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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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/31/1969) Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy
Published: 2008
Third edition.Gives accurate, objective info on drugs from alcohol, caffeine, & nicotine to heroin & Ecstasy. Covers current psychological & pharmacological research on drug use; neither a "Just Say No" treatise nor a "How To" manual. Aims to be a source .. 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 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 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 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 Drug Identification Bible
Published: 1999
Comprehensive description of over 10,000 substances and drug abuse paraphernalia. Full color photos, grouped by color of substance... Details >>
Status:Available How to Use Intervention in Your Professional Practice
Published: 1987
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Status:Available Buzzed
Published: 1998
Gives accurate, objective info on drugs from alcohol, caffeine, & nicotine to heroin & Ecstasy. Covers current psychological & pharmacological research on drug use; neither a "Just Say No" treatise nor a "How To" manual. Aims to be a source old & young al.. Details >>
Status:Available Buzzed - Revised Edition
Published: 2003
Gives accurate, objective info on drugs from alcohol, caffeine, & nicotine to heroin & Ecstasy. Covers current psychological & pharmacological research on drug use; neither a "Just Say No" treatise nor a "How To" manual. Aims to be a source old & young al.. Details >>
Status:Available Wise Up to Teens: Insights into Marketing and Advertising to Teenagers
Published: 1999
Market research on what and how teens buy- intended for those who wish to market to teens. Includes: tested guidelines for promotions aimed at teens; how teens use the internet; how teens select brands; trends and fads- how to leverage them; teens' "Rules.. 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: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 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 Dangerous Drugs
Published: 2000
An easy-to-use reference guide for parents & professionals, with current info on the latest drugs to hit your community. Includes observable indications of use, effects on the mind, body, & behavior, and addictive & overdose potential... 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 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 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 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 Narcoticos Anonimos
Published: 1991
**Narcotics Anonymous** An introduction to the NA program & how it works, with recovery stories to help readers know they are not alone... 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 The Truth About Pot: Ten Recovering Marijuana Users Share Their Personal Stories
Published: 1996
Presents 10 personal stories of individuals of different ages who have smoked pot, enjoyed it at first, & then found that life w/ pot really wasn't that much fun after all. They have lost time- sometimes years- from their lives & experience lost-lasting m.. 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: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 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 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: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 Alcohol and Drug Problems at Work: The Shift to Prevention
Published: 2003
A practical manual for setting up & managing substance abuse prevention programs in the workplace. Looks at the effects of alcohol & drugs, and presents step-by-step guidance on designing, implementing and sustaining prevention programs... 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 When to Worry: How to Tell if Your Teen Needs Help and What to Do About It
Published: 2007
Helps distinguish typical teen behaviors from those that warrant concern. Addresses warning signs of serious problems, how & where to get help and medications. Issues include mental health problems & suicide, drug & alcohol abuse, eating disorders, school.. 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 Substance Abuse Prevention: The Intersection of Science & Practice
Published: 2003
Includes charts of each major drug category & effects, symptoms of overdose, withdrawal effects, acute & chronic effects, guidelines on becoming culturally competent prevention professionals, preparation for the ICRC exam, & case studies that translating.. 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 The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse
Published: 2003
Offers educators, counselors & clinicians insight into this alternative to conventional prevention. Social norming ID's teens' dramatic misperceptions about their peers' substance use, and shows that abstinence is actually "normal." Info on how to impleme.. 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 How Do We Know We Are Making a Difference? An Indicators Handbook
Published: 2005
Indicators are data that help measure the impact of substance use in a community. Designed to direct you through the process of planning an indicator reporting program, selectin relevant indicators & measures, collecting local data and reporting to your t.. 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: 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 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 Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools
Published: 2002
Part 1: Creating Schoolwide Prevention & Intervention Strategies. Part 2: School Policies & Legal Issues Supporting Safe Schools. Addresses why safety policies are important and how to implement them... Details >>
Status:Available Metanfetamina: La Decision de Vivir (DVD)
Published: 2003
Part 1 explains the pharmacology of methamphetamine's effect on brain and body chemistry. Part 2 offers hope for those addicted to meth. Through the candid experiences of recovering addicts, we see the common stumbling blocks in early recovery and the spi.. 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:Available @24/7.com: Teens Talk About Drugs
Published: 2001
Part of a series of education videos created from the television series. This video features real teens discussing the problem of drug use in a spontaneous unscripted style. It is designed for use with teens ages 14-17 in a facilitator-led group settin.. 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/18/2009) The Great Drugosaur Expedition
Published: 2003
Teaches kids about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs using fun animations of dinosaurs. Kids learn to identify the behaviors and symptoms of each type of drug, and the illnesses they cause that made the drugosaurs extinct... 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 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 Philadelphia Story: A School District Fights Back
Success story of a school group in its fight against drugs... 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 Drugs in Black and White
Published: 1990
Reveals that drug use among suburban white teens in Atlanta is far more widespread than is commonly reported. Also examines how black and white teenagers and their families are harmed by false assumptions and stereotypes about drug use... 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 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 Drug Avengers
Ten animated cartoons, (four designed for grades 1-3; five designed for grades 4-6), tell about visitors from the future...the Drug Avengers. They've come back in time to help today's children by bringing healthy messages and ideas on ways to refuse or a.. Details >>
Status:Available Hard Facts - Speak Up, Speak Out/Dare to be Different
A series of three programs designed for middle school students. "Hard Facts" addresses the facts on alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. "Speak Up, Speak Out" teaches kids how to say no to their friends. "Dare to be Different" looks at how you need to care.. 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 Drugs in Black and White
Published: 1990
Reveals that drug use among suburban white teens in Atlanta is far more widespread than is commonly reported. Also examines how black and white teenagers and their families are harmed by false assumptions and stereotypes about drug use... 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 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 How to Tell if a Kid is on Drugs and What to do About It
Published: 1997
Learn what the drugs and paraphernalia look like, the physical effects and dangers, and suggestions for confronting a child on drugs. Good visuals... 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: 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 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 Right Turns Only
Published: 1992
A school project teaches kids about drugs by having them visit prisons & juvenile detention centers. They interview detainees about why they used and how drugs affected their lives. Broken down into 20 minute segments. .. 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 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 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 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 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:Available Cincinnati Bones and the Treasure of Health
Published: 1988
A strong healthy tribe called the Hitecs lived in a beautiful city deep in the jungle, but when they began taking drugs, their minds became clouded and bodies destroyed. Cincinnati Bones carries the message of the Hitecs back to civilization: stay away f.. 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 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 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 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: 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 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 The Power of Choice: Alcohol and Drugs
Published: 1980
Counselor/Comedian Mike Pritchard talks with teenagers about alcohol, drugs, decisions, consequences, and the power of choice. From the 1980's... 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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/18/2009) The Boy Who Was Swallowed By the Drug Monster
Published: 1994
The true story of a boy named Vince who starts using drugs after his parents get divorced, produced and animated by his mother Sue. Treatment doesn't work for Vince, and he ends up in jail, from where Vince himself, age 21, speaks to us and urges kids not.. 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 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 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 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 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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/18/2009) Sooper Puppy: Flying High
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets teach us the difference between "fake fun" & "real fun," as Sooper Puppy contemplates getting mixed up with some drug dealin' dogs! He learns that "real fun" is having a good time being who you are, as opposed to changing for others who.. 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 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 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 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 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 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: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 >>