50 Minutes
In this program, famous adult children of alcoholics speak out about childhood nightmares and adult behavior that continues to reflect the problem of a parent's alcoholism: some chose alcoholic partners, and others devloped drug, gambling, or other addictions. All speak of the difficulties of coping with the damage inflicted by an alcohol-centered childhood.

14 minutes
What is an innocent victim? Viewers will see and learn from other people like themselves how their lives were changed forever by either using alcohol, or being at the wrong place at the wrong time. A great discussion starter about how alcohol can negatively effect your life forever

26 minutes
A comprehensive look at chronic alcoholism. The video explores the genetic or familial aspects of the disease with Robert Cloninger, M.D., a pioneer in alcoholism research; David Ohlms, M.D., renown clinician; and other noted researchers. The neurochemistry of addiction is explored.

30 minutes
This video examines the images used by advertisers to sell alcohol. It is based on the lectures, slide presentations and research of Jean Kilbourne, nationally known media analyst and educator, who has spent many years studying the advertising and alcohol industries.

12 minutes

THE CAT WHO DRANK AND USED TOO MUCH is a delightful tale that deals with addiction in a positive, non-threatening way. It started innocently enough for Pat, the cat. Pat would have a drink or two with meals but then one day Pat began sneaking drinks. Pat had become obsessed with drinking. After a short time even drinking was not enough, so Pat began experimenting with other substances. Finally, Pat, the cat couldn't take it any more. Pat needed help, and the help was there.

THE CAT WHO DRANK AND USED TOO MUCH is the perfect teaching tool for explaining the addiction process. It is a great discussion starter and an excellent awareness video for any audience.

Based on the book THE CAT WHO DRANK TOO MUCH ?
LeClair Bissell, M.D., and Richard Watherwax.
Elementary/Junior & Senior High School/College/Adults

37 minutes

DISEASE OF ALCOHOLISM provides updated research into the neurochemical and genetic aspects of alcoholism and other addictions. Dr. Ohlms identifies the signs and symptoms of alcoholism and explains that it is a treatable disease.
Sr. High School/Adult/College

26 minutes
This program explains why people drink, physiologically as well as sociologically; explains the physiology of alcoholism; illustrates very graphically how alcohol affects the liver; and suggests guidelines for maximum alcohol consumption.

23 minutes
THE ENABLERS is a moving portrayal of one family's struggle with a chemically dependent wife and mother. In their effort to protect the addicted person from the consequences of her own actions, the family becomes frustrated and angry. We see how their cooperation with the dependent person actually leads to her continued alcoholism.
THE ENABLERS is useful in identifying some common behaviors in enabling families such as covering up, excusing and denial, which could, in the end, lead to the dependent person's continued romance with drugs and alcohol. The film puts the problem of enabling into perspective and teaches concerned persons how to stop hurting and start helping.
College/Adults

32 minutes

FAMILY TALK ABOUT DRINKING is an effort to encourage open and honest communication between parents and pre-teen children in areas that many parents find difficult to discuss.

The video also talks about building a child's self-esteem so that he or she will have the confidence to make the right decisions in other areas besides drinking.

90 minutes
A powerful three?part drama about the progressive of alcoholism. I"LL QUIT TOMORROW tells the story of Steve Miller, his family, friends and employer and their continuing struggles with his progressing alcoholism. Combining narrative with drama, the video shows how problem drinking affects the drinker and everyone he is involved with. It also shows what can be done to help.
Together, all three parts of I'LL QUIT TOMORROW present an important comprehensive introduction to the disease concept of alcoholism, enabling the intervention process and the hope and healing of recovery. This film is a must for treatment programs or any meeting focusing on alcoholism.
College/Adult

26 minutes

Deals with the problems experienced by pre-teenage children whose parents abuse alcohol. Discusses where these children can turn for help, guidance and support.
Pre-Teens/Teenagers/Adults

43 minutes
The messenger, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict went from Super Bowl to cell block. He's staying sober and staying free. Thomas Henderson can reach the hopeless because he's been there. He's been where they are...he's where they want to be...sober and free.

17 minutes
One of the most incisive and informative videos ever produced on the subject of drinking and driving. Dr. Ohlms explains why even small amounts of alcohol impairs driving skills. Other drugs covered include stimulants.

29 minutes
Faced with complex regimens of medication and diminished tolerances for alcohol, many elderly Americans run the risk of falling into the trap of substance abuse. In this program from The Doctor Is In, senior citizens discuss how they deal with these challenges, while Dr. James Campbell, director of the geriatric center at Metro-Health Medical Center, and Carol Colleran Egan, director of older adults services for Hanley-Hazelden Center, present some innovative programs created especially for elderly people.

30 minutes
Today's teenagers start drinking at an average age of 12 and one out of every 10 teens is an alcoholic. This video addresses peer pressure and a parent's role, challenging parents to act as confidants rather than watchdogs. From PBS.
Grades 7 to adult

46 minutes
Hosted by Meryl Streep, this two-part video will help parents and other caregivers improve their communication skills about alcohol.

Approx. 25 minutes
This educational program for high school and college audiences specifically focuses on beer. It doesn't lecture about the physiological workings of alcohol, or show boring diagrams of how alcohol gets metabolized. Instead, this documentary style program is designed to engage the youthful viewer, enable him to identify with young people in the program, and in the process become better able to evaluate his or her own drinking patterns and become clearer about the risks.

17 minutes
Parents' testimonials of how they've lost their children to alcohol poisoning. Deals with binge drinking and symptoms of alcohol poisoning.

45 Minutes
A video by Claudia Black, Ph.D., worldwide lecturer and trainer in the field of children of alcoholics.

In a child's view, Claudia Black explains, in simple and understandable terms, alcoholism and drug abuse through the use of pictures and stories. The pictures were drawn by youngsters who were part of therapy groups for families where a parent was completing treatment for alcoholism. What we see is alcoholism ? viewed through a child's eyes and explained by an expert, Dr. Claudia Black. The disease concept, blackouts, personality changes, anger, verbal and physical abuse, relapse, recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon, Alateen, and many other important topics are discussed and explained in this excellent video.

10 Minutes
A STORY ABOUT FEELINGS is a video for and about children to assist them in understanding the role that feelings play in their lives. Presented mainly in cartoon form, the video shows how some people drink, smoke, and use drugs to change their feelings ? and how, by understanding their own feelings, children can learn to say, "NO". Geared towards 5 to 10 year olds, A STORY ABOUT FEELINGS, is highly recommended for any organization or agency that works with young children and their families.

15 Minutes
A story about kids who learn from a peer helper how to understand and handle their feelings in healthy ways.

15 Minutes
A story about kids who worry about alcohol and other drug use problems in their families and how they learn to cope.

30 Minutes
Nine year old Corey is very worried about her older brother, Michael. He is using drugs and he just stole from her piggy bank to buy some more. Luckily, Corey has help. Cartoon features Winnie the Pooh, Bugs Bunny, Alf, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles among others.
Young children/preteens

15 Minutes
A story about chemical dependence and what alcohol and other drug use can do to kids as well as to adults.

14 Minutes
Danger! Toxic Chemicals is a short, dramatic educational video for use in fifth through eighth grades. It introduces students to the truth about inhalants with energy and a cutting-edge visual style. Students will learn the straight facts about sniffing and huffing and how these actions can cause permanent injury or even death. Most important, this video dispels the myth among kids that common household products must be safe "because they're all around us."
5th through 8th grades

15 Minutes
A story about kids who learn from a school counselor and peer helpers how to take care of themselves when they're in unsafe situations.

30 Minutes
This documentary profiles athletes whose careers were destroyed by drugs, especially steroids. Scenes of the athletes performing are mixed with present day, sobering interviews. Athletes who compete drug?free are also featured. (Includes 11 page teacher's guide and information card.)
Teenagers, grades 7-12

73 Minutes
Three children from the future travel back to the 20th century to take on the life?threatening problem of drug abuse in 10 animated programs each emphasizing a different message. (Includes 28 page teacher's guide, information card, and parents guide.)
Children, grades 1-6

21 Minutes
According to a new survey, one in five candidates for drug treatment at Phoenix House was introduced to drugs by his or her parents. Addiction experts including Mitchell Rosenthal, president of Phoenix House, and Alyse Booth, spokesperson for Columbia University's National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse, agree that although the study is limited in scope, the figures are alarming. Are parents coming to view drug use as merely another teenage rite of passage? And how can drug prevention campaigns help chidren? This program goes to the heart of these questions.

