Audio/Video Library

VD #586, ADOLESCENTS AND MARIJUANA: GETTING A LIFE (2000)
14 minutes,
Teens/Adults
Teens who experienced the highs and lows of marijuana abuse share their tales of addiction and loss and subsequent recovery. Told strictly through the voices of the teens profiled, the video cuts to the core of marijuana attraction and the ultimate cost to the user on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level.

VD #148, ADVERTISING ALCOHOL - CALLING THE SHOTS (1991)
30 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
The alcohol industry spends over $2 billion annually on advertising. This video by Jean Kilbourne presents a detailed visual and conceptual analysis of why this advertising does much more than simply tell us what we can buy. We see how the fears and needs of young people are used to create the young, new alcohol consumer. This program demonstrates how some advertising deliberately disguises the warning signs of problem drinking and falsely links alcohol with precisely those qualities - happiness, success, sexual fulfillment, prestige, athletic ability, creativity that the abuse of alcohol diminishes and destroys. A list of additional resources is available with the video.

VD #321, AIDS: THE FACTS OF LIFE (1995)
27 minutes
Adults
Hosted by celebrities and including commentary from medical professionals, this adult education program offers a tremendous amount of information about AIDS. Straight forward group discussions are shown during the program with adults sharing their views on dating, sex, and AIDS. Medical issues covered include: immunity, AIDS testing, transmission, doses for contagion, and options for controlling AIDS. The video also provides information related to AIDS myths and alternative ideas for prevention.

VD #320, AIDS: NOT US! (1991)
35 minutes
High School/Adults/Urban Youth
This video is a tale of five friends and how AIDS touched their lives. Geared toward urban youth, it uses an excellent storyline to show how AIDS is transmitted, myths concerning the disease, how to protect yourself, facts about condom use, and shows how the disease affects family and friends. Language from the streets and an inner city setting make the story both realistic and hard hitting while giving all the basics of AIDS awareness. DUE TO LANGUAGE AND SEXUALLY FRANK CONTENT, WE RECOMMEND INDIVIDUALS PREVIEW FOR APPROPRIATENESS BEFORE SHOWING.

VD #608, AIDS: ONE TEENAGER'S STORY (1996)
32 minutes/Leaders Guide Available
Middle School/High School
This is the story of one teenage girl who has to come to grips with the discovery that she is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The information is geared towards helping viewers to understand that counseling and treatment are available and that AIDS can happen to anyone.

VD #522, AL-ANON SPEAKS FOR ITSELF (1986)
15 minutes
Adults/Families
This video is designed to inform professionals and the public about Al-Anon and Alateen. The video explains these programs for families and their work at supporting the families and friends of alcoholics. The video includes interviews and basic 12-step philosophy.

VD #523, ALATEEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS (1987)
16 minutes
High School/Families
This video tells the basic facts about Alateen with interviews by teenagers. Designed to attract teens to the program and give them support, this introduction to Alateen provides information on confidentiality, types of meetings, and meeting settings. This video is conference approved and provides one of the best basic overviews of the Alateen program.

VD #609, ALCOHOL 101: SPEAKING TO TODAY'S COLLEGE STUDENTS (1998)
16 minutes
Adult/College
This video is designed to reduce harm associated with the misuse of alcohol, to help college students make responsible decisions about drinking. More than 13,000 students - freshmen, athletes and Greeks - took part in Alcohol 101's first year test: large-group orientations, regular classes, and one-on-one in computer labs and residence halls.

VD #249, ALCOHOL AND ATTITUDES: WHERE DO YOU STAND? (1993)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This video presents a series of thought-provoking scenarios on issues connected to teen alcohol use, then follows each up with questions designed to generate discussion and critical analysis of values and behavior. The video helps students challenge assumptions, myths, and common destructive attitudes toward alcohol.

VD #209, ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: STAGES OF RECOVERY (1988)
27 minutes
Adults
This film demonstrates the physical and emotional destruction caused by chemical dependency. Patients in various stages of recovery discuss with their physician their problems with use; and the impact the disease had on family, friends and society; and the treatment programs and self-help groups that have helped them achieve and maintain alcohol- and drug-free lives.

VD #343, ALCOHOL AND DRUG PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (1995)
4 minutes
High School/Adults
This is a collection of seven different public service announcements developed by Ohio Parents For Drug Free Youth. Each announcement deals with an aspect of alcohol and drug use and abuse. There are three versions of each with lengths of 30, 15, and 10 seconds. The public service announcements have a variety of topics which are: Friends and juvenile crime, Overdoses, The Red Ribbon Campaign, Ohio Parents Promotion, Parent Role Models, Drinking & Driving, and Marijuana. These can be used either as discussion starters or as awareness announcements for each topic.

VD #305, ALCOHOL AND THE MIND (1995)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
Computer images and accounts from users recount how alcohol blurs the ability to think clearly and act rationally. The video includes accounts from college students, alcoholics in recovery, physicians, and a law enforcement officer who describes the consequences of drinking and driving. Computer graphics compare the brain to a building with the lights going out to show the levels of effect that alcohol has on the mind. The effects of poor judgment due to alcohol use are also discussed.

VD #3, ALCOHOL AND COCAINE: THE SECRET OF ADDICTION (1988)
36 minutes
High School/Adults/General Audience
ABC News Correspondent Bill Blackmore presents information about how alcohol and cocaine affect not only the brain but also destroy such vital human elements as bone marrow, muscle fiber, sex hormones, and even the immune system. The program discusses the surprising revelation that heredity plays a more crucial role in the development of addiction than previously believed.

VD #176, ALCOHOL AND PREGNANCY: FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME AND FETAL ALCOHOL EFFECTS (1993)
20 minutes
High School/Adults
This program shows how alcohol adversely effects the developing fetus and points out critical periods during pregnancy when the fetus is most vulnerable. Through candid interviews, it presents a realistic look at the daily struggles of the FAS/FAE child and his parents or caregivers. The interviews, featuring a diverse group of children, teenagers, biological parents and foster parents, create a developmental overview of FAS/FAE in understandable language.

VD#390, ALCOHOL AND YOUR BODY (1995)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This program traces the effects of alcohol on the nervous, circulatory, digestive, urinary, reproductive, and muscular/skeletal systems of the human body. Specific disorders that can result from alcohol consumption, such as alcoholic pancreatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, and fetal alcohol syndrome, are described. Dr. Ernest Noble presents new information about the genetic basis for alcoholism and the role that alcohol consumption plays in the development of several forms of cancer is revealed. In candid interviews, several recovering alcoholics share their experiences and describe how the pressure to drink came early in life. The medical information presented is authenticated by some of the top researchers in the field, several of whom appear in the program.

VD # 2, ALCOHOL, CHILDREN, AND THE FAMILY (1988)
20 minutes
High School/Adults/General Audience
Dr. Timmen L. Cermak provides a solid background for examination of the harm done to children in chemically dependent families. After reviewing the developmental needs of children that are met in healthy families, Dr. Cermak shows how these needs are not met in families where one or both of the parents are alcoholic. The effects of dysfunction at each stage of a youngster's development are described in detail.

VD #4, ALCOHOL...DRUGS...AND KIDS (1989)
18 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/General Audience/Parents
Why do kids start drinking or taking drugs? How does experimentation lead to chemical abuse? Four teenagers in a hospital drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit share their experiences. Using flashback dramatization, the kids talk about how and why they got started. But, they then point out that using alcohol and drugs didn't help them in the ways they thought it would. The teens' counselor discusses peer pressure, self-esteem, and negative stressors that lead to substance abuse.

VD #245, ALCOHOL, DRUGS, AND SENIORS: TARNISHED DREAMS (1987)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Senior Citizen Groups
Dramatic vignettes illustrate that nowhere is the abuse and misuse of alcohol and drugs more cruelly felt than among older adults. The video shows how overuse of alcohol and drugs by seniors makes it difficult for them to deal effectively with the everyday stresses and strains of life. It teaches that the risk of accident and illness is increased, and that life expectancy is shortened by as much as fifteen years. The seven major warning signs of addiction are shown, and suggestions are given that will help seniors obtain professional assistance.

VD #297, "ALCOHOL OVERDOSE" A MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL SPECIAL (1994)
56 minutes
Junior High/High School/Adults
This program is a Michigan Educational Special on the dangers of Alcohol Overdose. Designed for parents and youth grades 7-12, the program is hosted by talk show host Maury Povich. Interviews with teens, physicians, and parents of youth who have suffered from alcohol overdoses. This video will inform teens and adults about the dangers of drinking too much. It also provides information on signs of alcohol overdose, what to do with someone who may be suffering from alcohol overdose, and what can be done to help stop the epidemic teen drinking at the local level.

VD #202, ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS-AN INSIDE VIEW (1981)
28 minutes
Adults
Provides an inside look an Alcoholics Anonymous through personal stories of those who have used the service. Emphasizes the anonymity of participation by not revealing the faces or identities of those shown in the film who are in Alcoholics Anonymous. This is an updated video version of the original "Alcoholics Anonymous" film.

VD #5, ALCOHOLISM...A DISEASE OF PERCEPTION (1990)
34 minutes
High School/Adults
Clancy Imislund, Managing Director of the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles offers a surprisingly persuasive contrary view of the alcoholic being a person whose problem is alcohol. An upbeat and sometimes humorous presentation which describes how alcoholics can find the tenuous path back to safety, sanity, and sobriety.

VD #605, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (Based on the book by Judith Viorst)
14 minutes/Discussion guide
Preschool/Adult
Based on the book, this film tells the story of one small boy's bad day - a day filled with mishaps, embarrassment, disappointments, and frustrations, large and small.

VD #355, AN ALPHABETTER ANSWER (1989)
31 minutes
Elementary and Middle School/Parents/Teachers
This award winning drama is the story of a fifth grade class that writes and performs a play for the PTA-sponsored drug prevention program. Preparing for the play, each student develops drug prevention message based on a different letter of the alphabet. Students' messages reflect their personal concerns including alcoholic parents, truancy, smoking, single parent families, and delinquency. Over time, troubled students develop a more positive self-image with the support of classmates, teacher's and family.

