Film Library

Alcohol

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Adult Alcohol Use and It's Impact on Youth Attitudes and Behaviors

This program features narratives of seven women recovering from problems with alcohol. These stories make it clear that it’s possible to miss danger signs that can lead social drinking into problem drinking and then addiction.

Talks to parents about how alcohol impairs the adolescent brain.

It examines, in arresting detail, the roots of addiction and thoroughly explores and explains the myriad consequences of being "under the influence".

Curricular video 2 part with guide us designed to help students analyze the truth behind messages.Add second beginning & new videos.

Intended for High School Audiences: tells the experiences of College students, there involvement with binge drinking, and consequences.

Brain Scans (Alcohol and the Teenage Brain)

The ground-breaking studies highlighted in the video dramatically connect long-term brain damage to underage drinking. They will also learn why alcohol seems to harm younger brains more profoundly than older ones both in sort term and long term, impairing memory, coordination and motivation and causing addiction. Video delivers a strong caution to teens considering any use of alcohol.

Cape May County Tech PSA entries 2002

Fr. Martin gives a lecture on alcohol & alcoholism. He speaks about factors influencing attitudes & behaviors in regards to alcohol & alcoholism. Physiological effects of alcohol are described & developmental stages of alcoholism discussed. Treatment AA.

Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control Server Training Video

Training for establishments with liquor licenses on underage drinking, spotting fake ids, and penalties and fines.

Don't Drain Your Brain (How Alcohol Damages the Brain)

This powerful video uses lively animation and compelling images of the human brain to deliver the latest scientific findings about young people and alcohol. Viewers will learn that early alcohol use causes serious damage to the brain and significantly reduces many important brain functions that are necessary for young people to be successful in life.

Elephant in the Living Room

An allegorical dramatization of the denial and secrecy that pervades life in an alcoholic home or any other type of dysfunctional family

Guidelines (Fr Martin Lecture)

Father Martin lectures on 8 guidelines he suggests for dealing with alcoholics and alcoholism. They are attitudes, recognition of addiction, confrontation, responsibility, family, resources, and no discouragement.

Legal Consequences of Alcohol and Other Drugs

Covers all legal aspects of underage drinking from fines for possession to drinking and driving

Discusses how alcohol affects the brain, body, school work, relationships and making safe decisions.

Teen Alcohol and Other Drug Use

Talks about how to prevent teen usage, how to identify use, and intervene. Also dispels myths and talks about the issue of rites of passage.

The Alcohol Social Norms Project

Discusses alcoholism as a disease and the genetic and physiological aspects of alcohol addiction.

Discuses the effects of alcoholism, graphic pic of a diseased liver

Binge Drinking and Youth: What everyone needs to know

Powerful film about the extremes of underage drinking, how we got here and where to go form here.

Underage Drinking: A video guide for Parents and Professionals

Setting rules for your youth and covers the liabilities for serving youth underage.

Discusses alcohol and security on college campuses.

What Should I Tell my Child about Drinking?

Talks about the need for parents to talk to youth about alcohol and explains teachable moments.

Children of Alcoholics

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Teenagers tell about growing up in alcoholic homes. Effective for young people to learn about Alateen.

Animated film about alcoholism and its effect on the family. Made in cooperation w/ Alanon Family Groups & NCA

Gives children a non-threatening perception on how a parent's or sibling's alcohol/drug use can affect them and what they can do to help themselves

Discusses the three rules in an addicted home: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel. Talks about a child's defense when growing up in an addicted household.

This powerful program strives to help viewers appreciate that despite family difficulties, children from alcoholic families can still rely upon their own resiliency and inner strength. They need not view themselves as victims, but instead as individuals who can make a difference in their own lives.

Starts in a 1986 summer camp for COAs. COAs discuss growing up in an addicted home. Follow up with two of the kids when they are adults. Explores the long-term impacts of alcoholism and the family.

About growing up in a family where a parent suffers from alcoholism & the need to help children break the cycle of shame and silence. Also about recovery and hope. Educates adults about issues faced by children of alcoholics.

Story of a family that is threatened by alcoholism. Focuses on the children rather than the alcoholic. The video depicts three youngsters confused and frightened by their father's drinking, by arguments, and violence.

Community Coalitions

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"Reconnecting Youth" is a school-based program aimed at high-risk High School students. "Strengthening Families" provides parenting skills to substance abusing parents & drug resistance skills to their children

The video presents the vision for the movement and true stories about the powerful impact it's having in communities and in the lives of young people.