61 Minutes
Actor Richard Kiley as Mentor takes three elementary school students on a mysterious trip to the future with the Fast Forward Future machine. This ingenious contraption allows them to see what will happen if they use drugs and what will happen if they remain drug free. (Includes 23 page teacher's guide.)
Children, grades 4-6

15 Minutes
Presents a sensitive and stunningly complete picture of fetal development from fertilization to birth.
Grade level: 5-12

18 Minutes
Children receive conflicting messages about alcohol and drug use. They are bombarded with appealing messages from the media. Their parents say one thing, often contradicting their own behavior. Usually a young person's friends and peers are also misinformed about drugs and alcohol. Get The Message stresses the fact that saying "No" to alcohol and other drugs is a right that everyone has!
Elementary school

22 Minutes
Discusses the negative emotional and physical effects of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and crack use. Describes the addictive nature of cocaine and crack. Points out the dangers of driving while intoxicated.
Grades 6-9

Middle School Children (Grades 4/8)

23 Minutes
Four vignettes show viewers situations in which teens are confronted with alcohol use and how it affects their lives. Factual informatin is provided describing alcohol's effect on the body and attention is brought to the social and commercial pressures which exist and often promote drinking.
Grades 6 - 9

35 Minutes
Helps elementary students establish informational and motivational awareness of chemical functions, psychological effects of drugs; dangers of drug usage. Children in the program examine role of commercials, adults and peers on drug decisions; analyze "good" and "bad" feelings common to most children.
Grades 6-9

17 Minutes
Parents and kids talk straight about alcohol and other drugs.
Children in grades 4 to 9

28 Minutes
Teens reveal real life pressure and explain how they cope. Different scenarios are acted out by teenage actors and then are discussed by the group. This high energy video helps teens become aware of the problems of peer pressure in order to better cope with it. Promotes discussion and thought.
Ages 10-17

90 minutes - six 15 minute episodes
Academy award winning actor Lou Gossett, Jr., as Cosmo, takes a boy named Ben on a journey in the fate elevator. Ben's travels teach him valuable lessons about why drugs are harmful and how to refuse them. (Includes 2 page teacher's guide and information card.)
Children, grades 4/6

15 Minutes
This fast paced video gives alarming facts and medical images about drug use, and offers ways to avoid the drug trap. It also shows how to help family members and friends who are using drugs find their way back to a normal life.

Animated video teaches kids to refuse drugs.
Grades 6-12

9 Minutes
You're Not Alone is a nine-minute video, featuring Jerry Moe, M.A., and children who have benefited from participating in children of alcoholic (COA) support groups. It speaks to children in families with addiction or other high-stress and emotionally painful living environments. While the video speaks directly to these children, it contains important messages for all children and youth, preparing them to respond more appropriately and comfortably to friends and classmates who live in families where someone is suffering from alcoholism or other drug addiction.
Youth, Ages 8-14

23 Minutes
Using vignettes of three individuals - a nurse whose life is centered on an overweight daughter, a recovering alcoholic who is experiencing little satisfaction from life, and a woman who is enmeshed in an unhealthy relationship, discusses common characteristics of a co-dependents, including being externally focused, overly responsible, controlling, rigid, and engaging in compulsive behavior.

90 Minutes
CO-DEPENDENCY IN THE CLASSROOM is for teachers, counselors, administrators and parents who are concerned about the impact of chemically dependent students in our classrooms. As educators try to manage the behavior of young people who are using chemicals, they become caught in a cycle of denial, control, anger and self doubt. This video explores the stages of co-dependency and how educators are at risk from burnout, loss of self esteem and describes the process for managing the dilemma effectively.
CO-DEPENDENCY SERIES (5 videos)

44 Minutes
Drawn from the work of nationally known author and lecturer, Robert Subby, this program utilizes his workshops and other interviews in a fast paced presentation. Subby states that this program is about "learning to get along with the inner parent, adult and child of our spirit. Together these three dimensions provide us with the intellectual, moral and emotional understanding necessary to help reach our full potential."

28 Minutes
Using computer generated medical diagrams and interviews with numerous family members, Dr. Schneider thoroughly describes the nature and scope of the illness of codependency. He explains the physical and emotional strains that a drug or alcohol abuser places on family, friends, and coworkers.
MEDICAL ASPECTS OF CODEPENDENCY brings home the total destruction and devastation that can be caused by the disease of chemical dependency. Yet, Dr. Schneider leaves us filled not with despair, but with answers and hope. The codependent must get help regardless of whether or not the chemically dependent person is ready for it. Recovery is possible for all.
This film is a must for anyone that treats or works with the family of the alcoholic or drug abuser.
Junior High School/Senior High School/College/Adults

56 Minutes
The story of a family that has suffered the effects of having an alcoholic parent. Personal interviews with the Subby family poignantly illustrate the pain, guilt, and frustration of growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic parent. A lecture on the family dynamics of alcoholism, given by Robert Subby, is interwoven with personal interviews from his family members.

20 Minutes
Discusses common concerns of co-dependents entering treatment: effects of treatment on significant others, spiritual issues and the misuse of willpower and analytic thinking in overcoming co-dependency. Discusses common treatment modalities: the importance of groups, letter writing to parents, a personal bill of rights to establish boundaries, and personal affirmations.

22 Minutes
Using a combination of mimes and family vignettes, gives an overview of the history of co-dependency. Describes current thinking regarding the disorder and discusses its origins, including family traits such as faulty communication, inadequate boundaries and abuse.
CO-DEPENDENCY SERIES (5 videos) - continued

28 minutes
Dr. Joseph Pursch lectures on addiction to sedative drugs, indicating that cross addiction occurs when patients also use alcohol. Complications increase as physicians misdiagnose sedativism and continue to prescribe drugs. A mime couple role plays the effect of sedativism on their lives and marriage.
Sr. High School/College/Adults

20 minutes
Developed by the Department of Labor to educate workers about the cost of substance abuse to society and the harmful effects of alcohol and other drug abuse on the mind and body.

21 minutes

Through actual life experiences of young men and women, the effects of steroid use and the importance of looking at alternatives are explored. The video focuses on teens who are attaining their own personal goals through a drug free lifestyle and takes a serious look at some who chose steroids to achieve their objectives. Students will hear first hand from young people who have endangered their lives with steroid use.
Sr. High Students

25 minutes
Using sophisticated 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of the three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external environment through the body to the brain, where viewers learn about the cellular targets of these drugs, and how each drug interacts with them and subsequently affects the body. Actual neurons used in the animations create a realistic effect that helps viewers understand the concepts presented. A Teacher's Guide may be viewed or printed through Films for the Humanities and Sciences' web site at http://www.films.com .

60 minutes
How does denial affect recovery?... Prevent recovery?... Interfere with recovery? How does denial affect the family? With contributions from his responsive audience, Brother Earl addresses these and other important issues on the subject of denial in this candid, personal program.

55 minutes

Designed for audiences interested in learning about chemical dependency from a "street" perspective. Brother Earl explains the stages and behavioral symptoms of the disease of addiction in a presentation both fresh and spontaneous.
Inpatient/Outpatient Programs/Families

23 minutes

Effects on body: acne and skin problems, liver damage, increased risk of cancer, impotence, arthritis, an increase in blood pressure and cholesterol that can lead to heart disease, stroke, and early death.

Outlined by Dr. Forest Tennant, NFL Drug Advisor and Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health.
Preteen to Adults

28 minutes
Brother Earl, in colorful terms anyone can understand, explains why cocaine is the most "cunning, baffling and powerful" addictive drug known to man. Watching this video will help those suffering with the disease of cocaine addiction understand their affliction and respond to treatment.

49 minutes
Chemical addiction is now being treated like a disease, and a cure appears to be on the horizon. Approaching the topic of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine addiction from a biological perspective, this program features new research into the meso-limbic reward pathway and efforts to implement treatments based on that research using Zybian, Naltrexone implants, and even a cocaine vaccine. Spectacular 3-D graphics, high-tech medical imaging, and case studies add emphasis to the findings of Nora Volkov, Anna Rose Childress, Tom Kosten, and other experts. Footage of the first human trial of the cocaine vaccine at Yale University is included.

120 Minutes
This two hour teleconference will showcase a variety of objects linked with illegal drug use. Identifying drug paraphernalia is a critical skill for law enforcement officers, school officials, parents, teachers, and other members of the public concerned with drug prevention and interdiction. The presence of paraphernalia may be the only visible clue of illegal drug related activity. Moreover, narcotic residue on paraphernalia items may be used as evidence in the prosecution of drug charges.

Teleconference training on "What is the Internet?" and definitions of the various ways it's used for drug advertising, meetings and sales. Internet Security and how it can be used for investigative purposes is also discussed. Service providers, services, browsers, uniform resource locators (URLL'S), host names, country identifiers, ports, path/filenames, search engines, law enforcement sites, and other detailed information is included.

