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Students-Pre-Teen & Teens Videos

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, DRUGS, AND KIDS
Four teenagers who started drinking or using drugs at an early age share their experiences. The video dramatizes their stories in flashbacks while the teens talk about why they started and how it came to control their lives. The teens stress that help is always available. (1989, 18 Min.)
Selected Audience: Preteens/Teens

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
This video uses fast-paced realistic scenes featuring students performing real-life situations ranging from experimentation with alcohol and other gateway drugs to involvement with cocaine, crack, and heroin. Teenage pregnancy, suicide, peer pressure, family relationships, and the harsh realities of criminal action highlight the effects of substance abuse on every aspect of a user's life. (1988, 29 Min.)
Selected Audience: High School

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

BRAINSTORM: THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS
This video uses four, 15-minute sections to provide educational information with hands-on activities for children 8 to 12 years old. Each section has a mini review of the previous sections. The activity guide provides background information and activities. Part 1 - The brain and nervous system. Part 2 - Nervous system breakdown. Part 3 - Street drugs: side effects and addiction. Part 4 - Alcohol and nicotine can harm the body. (1994, 60 Min.)
Selected Audience: Ages 8 to 12

BRANDON TELLS HIS STORY
BRANDON SILVERIA TELLS HIS STORY OF THE TERRIBLE PRICE HE HAS PAID FOR A STUPID CHOICE HE MADE WHEN HE WAS SEVENTEEN. BRANDON HAD A FEW DRINKS AT A PARTY, MANAGED TO DRIVE HIS FRIENDS HOME, THEN WRAPPED HIS CAR AROUND A TREE. HE SPENT TWO AND A HALF MONTHS IN A COMA, AND SEVERAL MORE YEARS IN REHABILITATION. HIS SPEECH IS SLURRED, HIS WALK IS UNSTEADY, HIS MEMORY IS PERMANENTLY IMPAIRED. MOST OF ALL, YOU'LL SEE HOW MANY LIVES CAN BE CHANGED FOREVER BY ONE IRRESPONSIBLE DECISION. (2004, 28 MIN.)
Selected Audience: Teens

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

COCAINE AND HEROIN: STILL HERE, STILL DEADLY
“I was 15 the first time I tried it. I was at my girlfriend’s house.” These words, spoken by a real teen in recovery, set the tone for this powerful video which recounts the stories of two teens who became ensnared in the dangerous and all-too-common worlds of cocaine and heroin abuse. Both teens describe step-by-step how they were sucked into trying the drugs for the first time, how they became addicted, and how incredibly difficult it is to recover from their addictions. Their harrowing testimonies will resonate with viewers and impel them to steer clear of cocaine and heroin. Program includes strategies for recognizing the dangers and avoiding these destructive drugs. A special section detailing the dangers of “starter heroin” is presented with a strong no-use message. Includes: DVD, Teacher's Resource Book and Student Handouts and Pre- and Post-Tests (2008, 21 Min) DVD
Selected Audience: GRADES 7 - COLLEGE

DANGERS OF ALCOHOL (PPT)
This easy to view, easy to understand power point presentation offers a look at the dangers of alcohol (2008, 29 slides) PPT Suggested Audience: High School
Selected Audience: HIGH SCHOOL

DEATH IN THE WEST
This video is a documentary and a complete expose' of the cigarette industry. It is the story of six real-life cowboys -all Marlboro Man prototypes-all dying of cigarette-related disease. (1980, 27 Min.)
Selected Audience: Young people/Adults

DIFFERENT LIKE ME
This video is the story of Jason, the teenaged child of an alcoholic parent, who lives in two worlds. In the pleasant world of high school, he is a quiet, average student. At home, he is an angry, confused, and frightened teenager trying to hold his disintegrated family together. This video helps children of alcoholics understand how their parents' chemical dependence has affected them. It helps them understand that they are not alone - that they didn't cause the problem and can't cure it themselves; and that by seeking help, they can live happier, more productive lives. (1988, 32 Min.)
Selected Audience: Students aged 11-18

DRINKING DRIVING DYING
Persons who drive under the influence of alcohol and other drugs are not being responsible This video shows how quickly and permanently lives are shattered. (1998, 30 mins) DVD Suggested Audience: 8th to 12th grades
Selected Audience: 8TH TO COLLEGE

DRINKING, DRIVING & DRUGS: A DEADLY MIX
This DVD will make viewers think twice before getting behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. Through first-person stories of lives destroyed by drinking and driving, viewers are made aware that driving under the influence can cause irreparable tragedy. The program includes hard facts and interviews with police, doctors, and prevention activists about the dire consequences of drinking and driving. Young people tell viewers why they have decided that drinking is not for them, ways to say no to alcohol and what to do if someone is about to drive under the influence. (2004, 20 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

