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Understanding Addiction
Video 136
Adults    28 minutes    1989    

Host Roberta Meyer, professional counselor and author, explores the 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.


Understanding Addiction (Issues Based Training Series)
Video 597
College/Adult    40 minutes    1995    

Video is divided into two distinct parts. The first part, "Here's to Sister Carolyn," is a 20-minute theatre monologue in which Carolyn tells of her own personal struggle with addiction and recovery. The second part is the 20-minute "Chalk Talk," a lecture on the key topics identifying addiction and how to get someone help.


Understanding A Need: AOD Abuse Prevention for People With Disabilities
Video 159
Teens/Adults    15 minutes    1993    

People with disabilities discuss how drug and alcohol abuse affects their already challenged lives.


Understanding the Science & Chemistry of Addiction
Video 498
Adults    120 minutes    1998

Recent scientific advances in the area of addiction are discussed by a panel of experts. The practical implications of these advances on prevention and treatment are also explored.


Unite to Fight: Communities Can Mobilize to Protect Our Youth
Video 331
Adults    120 minutes    1998

How coalitions can make a difference in reducing drug use.


Uppers, Downers, All Arounders, The Effects, Part 1
Video 245
Teens/Adults    30 minutes    1993

Examines how and why the physical and emotional centers of the brain are affected by psychoactive drugs. This video also examines the various levels of drug-seeking behavior from experimentation, social use, habituation and abuse to addiction.


Uppers, Downers, All Arounders, The Drugs, Part 2
Video 246
Teens/Adults    30 minutes    1993

This video seeks to identify the most commonly used psychoactive drugs, classifies them by effect and shows how they are absorbed, metabolized and used or abused.


Using Research to Improve Drug Abuse Treatment
Video 509
Adults    90 minutes     1999

Talks of how understanding addiction has allowed scientists to develop effective treatments that have helped people's lives.



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Video Guide to Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Prevention Videos
Video 112
Adults    15 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available

When used with the supplemental material, this video provides complete guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of drug and alcohol prevention videos.


Violence Prevention: Inside Out
Video 130
Teens    60 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available

Through narration, interviews, and dramatization, this video examines the feelings inside oneself leading to and resulting from violence, and violence experienced externally in the home, school, society and environment in general. It provides teachers, counselors, and mental health professionals with a way to facilitate this learning process. Three, 20 minute segments.