Current Trends in Environmental Approaches to Prevention

Cut 1 Turning head: 30 Seconds Cut 2 turning heads Local 30 seconds

Getting Media Attention for Prevention Efforts

Panel of experts on prevention and strategy, plans, and communication

Leap of Faith: Bringing Faith: Based programs into your community coalition

This broadcast raises awareness of mentoring as a proven and effective approach to delinquency prevention. Strategies for effective mentor recruitment are featured.

A film to organize and motivate the community into action. Appropriate for Municipal Alliances or other community groups.

Sustaining the Future of Community Coalitions/ Kids & Drugs A new Generation

Highlights the first 3 stages of the health communication process planning & strategy selection, selecting channels & materials & developing & pre-testing messages.

Enabling/Co-Dependency

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Investigates the role of enablers, who think they are helping a loved one by covering up his or her addiction.

In this video Hugh Downs shows how normal, healthy social instincts become distorted by addiction. He explains how attempts to be helpful often enable addicts to escape the consequences of their addiction, reinforcing denial and delusion, and allowing addiction to strengthen its grip.

This video is the original foundation for understanding Sharon’s family system concepts and development of her roles. (family hero, scapegoat, lost child, mascot) These are an integral part of treatment and training programs.

Last Call Alcoholism and Codependency

This program takes an in depth look at the effectsof alcoholism on both the individual and the family.

Gambling

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General Addiction

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Addiction: HBO Series Discs 1 and 2

two discs, four topics: What is Addiction?, Understanding Relapse, The Search for Treatment, The Adolescent Addiction

Addition: HBO Series Discs 3 and 4

2 discs, 9 segments: 4 interviews with doctors, The CRAFT approach, Treating Stimulant Addiction, Opiate Addiction, South Boston Drug Court, A mothers Story

Describes the action of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana in the brain

Constant Craving: The Science of Addiction

A cure for the disease of addiction appears to be on the horizon. This film approaches the topic of addiction from biological perspective. This program features new research into the mesolimbic reward pathway and efforts to implement treatments based on research using Zyban, Naltrexone implants, and even a cocaine vaccine.

Drug Addiction: The Promise of Treatment

This video discusses addiction as a disease which must be treated like other chronic diseases. It reports conclusions of research concerning the cost and effectiveness of treatment as an anticrime measure. Focuses on the city of Baltimore where “treatment on request” is offered as an alternative to drug offenders.

Addicted: Journalist Linda Ellerbee uncovers the faces of addiction amidst facts and figures of disease, violence, and death caused by substance abuse.

No More Shame: Understanding Addiction

Explains why people become addicted and what treatments are available

The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much

Shows the discrepancy between the beliefs about drug addiction and what science has actually discovered.

Illegal Drugs

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Helps them understand that staying healthy means taking care of your body and only using medicines that are prescribed for you. Emphasizes that while drugs and medicines can be very helpful, they can also be dangerous, especially for children.`

This video is a warning to high school kids who might be tempted to try crystal meth. This documentary sends the message to young people that this is a drug that could not only ruin, but end your life.

Busted! (What you need to know about drugs and the law)

Viewers will learn many surprising legal facts police officers, prosecutors, counselors, and above all, from young people who have been caught on the wrong side of the law.

Chalk Talk on Drugs By Father Joseph C Martin

The video features Father Martin, one of the world’s most knowledgeable and effective educators on the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction. Joined by Dr. CC Nukols and a group of recovering addicts, this is an excellent film for treatment professionals.

Club Drugs Ecstasy and Rave Scenes

Earl Fielder, a DEA Agent, goes over the popular club drugs and offers a scene of an actual RAVE dance party.

Club Drugs: A video guide for Parents and Professionals

Information for parents about the effects of club drugs.

Cocaine: Beyond the looking: The looking glass

Recovering addicts share their compelling stories as they describe the paranoia, repression of feelings, and destruction of relationships they suffered in addiction. Their stories give hope as they strive for love and understanding though Narcotics Anonymous.

Dancing with Death Ecstasy and Other

Former teen users give personal experiences of ecstasy use. Experts and law enforcement give testimony about effects and dangers of club drugs.

Drug Abuse and the Brain

Intended primarily for drug abuse counselors, this video provides a detailed look at the biological basis of drug addiction . Through animation and interviews with experts in the field, viewers learn how the brain’s reward system operates and how drug abuse can cause fundamental changes in how the brain works.

This broadcast will present an overview of student –based drug testing, explain the testing process and legalities, provides statistics and studies on student-based testing, and identifies and discuss the pros and cons of drug testing

A comprehensive examination of the growing methamphetamine problem. This film is based on a young man who began with smoking pot and drinking alcohol. Eventually graduating to the use of other drugs because of peer pressure.

