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Main Line (Spanish)
Video 573
Adults    15 minutes     1992     Also available in English, see video 184
A story vignette of a hazardous chemical explosion in a factory warehouse demonstrates the dangers of taking drugs while on the job. A severely injured worker expresses his anger with a drug using co-worker.

Make The Right Call: Orientation
Video 459
Adults      8 minutes      1992     
Orientation film about a former ER nurse who describes the consequences of underage drinking & drunk driving.

Making Changes for the Better
Video 574
Teens      30 minutes      1991      Supplemental material available
Produced with high school students in New York City, this video is comprised of two 15-minute segments. In "Self-Esteem" Junior is feeling low and depressed, and actually meets his Self-Esteem face to face and is taken through several uplifting lessons.

Manage It! Addictive Patterns
Video 555
Adults      24 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
High-risk styles of dealing with stress can develop into serious addictions. Investigate the relationship between stress and negative coping patterns. Learn to recognize the cycle of self-destructive symptom relief, and develop a wide range of effective long term alternatives for managing stress.

Manage It! Interpersonal Conflict
Video 554
Adults      24 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
Relationships are a source of both strength and stress. Learn to identify the relationship stressors that can affect work performance. Develop communication skills that will help minimize conflict. Build a positive network of support for yourself.

Manage It! Job Stress
Video 556
Adults      24 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
Stress can turn any job into drudgery. A fulfilling work experience can help employees become more efficient and more effective. Assess job stress by identifying drainers and energizers in the workplace. Learn new skills for coping with the pressures of work setting and for re-energizing your creative vision.

Manage It! Stress Overload
Video 553
Adults      24 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
Sometimes stress piles up. Learn how to identify stress overload and how to utilize a multitude of specific skills for combating it - emergency skills for surviving an immediate crisis; short term skills for managing chronic, recurring stress; and long term skills for making healthful lifestyle adjustments.

Manage It! Stress Traps
Video 552
Adults      24 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
Recognize pitfalls and avoid them. Learn how to identify stressors and how to avoid the three most common "stress traps": misperception, misspending, and overcontrol. Through individual and group exercises, learn the important stress management skills of re-labeling, prioritizing, and letting go.

Manage It! Survival Skills
Video 557
Adults      24 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
Life changes constantly and people must adapt. Evaluate your current coping patterns. Set personal goals and begin to develop a wide range of new skills - a complete repertoire of effective coping alternatives that you can rely on for a lifetime.

Marijuana: Setting Things Straight
Video 254
Teens    17 minutes     1995
This video deals with the issues of marijuana use, abuse, peer pressure and friendship.

Marijuana Update
Video 176
Teens/Adults      22 minutes      1991     
Testimony from former users reveals not only their attraction to marijuana, but also the dangers of using it. Common indicators of marijuana use and the physical hazards of using it are presented. A sheriff explains how this "drug of the 60's" is far more powerful and dangerous today.

Marijuana: Weeding Out the Hype
Video 709
Teens/Adults    30 minutes    2002
A panel talks about myths surrounding marijuana use, including false perceptions of safety and harmlessness, the assumption that "everyone" is using it, and the role that pop culture plays in influencing those myths.

Marijuana: What Can Parents Do?
Video 288
Adults     14 minutes     1995
Parents discuss what can be done about kids using marijuana.

Marketing Booze to Blacks
Video 50
Teens/Adults      17 minutes      1990      Supplemental material available
Describes the health and social consequences of alcohol abuse in the African American community, and how advertising specifically aimed at this community seems to affect the usage and attitudes towards alcohol.

Mary's Choice
Video 187
Teens/Adults      23 minutes      1994     
This video discusses the importance of drug and alcohol prevention during pregnancy (focuses on teens).

Matter of Balance, A
Video 729
Teens/Adults    25 minutes    1987
This video explains and visualizes the impact of psychoactive drugs (including alcohol and tobacco) on the body. The video emphasizes how the body tries to stay in balance internally as well as externally; how it tries to compensate for drugs that are smoked, shot, ingested, or snorted; and how a person can achieve highs naturally, without drugs. This is a science-based educational tool that assists in the development of drug avoidance behaviors in users and nonusers alike.

McGruff's "The NO Show"
Video 51
Grades 1-5      23 minutes      1989     
Convinces children that drugs are not cool and that there are lots of fun things to do without drugs.

Measures of Effectiveness: Evaluating Your Prevention Program
Video 606
Adults     110 minutes    2000
Training session where speakers provide tips on evaluating coalitions and their drug prevention efforts.

Media Sharp: Analyzing Tobacco and Alcohol Messages
Video 600
Teens     7 minutes    1999     Supplemental material available
The video, designed for use in the classroom, aims to help you enhance the ability of youth to assess media messages about alcohol and tobacco; increase youth's understanding of the potential influence of such messages on behavior; and to heighten youth's ability to resist the influence of such media messages on their behavior.

Medical Aspects of Alcohol, Part 1
Video 565
Teen/College/Adult    27 minutes    1991
Part 1 illustrates the effects of alcohol on the liver, heart, pancreas, kidney and other organs of the body.

Medical Aspects of Alcohol, Part 2
Video 566
Teens/College/Adult    24 minutes    1991
Part 2 deals largely with the effect of alcohol upon the brain and nerve tissue.

Meeting the Challenge
Video 203
Adults      20 minutes      1991      cc
Designed for alcohol and drug service providers working with Deaf/Hearing Impaired people in recovery.

