a brain disease. Four 30-minute discs and 5 hours of extra materials feature stories from addicts and loved ones as well as authorities on addiction.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 03/17/2010) The Downward Spiral: OxyContin and Opiate Addiction (DVD)
Published: 2005
*DVD* This gripping documentary takes you to the streets for an unblinking look at how prescription opiates can lead to addiction... Details >>
Status:Available The Teen Files Flipped: Credit Card Abuse/Gambling Addiction
Published: 2002
This film demonstrates the real-life consequences of credit card abuse and problem gambling... Details >>
Status:Available Mouseology
Published: 1996
Amusing yet highly effective animated video exposes the impulses that manipulate those addicted to cigarettes. Represented as a mouse, addiction is revealed as a programmed desire that arrests the mind and forces the body to act contrary to common sense... Details >>
Status:Available Truth & Choices: Shane's Story
Published: 2007
Parent Version- The true story of a popular teen from a suburban PA school and his experiences w/ alcohol & drugs. Features interviews with Shane, his family & law enforcement. A reality check for all students that will open a unique dialogue about substa.. Details >>