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Status:Available Father Martin's Chalk Talk on Alcohol Revised
**Closed captioned** Father Martin explains the disease concept of alcoholism. Viewers will be better informed on the nature addiction; a classic... Details >>
Status:Available Cocaine and Human Physiology
Published: 1987
Takes a look at the effects of cocaine on major organs and body systems such as the brain, lungs, and respiratory system... 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 Secondhand Smoke
Combines humor and serious fact as an evil wizard seeks a poison that will help him control the world. His discovery: second hand smoke. Discusses health effects of smoking in the workplace and the family... 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 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 Unborn Addicts
Published: 1998
Presents case studies of two pregnant women, lifelong addicts, who have entered methadone programs, and follows them throughout their pregnancies and deliveries. Health experts discuss the management of drug babies. Scenes depicting infant drug withdrawa.. Details >>
Status:Available Lo que hizo Ramon
Published: 1989
**What Ramon Did** Ramon, a former I.V. user, returns from jail and his friends and family are afraid he may have AIDS. Includes hard-hitting testimony from C. Everett Koop... Details >>
Status:Available Substance Abuse and Pregnancy: The Effects and Management, Part 1
Taped seminar: part 1 of 2... 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 Medical Aspects of Addiction: Withdrawal & Detoxification
Videotaped conference w/ Pat Stewart.. 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 Psychoactive Prescription Drugs and Human Physiology
Published: 1991
This program describes the types of prescription drugs and shows how they work in the body. The dangers of abusing these medications are then explored, and recovering people tell their stories... 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 Recovery and Human Physiology: Alcohol
Published: 1992
This program esplains the common problems, including mood changes, stress and physical complaints, that recovering alcoholics often face... 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 Recovery and Human Physiology: Drugs
Published: 1991
Prepares people in early recovery for the physical and mental discomforts ahead, emphasizing that the process takes time... Details >>
Status:Available 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 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 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 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 Cocaine and Human Physiology
Published: 1987
Takes a look at the effects of cocaine on major organs and body systems such as the brain, lungs, and respiratory system... Details >>
Status:Available Over-the-Counter Drugs and Human Physiology
Published: 1991
This program shows how even drugs viewed as safe can be dangerous is misused. Viewers will be better informed about the nature and potential effects of the medicines they use... 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 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 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 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 Alcohol: Drug Undercover
Published: 2003
Exposes the truth about alcohol's effect on young people, as they are even more susceptible to it's health hazards and to the disease of alcoholism. Teens narrate, role-play and offer testimonials about the danger of alcohol, and discuss the manipulations.. Details >>
Status:Available Drugs: How They Affect Body Chemistry
Published: 1980
A thorough description of how medications and/or drugs affect the body. Covers 3 stages of utilization in the body: administration, distribution & duration. Describes how drugs back, enhance, or mimic the body's natural processes. Part 2 introduces psycho.. 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 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 Prescription Drugs: Recovery From the Hidden Addiction
Published: 1998
Recovering addicts & treatment professionals share their perspectives on this addiction which is often overlooked & underreported, especially among the elderly. Part 1 explains the biochemics of combining Rx drugs w/ alcohol. Part 2 shows the challenges &.. Details >>
Status:Available 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Street Drugs
Published: 1989
This video hosted by Jimmy Smitts, talks and informs on drugs, their characteristics and effects with the input of professionals on the subject... 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 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 Alcohol: A Women's Health Issue
Published: 2003
**Closed Captioned** Information about how alcohol affects women in particular, presented by experts and recovering alcoholics of all ages... 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 Women and Tobacco: Seven Deadly Myths
Women smokers discuss dangerous myths about smoking, health effects, and how quitting has changed their lives. Hosted by model Christy Turlington... Details >>
Status:Available I Can't Breath: A Smoker's Story
Published: 2001
Temporarily unavailable.. Details >>
Status:Available Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers
Published: 1994
Moyers covers healing methods outside the realm of traditional Western medicine. Segments include; The Mystery of Chi, The Mind-Body Connection, Healing From Within, The Art of Healing, and Wounded Healers. (1 to 1.5 hours each) Healers and doctors both i.. 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 Dateline Special: DXM (Over-the-Counter Drugs)
Published: 2004
A March 26, 2004 episode on DXM, the main ingredient in many over-the-counter medications that teens take in large quantities to get high. Short for dextromethorphan, DXM seems relatively harmless to young people who see it in their own medicine cabinets,.. 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 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 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 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 Think Twice: Marijuana and Cancer (DVD)
Published: 2002
Student relate myths about marijuana & experts refute them, drawing on their extensive experience treating pot smokers with cancer. "Most people who get lung cancer die from it." Unusual angle- very impactful... 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 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 C2 H5 OH (Alcohol)
Published: 2003
As a teen arrives at a party & starts to drink, a box in the corner of the screen registers her heart rate and blood alcohol content(BAC). Shows how the BAC continues to rise even after she stops drinking. Trauma doc covers the signs of alcohol poisoning.. Details >>
Status:Available Rethinking the Demographics of Addiction: Helping Older Adults Find Recovery
Published: 2004
We're only beginning to realize the pervasiveness of substance use disorders among people aged 60 and older, who are less likely to seek professional help. This program identifies ways to overcome such barriers and help older adults receive the treatment.. 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 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 Recovering Hope: Mothers Speak Out About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Published: 2004
In two parts; 8 women tell poignant stores about their children w/ FASD & how they're learning effective new ways to parent. Also, researchers clinicians explain the physical, mental, behavioral & learning disabilities associated w/ FASD, & discuss evalua.. Details >>
Status:Available Lung Cancer Through the Eyes of My Children (DVD)
Published: 2005
**DVD** Susan DeWitt, when diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer, decided to produce a documentary starring her children. Speaking directly into the camera they tell their story of losing their mother and urge their peers to stop or never start smoking... 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 Talk About Testing (DVD)
Published: 1999
*DVD* This award-winning film combines entertaining animation, compelling documentaries and lively segments w/ sex educators to demonstrate to both couples & singles the importance of regular HIV testing and safe sex practices. Approaches sensitive subjec.. Details >>
Status:Available Brief Intervention
Published: 2004
**DVD** Brief interventions are an effective way to reach clients who experience mild to moderate substance abuse. Ken Winters outlines the principles & applications of BI, including motivational interviewing techniques, benefits of harm reduction and ris.. Details >>