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

DRUNK and DEADLY
This video personalizes drunk driving statistics. The presence of a clock on the screen emphasizes how many people are killed in a 24 hour period in the USA. It shows the devastating effects on the victims' families and survivors. (1987, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior High/Adults

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

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

I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN TO ME: TRUTH ABOUT HEROIN
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

IN THE KNOW: TOBACCO, MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL
This DVD reveals how these drugs harm users, disrupt families, damage society and kill more than 500,000 Americans a year. It also discusses neurotransmitters and other physiological changes that happen when marijuana is used. (2003, 23 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

INFLUENCES: INNOCENCE BETRAYED
INFLUENCES: INNOCENCE BETRAYED Explore the devastating impact on society of a growing population permanently disabled by prenatal substance abuse. The film follows children and their guardians as they attempt to cope with baffling learning and behavioral disabilities. Educators show progress is possible through early intervention. (1992, 24 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high school to Adult

INHALANTS
This video addresses the documented increase in the usage of inhalants: common household products whose toxic fumes provide an instantaneous "rush" or 'high." Education of these products emphasizes ingredients as poisons not as drugs. (1996, 20 Min.)
Selected Audience: Grades 5-8

INHALANTS CHANNEL 2 NEWS STORY & PSA
Fox 2 provides a mini report on Inhalants. The access to these drugs is readily available at local stores to kids through "Get High" kits. These kits contain whip-its (nitrous oxide) balloons, and cracker. (2000, 6 Min.)
Selected Audience: Parents/Adults

JETS: IF YOU SNIFF TO GET HIGH
Musical group Jets talk and sing about inhalants. (1990, 8 Min.)
Selected Audience: Upper elementary

JUST SAY kNOw TO DRUGS
Dr. Lynne Kitei narrates this video by looking at real teens and celebrities who impart poignant messages. The viewer will learn from first-hand accounts how drugs and alcohol can destroy your happiness, relationships, self-esteem, health, and your ability to function in life. (1995, 31 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior high/High school

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 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

LIVING WITH ADDICTION: A FAMILY DISEASE
This realistic program shows teens who are living under the terrible strain of a family member's addiction the strategies they can rely upon to help them cope. This clear and information-packed program sends the strong message that children don't cause, can't control, and can't cure a family member's addiction. The nature of addiction and drug abuse, as well as the resulting family problems, are also explored. Woven throughout is the advice from a narrator who shares facts about addiction, its typical effects on family members, the risks of drug addiction to teens with a family history of drug abuse, and practical approaches for coping with the stress while remaining supportive of family members. (2002, 23 min)
Selected Audience: Teens

MARIJUANA: SETTING THINGS STRAIGHT
Laurie's boyfriend is pressuring her to try marijuana, so she turns to her friend Gladys for help. With the help of a medical student, police officer and former drug users, they learn the facts about marijuana use and its harmful effects on the mind and body. This DVD covers the history of marijuana use, its psychological, emotional and physical effects, and the legal consequences for those who are caught with marijuana. It gives students the facts that empower them to make the right choice when it comes to marijuana. (1997, 17 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

MARIJUANA: VACANCY - THE LIFE OF A POT SMOKER
Two young narrators explain that marijuana users appear dumb and lazy because, among other ill effects, the drug lowers users' I.Q.'s and robs them of motivation. The narrators emphasize that this illegal drug exposes users to the risk of fines, imprisonment and the loss of driving privileges. While acknowledging that marijuana's powers of physical addiction are still being debated, the video provides sound scientific and medical reasons for avoiding its use. Other teens provde their views on how best to respond to peer pressure to try it. (2003, 14 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

MICHIGAN ZERO TOLERANCE LAWS: NO FOOLIN’, THEY MEAN IT!
This video is to inform students about the Zero Tolerance laws as they relate to juveniles’ use of alcohol and other drugs. The law and the courts separate alcohol as a drug from drugs such as marijuana, LSD and heroin. Alcohol is a drug. This video will give a general overview of the laws as they apply to students. (1997, 18 Min.)
Selected Audience: People under 21 years old

MY POT VIDEO
A young man is forced by a judge to make this video because he was arrested with possession of marijuana. The teen’s attitude toward marijuana is challenged and enlightened. (1997, 16 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior/Senior high