24 Minutes
MDMA is not new, but it has been given a new identity, and re-introduced to young people as the new in club drug. As with all drugs, Ecstasy is taking lives, creating victims, and leaving casualties. Recent studies are now showing permanent brain damage can occur from using Ecstasy. This program does not preach, but offers your audience the facts about Ecstasy. We show the side effects, symptoms, and explain both the short, and long term effects of taking MDMA.

30 Minutes
Education is the key to preventing a child's deadly mistake. Educate yourself. Educate your kids. Talk to your children about the dangers of Inhalant Abuse.

18 Minutes
Generational forgetting is defined as "A new or young generation not learning or profiting from the bad drug experiences of generations before them." For 130 years, American society has followed a cyclical pattern of drug abuse where drugs resurface again and again becoming more potent - often more lethal - with each recurring cycle. Today's teenagers are at serious risk as drugs thought to be out of "fashion" continue to resurface, enveloping new users in tragic addiction. This film offers the wisdom of history and the hard facts of medical science to help encourage - and enlighten - teens to break the chain once and for all.
Audience: High school, college, adult.

17 Minutes
A drug and alcohol awareness videotape featuring the Boston Bruins hockey team.
General audience

31 Minutes
Brother Earl Talks about the incredible compulsion of cocaine addiction, and how old playmates and playpens can instantly trigger addiction relapse, even in those with the best intentions. Brother Earl also graphically discusses the common cocaine relapse triggers including dishonesty with self and others, depression, overstimulation and sex.

25-30 Minutes
A joint distribution effort by Johnson & Johnson, the United Way and HBO. Mary Tyler Moore outlines seven basic steps that parents can take to help deal with this crisis: (1) Set Limits, (2) Talk About Drugs, (3) Get Involved, (4) Don't Deny, (5) Look for Changes in Your Child's Behavior, (6) Be Aware of "Gateway Drugs," (7) Get Help.
Parents, PTA organizations and anyone interested in children.

30 Minutes
Determine at what point a teen is willing to say "No" to drugs. Watch as seven junior and senior high?school substance abusers, who think adults must accept the fact that teens will experiment with drinking and drugs, talk about their experiences. From PBS.
Grades 7-adult

60 minutes
So Violent a Nation
In this examination of how violence affects American life, Bill Moyers travels to Dallas, TX. Episodes take place in an emergency room, on a police patrol, and in a citizens' neighborhood patrol. Moyers and his subjects discuss gun control, police/community relations, education and other topics related to violent crime.

58 Minutes
Two programs show how a group of concerned students, with the help of their school and community, build a peer support group to help resist the pressure to use drugs. Based on actual events involving alcohol and other drug use. (Includes 5 page teacher's guide and information card.)
Teenagers, grades 7-9

28 Minutes
This entertaining video, featuring Max A. Schneider, MD, a leading authority in the field of addiction medicine, to educate viewers about the special problems that prescription drugs, alcohol and tobacco cause for people over the age of 55. During medical rounds at a hospital. Dr. Schneider takes a group of residents (played by professional actors) on a magical journey that illustrates how senility, dementia and Alzheimer's disease can be misdiagnosed if patients' drug use is not fully explored by physicians. Ideal for presentations to family groups, places of workship, senior centers, nursing home staffs and health care workers.

30 Minutes
This video was produced to help educate adolescents about the dangers and the consequences of marijuana use by graphically depicting true-life stories of young men whose hopes and dreams were destroyed by marijuana and other illegal drug use.

18 Minutes
This video explains what chemicals are in marijuana, and what organs are at most risk. We explain both the short and long term negative effects marijuana has on the body, and how not being in complete control of your body can sometimes lead to disastrous consequences both legally, and socially.

35 Minutes
Dr. Ohlms clearly and simply explains the physical and psychological hazards of marijuana use.

25 Minutes
With David L. Olms, M.D.
An updated version of Dr. Ohlms earlier film, Marijuana in the New Millennium is an extremely balanced view of the drug and its effects as reflected in the latest scientific work. While discounting many prevalent "scare stories" often circulated about marijuana, this film stresses its effects on brain chemistry. Short-term memory and the performance of complex tasks are significantly hampered, and chronic users may experience a distinct slowing of the brain's functioning. This film is aimed at professionals, adults and older teens.

18 Minutes
This program discusses the use of marijuana and its effect s on the nervous, respiratory and reproductive systems.

14 Minutes
Parents should make clear and consistent messages to their children about the dangers of marijuana and KEEP talking about them. This video lists the medical facts of using marijuana on the brain and body. Both parents and teenagers give individual viewpoints in this video. Separate discussion groups are also featured. The message of the video is that parents should spend more time with their children and more time talking about the dangers of drugs.

20 Minutes
You know how alcohol and other drugs make you feel. But what happens to your body and brain when you're using. This video explains how mood-altering substances alter the chemicals in the brain. And how this in turn affects heart rate, breathing, sensory perceptions--and more.

30 Minutes
Features Dr. Max A. Schneider

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF MIND ALTERING DRUGS is not a medical lecture, it is an elaborate production combining dramatic vignettes, computer generated graphics and charts with a discussion of the important information regarding today's most abused drugs.

This film groups mind altering drugs into six major categories: marijuana, sedative hypnotics, narcotics, inhalants, hallucinogens, and stimulants. Some of the substances covered are alcohol, tranquilizers, heroin, demerol, nitrates, P.C.P., L.S.D., cocaine and crack.
Junior & Senior High School/College/Adults

38 Minutes
"The most dangerous drug on the street today," says the video, and news reports indicate its growing impact, especially in the west & midwest. It focuses heavily on the bursts of meaningless activity, the paranoia and the chaos users experience. Mostly stories by recovering addicts (white, middle-class), with some of the best communication of the process of recovery.

41 Minutes
The psychic discomfort of adolescence, among other things, continue to lead millions into nicotine addiction. Using simple terms and illustrations, counselor Juanita Krebsbach describes how nicotine addiction develops, both emotionally and physiologically. Ideal for smoking cessation programs.

40 Minutes
A drama about crack abuse among teenagers.
Using a dramatic format to point out the dangers of crack-cocaine abuse among teenagers NOT ME!!! focuses on two 13 year old girls who meet while trying out for the school basketball team. An older male student invites them to his home for a party. The party downstairs is a typical teenage party complete with a band, dancing and refreshments. Meg discovers, by accident, a crack party is in progress upstairs and leaves. Carly chooses to remain and eventually becomes addicted to the drug, borrowing and stealing to support her habit. In trying to help her addicted friend, Meg finds out that another male friend of long standing is, in actuality, a drug dealer.

180 Minutes
A special telecourse presented for parents, teenagers, community leaders and all law enforcement officers involved in criminal drug investigations. The course reports on teen dance clubs and the associated drug culture. The program is designed to help law enforcement and community members come together to fight this growing problem and includes a discussion of curfews, ordinances, zoning, etc. and other ways local governments can deter Rave Club problems by defining agency abilities, responsibilities, MOU's, and how local governments and community members can work as a unit.

30 Minutes
Drawing on over 20 years of treating addiction disease Dr. Ohlms identifies not only the key to RELAPSE but also the Origin of RELAPSE. History has proven there are three signs: 1) Overconfidence, 2) Resentment, 3) Cross drug-dependency, that can lead to RELAPSE. This video provides specific responses to the tell-tale signs and provides reassurance to those just entering recovery or who may have months or even years in recovery that RELAPSE is preventable.

After viewing the video your audience will understand the myths, signs and origin or RELAPSE; all necessary to continue in recovery rather than experiencing the pain of RELAPSE.

Intended Audiences: schools, libraries/colleges, law/corrections, business/industry, treatment/prevention. Age groups: Teen, Adult.

30 Minutes, Open-Captioned
Produced by Signs of Sobriety, Inc. and hosted by Alan Barwiolek, a deaf actor.

The objective of this video is to educate the deaf and hearing impaired audiences to one of the many issues that the deaf community faces today, substance abuse. The video also discusses cultural, treatment and recovery issues.

