Macomb County office of Substance Abuse

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ADDICTION: HBO SPECIAL DISC 1 & 2
Addiction: The Supplementary Series from HBO What is Addiction? Understanding Relapse The Search for Treatment The adolescent addict Interviews with NIDA director, researchers, school of medicine Getting Addict into Treatment Treating Stimulant Addiction Opiate Addiction Drug Court A Mother's Desperation
Selected Audience: Adolescents & Adults

ADDICTION: HBO SPECIAL DISC 3 & 4
Addiction: The Supplementary Series from HBO What is Addiction? Understanding Relapse The Search for Treatment The adolescent addict Interviews with NIDA director, researchers, school of medicine Getting Addict into Treatment Treating Stimulant Addiction Opiate Addiction Drug Court A Mother's Desperation
Selected Audience: Adolescents & Adults

ADOLESCENT TREATMENT APPROACHES
Multidimensional issues that surround adolescent substance abuse are identified along with strategies for helping these high risk youth. The videotape stresses the importance of understanding the specific needs that accompany adolescents' development as the key to success in treatment. (1991, 25 Min.)
Selected Audience: All/Treatment counselors

ALCOHOL & DRUGS: BODY & MIND
What happens to our bodies when we abuse alcohol and drugs? What is the effect on our brain chemistry? How do drugs actually produce the effect of feeling high, and what is the price we pay? The answers to these questions are the focus of this program. Issues related to tolerance, dependence and craving are discussed, and are illustrated visually through the use of brain scans and various other graphics. Viewers come to a much fuller understanding of the medical consequences of alcohol and drug abuse at the end of this serious featuring Dr. John Keppler. (2002, 43 mins) VHS
Selected Audience: Adolescents & Adults

Alcohol & Sex: prescription for peer decision-making
Sexually transmitted infection rates have risen among students. Alcohol consumption is a likely contributor. Sober decisions can help reduce, unwanted pregnancy, sexual assault, rape, STI, and even death. (1998, 21 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: 8th grade to college
Selected Audience: 8TH TO COLLEGE

Alcohol and your body: Assessing the Damage
Interviews and cautionary tale. Narrator identifies signs typical of problem drinker both physical and social. (1998, 26 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: High School
Selected Audience: 8TH TO COLLEGE

ALCOHOL EXPOSED
Alcohol is the most widely available and most abused drug in the world today. This point is driven home in this video and print package in a way that middle school and junior high students will understand and remember. Students see the short-term and long-term harmful effects alcohol causes on the body as well as the intoxicating effects on the mind. Using interviews and narration by peers, the video exposes ways that alcohol use interferes with health, education and personal lives. The ravages of alcoholism and the struggles of families living with alcoholics are presented. Binge drinking is singled out as a very dangerous and potentially lethal activity that young people must avoid at all costs. (1998, 16 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: 5th to 9th grade
Selected Audience: 5th to 9th grade

ALCOHOL: THE MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES
According to Dr. Keppler, alcohol is the most accessible and commonly used and abused drug by people of all ages. In terms of being harmful to your health, it is also the substance that people think of least. But the reality, as shown in this series, is that alcohol is far from harmless. Computer graphics and brain scans illustrate precisely what alcohol is capable of inside the human body. Part One focuses on alcohol's effects on the pharynx, throat, stomach, pancreas, and liver. Dr. Keppler explains that alcohol's unique tendency to remain in the body considerably longer than other drugs bathes these organs in toxic material for extended periods. A bonus Q&A segment follows. (2004, 30 Min) Part Two discusses alcohol's target organ: the brain. Viewers learn how alcohol affects the chemistry, biology, and structure of the brain. Additional topics include effects on skeletal, heart, and hormonal systems. A bonus Q&A segment follows. (2004, 31 Min)
Selected Audience: Adolescents and Adults

ALCOHOLISM
Society and the media encourage drinking, but for people like Megan, who began drinking as a teenager, that encouragement meant disaster. Eventually, with professional help, she was able to recognize her "hidden" addiction and fight back. Along with health professionals featured in the program, Megan points out the symptoms of alcoholism, the body's dependency on the drug, and the deadly progress of the disease. (1987, 10 Min.)
Selected Audience: Alcohol tx centers/Hospitals/Families & friends of alcoholics/Any group concerne

ANSWERS WE KNOW
This video addresses the realities of alcohol addiction and answers questions about why medical scientists have concluded that alcoholism is a primary disease not a symptom of some other psychological or mental disorder.(1988, 26 Min.)
Selected Audience: Care professionals/EAP personnel/General public