VD #358, AMERICA IN JEOPARDY: THE YOUNG EMPLOYEE IN THE WORKPLACE (1995)
20 minutes
EAP/ Adults/ High School
This is an excellent EAP (employee assistance program) film for the young American worker. Using gripping testimonials from several recovering young workers, this film shows how substance abuse on the job can affect your performance, your health, and your future. This video also discusses why the American workforce is becoming safer and less tolerant of substance abuse. A wonderful EAP resource, it can be used for both adult and adolescent workers.

VD #339, AN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION OF THE 12 STEP PROGRAM (1994)
60 minutes/Voice, Signed, & Captioned
High School/Adults/ Deaf & Hearing Impaired Community
This video is an American Sign Language interpretation of the twelve steps. The interpreters describe each step, and provide easy explanations for viewers on how each step can be achieved. The video is both voiced and signed, making it easily followed by both the deaf and hearing community.

VD #466, AND DOWN WILL COME BABY (1997)
17 minutes
High School /Adults/ Parents/General Audience
This video discusses and illustrates the effects that alcohol and drugs can have on unborn child. It especially looks at the effects of cocaine, crack heroin and alcohol and how even limited use can lead to fetal harm and birth defects. The video uses interviews with parents, professionals, and interesting graphics to get the message across that there is no safe drug use while pregnant. Various drug syndromes and FAS/FAE are included in this program along with the long-term effects of drug use on the child.

ANGER SERIES (2001)
Adults
Ex-offenders and recovering men and women come face to face with the cost of anger. They discover that destructive behaviors are connected to a pattern of thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Learning to understand each of these, along with awareness of body responses, provides valuable early warning. Participants learn many effective alternatives and practical skills, which give them the power to make new choices-and create a different life.

1) VD #598A, Anger, Creating New Choices: A Closer Look
35 minutes
A closer look reveals that many things happen before we get angry: thoughts, beliefs, and feelings all play a crucial role. Becoming aware of what happens before we get angry - discovering that we do have time to do something different - is a crucial first step in creating new choices.

2) VD #598B, Anger, Creating New Choices: Catch It Early
35 minutes
Jealousy and revenge are examples of feelings which can create pictures in our minds. These are visual thoughts, which drive us to actions like checking up on the suspected person. Allowing these actions to continue feeds our anger, and can easily lead to out-of-control aggression. Similarly, when anger begins to grow, adrenaline flows and major changes take place in our bodies. Learning how to notice these changes pictures and behaviors allows us to see what's coming before its too late.

3) VD# 598C, Anger, Creating New Choices: Practical Skills
36 minutes
Aggression can become a habit; we can invite anger even when we don't intend it. Our habitual body language and way of speaking can take us down an all-too-familiar path. Learning practical skills for "keeping others cool" -for being assertive instead of aggressive-opens a new door, giving us the ability to do something different; the power to create new choices.
Workbook includes 4 overheads: What are your beliefs? Anger can be a smokescreen, What were you feeling? Ways to manage anger? There are 11 worksheets to go with all three videos and guides for leaders to discuss videos.

VD #471, ANGER WITH CLAUDIA BLACK (1995)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
Claudia Black guides viewers through the idea that anger is an addiction, with similar signs, symptoms, and negative consequences. Using comparisons between the alcoholic personality and anger, Dr. Black provides clear cut examples of how anger takes control of lives and results in long term consequences. She provides seven steps to anger recovery, with each designed to act as a self-help tool that a client can use each day in their recovery process.

VD #375, ANGER: YOU CAN HANDLE IT (1995)
24 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School Students
Featuring high school students in credible, real-life circumstances, the video depicts many kinds of anger provoking situations teens frequently encounter. Viewers learn to recognize the triggers that set of their angry behavior and develop an "early warning system" through an understanding of their particular anger styles. Excellent vignettes make this video worth watching for any high school class.

VD #429, ANGRY JOHN (1995)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary/Middle School
An eleven year old boy named Cliff becomes caught up in fighting and petty vandalism at the urging of an animated T.V. bully named Angry John, and soon finds himself in a lot of trouble! Before Cliff's anger and inappropriate behavior get out of control, a school counselor steps in to help, and gives Cliff the tools he needs to manage his anger: stop & step away, think about and communicate anger to someone, and look for ways to solve the problem. With Cliff's help, even Angry John learns to channel his anger into positive action.

VD #170, ANOTHER CHANCE TO CHANGE: A TEENAGER'S STRUGGLE WITH RELAPSE AND RECOVERY (1992)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Parents/Teachers
By dramatizing some critical relapse risk factors and warning signs, this video teaches viewers how to help recovering teenagers stay sober through their most difficult growing pains.

BABESWORLD "LESSONS IN LIVING" SERIES (1991-1993)
30 Minutes/ (Each)
Preschool/Elementary School
This series, featuring the BABES puppet characters, shows young children how deal with a variety of real-life situations in a simple and non-threatening manner. Using puppet characters, along with songs and activities, these videos portray realistic problems children face and their solutions. The programs are designed to help children have happy, healthy lives free of substance abuse. The series contains 13 videos, each dealing with a specific issue.

1) VD #399, I'm Looking Good and Feeling Fine! (Self Image and Feelings)
2) VD #400, She Made Me Do It...Didn't She? (Decision Making and Peer Pressure)
3) VD #401, Accepting the Things I Cannot Change and Changing the Things I Can
(Coping Skills)
4) VD #402, Let's Play Party (Alcohol and Other Drug Information)
5) VD #403, Retreat Is Not Defeat, and Failure Is Not Final (Getting Help)
6) VD #404, Wrapping Up (Review of other Lessons)
7) VD #405, When You Don't Know What to Do
(Helping Children from Chemically Dependent Homes)
8) VD #406, It's All My Fault (Learning About Divorce)
9) VD #407, Drinking & Driving is Dangerous (Drinking & Driving)
10) VD #408, Can AIDS Happen to Me? (Learning about AIDS)
11) VD #409, Does It Really Make You Cool? (Learning About Smoking)
12) VD # 410, We're Home Alone Again (Getting Help from Assistance Programs)
13) VD #411, I Don't Feel Safe Anymore (Learning About Violence)
VD #495, THE BAGGAGE CART (1997)
28 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults
Claudia Black hosts this excellent video discussing how "personal baggage" leads to addiction, emotional problems and other compulsive disorders. This video is easy to follow and has a good variety of vignettes. It also touches on specific "baggage" issues such as shame, grief and anger. Eating disorders in women are also discussed. This video is a must for early recovery or any group discussing the underlying issues of compulsion.

BEAT THE STREETS SERIES (1996)
38 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/ African Americans/ Urban Clients
A ground breaking series on life skills and relapse prevention for urban recovering addicts, BEAT THE STREET features real people who are successfully coping with the countless challenges of day-to-day recovery in urban neighborhoods. Using inspiring and credible role models, this series is ethnically diverse. It is composed of five individual videos dealing with a specific area of relapse prevention and life skills. Subject areas provided are:

1) VD #370, Street Smarts: Learning to Avoid Relapse: Teaches the viewers to take former street skills and turn them into "street smarts" for staying clean and sober, stressing eight essential skills: complete abstinence, not doing it alone, accepting disappointments, coping with stress, resisting the lure of easy money, avoiding going back to the old corner, resisting the pull of street life, and planning to handle offers.

2) VD #371, Back On The Block: Early Recovery: Focuses on the first weeks after rehab or prison, when the decisions made are critical to lasting recovery. Teaching points include: getting a sober & safe place to live, avoiding living with active users, creating a support system, keeping busy, preparing to handle running into old friends who still use, and coping with triggers in the neighborhood

3) VD #372, Recovering Relationships: Families, Partners, and Kids: Helps viewers recognize, avoid and cope with relapse traps that come up in relationships during early recovery (and beyond). Topics include: coping with an unsupportive and dysfunctional family, avoiding the trap of rescuing others, men's and women's issues in early recovery, sober sex, dealing with guilt over past parenting mistakes, and coping with stress of patenting in recovery.

4) VD #373, Catchin' Feelings: New Ways to Cope With Feelings: Teaches new ways of dealing with HIV and feelings engendered by racism.

5) VD #374, Making It Happen: Work, Money, School, & Good Times: Illustrates the importance of building a satisfying life for long-term recovery and relapse prevention, including: getting and keeping work, dealing with financial stress, giving back to the community, going back to school, having fun clean and sober, and reclaiming your dreams.

VD #398, BELIEVING IN YOURSELF (WITH ERNIE LARSON) (1992)
60 Minutes
Adults
Originally airing on Twin Cities Public Television, this excellent self-esteem video offers viewers two basic self-esteem principles for happiness. First, Ernie Arson encourages clients to explore the relationship they have with themselves. Second, he delivers powerful messages about faith and the power to change your behavior for the better.

VD #7, BENNY AND THE 'ROIDS (1988)
25 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Parents/Teachers
The story of a teenage high school football player, Benny Zimmer, who has worked hard to be a starting linebacker on this year's team. When practice begins, however, Benny finds he still cannot handle his bigger and stronger teammates. Desperate, he purchases anabolic steroids - drugs that increase muscle mass. Viewers follow Benny over the next few weeks to see the effects of the drugs on Benny's football efforts and social life.

VD #1, A BETTER PLACE, A BETTER TIME (1985)
35 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/School Personnel/Citizen and Parent Groups
This video is a realistic portrayal of the everyday problems caused by adolescent alcohol and drug use, and depicts the schools' and communities' struggles to deal with them. The goal of this program is cooperative action on the part of everyone involved.

BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES (1993)
30 minutes each - 12 videos/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School Students
As children enter adolescence they begin the vital process of taking charge of their own lives. At the same time, of course, their bodies and minds are transforming, and their relationships with family, peers, and the world in general, are being drastically redefined. This series helps young adolescents work their way through this period of high anxiety while making choices that are positive and healthful.

1) VD #216, The Three R's of Growing Up
An overview program that gives young viewers a solid basis for choices and actions.

2) VD #217, You and Your Values
Looks at the important issue of identity, including "fitting in" - what it means and what we have to do (or sometimes sacrifice) to fit in.

3) VD #218, Enhancing Self-Esteem
Examines where high and low self-esteem come from, how our actions and choices either diminish or enhance our self-esteem, how to deal with factors that affect our self-esteem, and how we affect the self-esteem of others.

4) VD #219, Setting and Achieving Goals
Shows the benefits of learning to set and achieve goals.

5) VD #220, Dealing With Pressures
Explores positive, healthful ways for young adolescents to cope with all of the pressures of becoming a teenager.