28 Minutes
This film on the physiology, compulsion and recovery of smokeable cocaine users details how freebase and crack manipulate brain chemistry. By using animation, computer graphics and interviews with doctors and ex?users, it demonstrates how the initial euphoria or smokeable cocaine is quickly replaced by dysphoria and depression.
Junior and Senior High School/Adults/Health Care Professionals

30 Minutes
"Street Drugs" are any substance bought or sold, used or abused outside a normal doctor/patient relationship. In this straightforward and objective film hosted by Jimmy Smits, viewers will learn how these drugs affect both the brain and the body. It covers initial effects, withdrawal, and long term effects of each drug, and makes the dangers of drug use abundantly clear. Drug classifications covered in the film include Depressants (alcohol, barbiturates, sedative hypnotics and tranquilizers), Stimulants (cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, caffeine, nicotine), Narcotics (opium, codeine, morphine, heroin, percodan, darvon), Hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, PCP, marijuana, hashish), Inhalants (organic solvents and inorganic gasses), and Designer Drugs (MDMA or Ecstasy, fentanyl, MPPP).

Approx. 40 Minutes
All too often, middle class society in America has looked at drug abuse as a problem of the inner city, an epidemic ravaging the poor and destitute of the mean streets in urban jungles. This documentary is a powerful and provocative look at the other side of the devastating drug problem in America, a look into the heart of middle class suburbia, whose well kept lawns and neatly painted homes facing tree lined cul-de-sacs reveal a scourge as terrible as that found in any rat infested, crack house on the east side that of suburban drug abuse.
Teenagers/Parents/Public Officials/Educators

38 Minutes
Recovering women candidly reveal their stories of addiction and recovery. The social, cultural and emotional differences between male and female addiction are emphasized.

10 Minutes
Video deals with the problems encountered by pregnant, drug, addicted women. Explores the need for more help and treatment, not only for them, but also for their babies.

55 Minutes
Recovering women candidly reveal their stories of addiction and recovery. The social, cultural and emotional differences between male and femalA comprehensive training video which includes medical explanation of the impact of the most popular drugs of abuse: cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines, PCP and opiates. A Drug Enforcement Administration agent explains most common methods of concealment, dealing dangers and behaviors associated with drug use; an attorney explains the proper and legally effective methods of documentation and intervention. The paraphernalia of drug use and the drugs themselves are shown and identified. Methods of detection and documentation are explained. addiction are emphasized.

17 Minutes
In A TIME TO TELL, young people with adult guidance share important feelings about having self-esteem and coping with sexual pressures in a supportive peer group situation. Two main story-lines focusing on acquaintance rape and incest are revealed as the teenagers talk about difficult experiences they have had.

12 Minutes
Empower young children to stop bullying with this engaging video and coloring book set. Through animation, live action, and song, It's Not Okay to Bully teaches important lessons about standing up against bullying and asking adults for help--and about how to stop being a bully. Designed for grades K-3, this program is also an excellent community education and youth development program tool.

34 Minutes
Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning films Killing Us Softly (1979) and Still Killing Us Softly (1987) have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years.

With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way that moves and empowers them to take action.

19 Minutes
Supervisors and managers are dramatically shown the right and wrong way to manage the fear of AIDS in the workplace.

60 Minutes
This video uses realistic dramas and role plays to help clients learn the roots of abusive behavior and practice alternatives to violence.

28 Minutes
Every child has the right to feel respected and protected. But today too many of our children attend a school where the threat of violence is real and growing. Respect & Protect is the story of a group of educators and their struggle to cope with escalating student violence at their high school. It is also the story of how they come to understand the forces underlying the problem and are thus enabled to take concerted action and make a determined stance to halt and reverse the cycle. They also learn to create an organized system of intervention and a process called choices, consequences, and contracts that gives students the opportunity to take responsibility for their own behavior.

20 Minutes
This video targets people in (early) recovery who need to (re)learn basic communication skills. In vignettes played by three groups of two actors, four styles are communicated: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive and assertive.
Aimed for groups in treatment facilities.

Part 1: STREET SMARTS: Learning to Avoid Relapse
38 minutes
An introduction to key urban relapse prevention strategies.

Part 2: BACK ON THE BLOCK: Early Recovery
39 minutes
The first weeks home: Dealing with housing, old friends, triggers.

Part 3: RECOVERING RELATIONSHIPS: Families, Partners & Kids
38 minutes
Coping with relapse traps that occur in relationships
Part 4: CATCHIN' FEELINGS: New Ways to Cope with Emotions

40 minutes
Techniques for handling anger, shame, guilt, self-pity.

Part 5: MAKING IT HAPPEN: Work, Money, School & Good Times
38 minutes
Going for your dreams in long-term recovery.

10 Minutes
A video introduction to the Betty Ford Center Children's Program. An intensive four-day program for children ages 7-12 who are not themselves using alcohol or drugs but who live in family environments where alcoholism or other drug dependencies exist.

30 Minutes
One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Mardsen, a Tsimpsean wood carver, decides to create a totem pole and invites the community of Craig, Alaska to help. The project grows and helps a community heal; bringing people of diverse backgrounds together and acknowledging common problems of personal loss, drug abuse, suicide and violence. The video also acknowledges the intergenerational grief that grows out of rapid changes in lifestyle and interruptions to the passage of tradition within Alaska Native and American Indian communities.

This unique film powerfully dramatizes the story of three teenage friends, all involved with alcohol and drugs, all at different stages of use. The story reveals how intervention works at each stage. The film reveals how difficult it can be to pin down and deal with teenagers' use of alcohol and drugs as well as motivating concerned adults to initiate and participate in the intervention process.
Adults

30 Minutes

20 Minutes
Video features David Ohlms, M.D.
Dr. Ohlms wants the intended audience to better understand the mental, social, emotional and spiritual anguish of withdrawal and, therefore, be better able to handle detox.
General Practitioners/Treatment Professionals

25 Minutes
Describes several community treatment programs across the country emphasizing the need for addicts to develop responsibility and to participate in aftercare groups, and the need for others in the community to see these treatment centers as nonthreatening and part of a community healing process.
Adult

24 Minutes
End Broken Promises... is a 24 minute video for adults interested in being helpful to children who have parents with alcoholism or other drug dependencies. It is particularly useful for educators, parents, clergy and other faith community professionals, addiction and mental health clinicians, general health professionals who serve children, and persons working in the juvenile justice system.
Adults

28 Minutes
 In this sequel, THE INTERVENTION picks up where THE ENABLERS left off. Here our family takes positive action by initiating a recovery process for the dependent person, as well as for other family members. With the help of a counselor, the family works together as a team. Although it isn't easy for any of them, their family's effort is finally paid off when the first steps toward recovery are taken.

THE INTERVENTION is a powerful realistic film about the problems, possible outcomes and rewards of intervention.
College/Adults

17 Minutes
When a person is addicted to alcohol or other drugs, they may be incapable of reaching out for help. That's why a concerned friend or family member needs to step in and express concern and options to help.

This video will help people approach a friend or relative to have a heart-to-heart talk about his or her chemical use.

21 Minutes
All over America, kids grow up in neighborhoods, plagued by drugs and street gangs. Some youngsters will end up in prison, or as victims of gang violence. Others will waste their lives using and selling drugs in the streets. Many will die.
But in the midst of the poorest neighborhoods, some kids catch a glimpse of a world that lies beyond gang colors and street drugs. Let's call them the "Invincibles". (continued)

The "Invincibles" paints a sensitive portrait of three young men who made a difference in their own lives. For each young man, the path is different but the message is clear: Yes! There is a way, but...you must go out and find it.

The "Invincibles" are self-reliant. The "Invincibles" are disciplined. The "Invincibles" are realistic - they have lived through it all. Most important, the "Invincibles" provide great role-models for any viewer.
Audience: Junior High & High School Guidance, Community Organizing, Police Community Relations.

24 Minutes
NOT IN MY FAMILY is an essential resource for families focusing on codependency. Parents speak honestly about their experience in dealing with their child's chemical dependency. Feelings of disappointment, broken trust, helplessness, guilt, anger, frustration are common.

This video is an ideal tool to assist parents and family members in making a personal plan for recovery. Also has workbook and leader's guide.

22 Minutes
A video by Claudia Black, Ph.D., world wide lecturer and trainer in the field of children of alcoholics.

THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY is the next step in the healing/mending journey. Adults raised in alcohol/drug abusing families have difficulty asking for what they want, difficulty trusting, difficulty identifying or expressing feelings. They typically have great fears of being rejected, resulting in a tremendous need to seek approval. While an overdeveloped sense of responsibility is often characteristic, many of these children are not able to enjoy their accomplishments. There are often fears of "losing control," while they demonstrate an extreme need to control. Problems such as alcoholism and/or physical and sexual abuse often repeat themselves in the following generation. These people have all experienced loss in their childhood. Their loss is very painful and for this loss to no longer have adverse side effects in adulthood, it needs to be addressed.

