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Status:Available Mark Lundholm: Humor in Treatment (DVD)
Published: 2007
If laughter is the best medicine, Mark Lundholm provides healing for the soul. In his seriously funny DVD, Lundholm lets you in on his personal escapades and foibles as he journeyed from the pain and destruction of addiction to the hope of new life in rec.. Details >>
Status:Available Step 2 for Adults (DVD)
Published: 2004
Adults with anywhere from 4 months to 14 years of sobriety share stories about the setbacks and triumphs they faced in working the second Step. .. Details >>
Status:Available Step 1 for Adults (DVD)
Published: 2004
Adults with anywhere from 4 months to 14 years of sobriety share stories about the setbacks and triumphs they faced in working the first Step... Details >>
Status:Available Step 3 for Adults (DVD)
Published: 2004
Adults with anywhere from 4 months to 14 years of sobriety share stories about the setbacks and triumphs they faced in working the third Step. .. Details >>
Status:Available The Voice of Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful (DVD)
Published: 1999
Saul Selby, with a creative use of a hand puppet named Slick, helps clients explore addiction and relapse through three key principles: addiction is more powerful than they are; its tactics can be very subtle and patient; and application of the Steps is t.. 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 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 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 Spirituality of Recovery
Videotaped conference w/ Father William Rutledge.. Details >>
Status:Available Coming Down: The Aftermath of Doing Drugs
Published: 2003
We hear from teens who are trying to come back from serious alcohol and drug problems and why they got involved, why their habit increased, why they crashed, and how they are recovering. Theme song titled: Carnival in Hell; this is the only profanity, tho.. 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 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 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 Living Sober: Resisting Social Pressures to Use Alcohol
Published: 1994
Shows how recovering persons can resist pressure to drink, and helps them to make the connection between what they think, how they feel and how they act... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Cravings and Thoughts of Using
Published: 1994
Helps recovering persons to make the connection between what they think, how they feel and how they act... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Managing Anger in Recovery
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews with recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address anger in recovery. Helps recovering persons to make the connection between what they think, how they feel and how they act... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Managing Feelings of Boredom and Emptiness
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews w/ recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address feelings of boredom and emptiness experienced by those in recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Family and Interpersonal Conflict
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews w/ recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address the navigation of family and interpersonal relationships during recovery... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Relapse Warning Signs
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interview with recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address coping with cravings to use drugs and alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available Prescription Narcotics: The Addictive Painkillers
Provides information on the use and abuse of prescription narcotic drugs... 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: 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 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 Step 3 for Adolescents
Published: 2004
Teens in recovery candidly share their triumphs & setbacks in working Step 3, maintaining conscious contact with a higher power, finding a sponsor, and learning to have fun sober. 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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) 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 Alateen Tells it Like it Is
Published: 1987
This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself
Published: 1986
Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program; members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen Tells It Like It Is
This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself
Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program- members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... 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 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 Gate House for Men/Women
Description and testimonies of what The GateHouse is, how it works and what it can do... 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: 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 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 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 Twelve Steps: The Video
Offers a sensitive introduction to the 12-step programs with a general understanding of the program and its principles... 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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) 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 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 Women in Prison: Your Way to Stay Out
Published: 2000
Features women inmates discussing what led to their incarceration and identifying behaviors and reactions that supported their destructive lifestyle. The women find their own empowerment plan to support success after release. Includes Facilitator's Manual.. 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 Four Phases of Community Re-Entry
Published: 2001
Addresses re-entry into the community for recovering addicts in prison or treatment, and why it's vital to be prepared. A treatment specialist emphasizes the structure that people in recovery must create for themselves, after having their lives structured.. 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 Inside Alcoholics Anonymous
Published: 1999
From the A&E television series Investigative Reports... Details >>
Status:Available Rehab: Tough Love in Harlem
Published: 1996
From the series Investigative Reports... 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 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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) 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 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 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 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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 09/15/2010) 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 >>