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La Decision de Maria (Mary's Choice)
Video 188
Teens/Adults    30 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Este video proporciona la oportunidad de discutir la eficacia de los esfuerzos de prevencion en nuestras familias, escuelus y en nuestras comunidades del desarrollo.

La Esperanza Del Valle (Life in the Valley)
Video 200
Teens    90 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
(Spanish)
A video series designed for Latino/Hispanic youth dramatizing a family's triumph over alcohol and substance abuse (in English).

La Ventana en la Cocina
Video 281
Teens/Adults    19 minutes    c. N/A
Emotionally charged video about a drunk driver that collides with another car head on, causing the vehicle to burst into flames, killing 9 members of one family. Compelling testimonies by relatives of the family and actual footage of the funeral.

Learning The Ropes of Competitive Double Dutch
Video 414
Jr High    20 minutes    1997    
This video introduces the fast-paced sport of competitive Double Dutch jump roping. It follows the journey of Xiamara and her team. The story focuses primarily on the sport, and also aims to exalt this activity as a competitive sport and means of keeping children off the streets and away from drugs.

Let It Be
Video 289
Teens    8 minutes    1992
Emotionally charged music video on the dangers of drinking and driving.

Let's Connect
Video 97
Teens/Adults    12 minutes    1992    
Let's Connect is based on evidence that shows meetings with parents, as a part of an education and prevention program in a school, are an important and effective way to address communication issues, including the problem of alcohol use. This video is designed to stimulate discussion among students, parents, and adult leaders.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part I (October 22, 1997)
Video 330
Adults    120 minutes    1997
Donna Shalala introduces initiatives to promote collaborative activity, and encourage the adoption of prevention strategies. There is a short video behind the scenes and strategies to target these problems.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part II, Building Healthy Youth: Strategies and Services
Video 590
Adults    116 minutes    1999    
Part II of this series helps to identify useful tools and models for helping to keep youth away from alcohol and drugs. The video promotes the use of science-based prevention programs for youth and provides specific examples of effective programs for youth. A panel of experts discusses the strategies they have used.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part III, Building Healthy Communities: Partnerships and Collaborations
Video 155
Adults    115 minutes    1998    
This March 10, 1998 teleconference focuses on partnerships and comprehensive prevention strategies for states and communities. The video emphasizes the vital roles that parents, schools, businesses, law enforcement and juvenile justice partnerships, faith communities, local anti-drug coalitions, and state and local government play in preventing youth substance abuse.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part IV, Parents: The First Line of Defense in Prevention
Video 167
Adults    116 minutes    1999    
In this videotaped teleconference, key scientific findings to help parents prevent substance abuse in their children are discussed. The video examines various risk and protective factors, including parental substance abuse, family management practices, and family bonding. Part IV also stresses the importance of parent-child communication and suggests ways for parents to encourage discussion of substance abuse with their children.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part V, Social Problems and Substance Abuse: Organizing for Effective Solutions
Video 591
Adults    120 minutes    1999    
Research has shown that violence, AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, youth crime, and substance abuse are interrelated. This video explores these issues and looks at the strategies some communities have used to prevent social problems.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part VI, Media and Culture: Empowering Youth for Prevention
Video 592
Adults    120 minutes    1999    
Youth are often influenced by the powerful messages found on television programs, and in movies, advertising, and music. These messages often relate to substance abuse and other risky behaviors; however, media can also convey positive, healthy messages. This video presents an overview of some of the research done on the effects of media on youth.

Letter on Light Blue Stationery, The: A Story About Self Esteem
Video 93
Grades 1-5    22 minutes    1988    
Pamela and the Human Race Club learn that each and every person is special. After the death of Pamela's classmate, Pamela is asked to write a sympathy letter to her friend's family. This video encourages children to value themselves and others by learning to appreciate every human being.

Letter to Dad, A
Video 154
Teens/Adults    39 minutes    1991    Supplemental material available
Returning to her childhood home for a funeral, Megan Riley, a divorced mother of two teenagers, relives the trauma of growing up with an unpredictable, violent alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother.

Life, Death and Recovery of an Alcoholic, The
Video 329
Adults    28 minutes    1977
Joseph Pursch, M.D. presents evidence that the disease of alcoholism is progressive and follows a predictable course but can be interrupted. Awareness, early intervention, and rehabilitation will help the alcoholic become a healthy, productive, responsible person again.

Lifelines
Video 294
Teens/Adults    16 minutes    1990
Presents the dramatized stories of three low-income women of different ethnic backgrounds who were faced with choices to make about cigarettes, alcohol and other drug use during pregnancy.

Life Or Meth? What It Costs
Video 595
Teens    12 minutes    1999    
This fast paced, powerful overview of methamphetamines covers: the contents of this manufactured drug; the affects on the body; the effects on the brain; and the effects on the lives of users. Features interviews with two young former meth users.

Lift It Up
Video 564
Teen/Adult    8 minutes    1994    
This powerful film reaches people on an emotional and intellectual level by exposing the relationship between alcohol and violence. It draws a straight line to link alcohol as a key contributing factor in assault, murder, child abuse, campus rape and emotional trauma.

Live Local KCTS "Take a Step" Production
Video 487
All Ages    40 minutes    1998    
Hosted by Enrique Cerna. This video looks at addiction in our state, how it affected one family and the availability and success of treatment.

Looking Forward To Tomorrow: Medical Aspects of Seniors and Substances
Video 309
Adults    28 minutes    1994
This is an awareness video for older adults and their families focusing on how to maximize your health for the future. It also addresses issues regarding the use of alcohol, prescription and over-the-counter medications, to help make every year the best it can be.

Lookin' Good
Video 48
Teens    58 minutes    1990    Supplemental material available
Based on actual incidents involving drug and alcohol use, the dramas in this video spotlight refusal skills and show how a handful of concerned students, with the help of their school and community, build a peer support group to resist peer pressure to use drugs.

Lo Que Hizo Ramon
Video 215
Teen-College-Adults    30 minutes    1993    Also available in English, see Video 214.
Un drama que nos hace comprender la responsabilidad que tenemos todos de controlar la propagacion del SIDA. Presentado por Esai Morales, con C. Everett Koop, anterior Cirujano General de los EE. UU. (U.S. Surgeon General).

Los Primos
Video 74
Teens/Adults    20 minutes    1991    Supplemental material available
(Spanish)
Story of two Mexican cousins who come to Washington state to work and find themselves dealing with the American legal system.

Lots of Kids Like Us
Video 49
Grades 1-6    23 minutes    1982    
Two children are caught up in the trauma and confusion of having an alcoholic parent. This sensitive dramatization stresses healthy ways for children to deal with their feelings of guilt and unhappiness.

Lynn's Story-MTV version
Video 694
Teens    60 minutes    2001
An MTV program which portrays the story of Lynn Smith and her problems with ecstasy use.

Lynn's Story-Oprah version
Video 699
Teens    60 minutes    2001
An episode of Oprah which talks of the dangers of ecstasy use. Lynn Smith, a former ecstasy user also tells her story of her experience with the dangerous drug, ecstasy.