35 Minutes
In the disease of addiction, the pain and suffering of alcohol and drug abusers is well-documented. Unfortunately, in society's rush to cope with these horrors, the troubles of the addicts children are frequently overlooked. In Stolen Lives: Children of Addicts the experiences of some of these forgotten victims are presented. Hosted by Collin Seidor, this shocking, but ultimately hopeful, documentary offers insights from addict's children; addicts; caseworkers; psychologists and other experts involved in treatment programs for addicts and their children.

15 Minutes
The road to recovery from alcoholism is not easy, but many alcoholics and their families are facing it together. This emotionally gripping video follows two families through treatment and examines their efforts to cope with the disease that affects one out of every three families. This documentary video vividly depicts the far reaching effects of alcohol dependence. (Narrated by Geraldo Rivera, produced by 20/20).

70 Minutes
An Introduction to Resiliency is the first video program to stress the use of resiliency-oriented prevention techniques with teens at risk.
Kids have the ability to bounce back from adversity. That's not news. We see it around us all the time, people who survive and thrive despite unthinkable hardships. But how do they do it? How can we, as helping professionals, help them do it? And how can kids learn to recognize their own inner strengths and take Survivor's Pride in rising above difficult circumstances?

43 Minutes
Veteran high school counselor Martha Roper discusses communication skills which help adolescents clarify and better control sex and other issues.

26 Minutes
This wonderful new video offers teens some of the very best ways to improve their self-esteem. They learn: the secret to developing a winning attitude - how to avoid putting themselves down - how to turn "I can't" into "I can" - the best ways to make use of role models - how to be in control of thoughts and feelings (instead of the other way around) and much more.
For teen audiences

Episodes cover each of the 12 Steps in the process originated by Alcoholics Anonymous and now used in other recovery programs. The series also offers advice from experts in addiction treatment from prominent recovery centers. It reflects the most up-to-date thinking on the subject, and stresses the benefits and rewards of recovery.

Tape I: Steps 1 to 3
Tape II: Steps 4 to 6
Tape III: Steps 7 to 9
Tape IV: Steps 10 to 12
Tape V: Relapse

30 Minutes
Offers an inspirational message about Native people who have survived the trauma of growing up in alcoholic families and have begun healing themselves with the hope that their children and communities will become strong and healthy.

13 Minutes
Think About It combines material drawn from two existing videos: OSAP's Be Smart! Stay Smart! music video and Straight Up!, produced by KCET Television in Los Angeles. Material from both videos was edited and combined with newly created interactive segments in which young moderators provide opportunities for discussion of the important issues presented. The video concludes by prompting youth to consider how this information applies to their own situations.

22 Minutes
Focus on women's intensive outpatient treaatment program that has on-site children's program. Describes program, talks about issues, needs unique to women in recovery.
Adults

15 Minutes
With this video you can: provide an overview of the issue of alcohol and other drug prevention and disability; explain the alcohol and other drug abuse risk factors associated with disability; introduce the concept of prevention and outline prevention strategies; and help participants brainstorm ways to develop prevention efforts in their community. Video provides 3 case studies for role play exercise.
Audience: Effective video to individuals in the alcohol and other drug field or in the disability and rehabilitation communities, including counselor, educators, administrators, and students.

28 Minutes
UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION explores: Myths of Addiction, Children of Alcoholics, Genetic Predisposition, Triggering Factors, Addictions other than alcohol and drugs, Guidelines for the Non-Addict, Cross Addiction and Stages of Recovery.
Combining live action with still photography, UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION examines the drinking and using patterns of three friends: Tom, Dick and Mary. The film begins with their early college days and follows them through career and family life. It answers such questions as "how and where does addiction begin, UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION creates an imaginative, informative, and visual foundation of knowledge to help anyone understand the disease of alcoholism.

47 Minutes
WALL OF DENIAL is a film which educates "hard to reach' individuals about the largest stumbling block to recovery from addictive disorders: denial. The film emphasizes the three manifestations of the denial process: (1) an addict's thinking, (2) his feelings, and (3) his behavior. Multicultural speakers candidly provide testimonial to inspire those with drug or alcohol problems, including incarcerated individuals, to break down their own wall of denial. Upbeat music and striking graphics add emphasis to the presentation.

8 Minutes
This film addresses key aspects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. The themes of the film include: the risk of the consumption of alcohol to the fetus, explanation of FAS, description of alcohol?related birth defects, and the fact that FAS is preventable by not drinking. An agency listing for further information or assistance with a drinking problem is also provided. This film is geared toward the consumer, the woman who is pregnant or considering pregnancy, and may be useful in providing education and information about alcohol and pregnancy.

22 Minutes
In this video, Dr. Bruce A. Buehler describes how birth defects occur and what can be done to reduce the risks. Its contents include the effects of drugs, including crack, cocaine, Ice, etc., on the sperm, placenta and fetus. Also discussed is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and how it affects the brain, physical appearance, and characteristics of children and youth. Infectious diseases such as Herpes, Syphilis and Hepatitis B and their detrimental effects are detailed.
Audience: Adults and Adolescents

13 Minutes
This video describes the effects of alcohol and other drugs on the lives of pregnant women and their babies.

32 Minutes
Dr. Jon M. Aase provides information on the proper diagnosis of FAS, what the main criteria for FAS versus birth defects are, and offers the history and research regarding Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This video is intended for doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners, and other trained health care providers. It is medically based with specific information on strategies for diagnosing patients and assisting the family with aftercare.

25 Minutes
Hard-hitting interviews with doctors, and women with drug-affected children, make it clear that the safest choice is to abstain from drugs and alcohol before, during and after delivery. Details toxic consequences of cocaine, nicotine, marijuana and over-the-counter drugs, and covers the basics of proper nutrition, rest, and exercise.

12 Minutes
Beth is besieged by friends who tell her not to smoke, drink or even take aspirin while she is pregnant. She is told by as many other friends not to worry about it. Using graphic techniques, this tape shows the specific effects of cigarette smoking, alcohol, drugs, caffeine and even simple cold medications on fetal development. The message here is to exercise good judgment.
High School/College/Adult

20 Minutes
Through candid interviews with experts, parents of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) children, and pregnant women this program presents the facts and offers advice on the prevention of FAS and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE). The importance of abstaining from any kind of alcohol when pregnant is stressed, and viewers learn that help is available for mothers struggling with alcoholism.

20 Minutes
This program focuses on the challenges of caring for the FAS/FAE child. Viewers spend a day with the family of an FAS/FAE child, and learn what life is like for them. An expert explains why children with FAS/FAE behave in certain ways and offers advice on the best way to handle typical situations. It is also stressed that unlike healthy children, FAS/FAE children require constant attention, due to their shortened attention spans.
Adults

20 Minutes
This program concentrates on the importance of meeting the needs of children with FAS at home, in the classroom, and at the school and district levels. It is stressed that students with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or the related Fetal Alcohol Effects are not mentally retarded, and should not be viewed that way. Parents and experts offer their views on the importance of functional skill education, including how to use public transportation, make change, use the library, go for a job interview, and live on their own.
Adults

24 Minutes
INFLUENCES explores the devastating impact on society of a growing population of children and adolescents permanently disabled by prenatal substance abuse. With clarity and compassion, the film follows children and their guardians as they attempt to cope with baffling learning and behavioral disabilities. Case studies introduce us to children who are unable to learn how to read, and adolescents who seem to function without conscience. Inner city schools are on the frontlines of this battle, and interviews with educators reveal that progress is possible through early intervention.
Junior High, High School, College, & Adult

This video encourages use of prenatal care and healthy lifestyles within the framework of modern life. The docu?drama format has been shown to appeal to both males and females of child bearing age.
If was produced under the sponsorship of the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council (DDPC).

20 Minutes
Viewers meet three young mothers and learn that each has her own reason for beginning a healthy lifestyle. How Fetal Alcohol Snydrome and Effects occur is explained, and tips for becoming smoke-free are provided. Other common concerns are addressed as well, including working while pregnant and weight gain. Throughout the program, it is stressed that avoiding harmful substances during pregnancy can only mean one thing: a healthy baby and a healthy mother.
Ages 16-Adult

14 Minutes
This video encourages use of prenatal care and healthy lifestyles within the framework of modern life. The docu?drama format has been shown to appeal to both males and females of child bearing age.
If was produced under the sponsorship of the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning CoSacred Trust addresses Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) among Native American and Alaska Native women and promotes an alcohol-free lifestyle during pregnancy. Individuals from various nations are shown giving no-use messages: parents and foster parents, a tribal elder, a health educator, and a Native American man.cil (DDPC).

20 Minutes
This video program educates women on the importance of abstaining from drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and excessive caffeine throughout their pregnancy. Special effects and animation are used to help viewers understand how a developing fetus is affected by substance abuse. Positive lifestyle choices for the mother-to-be are suggested, and an interview with a young woman shows how she and her young son have suffered the consequences of her substance abuse.