ASSESSMENT
Standardized tools facilitate the clinician's job by eliciting accurate information and helping the clinician make the right decisions. Specific adult and adolescent tools examined include the ASI, the POSIT, the APSI, and PEI. (1991, 22 Min.)
Selected Audience: Treatment counselors

BABIES AND BOOZE DON'T MIX
An expectant mom and her girlfriends celebrate away from the children. The celebration leads to drinking margaritas and a discussion about the dangers of drinking alcohol, birth defects, and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). (2005, 13 mins) DVD
Selected Audience: Adolescents and Adults

BENNY AND THE 'ROIDS
THE DANGERS OF TAKING STEROIDS IS THE FOCUS OF THIS REVEALING DRAMA OF AN ASPIRING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER. BENNY, IT SEEMS, IS GOING NOWHERE AST ON HIS CURRENT TRAINING PROGRAM. FOOTBALL IS HIS LIFE, AND HE WANTS IT TO CONTINUE INTO THE PROS. TO HIM, STEROIDS ARE THE ONLY MEANS TO GET THE RECOGNITITON REQUIRED TO FULFILL HIS DREAMS. HE GETS BIGGER AND BETTER, BUT THE NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS OF THE DRUG OUTWEIGH THE GOOD, AND HIS DREAM ENDS UP SHATTERED. THIS AWARENESS-RAISING PROGRAM IS A CASE STUDY IN STEROID ABUSE, DEMONSTRATING THE POTENTIALLY SERIOUS HEALTH RISKS YOUNG ATHLETES TAKE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SPORTS. MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT PROMOTES HARD WORK AND HEALTH AS THE MEANS FOR WINNING IN LIFE. (1988, 25 min.)
Selected Audience: Junior/High School students

BINGE DRINKING: THE FACTS
Physicians send clear message regarding risks of heavy drinking. Prolonged alcohol use can damage brain, heart, respiratory system, memory, etc. Don’t become another alcohol poisoning statistic! (1998, 24 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: 7th grade to college
Selected Audience: 7TH TO COLLEGE

BODYWATCH: INHERITING ALCOHOLISM
Children of alcoholics bear a double burden - they must endure the consequences of their parents' excessive behavior as well as the strong possibility of adopting that behavior themselves. This insightful program explores the psychological and physio-logical ramifications of living with this disorder. (1989, 28 Min.)
Selected Audience: Children of alcoholics/SA professionals

BOMBED
Spring break-the victimless crime? Police, students and hospitals are highlighted. The topics discussed are drinking and driving and binge drinking. (1998, 28 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: 10th grade to college
Selected Audience: 10TH TO COLLEGE

BRAIN SCANS: ALCOHOL AND THE TEENAGE BRAIN
This video takes teens on a tour of several labs across the country including one at the University of California at San Diego where doctors are researching the effects of alcohol abuse in teenage brains. The show's young host has a scan performed on her own brain, and then has the chance to see how it compares with the brains of other teens who drink alcohol regularly. The ground-breaking studies highlighted in the video dramatically connect long-term brain damage to underage drinking. Your students will see first-hand how alcohol affects teens as young as fourteen and fifteen years old. They will also learn why alcohol seems to harm younger brains more profoundly than older ones both in short term and long term, impairing memory, coordination and motivation and causing addiction. Video delivers a strong caution to teens considering any use of alcohol. Includes Pre- and Post-Tests (2002, 23 Min) DVD
Selected Audience: GRADES 7 - COLLEGE

BREAKING THE MOLD/BREAKING THE MYTH: DEFINING THE MASCULINE IDENTITY
A three-part series with Robert Subby, psychologist/ lecturer, gives an account of men in various stages of personal identity development. Tape 1: Retrieving the Past This video questions the ability to trust, stand separate from others, respond to change and finish what they start. (29 Min.) Tape 2: Healing the Wounds Focus is on the psychological and emotional fallout created as a result of living under the influence of a system governed by a set of dysfunctional rules. (22 Min.) Tape 3: Setting the Course This video pulls together all the critical developmental components of personal growth and presents viewers with an inspirational message of hope. (28 Min.) (1993)
Selected Audience: Men groups/Psychologists & therapists/SA professionals

BROTHER EARL'S OUR FATHER
Brother Earl discusses the vital subject of spirituality with sensitivity and conviction. The Lord's Prayer is broken down into a practical day-to-day guide to help the recovering addict embrace spirituality and manage life. Audience involvement adds to the warmth. (1989, 40 Min.)
Selected Audience: Treatment centers/Concerned family members/Schools/Churches/Social service agenc

BROTHER EARL'S STREET TALK
Approaching chemical dependency in a down-to-earth manner, this video describes what addiction is and how it affects behavior, performance, and judgment. Crucial, basic concepts on addiction are discussed, including denial, rationalization, and loss of control. (1989, 60 Min.)
Selected Audience: Treatment centers/Concerned family members/Schools/Churches/Social service agenc