This video is part of a series that looks at some disturbing aspect of current drug trends.

This video presents an objective non-judgmental examination of marijuana through use of animation, graphics, interviews with current users and those in recovery.

This videotape, specifically designed for parents, educators, and drug abuse prevention leaders, presents science based facts to educate families and the community about the resurgence in marijuana use among youth.

Meth: What's cooking in your neighborhood?

Explained in this video are the myths and facts surrounding the dangerous illicit drug methamphetamine. A focused look at the economic consequences of methamphetamine abuse. for individuals, families and communities.

Methamphetamine: a prevention trilogy

The methamphetamine Epidemic has swept across our nation with devastating results for users, their families and their communities. Three award winning videos will provide insight into the far reaching effects of this drug, including how two communities have responded to meth labs in their neighborhood.

A high school student under court order produced this video on pot use among teens. The result is a teen’s candid look at marijuana with quick-cut documentary style technique. Through interviews with former users, a councilor, and friends struggling with their own denial and addiction, the truth is presented.

A profile of narcotics as a class of drugs, including opium, codeine, morphine, and heroine is presented in this film. A panel of experts scrutinize their use, abuse, and hazards through case studies and personal experience.

The aim of this video by showing young people you can live a fun, exciting, and successful life without drugs and alcohol by embracing your “natural high”. With testimonies by drug free celebrities, athletes, and role models.

Natural Highs and the Truth about o-called 'Natural" Drugs

The program describes the role of the brain’s reward pathways and how neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins influence feeling of pleasure. It tackles the issue of using so-called ‘natural’ drugs like marijuana and peyote.

This video describes PCP and the veterinary anesthetic ketamine. A police officer, a counselor, veterinarian, and a recovering user review the history and biological effects of PCP and ketamine.

Background on psychedelics and hallucinogens as a class of drug are studied in this video. Utilizing case studies and personal experience, they explore the uses, abuses and hazards which include vivid flashbacks and critical serotonin depletion.

This group of drugs called sedatives is analyzed by specialists, historians, police officers, and users with hopes of dispelling their seductiveness. Focus is on barbiturates, tranquilizers, and alcohol, and their effects.

A former NFL player Charles Hunt and pharmacist, a police officer, counselor, sports coach, and recovered abuser, and others explore the history and biological effects of steroids. Discussed are some of the side effects including, impotence, liver tumors, renal failure, and roid rage.

A film that profiles the history and biological effects of stimulants, employing case studies and personal experience to analyze their use, abuse, and hazards- including their instantly addictive nature.

This program examines THC and cannabinoids, marijuana, hashish, and hash oil. Expert commentary is presented by former NFL player Charles Hunt, pharmacist, policeman, pastor, and recovering addicts help explain the history, biological effects, and hazards of THC.

The OTC Battling the over the counter High

Viewers will learn about potentially dangerous OTC medications & what communities can do to combat this problem. Webcast.

The Real True False about Alcohol Marijuana and inhalants

High School narrators lead Middle School students through drug specific sectioned by asking them true-false questions. The responses give the opportunity to dispel myths, give truths, and encourage younger students to choose a drug-free lifestyle.

The Real True False about Club Drugs and street drugs

High School narrators lead Middle School students through drug specific sectioned by asking them true-false questions. The responses give the opportunity to dispel myths, give truths, and encourage younger students to choose a drug-free lifestyle.

Live-action video footage allows students to hear from young people who have faced grave consequences after experimenting with what they assumed were “natural” substances. Hallucinogens: The facts uncover many of the misconceptions that teens may have about hallucinogens.

Stresses the highly addictive nature of these drugs as the body’s tolerance increases, thus requiring larger and larger doses to get the same effects. The cycle of Uppers and downers is examined, as is the escalation from “lower level” drugs like caffeine, to more perilous drugs.

This is great up-to-date, positive and informative video for the younger viewers. It talks about the basic of the body and the effect that tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana has on it.

Panel discussion on the fight against teen drug abuse and club drugs and those trying to fight it.

Life Skills

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Lily and Dana have a misunderstanding that clears up once they really listen to each other. “You solve it” vignettes offer opportunity to use these conflict resolution techniques for the elementary school youth

EVP/w/curricular teaches kids how to say NO without losing friends.

Discusses what it means to be independent, how to get help and support, making choices, and stress when moving into the "real world"

Discusses how to handle the new changes and peer pressure a child facing when moving into high school.