MYTHS OF MARIJUANA DEBUNKED
Marijuana is not addictive. It doesn’t harm the body. It doesn’t harm the brain. Marijuana doesn’t impair driving or negatively impact teens’ futures. There‘s no connection between marijuana use and unhealthy risk taking. These statements are just plain wrong—yet many kids believe they are true. The program forcefully debunks these misconceptions with the latest facts, science and statistics to prove the deadly danger of marijuana use. This high impact video will turn kids’ heads and lead them to seriously question marijuana use as something “fun, harmless and natural.” Juxtaposing commentary from real kids with real ex-users intercut with fast-paced narration, this video drives home the message that marijuana is a dangerous drug. Along with the follow-up print materials, this program delivers a strong no-use message. Includes DVD, Teacher's Resource Book and Student Handouts and Pre- and Post-Tests (2008, 21 Mins) DVD
Selected Audience: GRADES 6 -COLLEGE

PERFORMANCE EDGE, THE
This video is fast paced and packed with information about topics like physical performance, peer pressure, secondhand smoke, and tobacco and alcohol advertising. The leader's guide features questions to encourage discussion and critical thinking. (1995, 9 Min.)
Selected Audience: Teens

RALLY, THE
Alcohol and other drug use is not easily addressed by some individuals, as demonstrated in this video. The Rally is intended to provoke discussion within, as well as between, the coaches, parents, and student groups by challenging the stereotypes of the three groups. (1988, 28 Min.)
Selected Audience: Schools/Parent or community groups

REAL TRUE & FALSE ABOUT ALCOHOL, MARIJUANA AND INHALANTS (THE)
This DVD is middle school specific and addresses the misperceptions that studens have about "gateway" drugs. High school narrators lead middle school students through an engaging "pop quiz" format. Middle schoolers respond, giving narrators the opportunity to dispel myths, share truths, and encourage younger students to choose a drug-free lifestyle. Emergency room doctors, law enforcement officers, and drug-free high school students support the teen guides with the strong, positive message: When it comes to alcohol and drugs, the vast marjority of teens "don't need 'em, don't want 'em, and don't use 'em." (2003, 15 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

SCHOOLS AND DRUGS
A teleconference with James Copple on problems, promise and programs. Live television audience and student representatives to help come up with real and practical solutions to these problems. Kids win when they have hope/faith, altruism, personal power, significant adults, and skills. (1999, 120 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior/Senior students/Adults/ Professionals

SELLING ADDICTION: A WORKSHOP KIT ON TOBACCO & ALCOHOL ADVERTISING
This video, hosted by Michael Learned, helps identify advertising strategies, analyze themes, and address actions to be taken to seduce negative impact on your community and family. Workbook included. (1992, 30 Min.)
Selected Audience: Middle/Senior high/Community groups

SMOKESCREEN
Dave Goerlitz the former "Winston Man" delivers a powerful message that cigarette ads are deliberate deceptions and also aimed at kids. Some humor is used in this video. (1993, 26 Min.)
Selected Audience: Junior/Senior high

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

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

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

TEENS & MARIJUANA: EFFECTS & DAMAGE
This DVD presents the nuts and bolts findings of the latest research into the adverse effects of marijuana use. It explains that the potency of marijuana is higher than ever. This DVD covers the primary known effects including: lack of coping skills, emotional dependency and addiction. (2000, min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

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

TEENS & MARIJUANA: THE GATEWAY
Inthis marijuana prevention DVD, students who have learned the hard way testify that marijuana launches a self-destructive lifestyle. When they light their first joint, young people choose a path that leads them to brain damage, hard drugs, prison, or death. Former teen users implore students to avoid taking a step that will ultimately lead them to harder drugs and the criminal lifestyle that goes with them. (2000, 28 min.) DVD
Selected Audience: Middle School Students

TOBACCO FREE YOUTH PROJECT
This video shows the press conference held during the pilot "Tobacco Free Youth" project, a meeting with a store manager and television news. (1988, 70 Min.)
Selected Audience: Community groups/Health care providers

TOUGH STUFF: REPORT ON ECSTASY
Sherry Margolis from Fox2- WJBK TV takes a look at the drug ecstasy. (2002, 4 Min.)
Selected Audience: Adults, Parents

TROUBLE WITH TOBACCO, THE
This program explains why young people view smoking as appealing (advertising). The program then shows what smoking is really about. The expense of this addiction, many of the poisonous chemicals and the major diseases caused by tobacco use, including cancer, emphysema, heart disease and stroke. (1996, 14 Min.)
Selected Audience: Pre-teens

TRUTH ABOUT INHALANTS
This video gives viewers the facts about inhalants, the fumes or vapors found in common household products. Shows how breathing them, can quickly damage body organs and even cause death. (1992, 15 Min.)
Selected Audience: Grades 5-8

WASTED BREATH: KIDS ON INHALANTS, A
This video talks directly to kids about the dangers of inhaling common, legal household products and substances. Kids describe their own experimenting with substance abuse, creating emotional and physical damage. (1992, 19 Min.)
Selected Audience: Grades 4-12/Parents

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