CAN I BORROW THE CAR?
This videotape focuses on ways to reduce the crashes of beginning drivers, since the rate is higher than that of older drivers. With the help of parents, restrictions and supervision, lives can be saved while teens learn to drive and become more mature. Teens provide reasons that they want to drive. Parents of teens who have died in crashes tell how the tragedies happened and how their families have been affected. (2002, 16 min.)
Selected Audience: Parents

CHALK TALK ON ALCOHOL
Father Martin talks about the seriousness and extent of alcoholism. He also talks about the things we drink and why we drink them. Further, he shows that alcohol is a sedative drug and is addictive by nature and lists the symptoms of the disease and recovery resources. (1974, 45 min.)
Selected Audience: Recovering individuals

CINCINNATI BONES AND THE TREASURE OF HEALTH
Long ago, an ancient tribe called the Hitecs lived in a beautiful city deep in the jungle. They were strong people, and they build many wonderful things. But when the Hitecs began taking drugs, their minds clouded and their bodies were destroyed. As the tribe was dying, they built a body machine to warn future generations about the damage of drugs. Cincinnati Bones, the great explorer, faces great perils as he explores the damage done by drugs to the heart, brain, lungs, stomach, and eyes. (1989, 15 min.)
Selected Audience: Elementary

CRUEL SPIRITS: ALCOHOL AND VIOLENCE
Every day, thousands of Americans get drunk and, in many instances, something violent occurs. Cruel Spirits reveals how alcohol is often responsible, yet rarely blamed for these tragedies, and that the extent of alcohol-related violence is both grossly under-estimated and under-reported. (1989, 32 min.)
Selected Audience: High school/Adults

CRYSTAL METH: FOX 2 PROBLEM SOLVER
Fox 2 Problem solver and Montel Williams provide an overview of what meth is and how this chemical is growing in popularity. Meth is a very addictive drug that is made in labs (homes, trunks of cars, motel room, etc.) The dangers of brain damage from these chemicals are highlighted for people/children living in the homes where they are mixed. These chemicals are so highly explosive that a normal lab can explode taking down the surrounding houses but a Super lab can take down a whole city block. Learn what Michigan is doing about this drug problem.(2003, 48 min.)
Selected Audience: Teens, Adults

DRUG ABUSE AND THE BRAIN
Through animation and interviews with experts in the field, clinicians will come to understand how the brain and its reward system work and how drug abuse can cause fundamental changes in the way the brain works. (1993, 25 Min.)
Selected Audience: All target audiences/Treatment counselors

DRUG ABUSE TEST
Unique opportunity to test what individuals know about drugs and alcohol. Question and answer format dispels myths about marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol; promotes lively discussion. Includes information by leading drug experts. (1983, 25 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high/High school/Adults

DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT IN PRISON: A NEW WAY OUT
Portrays two comprehensive drug abuse treatment approaches that have been effective with men and women in state and federal prisons. (1994, 23 Min.)
Selected Audience: Counselors who work in prison settings

DRUG AVENGERS
The Drug Avengers story shows the meeting of two "kid cultures," cultures from different times with a common problem: drug abuse. Ten animated cartoons (four designed for grades 1,2,3, five designed for grades 4,5,6, and a common "pilot" episode) tells about visitors from the future. The Drug Avengers. (1989, 10 five min. episodes)
Selected Audience: Grades 1-6

EPIDEMIC CONTINUES: KIDS, DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (THE)
Young recovering drug users recount their addictions and the stunning loss of social, intellectual and professional skills they have suffered from drug use. Statistical information is provided. (1992, 31 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior High/Adult

FAST FORWARD: AN ALCOHOLIC'S STORY
A teenager who has a drinking problem meets a mysterious man that shows him what life will be like if he continues to drink. (1995, 29 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/COAs/ Substance abusers

FATHER MARTIN - PARENTS’ SILENCE CONDONES
What do young people have to contend with on a daily basis? The more we know about substances helps our kids stay away from them. Education, communication, and cooperation are the best ways to avoid substance abuse in your family. (1988, 18 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults

FATHER MARTIN - PREVENTION
Father Martin explains the difference between abuse and addiction. By reducing the abuse of alcohol we can reduce alcoholism. Every adult needs to make their own decisions based on their values and their personal experiences. He points out times when it is appropriate to drink and when it is inappropriate. (1972, 31 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults

FIVE MYTHS THAT SABOTAGE RECOVERY
In this recovery video, Earnie Larsen teaches five mental mistakes that threaten high level recovery: What "Myths" are. What the five mistakes are. What healthy "shoulds" are. (1991, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Recovering persons