22 Minutes
The employee version is identical to the employer version except that it has a few more employee comments.

22 Minutes
This video describes the options available for designing a drug testing component as part of a comprehensive drug free workplace program. Specimen collection and laboratory analysis procedures are demonstrated. Throughout, special attention is given to addressing the needs of both employer and employee and ensuring the accuracy and reliability of test results. The role of the Medical Review Officer (MRO) is discussed and case studies of public and private and union and nonunion workplaces are presented.

23.5 Minutes
This version differs from the employer version only by the addition of employee's comments reflecting their perception of an EAP policy and program in one private corporation.
DRUGS AT WORK VIDEOTAPE SERIES (continued)

23 Minutes
Intended primarily for employers, this video presents information about the nature and scope of the alcohol and other drug problem in the workplace and about the Federal Government's initiative to prevent and reduce the problem. It uses a combination of narration, personal experiences of recovering employees and family members, and comments by government officials and public and private sector managers to convey the consequences of drug abuse to individuals and to society. The video stresses the importance of each of the four components of an effective workplace program, education, an employee assistance program, supervisor training, and drug testing, to creating a drug free workplace.

35 Minutes
This compelling video identifies common symptoms of different stages of drug/alcohol abuse. Teens share frightening and inspiring stories of addiction and recovery. Interspersed with these real life testimonials are dramatic vignettes highlighting the ravaging impact of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine on teen abusers.
Junior High and High School
DRUGS AT WORK VIDEOTAPE SERIES (7 Videos)

19 Minutes
Drug abuse in the workplace is portrayed as a community wide problem. The solutions offered through education and prevention are presented as personal, workplace, and community responsibilities. Specific emphasis is placed on the need to deliver accurate and credible information to the workforce, promote workplace peer involvement, and build community partnerships. Alternative approaches, such as stress reduction and attitudinal and behavioral change are explored as tools for achieving personal wellness, as well as reducing drug use in the workplace.

23 Minutes
The employee version differs from the employer version by the addition of more EAP client interviews and by fewer industry, labor, and government leader comments.

24 Minutes
This is the second of four programs in the National Institute on Drug Abuse series on drugs in the workplace. It highlights the benefits of an effective employee assistance program (EAP) to employees and employers through comments by business, labor, and government leaders and EAP professionals; presentation of three model programs; and EAP client interviews. It also describes the elements of a successful EAP program regardless of the number of employees or the nature of the work.

55 Minutes
A comprehensive training video which includes medical explanation of the impact of the most popular drugs of abuse: cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines, PCP and opiates. A Drug Enforcement Administration agent explains most common methods of concealment, dealing dangers and behaviors associated with drug use; an attorney explains the proper and legally effective methods of documentation and intervention. The paraphernalia of drug use and the drugs themselves are shown and identified. Methods of detection and documentation are explained.

This unique presentation features cast members from the ABC hit TV comedy, "Full House," with personal introductory remarks by John Stamos, the popular Jesse on that show and a closing statement from the teen?favorite, Phil Buckman, "Slash," of the TV show "Drexell's Class." Both stars use terms teens can understand to drive home the message that drinking by minors is uncool and that proms should be celebrated without alcohol.
High School

20 Minutes
The potentially fatal dangers of alcohol are explained through the personal experiences of a multi-ethnic group of teenagers, all of whom started to drink at a very young age. They describe the reckless acts they engaged in, the muddled thinking they exhibited, and the way they fell behind their friends during their drinking days. One of the most effective sequences involves two teens, a boy and a girl, describing the death of a mutual friend from alcohol poisoning.

A woman psychologist interjects occasional comments, and one sequence shows an actual human liver and brain and the damage caused by alcohol.
NOTE: There is one misstatement in the narration, when the host says that "For some, [alcohol] is a stimulant, for others its a depressant."
10 to 13 years of age

26 Minutes
This fast paced documentary program on alcohol and drug abuse among teens aims at providing a forum for group discussion. Six short interviews with teens who have been through treatment for drug and alcohol use provide a real sense of the risks involved with substance abuse.
Grades 7-up

30 Minutes
Carol and Laura have been best friends since kindergarten. When Carol begins hanging out with a new group of kids who drink and use drugs, Laura is uncomfortable. Laura faces a tough choice, she doesn't want to drink but she doesn't want to lose her best friend. With the help of an awareness group at school and a counselor, Laura learns how to best help herself and her friend.
Teens

28 Minutes
A video by Claudia Black, Ph.D., worldwide lecturer and trainer in the field of children of alcoholics.

CHILDREN OF DENIAL is a video about youngsters, adolescents, and adults as children of alcoholics.

Children of alcoholics are affected by their parents' alcoholism and/or chemical dependency. Dr. Black, in a warm and sensitive style, examines what happens to these children and offers some answers for the problems.
Preteen/Junior and Senior High School

Michael Paul is one angry young man. To escape his anger and painful memories, he has turned to alcohol. Michael's anger erupts when his father returns home after having abandoned the family many years earlier. Michael learns that the first step towards healing himself and stopping his addictive behavior is to confront his grief.
Teens

23 Minutes per part
An award winning and critically acclaimed anti-substance abuse program featuring Scott Valentine of TV's Family Ties. Co-produced by the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice, the program is the definitive treatment of crack, cocaine substance abuse in general.
Grade 10- college

19 Minutes
Emphasizes the importance of self-esteem when dealing with drug related peer pressure. Shows the differences between friendships that are based on shared values verses peer pressure.
Grades 9-12

15 Minutes
A segment from the Fox Files TV Show which discusses Ketamine (Special K), GHB, and Ecstasy (MDMA), commonly referred to as rave drugs or designer drugs. This video shows young people under the influence and accurately portrays the dangers involved in using these drugs.

22 Minutes
Investigating the way drugs, from aspirin to alcohol to cocaine, interact with the body, this video looks at how various factors affect the function of a drug. It shows how psychoactive drugs work, and why they can lead to unwanted side effects and physical addiction.
Grades 8-12

20 Minutes
Cocaine. Highly addictive brain stimulant. Extremely dangerous. Mind altering, acts on pleasure center of brain. When snorted (inhaled) in powder form changes brain chemistry. Can be sniffed or snorted. Rarely first drug used.

Signs of use: Nose bleeds, trembling, sleeplessness, nausea, loss of weight, depression, fever, violence and possible suicide. (A Boy Scouts of America video)
Jr. and Senior High School

Three 20 minute episodes
Hard Facts dramatizes the devastating effects that alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and crack have on a high school class during the 4 years leading to graduation.
Speak Up uses the scenario of a senior class trip to illustrate techniques that students can use to resist peer pressure and refuse drug use.
Dare to Be Different focuses on the importance of goals and values in resisting pressures to use drugs. (Includes 3 panel foldout teacher's guide and information card.)
Teenagers, grades 10-12

60 Minutes
Through the interplay of narrator and live-action scenarios the basic skills of assertiveness training are taught. Teenagers are shown how to recognize various types of pressure and are given ready responses to use so that good decisions can be made without jeopardizing good friendships.
Grades 9-12

31 Minutes
Young adults (20s) ask questions regarding drugs & their improper use. The answers cover: physical effects; psychological effects; addiction; recovery and rehabilitation. Other topics covered include Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A discussion about ways to stop drug abuse occurs among four former addicts now in recovery. Professional personnel are known in the field and work at recognized research centers.

12 Minutes
Considered a cheap high, inhalant usage is on the rise among young people. The sad part is inhalant abusers don't really know the long term damage caused by sniffing their lungs out on glue, gasoline, and other household chemicals. Besides the physical damage, brain damage also occurs leaving many inhalers permanently impaired for the rest of their lives. Viewers will learn how to recognize, and identify inhalant abusers, as well as how to stay drug free.

18 Minutes
Inhalants are among the most available and dangerous substances today. This program explains the sometimes deadly dangers of using inhalants as drugs. The program is ideal for junior high audiences, but is suitable for younger and older students as well.

31 Minutes
Here is a drama that can literally happen to anyone who has decided to use alcohol and other drugs. It is the story about a teenager named Jason, who, very typically, started by drinking beer and wine, advanced to pot, then pills, and finally cocaine. The transition from user to abuser to addict was almost imperceptible.