6) VD # 221, Handling Emotions
Explores the emotional ups and downs of early adolescence and looks at positive, healthful ways to express feelings, including anger, sadness, depression, and loneliness.

7) VD #222, Preventing and Resolving Conflicts
Looks at how conflicts typically develop in middle school and how fights can be avoided. Kids are urged to find ways to control their anger, and to realize that violence is always a choice, and a bad one at that.

8) VD #223, Saying "No" to Alcohol and Other Drugs
Presents and reinforces anti-drug attitudes and teaches practical techniques for saying "no" to our friends.
BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES (CONTINUED)

9) VD #224, Speaking of Sex
Gives young adolescents the message that abstinence from sexual activity is normal and desirable at their age. It considers the emotional dangers of sexual activity and the realities of unwanted pregnancy and teen parenthood.

10) VD #225, Friendship
Explores friendship, cliques and clubs, and what it means to include or exclude others.

11) VD #226, Getting Along With Parents
Encourages kids to understand their parents' concerns and motivations and to keep open the lines of communication.

12) VD #227, Respecting Others
Emphasizes that everyone is entitled to respect regardless of appearance, race, national origin, disability, social status, etc.

VD # 8, THE BIG SELL (1990)
35 Minutes
Middle and High School/Adults/General Audience
Walter Williams, middle-American advertising genius, is offered the chance to create a state-of-the-art advertising campaign for Brooks Beer. The challenge? How do we get the college crowd to buy Brooks Lite? It provides an insightful look at liquor and advertising company tactics and offers some important operating principles to individuals and community groups alike.

VD #333, BLACK & RECOVERING: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY (1993)
18 minutes
Adults/African Americans
Using illustrations from contemporary African-American life, Peter Bell talks to African Americans who are in chemical dependence counseling about important cultural issues for their emotional growth. The video addresses a variety of topics and they relate to long-term recovery. Topics include: color consciousness, integration/separation, black authenticity, cultural pain, cultural boundaries, and cultural ignorance and insensitivity. This video will help those dealing with chemical dependence to face these issues in a way that will not threaten their long-term recovery.

BRADSHAW ON EATING DISORDERS (1994)
57 minutes each/Three Video Set
High School/Adults
John Bradshaw focuses on a subject which affects many people today, both men and women - Eating Disorders. This series embodies Bradshaw's most current thinking about food addiction and obsessions with weight. Using interviews with four women who have overcome various eating disorders - obesity, bulimia, anorexia, bingeing, and the thin/fat obsession. Bradshaw shows how our eating reflects our feelings and problems, why diets have failed, and provides a summary of how to maintain weight with ten steps to non-addictive eating. The videos include:
1) VD #452, Obsessions With Food
2) VD #453, The Danger of Diets
3) VD #454, Ten Components of Non-Addictive Eating.

BRADSHAW ON THE FAMILY (1994)
57 minutes each/Three Video Set
High School/ Adults
In this series John Bradshaw provides insight and information about the addictive family and it's components. Using lecture, interviews, and basic diagrams, Bradshaw shows viewers how addictive family systems develop, roles of the family, and how the family can return to health from addiction. This series is video number four, seven, and nine of the Bradshaw on the Family Collection. This series is a must for anyone who wants to escape the family's addictive cycle or is attempting to realize how an addictive family has affected their lives. These videos are also excellent for Co-dependency and COA/ACOA groups.

1) VD #449, The Compulsive Family
2) VD #450, The Most Common Family Illness (Co-Dependency)
3) VD #451, Health For The Family.

VD #301, BRAINSTORM: THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS (1994)
60 minutes/ Four, 15 minute sections/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
This is a video developed by the Children's Television Workshop for students age 8 to 12. It describes their amazing brains and what when drugs get into their bodies. Brainstorm answers kids questions about WHY they should say no to drugs and supplements prevention efforts with scientific data and hands on activities. The video and the activity guide are full of games, discussions, and activities which can be used by teachers, specialists in science, and drug prevention.

VD #356, BRANDON TELLS HIS STORY (1996)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This video is a drunk driving program that shows a remarkable young man who has paid the price for one stupid mistake he made when he was seventeen. Brandon had a few drinks at a party, managed to drive his friends home, and then wrapped his car around a tree. He spent the next two months in a coma and the next two years in rehab. You'll hear from Brandon what it's like to fight every day to get his life back to what it was. You'll meet his high school friends, who have now moved on. You will meet the Silveria family and begin to understand how Brandon's mistake has changed their lives. Most of all, you'll see how many lives can be changed forever by one irresponsible decision.

VD #141, BREAKING THE GRIP OF ADDICTION (1986)
7 minutes
High School/Adults
Examines the signs of various addictions so that the three steps to recovery can be achieved: recognizing the problem; talking about the problem; and taking action to get help.

VD #9, BRIDGING THE GAP (1985)
22 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families/General Audience
Answers questions about anger, relationships, support groups, attitudes, peer-pressure, and other issues that concern youth. It speaks to its audience clearly and respectfully, and offers visually supportive information to youths who are chemically dependent and recovering.

VD #189, BROTHER EARL: THE COCAINE MONKEY (1990)
28 minutes
High School/Adults/African Americans
Brother Earl, in colorful terms anyone can understand, explains why cocaine is the most "cunning, baffling and powerful" addictive drug known to man. Watching this video will help those suffering with the disease of cocaine addiction understand their affliction and respond to treatment.

VD # 306, BROTHER EARL: A DESIGN FOR LIVING (1995)
37 minutes
Adults/African Americans
Filmed in the Cooke County Jail in Chicago, Brother Earl describes the reasons alcohol and drugs make people commit crimes, forget family and friends, and become repeat offenders. Using the 12 steps of AA, he colorfully illustrates how recovery and the prison experience can be used to create a new "design for living".

VD #427, BROTHER EARL: GOOD-BYE COCAINE (1996)
31 minutes
Adults/African Americans
Brother Earl, in colorful terms anyone can understand, explains why cocaine is the most "cunning, baffling & powerful" addictive drug of them all. Watching this presentation will help those suffering with the disease of cocaine addiction to understand the true nature of their affliction and begin to take the necessary steps toward recovery.

VD #147, BROTHER EARL: OUR FATHER (1989)
60 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/African Americans
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 that can help the recovering addict embrace spirituality and manage life. Audience involvement adds genuine warmth to this special program.

VD #255, BROTHER EARL: RECOVERY - THE GIFT (1991)
43 minutes
High School/Adults/African Americans
In this video Brother Earl focuses on understanding and sustaining recovery. This program takes the viewer on a journey through the stages of recovery. Those who are newly recovered, as well as family and friends, will gain insight and understand what to expect and look forward to at this stage.

VD #10, BROTHER EARL: STREET TALK (1988)
55 minutes/Leader's Guide
High School/Adults/African Americans
Specifically designed for audiences interested in learning about chemical dependency from a street level perspective, this video describes what substance abuse is and how it affects an individual's behavior, performance and judgment. In a candid, down-to-earth and realistic manner, professional lecturer, Earl Cannomore, C.A.C., explains the stages and behavioral symptoms of the progressive disease, addiction. Each symptom is discussed and explained in an engaging, humorous, and non-threatening way using his fresh and spontaneous style.

VD #146, BROTHER EARL: WHAT PROBLEM? (1989)
60 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/African Americans
How does denial affect recovery?...Prevent recovery?...Interfere with recovery?...How does denial affect the family?...With contributions from his responsive audience, Brother Earl addresses these and other important issues on the subject of denial in this candid, personal program.

VD #331, BUILDING SELF- CONFIDENCE (1993)
30 minutes
Adults
Ernie Larson explains to recovering clients aspects which will build self-esteem, and confidence for long term recovery. He explains the four steps to self-confidence and how to move beyond old habits and begin building self -esteem.

VD #11, CADILLAC DREAMS (1989)
30 minutes/Video(Explicit Language)/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/General Audience/Urban Youth
A unique story about black teenagers, street life, and drug dealing within a universal story about choosing the right path toward the realization of a dream. Based on the real-life experiences of two young men who grew up in the ghetto.

VD #498, CANCELLED LIVES: LETTERS FROM THE INSIDE-SUBSTANCE ABUSE (1997)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This is a compelling portrait of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of those who know it best-people doing time. Based on actual letters sent from prison, Canceled Lives chronicles the experiences of boys and girls who are experiencing life in juvenile facilities through men and women serving hard time in prison, all for substance abuse related offenses. Canceled Lives provides an insider's view of life behind bars, and explores the factors leading to crime including abuse, drugs and gangs.

VD #12, THE CAT WHO DRANK (AND USED) TOO MUCH (1987)
12 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
All Ages/General Audience
A delightful tale of addiction, denial, and recovery presented in a positive, non-threatening way. NOT AN ANIMATION! Ideal for awareness, education, prevention, and treatment. The perfect teaching tool for explaining the addiction process.

VD #465, CHANGING CHANNELS (1997)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This is an excellent video for high school and junior high school students on the dangers of alcohol use and abuse. The program follows five friends as they try to decide whether to go to a party where alcohol will be available. While trying to decide, a mishap with the television shows them the real truth behind what alcohol use can lead to. Issues of peer pressure, advertising, legal consequences, and effects on relationships are all included in this program

VD #595, CHECK YOURSELF
15 minutes
Middle School
Gives examples of scenarios with middle school student who become angry with conflict resolution tips. A Time Warner Production.

VD #512, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY: A DISEASE OF DENIAL (1990)
20 minutes
Adults
This video is a must for any early recovery program. It explains the disease concept while stressing acceptance and self-responsibility. The video uses personal accounts, along with professional commentary to show how those suffering from chemical dependency can break through their denial and overcome the genetic, biological, and environmental factors of addiction.

VD #16, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - INTRODUCTION (1990)
18 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
This video defines alcoholism and other drug addiction, identifies psychological and physiological symptoms, and identifies four influential areas in alcoholism and other drug dependency.

VD #17, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - PHYSIOLOGY (1990)
19 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
This video defines and explains the two components of chemical dependency: physical and psychological dependence.

VD #15, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY-WHAT IS IT? (1996)
8 minutes
Adults/ EAP
This short video provides an excellent introduction to employees and employers on what chemical dependency is and how it can affect all workers on the job. The video provides simple, easy to follow scenarios along with commentary about the risks of chemical dependency in the workplace.