FOX 2: SPRING BREAK IN CANCUN WITH MICHIGAN TEENS
WJBK-TV went to Cancun and followed Michigan teens around on their vacation. The massive amounts of alcohol, drugs and sex are compromising our children’s health. The underage drinking goes on day and night without any police or parental supervision. (1998, 5 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/Adults

FROM NOW ON
The video follows four individuals through their treatment for chemical dependency and their struggle in staying drug free. (1989, 27 Min.)
Selected Audience: Treatment and rehabilitation programs/Referral agencies/High school/Adults

FROM OPIUM TO HEROIN
This video explains the most important issues related to opiates and their abuse including: physiological effects, endorphin, tolerance, tissue dependence, overdose, AIDS, drug synergism, adulterants, addiction, withdrawal, and recovery. (1988, 51 Min.)
Selected Audience: Heroin and other opiate addicted individuals/Treatment centers

GENERATIONAL FORGETTING
For 130 years American society has followed a cyclical pattern of drug abuse. Topics of discussion include LSD, Opiates, and heroin. (1994, 18 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school/College/Adults

HAIGHT-ASHBURY COCAINE FILM
This film details what cocaine is and how it manipulates brain chemicals. By using computer graphics, animation and personal interviews, the film demonstrates how cocaine inhibits the natural balance of the brain's chemistry and can replace basic survival mechanisms such as sleeping, eating, drinking, and the sex drive. (1985, 35 Min.)
Selected Audience: General audiences

HAZARDS OF DRUGGED DRIVING
This videotape provides students with the information that they need to avoid drug use, protect themselves from others who use drugs, and respond appropriately when confronted with a situation which involves drugs or drugged drivers. (1987, 29 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school students

HEROIN: THE NEXT GENERATION
What goes around comes around – and Heroin is back! But the face of yesterday’s junkie is not the face of the junkie of today. More young people than ever before are shooting it, snorting it — even smoking it. And they’re getting more bang for their buck when buying their heroin on the streets today. One reason: The purity of this drug is the highest at the street level than it’s ever been – that means users don’t have to use needles to inject the drug into their veins. The new ability to snort or smoke heroin is enticing more young people than ever before to give it a try. Smoking it or snorting it is more appealing to younger and first-time users by eliminating the fear of needles and syringe-associated diseases such as HIV, AIDS and hepatitis – not to mention the stigma associated with the stereotypical “junkie” who “shoots up” the drug. Another reason heroin use is on the rise, according to James Hall, an epidemiologist for Up Front Drug Information Center in Miami, Florida is because prescription drug abuse is on the rise. “Young people who try prescription narcotic opiate drugs and like the effects of those drugs are turning to heroin because it packs a similar, yet more powerful punch than prescription narcotic opiates,” Hall says. “That’s why prescription drug abuse is becoming a stepping stone to first time heroin users.” (2006, 90 min) DVD and VHS format
Selected Audience: TREATMENT PROFESSIONALS

HIGH ON MYSELF
"High on Myself" is a rap video produced by 4H. The video features teenagers rapping an anti-drug message which also encourages kids to get involved in alternative highs. (1987, 4 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high/High school

HOOKED: A Gambler's Nightmare
"Hooked" is a powerful documentary on gambling addiction and how its abuse affects the family. There are many interviews with high-school students as well as the emotional story of how problem gambling affected two families. Designed for use by counselors trained to treat the problem gambler, this program is also useful in raising awareness with students about problem gambling. (1996, 15 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teen/Adult

HOW TO BECOME AN ALCOHOLIC
Guided by host Joe Dempsey, the viewer is provided with the key answers about alcoholism: What is it? Who gets it? When does it happen? Why does it only happen to some people? And finally, how does it happen? (1998, 13 Min.)
Selected Audience: Middle School

IN THE SHADOWS: CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS
This video uses realistic dramatizations to examine the relationship of an alcoholic and his children. The characters are seen in four vignettes characteristic of the daily conflicts in the life of an alcoholic's family. (1989, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior and senior high schools/ PTO/Social service agencies/ Community organizat

INTERVENTION, THE
A sequel to the video "The Enablers," this video picks up where the first video left off. Here the family takes positive action by initiating a recovery process for the dependent person, as well as for other family members. (1979, 28 Min.)
Selected Audience: College/Adult

INTERVENTION: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FRIENDS
This video offers information and strategies to friends and relatives of person's addicted to alcohol or other drugs. One option is the formal structured intervention. The second strategy is a heart-to-heart talk with the loved one. (1996, 17 Min.)
Selected Audience: Friends/Families