Somewhere along the way, Jason crossed "the invisible line." He went from someone who was "only drinking and doing 'recreational' drugs" to someone who would die from addiction. This production does not mince words; nor does it use them for shock value. This video will give students a lot to think about, stimulate class discussions, and most importantly, provide information that could save their lives and the lives of their friends.
High School/Parents of Teenagers

28 Minutes

28 Minutes
Teens reveal real life pressure and explain how they cope. Different scenarios are acted out by teenage actors and then are discussed by the group. This high energy video helps teens become aware of the problems of peer pressure in order to better cope with it. Promotes discussion and thought.
Ages 10-17

40 Minutes
The impact of alcohol/drug use on athletic skills and development. A must video for sports programs.

10 Minutes
A review of alcohol and other drugs and how they impact on sports' participants.
Junior and Senior High School

18 Minutes
Show the complications caused by the use of many different drugs. This updated series uses case histories and straightforward medical facts to influence attitudes.

12 Minutes
Show the complications caused by the use of many different drugs. This updated series uses case histories and straightSix young people who have suffered the consequences of alcohol and other drug use share their experiences, including addiction, accidents, suicide, pregnancy, and crime. Prevention is kids talking to kids and saying "we" instead of "you" and not sounding accusative.
Junior & Senior High Schoolorward medical facts to influence attitudes.

116 Minutes
These dramas emphasize that young people can achieve private victories by caring enough about themselves to reject drugs. They show how deciding against drugs can influence friends to do the same. (Includes 22 page teacher's guide and information card.)

14 Minutes
The poignant scenes shown in Reality Check: A Marijuana Prevention Video, expose teens to the reality of the physical, mental and emotional dangers of this increasingly popular drug. The video provides viewers with skills and positive alternatives to avoid the pitfalls of pot.
Teens

21 Minutes
Each year nearly two million people injur their own bodies using knives, scissors, glass, cigarettes, candles, razors - in fact, practically any destructive item they can find. Through interviews with patients and mental health professionals and footage of actual therapy sessions, this compelling program seeks to understand a deeply disturbing and often secretive mental disorder that affects as many teens and young adults as anorexia.
Youth

15 Minutes
Staying on Track: An Alcohol Prevention Video will demystify alcohol - one of the most widely used drugs in our society and the number-one killer of teenagers.
Teens will warn about the risks that alcohol use poses for their bodies, minds and lives. By addressing the realities of peer and media pressure head-on, the video challenges teens to think in new ways about what they hear to make their own decisions.
Teens

44 Minutes
Kirk Cameron, star of ABC's Growing Pains, talks with students about the pressure to use drugs and the benefits of choosing a positive and healthy lifestyle. Classroom scenes are supplemented by animation and flashbacks that depict how youngsters can more effectively deal with real?life situations. (Includes 8 page teacher's guide and information card.)
Teenagers, grades 7-9

18 Minutes
In this timely program, teenagers from varying economic backgrounds-all recovering alcoholics-discuss their drinking histories, tell why and how they began drinking, how the drinking led to eventual alcoholism, and the steps taken to address the problem. Alcohol recovery therapist David Moore discusses the short- and long-term physiological affects of alcohol on younger people, and the overall psychology behind today's teenage drinking epidemic.
Youth

30 Minutes
Alcohol kills more than five times the number of people killed by cocaine, heroin and every other illegal drug combined. Yet for today's teenagers, alcohol is the number one drug of choice. It is considered "cool" by many teens to drink as much as they can in social situations involving their peers. Few if any of these young people think about the consequences. In this video, teens who are current drinkers see firsthand what the future may hold for them if they continue to drink. They experience the potential consequences of alcohol use from every perspective, including: how drinking impairs a person's coordination, vision, and reaction time; how the brain and other organs suffer lasting damage from alcohol use; how a drunk person really drives; and how drinking can lead to spending months in a rehabilitation center. The program culminates in a realistic simulation of the "deaths" of three participants who got into a car with a fourth who was driving drunk.
Grades 6-12

40 Minutes
A best selling video presentation that speaks to young people in their own language. Jevon Thompson, a former drug abuser and rock musician, uses humor and drama to drive home the hard facts about the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol.
Jr./Sr. High Students

18 Minutes
Young people are interviewed about their personal experiences as pregnant teens.
Female population: Junior and Senior High School

27 Minutes
About seven million kids under the age of 18 have parents with serious drinking problems. For many, this spells a lonely, frustrating, and often desperate family life. In presenting a series of "family-life" vignettes, juxtaposed with kids discussing problems at a support group meeting, the film teaches young adults that their parents' alcoholism is a disease that they cannot cause, control, or cure, and that a healthy solution can only be gained with love, support, and the proper professional help.
Junior/Senior High School

16 Minutes
Grade level: 2-4

Lively songs, thought-provoking graphics and a variety of situations close to young students' experience demonstrate constructive ways of dealing with anger.

Grade level: 2-4

Age-appropriate and challenging, this full-color board game presents facts and information about drugs that younger students can easily relate to.

17 Minutes
Grade level: 2-4

Learning to make their own choices can boost children's self-esteem, but like any other skill, making good decisions takes thought and practice. Program helps students learn to evaluate their options, predict outcomes, and accept the consequences of their choices. Two "You Make the Choice" scenarios provide opportunities for practice.

13 Minutes
Grade level: K-2

Program makes students aware that anger is a natural emotion everyone experiences at times. Shows them that it's not the getting angry that counts, but what they decide to do about it. Offers ways to choose.

15 Minutes
Grade level: K-2

Helps the youngest students recognize that they have the right to stand up for themselves when others pressure them to do something they would prefer not to do or know is wrong. With a teenage narrator and on-screen discussion questions to reinforce the points made, teaches specific assertiveness techniques viewers can use to day no.

16 Minutes
Grade level: K-2

Using lively songs, an appealing scenario, and a storyteller to move the action along, steers viewers away from drugs that can hurt them and toward the correct use of medicines that help.

17 Minutes
Grade level: 2-4

Teaches social sensitivity as a key step in promoting respect and understanding among students. Emphasizes the importance of respecting the rights and needs of others, illustrates the problems that result from putdowns, fighting, or ignoring others' feelings. Helps students develop empathy and discover that when they show respect for others, they increase their own self-respect.

28 Minutes
Grade level: 3-6

Designed as a hands-on workshop to teach students the skills they need to become conflict managers. Presents conflicts typical of student experience and demonstrates the process for mediating them. Accompanying worksheets provide practice in each step of the mediation process.

26 Minutes
Grade level: 2-5

Designed as a hands-on workshop in conflict resolution skills. Mini-dramas raise problems students will recognize as straight out of their own lives, giving them practical help with their school peer and home relationships.

25 Minutes
Grade level: 2-4

Designed as a hands-on workshop in anger-management skills to help children get along better with friends, family, and authority figures. Program teaches students the difference between angry feelings and angry behavior, how to handle anger by controlling how they act, and how to deal with angry energy in safe, positive ways.

14 Minutes
Grade level: K-2

Students learn that when they "use their words" to explain their feelings or describe their needs, they will be much more likely to resolve their problems and get what they want.

11 Minutes
Grade level: K-2

Using scenarios performed by on-screen peers and a storyteller to emphasize the points made, program helps viewers get better at getting along.

13 Minutes
Grade level: K-2

With the help of a music video featuring one boy's experience in learning respect, teaches students about respect for property, rules, differences in opinions and abilities, and for the environment.

14 Minutes
Grade level: 2-4

Getting young victims of sexual abuse to tell someone can be a key step in preventing further abuse. Program helps abused children recognize that what they are experiencing is not the norm, and that they can be helped by telling an adult they can trust.

10 Minutes
Grade level: 2-4

Designed for earliest drug education, helps young viewers make the connection between understanding and respecting your body and how drug use can harm it. Presents a positive, no-use message in terms students can easily relate to.

23 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Teaches conflict resolution techniques aimed at helping young teens get along better with their families.

22 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Respect for self and others is what builds tolerance, develops empathy, and creates caring relationships. Using realistic scenarios, each followed by thought-provoking discussion questions, program challenges viewers to think critically about the issues involved in respect for property, authority, other people's ideas, differences, and how giving respect creates self-respect.

25 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Using pressure-filled situations typical of middle school experience, program demonstrates effective techniques that will help students stand up for themselves and still retain friendships.respect creates self-respect.

45 Minutes per episode (2)
For teachers/counselors of Grades 5-12

Teaches effective anger management strategies in a school setting. Using role-plays with real
at-risk kids, shows how to reduce the emotional content when working with potentially explosive kids and stay focused on the underlying problem.

35 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Designed as a workshop to teach students the skills of conflict resolution. Through hands-on activities and practice, students acquire six basic skills of conflict resolution: Getting the Facts, Active Listening, Body Language, Tone of Voice, "I" Messages, and Brainstorming.

30 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

In a step-by-step approach, this workshop trains students to be peer mediators, equipping them with skills for conducting successful mediations.