VD #315, CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: HOW SCHOOLS CAN HELP (1992)
56 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Teachers/Education Professionals
This program examines the needs of COAs and COSAs in grades 4-8, and presents strategies for helping them in the crucial pre-High School years. It features Ellen Morehouse, noted expert on school-based programs for COAs, and Veronica Skerker, substance abuse prevention training specialist from the Connecticut Dept. of Education. The video is divided into three segments: What Educators Need To Know About COAs, COAs Roles and Rules, What Educators Can Do To Help COAs. The leader's guide for this program includes guides for teaching the education professional about COAs and conducting in-service training's on COAs in the school setting.

VD #520, CHILDREN OF DENIAL (1982)
28 minutes
Adults/ Deaf & Hard of Hearing
This video discusses the problems of COAs (Children of Alcoholics or Addicts) as children, adolescents and adults. Hosted by Claudia Black, the program covers survival techniques of COAs and their related mental issues such as depression, inability to maintain relationships, and even becoming alcoholics themselves. This video shares some of the experiences of Children of Alcoholics, explains the process of what happens and what can be done to prevent and handle these problems. This is the classic video for addressing the pain of an alcoholic or addicted childhood and beginning the recovery process.

VD #197, THE CHOICE IS YOURS (1992)
24 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/College Students
The effect of peer pressure, alcohol, and drugs on the decision-making ability of teens and young adults is vividly portrayed in this video. It realistically depicts the dilemmas faced by young people in a social setting. The story takes place in a college area bar where students are dancing, drinking, flirting, and unwinding from the pressures of school. Despite the college-bar setting, the video is highly relevant to teens because the decision-making process that is dramatized is the same process high school students currently experience.

VD #258, CHOICES (1993)
15 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School Students
Students will hear from Manny, who at 15 became involved in the drug life. Eventually it led to the murder of another student. Currently Manny is serving a 20-year sentence in prison. Students will also hear from others who faced problems similar to those of Manny but whose choices were different. They are now successful, with good jobs and respected by their communities and by themselves. After viewing this program, students will be able to take an introspective look at the many decisions they make daily which affect their futures. The accompanying leader's guide provides a comprehensive curriculum guide to facilitate presentation of the video.

VD #18, CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES (1987)
35 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families
The story of three teenagers and their families, school, and community. The three are faced with choices regarding drinking - choices leading to natural consequences which affect their lives and the lives of those around them. An interesting video that deals with peer pressure and offers new, insightful ways that schools, parents, and communities can help.

VD #613 CLUB DRUGS: THE REAL DEAL (2002)
27 minutes
High School
Discusses the drugs of ecstasy, GHB, methamphetamine, rohypnol, oxycontin and teen use of them in raves and school settings in middle and high school. City settings are used throughout this video. This video goes over the effects on the body and brain when using each of these drugs and provides up-to-date information.

VD #19, COCAINE ABUSE - END OF THE LINE (1984)
25 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle School/General Audience/Deaf & Hearing Impaired Community /Closed Captioned
Actor Richard Dreyfuss makes it perfectly clear in this riveting film that cocaine is a truly deadly drug. Through narrative and dramatic interviews with actual cocaine users, this film reveals initial as well as long-term effects of the drug on the body and then illustrates the difficulty of recovery.

VD#636 COCAINE & CRACK: A CRAVING FOR MORE (2002)
35 minutes
Adolescents/Adults
Examines the powerful stimulant cocaine and its smokable form, crack. This video looks at cocaine's effect on the body's energy supplies and the reward reinforcement center, the neurochemical effects of chronic and high-dose use, etc. Gives a comprehensive view of the physical, mental, emotional and societal ramifications of cocaine use.

VD #20, COCAINE/CRACK: A TEENAGER'S STORY (1989)
28 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/General Audience
Teenagers who experiment with cocaine in any form are at risk for serious trouble. Whether they snort or inject this dangerous drug or smoke it as crack, it can hook them quickly and may even kill them. This hard-hitting program shows why.

VD #21, COCAINE KIDS TRAINING TAPE: NEW STRATEGIES, NEW SOLUTIONS (1990)
23 minutes
Teachers/In-service Training
Children prenatally exposed to cocaine enter school with a variety of disabilities that present unique challenges to their educators. Many of these problems are behavioral and can be disruptive and frustrating. While there are no firm answers, new strategies are being developed to help these children lead normal and productive lives. The importance of networking with other professionals is emphasized as is the value of working with the family as a unit. Six teaching strategies are addressed, including learning, play therapy, social and emotional skills, communication skills, motor skills, and home and school integration.

VD #32, COCAINE RALPH (1992)
25 minutes
High School/Adults
Laugh and learn as stand-up comedian Cocaine Ralph delivers an insightful view of the humor and horror of cocaine addiction. He realistically portrays severe withdrawal symptoms, effects on the user and loved ones, and the process of recovery.

CO-DEPENDENCY SERIES - 3 Videos
Leader's Guides Available
High School/College/Adults

1) VD #22, 23, Characteristics of Co-dependents (1990)
26 minutes
Using vignettes of three individuals - a nurse whose life is centered on an overweight daughter, a recovering alcoholic who is experiencing little satisfaction from life, and a woman who is enmeshed in an unhealthy relationship - it discusses common characteristics of co-dependents, including being externally focused, overly responsible, controlling, rigid, and engaging in compulsive behavior.

2) VD #24, 25, The What And Why Of Co-dependency (1990)
23 minutes
Using a combination of mimes and family vignettes, this video gives an overview of the history of co-dependency. It describes current thinking regarding the disorder and discusses its origins, including family traits such as faulty communication, inadequate boundaries, and abuse.

3) VD # 26, 27 Pieces of Silence (1989)
56 minutes
It tells the story of a family that has suffered the effects of an alcoholic parent. It is the family of nationally known author and psychologist Robert Subby who not only narrates, discussing addiction and co-dependency, but gives his own perspective on being part of such a family. Interviews with the family members poignantly illustrate the pain, guilt and frustration of life in a dysfunctional family.

VD #510, COMMON SENSE PARENTING FOR THE '90s (1990)
50 minutes
Adults
This video offers practical, down-to-earth advice for parents with preadolescents and teens. Showing how parents are still the fundamental influence in a child's life, the video uses vignettes to show how parents can boost children's self-esteem, and reduce peer pressure. This video also reminds parents of some "common sense" techniques used with younger children and can be adapted for older kids.

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION SERIES - 3 Videos (1987)
Community Prevention and Action Programs

1) VD #177, Mobilizing Your Community 32 minutes
As you begin to gather support for action in your community, this video will show you how to: build and maintain interest; develop and define the role of the task force; work together; identify and reach your goals; and obtain funding.

2) VD #178, Basic Guidelines for Effective Programs 25 minutes
After you have developed an organized and committed task force, you will want to focus your efforts on building successful programs in your community. This video will show you how: past mistakes can be avoided; adults have a part in helping young people; alcohol impacts teenagers; prevention and student assistance fit together; each system needs to accept its responsibility to help young people.

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION SERIES - (CONTINUED)

3)VD# 179, Helpful Programs for Each Part of the Community 40 minutes
Every segment of the community - parents, youth, schools, religious institutions, volunteer groups, businesses, helping professionals, and social service agencies - needs to be involved. In this presentation, Jim Crowley clarifies how each system or group can contribute to bringing more effective programs to young people.

VD #550, CONFLICT AT SCHOOL: DEALING WITH ADULTS (1999)
24 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
Middle school aged children learn how to communicate effectively in conflicts with adults. Three vignettes illustrate several types of conflict situations and offer instruction on how to resolve them using appropriate communications skills.

VD #292, CONNECTING SCHOOLS, COMMUNITIES, AND PARENTS IN THE PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENT DRUG ABUSE (1995)
114 minutes
Adults/Teachers/Prevention Professionals
This video, hosted by Kathleen Kelly, describes the Prevention Planning Model as developed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This model describes how family, peers, and school can combine to combat drug abuse and prevent new drug use from developing in the community.

VD #497, COOL TO BE ME: SELF ESTEEM (1997)
24 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle/High School
Using three vignettes, this video provides the answers to urban and ethnic youth on how to build and maintain self-esteem. Using stories of ethnic differences, family put-downs, and academic problems, the vignettes show how ethnic youth can overcome these barriers to self-esteem and show off their true worth and ability. This is a must for any positive program.

VD #392, COPING WITH DEPRESSION (1993)
48 minutes
Adults/Prevention Professionals
For anyone struggling with depression: family members, friends, and health care professionals, this video offers a message of hope from depression expert Mary Ellen Copeland. It inspires confidence that you can achieve real breakthroughs in coping. Learn how you can incorporate coping skills, exercise, nutrition, and other life strategies to keep depressive episodes at bay. An excellent educational resource, the video validates the feelings of people with depression, and encourages a program of simple, self-help techniques.

VD #271, COUNTERING THE CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY BLACK BOYS
60 minutes
Adults
This video candidly explores the devastating effects of Western civilization on African American people, specifically males. Kunjufu explicitly points out the conspirators and what can be done to counter the conspiracy.

VD #28, CRACK! (1986)
15 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School Students
This video alerts viewers to the dangers of crack, the "freebase" form of cocaine that is devastating the teenage population. It attributes crack's alarming popularity to its trendiest, low cost, easy availability, and ease of use. It arms viewers with the facts and shows them that using crack multiplies the dangers of cocaine five to ten times.

VD #29, CRACK: THE BIG LIE (1987)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
A student who sees no problem with cocaine or crack use finds himself being assigned to interview recovering crack addicts as part of a school assignment. Here, he begins to see the reality of addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and finds his own perceptions and beliefs not only challenged, but also changing.

VD #459, CRISS CROSS (1988)
22 minutes
High School/Adults
Talk to a teenager about the use of drugs and alcohol; talk to your parents about using drugs and alcohol. Criss Cross provides role plays which are played from both sides to show both views so that teens and parents will understand the pressures behind talking to each other about substances. This video is hosted by Claudia Black.

VD #496, CROSSING THE LINE (1995)
29 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This powerful yet sensitive documentary examines the long-term effects of fatal accidents caused by drunk and reckless drivers. A string of compelling true stories sends a strong message to overcome denial and the sense of "it can never happen to me". In-depth interviews with family members, crash survivors and incarcerated DUI drivers all combine to provide a moving look at the consequences of bad decision making.