INVISIBLE LINE, THE
This video tells the story of a teenager who started by drinking beer and wine, advanced to pot, then pills, and finally cocaine. (1988, 31 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/Adults

KEG PARTY
Unsupervised and illegal keg parties where beer runs like water are becoming an increasing problem as well as a growing health risk for today’s teenagers. This powerful drama about one such party is sure to resonate with students. Gary’s parents are away for the weekend and he has invited half of the school over for an all-you-can-drink party. David is not sure about bringing Lauren, his younger sister, especially after what happened last year, but he figures she is old enough to take care of herself. Langston also comes to the party in hopes of finally getting up the courage to ask Christine out. The beer, at first, seems to help everyone let loose and have a good time, but before long it is clear that things are spiraling out of control. Before the evening is out, one of the young women finds herself in a dangerous sexual situation, one couple gets into a serious car accident and another student dies needlessly of alcohol poisoning.(2001, 25 Mins) DVD
Selected Audience: GRADES 7 - COLLEGE

KIDS AND ALCOHOL DON'T MIX
The Cosby kids practice for an important soccer game and meet Peter, a super soccer player. On the day of the game, Peter arrives at half time drunk. Ashamed and drunk, he grabs the keys to his parent's car and speeds away - - only to crash into a traffic pole and taken to a juvenile detention home. When Fat Albert visits him there, he introduces Peter to Mark, a recovered teenage alcoholic. With Mark's help, Peter joins a therapy program. (1985, 14 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high

KIDS AND DRUGS - WDIV News Story
Students talk about how they feel about the drug issue. What are the answers for kids and drugs; should we educate, find a common ground, or is Zero Tolerance the answer? Carman Harlen asks several questions. (2000, 58 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school/Adults

KIDS OUT OF CONTROL
This program discusses today's too frequent scenarios: an eighth grader whose drug use completely altered his personality; a young girl who became severely depressed because of work, school, and familial pressure; and a teenage rape victim who ran away from home, attempted suicide, and became addicted to drugs. The program helps viewers to determine whether a child is in need of help, (1993, 25 Min.)
Selected Audience: Youth intervention providers

KISSING GUILT GOODBYE
In this video, Earnie Larson teaches us the nature and power of guilt to limit the quality of recovery: guilt, shame, and avoiding guilt. (1991, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Recovering persons

LIVING IN BALANCE
With colorful animated graphics presented through state of the art electronics, this program explains how basic right/left brain dominance relates to alcohol/drug use, stress, adolescent/parent problems, and a host of other conditions caused by imbalance. It sets the stage and challenges the viewer to explore personal balance. (1985, 20 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adolescents/Substance abuse professionals

LIVING IN BALANCE
In three separate parts, Living in Balance provides information on lifestyle skills that enhance health, relationships, and self understanding. It provides tools and techniques that help prevent stress, substance abuse, and self destruction. (1985) Part 1 - Overview (20 Min.), Part 2 - Peer Pressure, Fear Pressure (21 Min.), Part 3 - Alternatives (28 Min.), Part 4 - Body Parts (60 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior-senior high/Adult

MARIJUANA UPDATE-REVISED
Leo Hayden a former college athlete tells his story of addiction. Graphics are used to demonstrate physical effects. Former addicts share the psychological effects. Facts, chemical content, why kids start, why they don't, tolerance, body organs, estrogen, effects on pregnancy are all covered in the video. (1997, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high/Adult

MARIJUANA: THE MIRROR THAT MAGNIFIES
This video covers an array of issues like the increase of THC over the years, neonatal effects, cognition, the reasons people use this drug, poly drug use and the scientific explanation of this drug's effects on the human body. (1996, 28 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teen/Adult

MEDICAL & LEGAL IDENTIFICATION OF DRUG USE
Tape 1: Neurochemistry of Drug Dependence - presents the basic concepts for understanding dependence or addiction. (33 Min.), Tape 2: Identifying the Addicted or Dependent Person- explains a drug's blood life to determine the type of drug use: occasional, binge, or addiction. (46 Min.), Tape 3; Identifying the Person under the Influence - There are many physical and behavioral indicators that can be used to help determine drug use. (32 Min.), Tape 4: Identifying the Covert User - The basic signs and behaviors associated with covert (non-obvious) drug use is described in this video, with special emphases on time, motivation, and performance as indicators. (33 Min.), Tape 5: What to Do after You Identify the Drug User - This video explains how to get help for the drug user. The key to successful drug treatment and relapse prevention, urine and blood test monitoring, are described. (31 Min.) (1986)
Selected Audience: LAW ENFORCEMENT EDUCATION/TREATMENT

