Our free Lending Library has resources for addiction counselors, parents, educators, faith-based organizations and others interested in promoting healthy behavviors, and consists of films in two formats:
- DVDs
- Streaming
Films are available for you to borrow if you live or work in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. You can request materials online, call, or stop in.
Borrowing limits are 3 streams or 10 DVDs at one time.
DVDs can be picked up at our offices: 630 Janet Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17601.
Lending Library Directory
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Alcohol, Drugs and the Brain
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:41:00 | Audience: AdultsA complete overview of how alcohol and drugs affect the brain by University of Texas professor of pharmacology, Dr. Carlton Erickson. The difference between abuse and dependence is…
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Alcohol, Drugs, Body & Mind: The Medical Consequences
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:43:00 | Audience: Age 16+What happens to our bodies when we abuse alcohol and drugs? What is the effect on our brain chemistry? How do drugs actually produce the effect of feeling…
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Alibi vs. Denial
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:42:00 | Audience: AdultsDelbert Boone explores denial and discusses how many healthcare professionals often say that addicted people are in “denial.” According to Boone, if that were true, they would have…
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Choices
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:32:00 | Audience: Age 16+Robert Kent tells the heart wrenching story of how his son, Brandon, and 2 friends were killed by a drunk driver on Christmas morning. His story illustrates the…
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Domestic Violence & Substance Abuse Series
Format: Streaming | Length: 01:03:00 | Audience: AdultsPart 1: The Abusers Four former abusers, men and women, tell their stories of substance abuse and how it lead to violence. What they learned about themselves during…
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Facing Fears in Recovery
Format: Streaming | Length: 01:00:00 | Audience: AdultsThis film is a discussion with 7 recovering people and family members in recovery. They discuss the fears associated with being new to 12-Step meetings, finding a…
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Family Addiction Series
Format: Streaming | Length: 06:40:00 | Audience: AdultsRocky and Debbie Hill host this engaging and informative treatment series designed to involve the whole family in the recovery process. They take the audience through each of…
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Fear. . . The Anger Trigger Series
Format: Streaming | Length: 01:55:00 | Audience: AdultsPart 1: I Think, Therefore I Act When we are confronted, often we feel threatened, disrespected, rebellious, vindictive, scared or defensive. Our actions are framed by our thoughts….
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Freedom From Prison and Drugs
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:34:00 | Audience: AdultsThis film shows five men who have been incarcerated due to their behavior while using alcohol and drugs. They have since found sobriety using the 12-step program and…
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Good Intentions: Bad Choices
Format: Streaming | Length: 02:34:00 | Audience: AdultsResearch shows that most people who are released from jails and prisons have the most problems in the first year. Those problems are mainly in three areas: the…
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Marijuana: The Medical Consequences
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:43:00 | Audience: AdultsIn this dynamic presentation, Dr. Keppler invites the audience to look past their own personal views of the drug marijuana, and to look instead at marijuana’s effects and…
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Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:42:00 | Audience: AdultsDelbert Boone discusses Dr. Abraham Maslow’s theory that human beings are motivated by unsatisfied needs and that certain lower, basic needs must be satisfied before higher needs can…
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Meth: Recovery is Possible
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:48:00 | Audience: AdultsIn this film, Earnie Larsen, famed author and lecturer, brings together an assorted group of people in recovery from meth of all ages and backgrounds. In a group…
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Overcoming Early Life Trauma
Format: Streaming | Length: 01:00:00 | Audience: AdultsDr. Cardwell C. Nuckols addresses why early childhood neglect or abuse is a consistent finding in criminal justice offenders and people with addiction who chronically relapse. He explains…
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Pills and Pain
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:45:00 | Audience: AdultsThis installment in the Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson video library discusses the current issue of opioid abuse in America. Beautifully filmed. Thomas has been in recovery since 1983, but…
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Pleasure Scale: Craving Identification & Management
Format: Streaming | Length: 02:14:00 | Audience: AdultsCravings Identification and Management (CIM) is based on the addiction treatment model developed by Dr. Alex Stalcup. Craving is broadly defined as the desire to use alcohol or…
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Pleasure Unwoven
Format: DVD | Length: 01:10:00 | Audience: AdultsThis high-definition video essay explores addiction as a disease, reviewing the latest neuroscientific research about addiction along the way. Using the spectacular landscape of Utah’s state and national…
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Prisoners of Addiction
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:33:00 | Audience: AdultsThis film shows 4 women incarcerated due to their behavior while using alcohol and drugs, then found sobriety and have not had to return to substance abuse or…
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Stages of Family Recovery
Format: DVD | Length: 00:36:00 | Audience: Age 16+For families, the pain of living with a loved one’s addiction can lead to shame, secrecy, and isolation. Stages of Family Recovery is an encouraging, empowering video that…
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Straight Talk: Heroin and Opiates
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:49:00 | Audience: AdultsTwo award winning presenters have joined forces in Straight Talk, Heroin and Opiates. David Ohlms, M.D. and Delbert Boone, both icons in the field of addiction and recovery…
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The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:12:00 | Audience: Ages 6-96Winner of 24 major awards, this delightful tale stands the test of time, and deals with addiction in a positive, non-threatening way. It can be used with people…
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The Roots of Addiction 2011 Update
Format: DVD | Length: 00:32:00 | Audience: Age 16+A highly visual film that examines the biological and environmental reasons that people become addicted to substances such as legal drugs, e.g., alcohol, tobacco, and prescription medications; illegal…
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The Rules of Recovery
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:45:00 | Audience: AdultsDelbert Boone outlines the “rules of recovery,” emphasizing the importance of getting dry so that one can begin to realize what addiction has taken from their life, and…
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The Truth About AD/HD
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:45:00 | Audience: AdultsWendy Richardson addresses many of the myths surrounding AD/HD and outlines its characteristics and common symptoms. She graphically explains how brain function is effected by AD/HD and…
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The Twelve Steps with Delbert Boone
Format: Streaming | Length: 02:30:00 | Audience: AdultsDelbert Boone explores the road to recovery through the use of the Twelve Steps- each step can be shown as a separate clip. He addresses how most addicted…
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Therapy Games
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:46:00 | Audience: AdultsIdeally, therapy should be a rewarding experience where a person can focus on personal issues. However, may who enter therapy choose to “play the game” focusing on how…
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Trilogy of Recovery Series
Format: Streaming | Length: 01:20:00 | Audience: AdultsA Trilogy of Recovery offers counselors, facilitators and therapists the powerful medium of entertainment education – a leading-edge tool to help clients and patients address the chemical dependency…
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Who’s Fooling Who? Relapse & the Family
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:34:00 | Audience: AdultsAlthough some signs of relapse are very obvious, other signs are subtle and tend to knock us off our feet. Counselor Rosetta Oliver explains the relapse process, identifying…
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Your Body and Your Health
Format: Streaming | Length: 00:36:00 | Audience: AdultsDr. Carlos Tirado, addiction psychiatrist, leads us through a compelling look at the other diseases and negative effects of the risky behaviors drug and alcohol users so often…