VD #30, CRUEL SPIRITS: ALCOHOL AND VIOLENCE (1989)
32 minutes
Adults
Designed to help treat adult alcoholics, especially those who have injured themselves or others due to uncontrolled bouts of alcohol-induced aggression, this penetrating program explores the connection between violence and alcoholism. It also shows how advertising glamorizes alcohol, making people equate it with fun, happiness, vitality, and sexuality.

VD #567, DARKNESS TO DAWN (1986)
16 minutes
Adult/Women
This is an overview of women's addiction and how it often relates to domestic violence, sexual abuse, and other background issues for women.

VD #215, DATE RAPE (1989)
48 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/College/Adults
This program is about date rape. It is not an easy subject to discuss. Many men and women involved in instances of forced sex do not realize that the encounter meets the legal definition of rape. Some researchers have attributed the frequency of date rape to a commonly accepted double standard that implies, "Nice women don't say 'yes', and real men don't listen to 'no'." This confusion, as well as shame and fear, results in significant under reporting of acquaintance rape. The program attempts to look at the phenomenon of date rape in a social context. It views some rapes as resulting from a chain of exploitative events, poor communication, and social pressures.

VD #600, DATING VIOLENCE AND ABUSE (2000)
27 minutes/Workbook Available
Middle School/High School
This video focuses on dating violence and date rape: an abusers jealousy and need to control his victim, manipulation and verbal abuse.

FL 27, 28 DAYS (2000)
104 minutes
Adults
A journalist-Sandra Bullock gets a DUI and faces a twenty eight day stretch in rehabilitation. She learns to follow rules and share her experiences centered around substance abuse with a group of strangers.

DEALING WITH ANGER (FOR MALES) (1991)
African-American teen males
Developed in response to the need for culturally relevant materials to train African American youth in skills which will reduce their disproportionately high risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of violence.

1)VD #580, Givin' It (18 minutes)
2) VD #581, Takin' it (20 minutes)
3)VD #582, Workin' it out (14 minutes)

VD #524, DECK THE HALLS (1987)
18 minutes
Adults
This video is a classic domestic violence education film. Using the scene of a Christmas party, the story shows how alcohol can turn good people bad and turn minor disagreements into acts of violence. This film is excellent for any domestic violence, anger, or alcohol education group.

VD #31, DENIAL? NOT ME! (1984)
30 minutes
High School/Families/General Audience
A creative, dynamic presentation with an entertaining story line depicting the denial of the disease of alcoholism by family members.

VD #468, DEPRESSION: REACHING OUT (1994)
14 minutes/Leaders Guide Available
Adults
Using interviews and excellent vignettes, this video describes the symptoms and effects of depression. The video provides information to the depression sufferer, as well as concerned loved ones about various aspects of the disease, its treatment, and returning to a normal life.

VD #270, DEVELOPING POSITIVE SELF-IMAGES AND DISCIPLINE IN BLACK CHILDREN
60 minutes
Adults/African Americans
This video tells how to develop positive self-images and discipline in Black children. Kunjufu discusses in detail effective strategies for parents, educators and community leaders.

DIAGNOSIS ACCORDING TO THE DSM-IV SERIES (1994)
60-70 minutes each/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults/ Counselors/Social Work-Professional Staff
Hosted by John Csernansky and the staff from the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine. Provides discussion and examples of how to diagnose a variety of mental disorders using the DSM-IV. This series is divided into three videos, each covering multiple disorders. The videos takes viewers through the initial interview process and provides excellent case studies of the different disorders. It then provides discussion of issues related to the diagnosis of each disorder. The disorders are split by video as follows:

1) VD #446, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Male Sexual Dysfunction
2) VD # 447, Panic Disorder, Obsessive, Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia, Amnestic Disorder
3) VD #448, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse (Alcohol), Anorexia Nervosa

VD #33, DIFFERENT LIKE ME (1989)
32 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/General Audience
This is the story of an adolescent whose mother has a drinking problem. Because of his father's denial, the son often finds himself designated as responsible for his mother when she gets "sick" and for his smaller sister. When his friends notice something is wrong and try to introduce him to a peer support group, he insists that his case is "different".

DINOSAUR JUNCTION SERIES (1993)
10 minutes each/Leader's Guides Available
Elementary School(Grades K - 3)

1) VD #191, Doin' It Your Way
T.C. may be a cool rapper in his own right, but what happens when he is tempted by the prestige of belonging to a gang? Vinnie and the Claws continually harass T.C. and pressure him to use drugs. He responds by writing a new rap about looking at choices and doing what is best. In this video, T.C. learns a valuable lesson about making smart choices.

DINOSAUR JUNCTION SERIES (CONTINUED)

2) VD #192, What's In A Name?
A family is moving in across the street from the Sauruses. Bronto and his sister, Camara, watch as they move in. They see a girl and Camara is excited to have a new girlfriend. But it's not that easy for Liz, the new neighbor, to fit in. She can't afford the trendy clothes that the other kids have, and she can't afford trips to the amusement park. Some of the other kids even call her names. With help from a real friend, Liz learns that what counts is what you are inside.

3) VD #193, The Fight
Dinosaur Junction is just like any other town; kids here feel like they have to prove themselves to their peers. In this story, Stoney and Bronto collide while they're riding their wheelie boards. What starts out as an accident soon escalates into name-calling and one-upmanship. When the hulking Stoney challenges the puny Bronto to a fight, Bronto knows it will be an uneven playing field. After talking with a trusted adult, Bronto gets the idea to turn a physical fight into a test of skill - where they both come out winners.

VD #243, DINOSAURS (1991)
47 minutes/ Closed Captioned
Middle School/General Audience
This video contains two episodes from the television series "Dinosaurs." Episode one is "Power Erupts": When Robbie's energy-saving Grape Jelly Volcano wins the high school science fair, the greedy Wesayso Corporation smells dino-sized profits. Episode two is "A New Leaf": Robbie finds a suspiciously happy plant that makes everyone giddy with giggles. But it soon becomes apparent the plant is really no laughing matter, and an important message begins to bloom for dinosaurs and viewers alike. A good, humorous teaching tool for explaining the addiction process.

VD #240, DISEASE: PRISONERS OF ADDICTION (1992)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
In this program, the disease of addiction is explored through the lives of people who have been caught in its grip, and are learning to break free. Five people from different backgrounds who have suffered from various forms of addiction candidly share their successes, their struggles and, for some, their continued denial and doubts.

VD #160, THE DOG WHO DARED TO KEEP KIDS OFF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (1992)
25 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School Students
Much more than a 'just say no' message, this dramatic prevention video is fun and upbeat and helps kids to realize the dangers of drugs and alcohol, while giving them some positive alternatives. It also addresses issues like self-esteem, peer-pressure, and abstaining from alcohol and other drug use.

DONNIE DINOSAUR'S LIFESKILLS SERIES - 4 Videos (1993)
Elementary School Students, Pre-Kindergarten - 2nd Grade/ Leader's Guides Available

1) VD #231, Alcohol is Bad News 12 minutes
Larry has brought beer to Milo's surprise party, unaware that beer contains the drug alcohol. Donnie, with the help of some lively party guests like Wayne the Brain, Olivia the Liver, Sidney the Kidney, and Pete the Street Sign, teaches how alcohol affects the mind and body.

DONNIE DINOSAUR'S LIFESKILLS SERIES - 4 Videos (CONTINUED)

2) VD #232, I'm Proud To Be Me! 12 minutes
After failing to make the baseball team, Milo's self-image has taken a beating. Donnie, with help from Katie Caterpillar, teaches Milo that small things about him are what make him special. They discuss inner worth, originality, and the benefits of positive thinking. Katie proves that everyone has something special inside with a surprising transformation.

3) VD #233, Let's Work It Out 13 minutes
When best friends Tasha and Sandy have an argument, they look to Donnie for advice. By using visual analogies, Donnie explains abstract ideas such as individuality and cooperation. The Feeples are also introduced to illustrate strong feelings such as anger, fear, and happiness. The girls learn that the media aren't always honest about the consequences of violence, and Donnie shows them positive ways to release strong feelings and resolve conflicts.

4) VD #234, Tobacco Trouble 12 minutes
While on a walk through the forest, Sandy leads Milo into a cave and pressures him to smoke a cigarette. Donnie discovers them about to smoke and teaches the truth about cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, advertising, secondhand smoke, and staying healthy.

VD #552, DON'T PICK ON ME! (1993)
21 minutes
Elementary/Middle School
In the first segment of this video, Eric learns how to deal with the school bully by teaming up with other victims of the bully's harassment. In the second segment, Paula is a victim of ostracism by her group of friends. She decides to join a new group of friends to avoid suffering the silent treatment her 'friends' are giving her.

VD #241, THE DOOR TO RECOVERY (1989)
24 minutes/ Closed Captioned
Adults
This presentation from the National Institute on Drug Abuse presents a positive look at community based treatment programs. The program presents the views of caregivers, the community, and those participating in the treatment programs. The message is that community-based treatment programs do work and are not detrimental to the neighborhoods in which they are located.

DOUBLE TROUBLE (1990)
Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/Families/Professionals
"Double Trouble" addresses the topic of dual disorders (chemical dependency and psychiatric illness combined). The program is divided into two parts to make it easy to use for patient and/or family education.

1)VD #34A, Mood Anxiety Disorders - 31 minutes
2)VD #34B, Personality Disorders - 28 minutes

VD #277, DOWNFALL: SPORTS AND DRUGS (1988)
30 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School
This documentary profiles athletes whose careers were destroyed by drugs, especially steroids. Scenes of the athletes performing are mixed with present day, sobering interviews. Athletes who compete drug-free are also featured.

VD #335, DREAMS OF DENIAL (1993)
23 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community
This video tells the story of "Mike" a chemically dependent young man who in a dream meets his guardian angel called Ralph. Through the use of flashbacks of Mike's life, Ralph shows the ways that Mike has denied using alcohol and other drugs. Ralph also points out that family, friends and treatment staff have given him support that he rejected. As the video ends we see Mike waking up from his dream. He does not heed Ralph's warning and begins his day with another drink.