Mentoring
Video 523
Teens/Adults    120 minutes    1999
This video discusses the effectiveness of mentoring as a drug prevention tool. Statistics show that kids who have mentors are less likely to use drugs. Video highlights successful mentoring programs, youth involved in mentoring programs, and provides information on becoming a mentor.

Methadone
Video 185
Adults      33 minutes      1990     
Describes the pros and cons of methadone use as an aid to recovery from heroin. Individuals in recovery discuss their experiences with this synthetic drug.

Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment Forum-Part 1 "Myths and Facts About Meth Addiction"
Video 695
Adults    118 minutes    2001
Methamphetamine Forum focusing on the treatment of methamphetamine addiction, held in Tacoma, WA on December 7, 2001.

Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment Forum-Part 2 "Dealing With the Issue"
Video 696
Adults    97 minutes    2001
Methamphetamine Forum focusing on the treatment of methamphetamine addiction, held in Tacoma, WA on December 7, 2001.

Methamphetamine: The Crystal Cage
Video 648
Teens    28 minutes    1998
Extensively interviews five former users as a means of exploring the cycle of addiction and learning first-hand the risks involved in methamphetamine use and addiction.

Methamphetamine: The Rush to Crash
Video 249
Teens-Adults    28 minutes    1997
Educates the viewer to the dangers of methamphetamine use through slick computer graphics and personal testimonies.

Meth: A Snap Shot of an Ugly Drug
Video 296
Adults    8 minutes    1997
The Drug Enforcement Administration explores the creation and increased usage of meth.

Meth-Challenge, The (East Coast)
Video 615
Adults     120 minutes    1997
A teleconference which speaks of the increase of meth and what is being done to try to stop the epidemic and educate individuals on the harmful effects of meth.

Meth-Challenge, The (West Coast)
Video 327
Adults    120 minutes    1997
A teleconference hosted by Barry R. McCaffrey, Director Office of National Drug Control Policy, and moderated by Tim Koppel.

Meth Effect, The
Video 511
Teens/Adults    20 minutes    1997
Illustrates how methamphetamines affect the brain and other body systems. Also discussed are the meth high, withdrawal, relapse, and recovery.

Meth Madness Town Hall Meeting-Public Forum on Meth's Potential Deadly Effects
Video 625
Adults    120 minutes    2001
A public forum with 13 speakers discussing methamphetamines, held in Yakima, WA on October 23, 2001.

METH: What's Cooking in Your Neighborhood
Video 639
Adults    30 minutes    2001
A drug specific teleconference on one of the most widely abused illicit drugs in the world, methamphetamine.

Michael's Journey/Growing Up Isn't Easy
Video 492
Grade 5/Teens      42 minutes      1992      Supplemental material available
Michael's Journey: Michael and Bruce are African American boys who exemplify different coping styles of children of alcoholics. Michael is a people pleaser and Bruce acts out.
Growing Up Isn't Easy: Designed to help children discover alternative, less destructive coping skills than those typically adopted by children living in difficult situations.

Mom!! Louie's Looking At Me Again!
Video 52
Teens/Adults      60 minutes      1987     
Spend a fun-filled evening with Louie Anderson, a perceptive comic and adult child of an alcoholic, whose humor is hilarious and heartwarming.

Monica and the Powerful Drug
Video 181
Elementary      17 minutes      1994     
This animated musical is designed to educate young children about alcohol. The cartoon depicts a monkey named Monica learning about alcohol and how it affects her older brother. The cartoon contains messages about health, family, resistance to peers, and ways to have fun without using drugs.

Moyers On Addiction
Video 482
Teens/Adults    90 minutes    1998
A community leaders' teleconference hosted by Robert Krulwich. It explores the steps to take for your own community and shows the guides available and web addresses that can be accessed. There are also excerpts from the series.

Moyers on Addiction & Recovery Modules
Video 486
Teens/Adults      14 minutes      1998     
Five modules with varying programs in different areas are discussed.

Moyers On Addiction-Changing Lives
Video 485
Teens/Adults    90 minutes    1998
PBS special on how lives can be changed

Moyers On Addiction-Portrait of Addiction: The Politics of Addiction
Video 484
Teens/Adults    120 minutes    1998
PBS special on how politics affects the fight on addiction.

MTV Talks Tobacco
Video 522
Teens    18 minutes    1993
In the first segment of this two-part video, former cast members of MTV's Real World talk candidly about the pitfalls of cigarette smoking. The second part features Gabrielle Reese, a professional volleyball player, model, and former host of MTV Sports, discussing the effects of cigarette smoking on physical fitness with street luge champion Roger Hickey. Both parts of the video encourage young people to view tobacco use as a problem that is relevant to them.

My Pot Video
Video 646
Teens     16 minutes     1992
This video delivers important information about the serious problem of marijuana in an entertaining, fast-paced style that will appeal to today's youth.

My Self Esteem
Video 54
Grades 1-5      18 minutes      1989     
Eleven year-old Molly doesn't think much of herself. Suddenly, her self esteem comes to life -- a mirror image who looks as bad as Molly feels. By the end of the film, both are united in one strong, confident individual.

My Father's Son, The Legacy of Alcoholism
Video 725
Teens/Adults    32 minutes    1984
The story of two boys growing up in a house with an alcoholic father and the feelings and emotions it creates for them.

My Wings Grow Powerful: Dare To Be You
Video 302
Adults    21 minutes    1995
Family members are encouraged to value themselves and others not for what they do, but for what they are. Positive reinforcement for building parenting skills.