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF TOBACCO
The physical and emotional effects of tobacco are clearly demonstrated in this video by Dr. Max Schneider, M.D. You will also learn from kids who still smoke and from those smokers whose lives have been damaged forever by tobacco use. (1990, 27 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/Adult

METH EFFECT, THE
**Requires notice to pick up.** The effects of crystal meth abuse being both psychological and physical in nature are discussed by Dr. David Ohlm. The drug, the addict will feel an increase in energy, alertness and a decreased appetite. During withdrawals, the user feel extreme fatigue, an increased appetite and is susceptible to psychological problems including depression, paranoia and hallucinations, and in some cases suicidal tendencies and violent outbursts. (2000, 20 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/Adults

METHADONIA
For more than 30 years, methadone has been used to treat heroin addiction. But when mixed with other substances, such as benzodiazopenes, the treatment can be as harmful as the heroin itself. METHADONIA exposes the possible problems of treating heroin addiction with legal methadone. (2005, 88 Mins) DVD
Selected Audience: Treatment Professionals

METHAMPHETAMINE: Neurochemistry & Recovery
This powerful video, Methamphetamine: Neurochemistry & Recovery DVD examines the ways Methamphetamine changes the brain both chemically and structurally and how these changes interfere with the recovery process. Animations are used to show what happens to a users brain when Methamphetamine is introduced, and actual brain scans illustrate what happens as the users comes off of the drug. The video includes sections on basic neurochemistry, factors that inhibit recovery, physiological changes that occur in the brain from Methamphetamine use, including the loss of brain mass, the loss of memory, and an inability to concentrate. (2006, 31 mins) DVD
Selected Audience: Professionals, counselors, recovering people

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 1998
This DVD reviews the background and current directions of motivational interviewing, exploring its essential theoretical and conceptual underpinnings, and discussing its five basic principles. This is by no means a comprehensive introduction to set the context for demonstration of “Opening Strategies,” “Handling Resistance,” “Feedback and “Information Exchange,” “Motivation Interviewing in the Medical Setting,” and “Moving Toward Action.” This is a two disk set. (1998, Each section runs between 40 mins to 60 mins) DVD
Selected Audience: TREATMENT PROFESSIONALS

MUTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS: What Everyone Needs to Know
This program explores the role of mutual support groups (AA, Al-Anon, NA, NarAnon, etc.) and helps you discern whether one might be right for you or someone you care about. You also will learn what makes mutual support groups work and how to find one near you. (2004, 60 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Employers/Educators/Treatment Centers/Health Care providers

NOT ME
The danger of crack are dramatized in this video which focuses on a teenager named Carly, a 13 year old who becomes addicted, her drug-free friend Meg, and a teen drug dealer named James. (1988, 40 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high

PARTY'S OVER, THE
The Party's Over is a visually intense, emotionally honest portrait of the intervention process - - the true stories of three former addicts. We see family members in denial, recognizing the problem, deciding to act, finding the interventionist, selecting and gathering the participants, establishing the rules of the intervention, rehearsing and finally, the intervention itself. (1991, 45 Min.)
Selected Audience: College/Adult

PIECES OF SILENCE
This is the true story of the Subby family telling the story about how their mother's alcoholism affected their lives. Robert Subby, now an addictions counselor, gives educational information between flashbacks to his family's early years. (1988, 56 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adult children of alcoholics/ Substance abuse professionals

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: MISUSE, ABUSE & ADDICTION
This video begins with 7 minutes of public service announcements from the Partnership of a Drug-Free America. Then several substance abuse professionals form a panel to discuss prescription drugs. The panel answers questions via the phone from two satellite conference. (2001, 120 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens and adults

PREVENTION WORKS! HOW TO MAKE IT WORK IN YOUR COMMUNITY
This documentary/training video was produced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The program illustrates what substance abuse prevention is, what makes it most effective, and how it is being put to work by organizations nationwide. (1995, 42 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups

Public Service Announcements from ONDCP 2008
Fifteen and thirty second “Above the Influence” ads directed at youth and parents. Eighteen youth ads and six parent ads (two are in Spanish). Not for broadcast. Office of National Drug Control Policy – Partnership for a Drug Free America. (2008, 12 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: Students and Parents
Selected Audience: STUDENTS & PARENTS

ROLES
Dr. Claudia Black, Ph.D. lectures on the roles that children growing up in alcoholic homes learn to "survive" and to bring some stability to their lives. The four roles explained are: the placater, the acting out child, the responsible child and the adjuster. (1987, 50 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adult children of alcoholics

SAFE FROM HARM
How the child protection system works and why it is available in Michigan. Child Protective Services work on behalf of Family Independence Agency, now called Department of Human Service, DHS, to keep children safe from harm and/or neglect. Abuse and/or neglect must be substantiated before family can receive help. DHS works to keep families together by providing medical, financial, psychological and legal help. (1998, 18 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults

SCULPTURING: AN UPDATE, 1988
People in a chemically dependent family don't trust words. There have been too many games played, too many lies told. In place of words, therapist Sharon Wegscheider uses sculpturing - a technique in which family members are physically placed in positions symbolizing their feelings - demonstrating how chemical dependency fragments and destroys the unity of the family system. (1988, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Family members/Treatment personnel

SECRET ADDICTIONS
Tape 1: Women, Drugs and Alcohol - This documentary offers insights from psychologists, doctors, and other experts involved in recovery programs for women addicts. (35 Min.), Tape 2: Women in Treatment - Women and their children describe their own experiences in recovery. (32 Min.) (1991)
Selected Audience: Recovering alcoholics and addicts/ Health and social service agencies

SEEKING AND FINDING YOUR HIGHER POWER
In this tape, Earnie Larsen strives to get across the importance of Steps 1, 2, and 3. The ability to turn our lives over to a power greater than ourselves, Earnie begins the tape by breaking down a problem. This becomes the primary spiritual obstacle. If they have never had those experiences, Earnie invites the group to build on the treatment experience as a beginning place to trust a power greater than ourselves ... The Higher Power. The group is left with some strong topics for discussion, why spirituality is so important and who or what is your higher power. (1989, 35 Min.)
Selected Audience: Recovering people

SMOKING, DRINKING AND DRUGS
Puppet vignettes help young viewers learn the truth about chemical use and abuse. A puppet dinosaur is counseled by Caveman against a drug plant's temptation to feel good. A family shows that when a person drinks too much, others can be hurt, too, and Spinner's friend Elliot comes up with an inspired answer for those who make fun of anyone who says "no" to drugs. (1983, 15 Min.)
Selected Audience: Primary school-aged youth

SMOKING: TRUTH OR DARE?
Smoking: Truth or Dare?, is a powerful program that graphically demonstrates to teens who use tobacco exactly what this deadly habit is doing to them. The damage smoking or chewing tobacco does to their bodies is not just something intangible that they might have to face forty or more years down the road. (1998, 34 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens/Adults

SOOPER PUPPY
Baxter is a puppy who gets in trouble for chewing on a new rug. While he is feeling bad about himself, Baxter meets up with two dogs who talk him into letting them inside his master's garage where he drinks beer, and smokes a cigarette just to "prove" himself a worthy member of the "garbage can club." After being yelled at for being a bad dog, Baxter runs away from home and talks to Grandpaw, who tells him the story of "Sooper Puppy," a story about self esteem. (1988, 19 Min.)
Selected Audience: Early elementary

SOOPER PUPPY: FLYING HIGH
Baxter wants to fly, but he finds the bumbling and mischievous Grizzle and Stoops who try to convince him that he can really fly "high" on drugs. Through the story of "Mortimer, The Flying Turtle," Baxter learns the difference between real fun and fake fun, which is a drug illusion. (1989, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: Early elementary

STEROIDS: SHORTCUT TO MAKE-BELIEVE MUSCLES
This video provides information on what steroids are, who uses them, and why. It describes the harmful, long-term effect of using steroids, and demonstrates how to say "no" when faced with the decision of using steroids. (1988, 32 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school/College

STREET DRUGS
"Street Drugs" are any substance bought or sold, used or abused, outside a normal doctor/patient relationship. Learn how these drugs affect both the brain and the body: initial effects, withdrawal, and long-term effects of each drug. (1989, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: General audiences

STUDENTS - YOUR CHOICE
Father Martin talks about students’ choices over drugs and alcohol. He points out that drugs are drugs, but so is alcohol - it is a sedative drug. It is your choice! You have the freedom to do anything - to use or abuse or refrain! (1988, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: High School

SUBSTANCE ABUSE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND TREATMENT CHOICES
This 12 part video training series provides information on substance abuse issues. Self-test information is included. The topics include: Tape 1: The Nature of Addiction (35 Min.), Tape 2: Biological Factors (45 Min.), Tape 3: Addiction and Society (54 Min.), Tape 4: Treatment or Incarceration (40 Min.), Tape 6: Evaluation, Medical Considerations and The Treatment Milieu (60 Min.), Tape 8: The Self-medication Motive for Alcohol and Drug Abuse; Dual Diagnosis; Alcoholism as a Complication of Psychiatric Disorder (60 Min.), Tape 9: Treatment of Addictive Disease: Fundamental Principles (55 Min.), Tape 10: Assessment and Referral for Alcohol/drug Related Traffic Offenders (37 Min.), Tape 12: Substance Abuse and Mental Disorder: Concurrent Illness (50 Min.) (1990)
Selected Audience: Substance abuse professionals