VD #253, DRINK SELLS THE DREAM (1991)
16 minutes
High School/Adults/General Audience
This documentary examines how alcohol is promoted in our society through sports, cultural events, billboards, and other media. The video critically examines advertising directed at high-risk populations including college students, African Americans, Hispanics, women, heavy drinkers and youth. It also explores what communities have done and can do in the future to foster safer and healthier attitudes toward alcohol use.

VD #256, DRINKING AND DRIVING: THE TOLL, THE TEARS (1986)
60 minutes
High School/Adults/General Audience
This video explores the tragedy of accidents caused by an alcohol-impaired driver by examining several real-life accidents. Interviews with the families affected by an alcohol related crash, as well as with the drivers responsible for the accidents make this a moving and memorable video.

VD #308, DRINKING & PARENTING...IT'S NOT A GOOD MIX (1994)
7 minutes
High School/Adults/General Audience
This video is a public service announcement on the dangers of drinking and parenting. The first segment discusses the effects that alcohol has on judgment and the decisions parents must make. The second segment is a public service announcement that aired in Michigan to persuade parents not to drink around their young children. This video is an excellent discussion opener, showing how even a few drinks can impair judgment and affect family relations.

VD #163, DRINKING STORIES (1992)
14 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
Partying and getting drunk is one way young people push the limits of their independence. But when the party's over, the tragic consequences remain. Listen to the true stories of college students who were perpetrators or victims of accidents and crimes because drinking destroyed judgment. The stories are interspersed with other students boasting about their drinking prowess and thinking it's all just innocent fun.

VD #35, DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN TO ME (1984)
25 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This video powerfully depicts the tragic consequences, physical, psychological, moral, and legal, of drunk driving by telling the story of a group of teenagers and the tragedy that occurs because of drunk driving when someone forgets their sense of responsibility for just one moment.

VD #283 DRUG ABUSE AND THE BRAIN (1993)
25 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
This video provides a detailed look at the biological basis of drug addiction. Through animation and interviews with experts, viewers will come to understand how the brain's reward system operates and how drug abuse can cause fundamental changes in how the brain works.

VD #566, DRUG ABUSE: SYMPTOMS OF DEPENDENCY (1989)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adult/General Audience
In this program, a series of dramatizations shows the symptoms of drug dependency. The common thread of loss of control, and taking over lives is seen throughout. The program lists several avenues for treatment, stressing immediate action.

VD #596, DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT IN PRISON: A NEW WAY OUT (1994)
23 minutes
Adults
Addresses the issues of substance abuse and crime. Discusses skills going from prison to society. Takes a close look at 12-month programs for women and men.

VD #274, THE DRUG AVENGERS (1988)
73 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School
Three children from the future travel back to the 20th century to take on the life-threatening problem of drug abuse in 10 animated programs each emphasizing a different message.

VD #36, DRUG BABIES (1991)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adult/General Audience/Health Care Professionals
This video discusses the problems of and solutions to the epidemic of children prenatally exposed to drugs as seen by treatment professionals, doctors, lawmakers, social service agencies, foster caregivers, educators and mothers recovering from drug addiction. It begins with the scope of the problem, and continues the story of the physical and mental effects to the baby (both before and after birth). This video also takes a comprehensive look at the impact of this epidemic.

VD #37, DRUG DEPENDENCY: THE EARLY WARNING SIGNS (1984)
22 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/General Audience/EAP
Hosted by Richard Crenna, this video dramatizes 10 signs of a person becoming dependent on alcohol or other drugs. Vignettes set in the workplace and at home show the characters as they abuse different drugs; their combined weaknesses form a composite psychological profile of a drug dependent person.
VD #38, DRUGS, YOUR FRIENDS, AND YOU: HANDLING PEER PRESSURE (1988)
26 minutes/Closed-Captioned Format/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School/Families
This video makes students aware that they do have choices, that despite pressure from others, they can continue to respect their own best interests and resist. It helps them make the decision against substance abuse, then teaches specific techniques for dealing assertively with pro-drug/alcohol pressures.

VD #414, DRUGS & YOUTH: THE CHALLENGE (1990)
23 minutes
Adults/Parents/Educators
Sponsored by the California Attorney General's Office, this is a comprehensive overview to adolescent drug problems and how parents can help. The video provides a variety of information related to drug and alcohol use including gateway drugs, myths and facts, and why kids are using drugs. It also provides excellent information on drug use signs and stages, along with profiles of the most commonly used drugs by teens. Excellent testimonials by teens round out this program.

VD #615 DRUNK DRIVING, EDITED VERSION (2001)
19 minutes
Adults
During candid interviews, law enforcement officers and relatives of crash victims share their personal experiences with drunk driving. From telling a mother that her child is dead to visiting the site of a tragic crash, their stories are sobering and memorable. Blood alcohol lever, (B.A.C) is explained, and viewers are given a firsthand look at the Field Sobriety Test and the Breathalyzer test. The consequences of DUI are also discussed, including legal problems and the greater pain of injury and death.

VD #296, THE DRYDEN FILE II (1989)
24 minutes
Adults/EAP
This video tells the story of Tom Dryden, a mid-level professional who is experiencing a variety of work problems. His supervisor and co-workers make every attempt to help Tom get back on track, but are at a loss. It is only with the looming loss of his job does Tom realize his problem and get help through the company's Employee Assistance Program. Designed for the white-collar employee, this video is an excellent tool for identifying the symptoms of worker alcohol or drug abuse, workplace enabling, and the steps supervisors need to take to get an employee help.

VD #555, DUI: THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH (1998)
23 minutes/Spanish
Adults
Dramatic scenes make it clear that there are life-altering legal consequences of DUI. This video centers around the stories of three young first-time offenders. After their arrests, each of the drivers faces the painful consequences of their actions.

VD #39, DWI/DEADLIEST WEAPON IN AMERICA (1985)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
A presentation examining both the statistical and human sides of the most unpredictable killer in recent history - the drunk driver. Though uncomfortable to watch at times, this video will stimulate thought and discussion and leave a lasting impression.

VD #502, "THE DYNAMICS OF ALCOHOLISM"
FEELINGS CHART WITH VERNON JOHNSON (1978)
60 minutes
Adults
This is a classic video from the founder of the Johnson Institute, Vernon Johnson. It details the disease concept as it relates to feelings of pain and euphoria. It also provides a layman's history of alcoholism along with the basics of emotional relations.

VD #599, ECSTASY: THE FACTS (2001)
21 minutes/Teachers Guide Available
Middle and High School/Adult
This fast paced MTV style video focuses on raves, effects of the drug, ecstasy. Discusses ecstasy and the addiction process and as a hallucinogen. Also focuses on identification of the pills being sold.
Teacher's guide includes: 12 worksheets and 8 fact sheets for use with the video. Topics include: What is ecstasy? Warning signs, pill design, effects on the body. 36 pages

VD #632 ECSTASY: WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER (2000)
26 minutes
Adults
The drug ecstasy is discussed. Includes the history of ecstasy, what the drug is, how it is used, physiological and physical effects. Also includes steps one can take when an individual using ecstasy needs help.

VD #201, ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM (1990)
25 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
All Ages
This is an allegorical dramatization of the denial and secrecy that pervades life in an alcoholic home or any other type of dysfunctional family. The video points out the need for awareness and the amount of courage necessary to expose the "elephant" of addiction and dysfunction in our "living rooms" and expel the "no-talk" rules from our lives. This story provides insight into dysfunctional and alcoholic homes while exploring the childhood trauma brought on by addiction, rage and other inappropriate parental behavior.

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM VIDEO SERIES (1988-1989)
Adults
This set of videos looks at the drug issue from an employee/employer perspective. Most titles in the set have separate versions for the employee and the employer.

1) VD #153 & #154, Drugs at Work - 24 minutes
2) VD #155 & #156, Drug Testing: Handle With Care - 23 minutes
3) VD #157 & #158, Getting Help - 25 minutes
4) VD #159, Finding Solutions - 19 minutes

VD #40, THE ENABLERS (1979)
23 minutes
High School/Adults/Families
A story based on the family members of an alcoholic working woman. This video shows how family and friends unknowingly enable her to progress into acute alcoholism. (See also: The Intervention).

VD #606, ERNESTO: A LONG ROAD (2001)
25 minutes/Leaders Guide Available
Adults
Ernesto is the story of a young Hispanic man, caught in addiction, who had great difficulty escaping the lure of the streets. Included in his recovery are dating, support system, racism and anger.

VD #551, EVOLUTION OF MADNESS (1999)
60 minutes
Adults
Michael Johnson offers training on chemical dependency issues covering early recovery and identifying the causes of relapse.

VD #214, FACES OF ADDICTION (1997)
34 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
Hosted by Linda Ellerbee, this video uncovers the faces of addiction amidst facts and figures of disease, violence and death caused by substance abuse. One thing these faces all have in common is their need for heroin, cocaine, alcohol or nicotine. The video also contains two other stories. The first, called "flashback" is a true story of addiction through the eyes and words of a young addict who fights back from addiction to recover and become valedictorian of the class. The other story, entitled "27th & Prospect", is a look at one community's effort to recognize and fight drugs and violence in their neighborhood. Their fight is marked by a vigil every New Year's Eve to remember those who have been lost to these problems.

VD #194, FAMILY FIRST: AN INTRODUCTION TO CO-DEPENDENCY (1989)
18 minutes
Adults
Terri Rodriguez Ohlms, M.S.W., provides a basic look at the issue of co-dependency. A skit is used to illustrate the effect of co-dependency on the family unit.

VD #470, FAMILY ISSUES FOR THE CHEMICALLY DEPENDENT (1992)
30 minutes
Adults
This video vividly depicts family issues that clients commonly face after treatment. Clients will see how others begin to gain trust from family members and relearn family roles. It also addresses core issues such as developing new coping techniques, setting boundaries, and initiating honest and open communications.

VD #521, FAMILY TALK ABOUT DRINKING (1993)
32 minutes/Leaders Guide Available
Adults/Families/Parents
This video from Anheuser-Busch provides a guide for parents on how to discuss drinking with their children. Using basic vignettes, it shows how parents can set good examples, lay down basic rules about drinking, and foster better attitudes towards alcohol in their children.

VD #206, FAMILY TRAP (1984)
25 minutes
Adults
Sharon Wegscheider provides an informative look at the impact of addiction on the family, and discusses the various roles family members take on in a co-dependent situation.