Discusses how to handle the new changes and peer pressure a child facing when moving into middle school.

Fast paced, flashy film that discusses refusal skills, the effects of alcohol and drugs, and how to lead a healthy life without substances.

Give students a start on social sensitivity, respecting the rights and needs of others. Four scenes illustrate the problems of that result from putdowns, fighting, or ignoring the feelings of others. Questions asked throughout to build the child’s own concept of respect.

Give students a start on social sensitivity, respecting the rights and needs of others. Four scenes illustrate the problems of that result from putdowns, fighting, or ignoring the feelings of others. Questions asked throughout to build the child’s own concept of respect.

Teaches kids how to say no to a friend and still maintain the friendship.

For educators. Emphasizes the importance of using conflict resolution in classrooms.

For educators. Emphasizes the importance of using conflict resolution in classrooms.

Focuses on pilot programs. Shows school self esteem programs can be cost-effective methods against gangs and other negative influences.

Discusses how simple methods for teens to cope with trauma in their life. Acknowledging the event, facing their feelings, and creating a support system are discussed.

Ten Things to do Instead of Hitting

This video features information for children dealing with angry feelings that could be triggered by a variety of situations.

We Can Work It Out: Conflict Resolution

This program teaches young students age-appropriate strategies for resolving conflicts. Shows how asking questions, listening, and thinking of ways to do things differently can provide solutions. Using scenarios and a storyteller to emphasize the points made, viewers get better at getting along.

Teens talk about how to say no and about weighing the decisions

Parenting

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Search Institute President, Peter Benson, provides an overview of the 40 developmental assets that help to nurture competent, caring and responsible children and adolescents. Parents, community leaders, and youth workers discuss everyday things that young people need to succeed.

This videotape, specifically designed for parents, educators, and drug abuse prevention leaders, presents science based facts to educate families and the community about the resurgence in marijuana use among youth.

A discussion on how parents can help their kids grow up healthy and drug free.

Stresses the importance of Parents in Child development in the field of Drug and Alcohol Education.

A concise explanation of why children’s behavior goes “off track”, and how to set a limit that brings you and your child back into close communication and  cooperation again.

Recovery

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Chalk Talks (Chalk Talk onAlcohol - Revised)

This video is a dramatic presentation which teaches the families about signs of alcoholism and how to recover.

Focuses on the problem of mental illness in drug abusing and drug-addicted populations & examines various approaches useful for treating dually-diagnosed clients.

A short film that explains the basic premises of the AA program; including the steps and traditions, home groups, primary purpose, and sponsorship. Good for showing to groups to acquaint them with Twelve Step Programs

This video shows how intervention helps everyone involved face the impact that one man’s addiction has on their lives.

Real View Mirror: Looking at yourself, leaving the drug culture behind

This four part video educates youth, parents and others on the harm of drug use and addiction. Join nine high school students who discuss their experience via peer dialogue. It provides survival strategies that demonstrate how to avoid falling victim to drugs and drug culture.

Physically, psychologically, and sociologically, substance –abusing women are different from substance-abusing men. This video examines women’s unique needs, showing scenes from women’s group therapy sessions and interviewing participants and staff about their experiences on women-oriented recovery programs.

Trial Treatment and Transformation

Drug addiction is a major national problem that creates impaired health and harmful behaviors and major economic and social burdens

(Produced for National Alcohol Screening Day)
This video features first hand accounts from individuals who have overcome alcohol problems, intermixed with comments by health care providers.

Self Harm

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This video examines the disturbing behavior that is a rising addiction, especially among teenagers. It explores how parents, counselors, and those who cut, the tools needed to stop. Group discussions, and role-play are used to confront the “demon” of addiction.

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Substance Abuse and the Elderly

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This film discusses some causes and symptoms of drug addiction among the elderly population.Intervention and treatment of this particular age group are spoken about.

Awareness video for older adults and their families focusing on how to maximize your health for the future.

Highlights ways to overcome such barriers and help older adults receive the addiction treatment they need.

Substance with complex regimens of medicine and diminished tolerances for alcohol.

Tobacco

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In this film high school students explain to middle school students the dangers of second hand smoke can cause chronic ear aches, bronchitis, and even pneumonia in addition to cancer.

This video explores the phenomenon of targeting young consumers. Targeted! unveils some of the most common ”tricks of the trade” that tobacco and alcohol companies use to market their products.

Teen narrators introduce young viewers to the realities of smoking and spit tobacco, which are nothing like the romantic, sophisticated image presented by the tobacco companies. It focuses on how to reject pressure from other teens.

Violence/Prevention

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