27 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps middle schoolers look at risk critically and understand its sources.

24 minutes plus Teachers Guide
Grade level: 5-9

For midlle schoolers struggling with the problems of growing up, mastery of emotional and social skills (emotional IQ) may be a far better predictor of future academic and social success than intelligence (IQ) tests. Program helps students learn to manage anger, deal with frustration, persist at tasks, work cooperatively, respect other points of view, and develop social confidence.

22 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Interweaves a TV talk-show on tobacco's health dangers with interviews with young teen smokers to show that smoking is neither "cool," sexy, nor grown-up, but is instead a non-glamorous and socially offensive habit that is very hard to break.

20 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Alerts students to the facts they need to know about alcohol. Encourages viewers to reexamine their thinking about alcohol, and helps them understand the problems caused by other people's alcohol abuse.

15 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Interweaving real-life vignettes and graphics on inhalants' dangers with tips on their safe use, offers a powerful indictment of inhalant abuse.

20 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Dramatizes how the choice to use drugs affects a young person's social and emotional life. Helps students recognize other alternatives for solving problems, presents facts that can help them make the right choice.

27 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Anger often gives rise to a fury that middle schoolers can neither understand nor control. Program helps young teens understand this natural but troubling emotion and demonstrates ways to deal with angry feelings. Teaches the anger-management skills that can lead to better relationships between students and a more peaceful learning environment.

34 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps students whose lives are disrupted by trouble at home see that despite a bad situation, they can still make their lives work by identifying and acknowledging their feelings. Makes them aware that others have similar problems. Illustrates constructive ways of coping and suggests options for action and sources of help.

33 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps students living in an alcoholic family understand that they are not the cause of their parent's drinking, nor can they control or cure it.

27 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps students differentiate between angry feelings and angry behavior. Shows viewers that they can learn to handle anger by controlling how they act, suggests steps they can take.

28 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Introduces pre-teens and young teens to conflict resolution. Shows students how good communication skills and mediation can turn conflict into a positive experience, build self-esteem, and improve relationships.

23 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps students recognize that they have the right to act in their own best interest. Teaches the assertiveness techniques
that will enable young teens to stand up for themselves and gain more control of their lives.

31 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Using a series of interviews with young people, a medical expert and a clinical psychologist explores what addiction is, who is vulnerable, and what can be done.

17 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Presents a series of thought-provoking scenarios on issues connected to teen alcohol use, then follows each up with questions designed to generate discussion and critical analysis of values and behavior

22 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Drinking causes serious school, family, and social problems for millions of teenagers every year. Program counters myths about alcohol with facts to help viewers understand that alcohol's effect on their lives depends on the decisions they make about its use.

24 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teaches teens specific techniques for handling anger. Points out that anger is a natural human emotion, helps students differentiate between normal feelings of anger and destructive angry behavior. Noting that different things make different people angry, shows viewers how to get back in control and deal with anger in safe, constructive ways.

35 Minutes per Episode (2)
Grade level: 7-12

Choose To Lead is designed for all student leaders. Student government, class officers, peer helpers - all leaders who need help organizing and reaching other students will benefit from this series. Choose To Lead helps student leaders create a framework that will result in a school that feels better, recognizes a wider range of students, supports staff and involves a wider range of students in activities. Students who view the series get a better grasp of their impact and become energized with the methods shared.

28 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Using one teenage addicts dramatic story and interviews with two psychiatrists who specialize in treating addictive disorders, gives students an in-depth look at cocaine's alarming power to turn healthy people into addicts and wreck lives

25 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Fills the gap in most drug prevention programs. Quickly draws viewers in with facts about the safe and unsafe uses of prescription, over-the-counter and herbal medicines, then shows them how to read labels and understand terms like side-effects, allergies, overdoses and interactions.

24 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

A compelling, hard-hitting attack on the tobacco industry. Featuring the award-winning antismoking media ads created and produced by media specialist Tony Schwartz. Program alerts students to the dangers and consequences of smoking and drives home a powerful antismoking message.

26 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Peer pressure can be a powerful influence on the decision to use drugs or alcohol, and young people don't always realize they can continue to respect their own best interests and say no. Program makes students aware they do have choices, then teaches specific techniques for dealing assertively with pro-drug/alcohol pressures.

15 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Skillfully blends fascinating in-utero fetoscopy with ultrasound images, anatomical drawings, and animation sequences to illustrate how a baby develops from conception to birth. Calling the nine-month journey "a miracle" and "a mystery we have accepted on faith," presents a sensitive but stunningly complete picture of fetal development.

18 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teaches the positive refusal skills that can help students say no in pressure-filled situations without being aggressive or losing a friendship. Presents a series of situations, then follows each up with a role-play showing viewers how to substitute constructive for destructive behavior. Provides responses that work.

30 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Interviews with young people who say yes to natural highs make viewers aware of the different kinds of natural highs that are within their grasp.

41 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Dramatizes the stories of three substance-abusing teenagers to show students the stages through which a drug dependency develops.

35 Minutes
Grade level: 9-12

Uses true-to-life stories to explore how three teenagers are helped to come to grips with the reality of having an alcoholic parent. Shows students in similar situations that as they learn to accept their parent's alcoholism as a disease that they didn't cause and can't control or cure, they will be better able to develop the inner strengths that enable them to get on with their own lives.

31 Minutes
Grade level: 6-12

Focuses on the mental and emotional risks teenagers run when they use marijuana.

32 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teaches teens effective assertiveness strategies for resisting peer pressure to use drugs. Using role-plays close to teen experience, makes students aware that pressure from others need not compromise their values, that they have a right to do what's best for them.

24 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Documents Wendy's story to provide viewers with hard-hitting insights into drug addiction. Gives students the opportunity to view a fellow teenager's trouble life objectively, and perhaps reach some conclusions of their own.

22 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Uses a lively "Back-to-the Future" format detailing the poor job prospects and low pay dropouts can expect, to motivate students to keep their options open by staying in school. Calls education the key to a successful future.

28 Minutes
Grade level: 7-14

Gives students a sobering look at the real hazards of anabolic steroids.

24 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Using as example a true-to-life teenage conflict, program demonstrates the techniques and strategies mediators use to help disputants work out their conflict and arrive at win-win solution.

24 Minutes
Grade level: 9-12

This workshop takes students step-by-step through the conflict resolution process. Students learn to apply specific, easy-to-learn skills and effective strategies for resolving conflicts peacefully.

27 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps middle schoolers look at risk critically and understand its sources.

30 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Helps teenagers understand the nature of teen-parent conflict and offers specific techniques for dealing with it. Shows students that the more they act like adults, the more their parents will treat them as adults. Deals with the key issue of trust, teaches the skills of negotiation as a technique for resolving conflict.

37 minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Helps students understand what stress is and what they can do about it. Presents a three-step process that students can use to manage their lives more effectively.

37 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

Teenagers tend to believe that drinking can't cause them any problems. What they may not realize is that alcohol can make them do things they would not do if they were sober. Using Jennifer's drinking party as a focal point, demonstrates how alcohol caused needless difficulties for three teenagers.

30 Minutes
Grades 6-12

Teens see the potential consequences of alcohol use, including how drinking impairs a person's coordination and how a drunk person really drives.

30 Minutes
Grade 6-12

The Teen Files: The Truth About Drugs explores the lives of several young people who have been forever changed by drug use. It shows the immediate consequences of illegal drugs, and it illustrates in vivid detail how easily a life can be changed or destroyed after one drug use. The effects of heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and other drugs are discussed, as well as techniques for turning away from risky drug-related situations.

20 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Dramatizes how the choice to use drugs affects a young person's social and emotional life. Helps students recognize other alternatives for solving problems, presents facts that can help them make the right choice.

27 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Anger often gives rise to a fury that middle schoolers can neither understand nor control. Program helps young teens understand this natural but troubling emotion and demonstrates ways to deal with angry feelings. Teaches the anger-management skills that can lead to better relationships between students and a more peaceful learning environment.

34 Minutes
Grade level: 5-9

Helps students whose lives are disrupted by trouble at home see that despite a bad situation, they can still make their lives work by identifying and acknowledging their feelings. Makes them aware that others have similar problems. Illustrates constructive ways of coping and suggests options for action and sources of help.

27 Minutes
Grade level: 7-12

How can you build developmental assets in your school community? This video will let you see and hear for yourself how schools around the country have done it. Devloped by award-winning director David Culp and produced by Search Institute, this video is both inspiring and instructive. Teachers, students, principals, and other school community members provide firsthand accounts of how they are building assets and offer suggestions for how anyone can do it.