VD #445, FAMILY VIOLENCE: PRIVATE BUSINESS, PUBLIC PRICE (1996)
29 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults
Interviews with victims, therapists, and police officials effectively illustrate the many aspects of domestic abuse. Victims discuss how and when their abuse started and describe different violent episodes. Medical professionals discuss the ways that batterers control their partners and the wide range of abusive behaviors. Police also provide information about how they respond to 911 calls and how they attempt to help domestic violence victims; including the Protection from Abuse Act which provides an alternative to arrest and prosecution.

VD #41, FAMILY VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE (1982)
28 minutes
High School/Adults
A video made in the beautiful heartland of America demonstrates both individual and community solutions to the problems of domestic violence. This video also links substance abuse to domestic violence and explains the "cycles of violence," a predictable pattern of repetitious and destructive behavior.

VD #317, FAST FORWARD FUTURE (1988)
61 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
In this video tape, actor Richard Kiley , as mentor, takes three middle school students on a trip to the future with the Fast Forward Future Machine. This ingenious contraption allows them to see what will happen if they use drugs or what will happen if they choose to remain drug free.

VD #6, FATHER MARTIN: ALCOHOLISM AND THE FAMILY (1977)
42 minutes
High School/Adults
This video stresses treatment of significant others affected by the family disease. Father Martin points out the effect of alcoholism on the family before and after sobriety.

VD #14, FATHER MARTIN: CHALK TALK, Revised (1974)
45 minutes/ Closed Captioned
High School/Adults/The original 1972, uncut version is available on 16 mm film format.
Father Martin instructs the viewer about alcoholism and alcohol abuse. He shows the effects alcohol has on the human body, physically and psychologically; then he explains the signs and symptoms of alcoholism.

VD #32, FATHER MARTIN: DETACHMENT (1988)
29 minutes
High School/Adults
Father Martin presents his views on "Detach with Love". He discusses that this does not mean to abandon with hatred, desert with cynicism, or ignore with utter contempt. "Do not detach from the person - Detach from the behavior."

VD #324, FATHER MARTIN: ENABLING (1988)
23 minutes
High School/Adults
This video discusses the various aspects of enabling and how it often hurts, rather than helps, the alcoholic's situation in the long run. It describes the signs of enabling, how to stop the enabling of an alcoholic, and how to help a person with an alcohol problem face their situation. A wonderful video for anyone connected to, or concerned about, an alcohol abuser.

VD #42, FATHER MARTIN: FEELINGS (1978)
50 minutes
Adults
This presentation tells about the feelings and the emotions of an alcoholic by people affected by the disease of alcoholism.

VD #511, FATHER MARTIN: GOING HOME (1998)
28 minutes
Adults
In this classic presentation by Father Martin, he uses the occasion of graduation from treatment as the backdrop to discuss "going home". He focuses in on avoiding old routines and problems, keeping up with recovery groups, and relying on your higher power to avoid the "unguarded moment". This video is ideal for anyone just leaving or preparing to leave a treatment program or correctional setting.

VD #47, FATHER MARTIN: GUIDELINES (1976)
45 minutes
Adults
This video continues where Chalk Talk left off. Father Martin outlines and develops eight general principles proven useful in reaching and helping the alcoholic.

VD #81, FATHER MARTIN: OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE (1988)
19 minutes
Teacher training
Father Martin presents an in-service program to teachers and educators that validates them as professionals and human beings. He expresses the need for them to work together for the common good, stresses that they are role models and that they set the standards for students to go by, and that they must examine their own attitudes about alcohol and other drugs.

VD #82, FATHER MARTIN: PARENTS - SILENCE CONDONES (1988)
20 minutes
Parents
Father Martin talks to parents of teenagers in an attempt to "turn on a light in the heads of parents who are in the dark." He not only addresses the issues that teenagers have to face in their day-to-day life, but also the parents who choose not to have to see, deal with, or help them. This video is enlightening, helpful, and a MUST for parents of adolescents of all ages.

VD #100, FATHER MARTIN: RECOVERY AND THE FAMILY (1988)
40 minutes
High School/Adults
Most divorces in alcoholic homes occur after the alcoholic recovers. Too many family members believe all will be well if one person recovers. Since each member of the family is affected, each needs care and therapy. Father Martin discusses why the entire family needs help - not just the alcoholic.

VD #342, FATHER MARTIN: RECOVERY AND FORGIVENESS (1996)
38 minutes
Adults
Father Martin takes up the topic of shame and guilt in this video. Guilt is something we all feel in our lives and forgiveness is something that we all need, especially in the recovering community. Father Martin describes this guilt and how to receive forgiveness through sorrow for what we have done in the past. Based on AA principles, this video is excellent for resolving guilt issues in recovery and obtaining forgiveness. It also is a good video for use in discussion of Steps 4 and 5 of the AA principles.

VD #104, FATHER MARTIN: RELAPSE (1985)
45 minutes
Adults
Father Martin explores, in his own inimitable style, the warning signs leading to relapse in recovery. He identifies specific symptoms of relapse including denial, depression and self-help.

VD #114, FATHER MARTIN: SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF ALCOHOLISM (1988)
33 minutes
High School/Adults
Father Martin presents his views on "Spirituality in AA" He states that "the deepest damage of the disease is to the 'inner man'; it is far more devastating than damage to the body in most cases. The answer is spiritual. AA is a set of principles which brings serenity, which is nothing more than Peace of Conscience."

VD #211, FATHER MARTIN: "STEP ONE OF AA" (1981)
15 minutes
High School/Adults
Step One forms the base of the pyramid of the recovering person's life. Father Martin discusses the importance of Step One in the earliest stages of recovery, what the step means, and how this step is an ever deepening awareness of the addict's condition. Father Martin provides obvious examples to cut through denial and allow those beginning recovery to see their true condition.

VD #247, FATHER MARTIN: "STEP TWO OF AA" (1981)
16 minutes
High School/Adults
Step two provides reasons why recovering people should look for a higher power, whether religious or not, to help them in their recovery program. It also emphasizes the importance of meetings in recovery, so that those in recovery can see and hear those who have gotten well. Father Martin also provides insight into the strengths that can come from a higher power in recovery and how this can help restore sanity to a recovering person's life.

VD #213, FATHER MARTIN: "STEP THREE OF AA" (1981)
13 minutes
High School/Adults
In this video Father Martin discusses getting in touch with your higher power, a God of your own understanding, to obtain the power not to drink. The effect of a higher power in the lives of others that recovering people can see is discussed. Father Martin then describes how those in recovery must use the Twelve Steps to place themselves in their higher power's care.

VD #119, FATHER MARTIN: STUDENTS - YOUR CHOICE (1988)
20 minutes
Middle and High School
Father Martin, noting that peer pressure and addiction are the two main reasons why young people drink, addresses students on choices they may be faced with regarding drugs and alcohol. In this video, he recommends complete abstinence, provides reasons why, and offers ways to keep from drinking.

VD #325, FATHER MARTIN: SYMPTOMS OF ALCOHOLISM (1972)
22 minutes
High School/Adults
This video describes the symptoms of alcoholism to help the community identify them. It includes information on every sign and aspect of alcoholism, including blackouts, the alibi systems, coming to grips with the problem, and death from excessive drinking. A wonderful resource for schools, detox centers, outpatient treatment, and DWI Programs.

VD #247, FATHER MARTIN: THE TWELVE STEPS OF AA (1981)
45 minutes
High School/Adults
In this video, Father Martin covers the entire Twelve Steps of AA. The Twelve Steps are used by many self-help groups, and have helped many in dealing with alcoholism.

VD #326, FATHER MARTIN: VALUES (1986)
42 minutes
High School/Adults
There are lots of problems we must face besides the ordinary ones in every family. Geared towards young adults, this video shows how to ask yourself-what am I worth? It then teaches viewers to grasp their own self-worth, walk tall, and avoid the pitfalls of alcohol abuse, drug addiction, and other serious problems.

VD #142, FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME AND EFFECTS: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? (1991)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This program looks at the physiological effects of FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) and FAE (fetal alcohol effects), as well as the behavioral problems that can arise. A clinical psychologist discusses the permanent damage that alcohol can do, including learning disorders, speech and hearing problems, heart problems, and damage to the central nervous system. Viewers will learn the differences and similarities between FAS and FAE, and of the potential challenges and handicaps faced by these children.

VD #43, 15 AND GETTING STRAIGHT (1989)
48 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families
Set in the adolescent ward of a Chemical Dependency Unit, this video graphically depicts several weeks in the lives of six young adults. Their stories are different, but they share one thing - substance abuse. Watching how each one of them tries to put his or her life back together, "15" offers an inside look at the ravages of teenage substance abuse. Some will succeed, some will fail and try again, and one will pay the highest price of all.

VD #229, FINAL CHOICE - THE BRAD SHIPMAN STORY (1993)
15 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
This video is part of the State Farm Insurance designated driver campaign, and is available with or without a curriculum kit. The story examines the true story of Brad Shipman, who was convicted in the death of one friend, and the injury of another friend in a drunk driving accident. NOTE: BECAUSE THIS VIDEO ADVOCATES WISE USE OF ALCOHOL, IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR TEEN AUDIENCES. A COMPANION VIDEO: 'TEEN DRIVER' IS AVAILABLE FOR AUDIENCES UNDER THE LEGAL DRINKING AGE.

VD #137, THE FIRST YEARS LAST FOREVER (1997)
29 minutes
High School/ Adults/Parents
New parents have a wonderful opportunity to help their child reach full potential. This video can help them do it by starting their child off right. This video contains a variety of information for new parents including: bonding, communication, discipline, self-esteem, child-care, self-awareness, and nutritional issues. Produced by Johnson & Johnson, this video is a must for new parents and a great refresher for parents with multiple children.

VD #246, FOR BABY'S SAKE (1992)
24 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/Women
This video teaches women important information they need to know to help their unborn child be born healthy. It advocates prenatal care, good diet, and abstinence from alcohol or any other drug during pregnancy and nursing. A powerful component of this video is mothers sharing their stories of what happened when they used alcohol or other drugs during pregnancy.

VD #530, THE FOURTH "R": RESPONSIBILITY (1998)
24 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School
This video presents students with the opportunity to explore believable dilemmas where characters are confronted with responsible choices and their results. In four scenerios young and older teens are confronted with requirements of service, drinking and driving, repaying debts and betraying a friend's confidence in a dangerous situation. Each story ends with characters having to grapple with a serious choice. A great video for character and values education. This is a must for teaching basic social skills.