TAKE CHARGE! WITH JEFF JAY
This videotape explains why Jeff Jay developed an audiotape program and handbook to guide family and friends in an intervention. You will learn how to recognize the signs of alcohol and drug dependency, how families and friends can help a loved one, ten common myths about addictions, proven techniques for families, and special advice for adolescents and older adults. (1995) Audiotapes
Selected Audience: Family and friends

TALK TO EACH OTHER
Teaches teens to say no to peer pressure. It explains that too much, too soon is no good. Discusses in straight forward but non-controversial language the realities and responsibilities of sexuality, including using drugs to avoid responsibility. It teaches basic communication skills. It teaches kids how to recognize and evaluate feelings, and teens demonstrate basic communication skills and how to evaluate friendships. (1986, 44 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school

TEARS, FEARS & JOY
Dealing with life-long illness can be difficult. People need to learn where they can turn for support. This video goes through the lives of several people with different types of illness and the mechanisms they use to cope. (1999, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: People with chronic illness

TEEN FILES: THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS
Hosted by Leeza Gibbons, a powerful program that graphically demonstrates to teens the effects of various types of drugs on their lives. The damage drugs do to their bodies is not always apparent, and today's teens often overlook the dangers they face when using, such as rape, homelessness, suicide, jail time, and the inability to focus and study. (1999, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens

TEENS & MARIJUANA: PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING
This DVD program dispels the many myths of marijuana use and brings teens and young adults into the realities of their present world. Factual information is given for the chemical compound makeup of marijuana, and current research expains the brains reaction to THC. (2000, min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

THERE IS HOPE
A well-known therapist explains the progressive stages of the disease with sensitivity and understanding. The symptoms and characteristics are discussed, illustrated and dramatized. The treatable nature of the disease and the offer of hope rehabilitation provides. (1987, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Alcohol treatment centers/Hospitals/Families/Friends of alcoholics

TRAP: SELLING DRUGS IN THE INNER CITY
What makes drug dealing so appealing to young men and women in the inner city? Hear former drug dealers talk about living in constant fear, living penniless when their "fast money" vanished, and losing the respect of their families and friends. (1993, 26 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high/Adults

TREATMENT 101: THE SCIENCE AND METHODOLOGIES OF TREATING ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE DI
This program examines recent scientific and methodological advances in addiction treatment and explores how these advances have improved and diversified addiction treatment services. (2005, 60 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Treatment centers/Therapists

TREATMENT ISSUES FOR WOMEN
The videotape represents an integration of research and clinical practice and addresses the physical, psycho-logical, and sociological needs of women. (1991, 22 Min.)
Selected Audience: Treatment counselors

UNDERSTANDING MARTIANS AND VENUSIANS
Dr. John Gray, internationally known author and counselor explains the many differences between men and women. (1992, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adolescent/Adult

UNRESOLVED ANGER AND HOW RESENTMENT BLOCKS RECOVERY
A look at the hurt and rage/ anger from delusion and denial becomes an enormous obstacle to sobriety. Identify how unresolved anger often leads to relapse. (1989, 35 Min.)
Selected Audience: Recovering persons

WASTED YOUTH (Heroin Use)
FOX 2 Problem Solver Investigation by Katie Texler. This shows that young people from middle and upper class homes in the suburban Detroit area are getting started at very early ages. Their addictions lead to sex, homeless-ness and theft. (1998, 7 Min. plus 30 sec PSA)
Selected Audience: Teens/Parents

WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS
This is a story of how a community mobilizes to deal with the problems of alcohol and other drugs and their harmful effects on young people. (1988, 17 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups

WHAT'S WRONG WITH METHAMPHETAMINE
Recovering Meth addicts tell stories about paranoid delusions and other horrific meth experiences. Dr. Jorge Martinez explains the drug qualities and the dangers of how the brain absorbs this drug so efficiently that it changes the brain every time it is used. The physical appearance of sores and facial burns of the drug addict are explained. The DVD concludes by showing footage of interviews with convicted felons who committed crimes while under the influence of meth to make the consequences clear to students. (2002, 26 mins)
Selected Audience: ADOLESCENTS

WHEN YOUR PARENTS DRINK TOO MUCH
This is a series of "family-life" vignettes, juxtaposed with kids discussing problems at a support group meeting. It teaches young adults that their parent's alcoholism is a disease that they cannot cause, control, or cure. (1987, 27 Min.)
Selected Audience: Young adults

YOUNG PEOPLE IN AA
Several young people tell their stories of alcoholism, how AA works and what you can do if you need help. (1988, 27 Min.)
Selected Audience: High school/College/ Therapists