VD #28, FRONTLINE: BUSTED - THE WAR OVER MARIJUANA (2001)
60 minutes
Adults
This 60 minute special shows footage of police in Indiana tracking marijuana growers.

VD #458, GAMBLING: THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (1997)
28 minutes
Adults
The lure of gambling is the belief that a little money, well placed, will surely bring a return-although this belief rarely coincides with reality. This program examines gambling both as a social activity and as an addiction, how some people allow gambling to consume their lives, and why they do it is discussed by a treatment expert and a compulsive gambler. The effect of gambling on both individuals and their families is also examined.

VD #44, GANGS, GUNS, GRAFFITI (1989)
30 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
This video graphically visualizes the consequences of gang membership and gang violence. Interviews with actual gang members, victims, and prosecutors present a realistic life-in-the-streets perspective that viewers can relate to. The program reveals the truth about gang loyalty, gangs and guns, drug money, and how the community can combat graffiti. Targeted toward at-risk youth and adults who are working to combat gang and drug activity in their communities.

VD #45, GET THE MESSAGE? (1983)
18 minutes
Elementary and Middle School/Families
Children are bombarded with messages about drugs and alcohol from parents, media, and peers. This film explains how to interpret the messages they receive and stresses that saying "No" to alcohol and drugs is everyone's right.

VD #302, GOLDTOOTH (1995)
27 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This is the animated story of Karate and his sister Nina, two children who are tempted into a life of drugs and exploitation by a sinister drug dealer named Goldtooth. Set in the streets of South America, it shows the disastrous consequences of drug use upon children. Culturally diverse, this film is an excellent resource for use with different ethnic groups, adolescent or adult treatment, and for dealing with child exploitation. Warning:This video contains scenes of inhalant use, violence, and inferences to child sexual abuse. It should not be, under any circumstances, shown to children.

VD #46, GOOD KIDS DIE TOO (1990)
25 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Adults
This dramatization deals in parallel episodes, with two good kids from different backgrounds who get involved with crack for the first time and pay for it with their lives. Both fall prey to the consequences of drug use; one gives in to peer pressure and samples crack, with disastrous results; the other resists the pressures and temptations, then falls victim to the drug-influenced driving of those she's with.

VD #517, GRAY NIGHT (1999)
20 minutes
High School/Adults
This is an excellent story about one Ohio Highway patrolman's efforts to determine the causes of an alcohol related crash. The story takes the patrolman and the viewer through the accident, the grief of the families, and the tragic consequences of supplying alcohol to friends without thinking of the possible results. This video is done in a narrative format and is excellent for driver intervention, underage use education, or drinking and driving community education.

VD #48, HAIGHT ASHBURY COCAINE VIDEO (1985)
HAIGHT ASHBURY CRACK VIDEO (1987)
35 minutes each/Leader's Guides Available
High School/Adults/Professionals
Excellent videos for use as general education, community intervention, and/or EAP (employee assistance program). NOT RECOMMENDED FOR EARLY STAGES OF RECOVERY/TREATMENT. These tapes are multi-cultural, multi-leveled and highly effective. They provide an excellent and comprehensive explanation of the dynamics of the physiology, compulsion and recovery involved with crack/cocaine.

VD #548, HALLUCINOGENS: THE TRIP TO NOWHERE (1989)
12 minutes
High School/Adults
Mind-altering drugs are making a deadly comeback as more and more young people are rediscovering these highly dangerous and potent substances. This in-depth program discusses LSD, Ecstasy, and PCP and examines their unpredictable effects on the user.

VD #276, HARD FACTS / SPEAK UP, SPEAK OUT: LEARNING TO SAY NO TO DRUGS / DARE TO BE DIFFERENT: RESISTING DRUG RELATED PRESSURE (1988)
56 minutes
High School
Three 15 -22-minute episodes. Hard Facts dramatizes the devastating effects that alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and crack have on a high school class during the 4 years leading to graduation. Speak Up uses the scenario of a senior class trip to illustrate techniques that students can use to resist peer pressure and refuse drug use.
Dare to Be Different focuses on the importance of goals and values in resisting pressures to use drugs.

VD #348, HER LAST CHANCE (1996)
100 minutes
High School/Adults (Parents)
This NBC Special Presentation is ideal for adolescent use or parents. It tells the story of a high school senior whose involvement with alcohol and drugs follows her long after her use is over. Only with the help of treatment, her mother, and new friends, is she able to stay clean despite her past. The program includes a variety of treatment and recovery issues for teens including: a realistic portrayal of detox and group therapy, life after treatment, making new friends, dangerous relapse situations, and making amends for past trouble. It also shows what can happen under the influence of drugs and why parents can be a factor in successful recovery. This is an excellent depiction of adolescent drug abuse, treatment, and eventual recovery.

VD #311, HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH: SOMEONE YOU KNOW DRINKS TOO MUCH & STREET DRUGS AND MEDICINE CHESTS (1988)
60 minutes/ Two 30 minute episodes
High School/Adults
This video is divided into two distinct programs dealing with alcohol and drug abuse. The first half of this program provides a sobering look at alcohol and alcoholism today: why we drink, what it does to us, and why some lose themselves in alcohol. The second episode contains information and facts on substance abuse: what it is, how it works, and how it can be beaten. Both segments use numerous testimonials from users to back up interviews with medical professionals. The segments also cover the affects on children, the family, and how treatment can be used to escape the trap of alcohol and drug abuse.

VD #631 HEROIN: FROM PLEASURE TO PAIN
34 min
Adults
Covers history, tolerance, dependence, withdrawal, treatment and recovery. Using animation, brain scans, live action, interviews with experts in the field and interviews with addicts. Objective and subjective views.

VD #557, HEROIN KILLS (1998?)
35 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Parents
This is the story of a 15-year-old boy who decides to experiment with heroin. This single, impulsive decision teaches Jonathan the lessons of drug use: failure at school, deception, crime, lost friendships, physical pain and death.

VD #328, HEROIN: THE STREET NARCOTIC (1991)
30 minutes
High School/Adults
Heroin: The Street Narcotic is an easy to follow profile of heroin and its abuse. The video uses scientists, doctors, and addicts to describe where the drug comes from, it's background, and how it is used. The program then describes heroin abuse and its risks for addiction, including signs of heroin use and what to do to help the heroin addict. Done in a simple style, the video effectively shows how heroin hooks the users, what it does to them, and how they can be helped to lead normal drug free lives.

VD #312, HIGH ON LIFE NOT ON DRUGS (1987)
35 minutes
High School/Adults
This program shows a common sense but powerful formula developed by Sergeant Bud Hulsey to help teenagers lead well balanced and drug free lives. Using the results of thousands of interviews with teens, he talks about why kids use drugs, what it takes to resist drugs, and how drugs can hinder teens from full-fledged adulthood. Used by thousands of civic, religious, and law enforcement groups (including the F.B.I. National Academy), this educational and entertaining video is perfect for getting the "no use" message to teens everywhere.

VD #393, HOOKED: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO MAIN STREET (1994)
44 minutes
High School/Adults
This ABC News Turning Point program examines why some of the most unlikely people have become hooked on heroin. ABC News correspondents talk with a variety of people, from former Boy Scouts, to housewives, to Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, about what it was like to be down-and to come back up and recover. It also provides a background from DEA officers and drug dealers about why Heroin is being considered today so much more profitable and "safe". This program drives home the point that there is no safe experimentation with Heroin and if you can't say no, you'll be forever saying yes.

VD #50, HOOKED? NOT ME! (1990)
32 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Parents/Teachers
This video dramatizes the stories of three substance-abusing teenagers to show students the stages through which a drug dependency develops. A self-quiz is presented which viewers can take to learn whether they or someone they know is--or is in danger of becoming--hooked. It is emphasized that most people will deny being hooked until someone or something forces recognition. Ways to end a dependency are recommended.

VD #416, HOOLA: RESISTANCE STRATEGIES CONCERNING ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS (1994)
10 minutes
Elementary and Middle School
This short videos is about how children grades 3-6 can make positive choices about drugs and alcohol. Sponsored by the Ohio Department of Liquor Control, the host for this show is Hoola, a pink hippopotamus. Hoola shows children the parts of making a good decision and then provides three examples: being approached at school to take drugs, seeing advertising for alcohol on T.V., and riding home with someone who has been drinking.

VD #341, HOPE: ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (1990)
15 minutes/ Voiced & Closed Captioned
Second Copy in Spanish Available
Adult/ Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community/ Spanish Speakers
A young man, on his way to his first AA anniversary, reviews his drinking days and his first year of sobriety. Explains what AA is, what it is not, A.A.'s primary purpose, sponsorship, the home group, the steps and traditions and other basic principles of the AA program.

VD #553, HOW I LEARNED NOT TO BE BULLIED (1996)
16 minutes
Elementary and Middle School
A basic bullying education video for students, this video shows by example some techniques for handling harassment and bullying. In the first segment, Scott learns how to take the power away from a bully by ignoring him and standing up to him. In the second segment, Jeannette and her friends join together and stand up to a girl who has been bullying them.

VD #303, HOW TO SABOTAGE YOUR TREATMENT (1982)
24 minutes
High School/ Adults
This is a video produced specifically for patients in chemical dependency centers to help them identify the roadblocks patients often place in the path of their own recovery. The film begins and ends with a reunion in which former patients talk about their individual attempts to hinder treatment. The story then shows flashbacks of the patients to fully illustrate the types of roadblocks many patients set up for themselves. This film is an excellent orientation film and discussion starter, especially for those difficult first days of treatment.

VD #51, HOW TO STOP THE ONE YOU LOVE FROM DRINKING (1987)
56 minutes
High School/Adults
This insightful video, inspired by best-selling author Mary Ellen Pinkham's popular book of the same title, and hosted by Mariette Hartley, uses dramatized situations and straightforward commentary to explain the process of "Intervention." This videocassette outlines the practical steps you can take to start the healing...today.

VD #337, I CAN: STORIES OF DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE IN RECOVERY (1992)
60 minutes/Closed Captioned
Adults/ Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
This video is an intimate look at six deaf and hearing-impaired recovering addicts and alcoholics telling their stories. Excellent for prevention programs, counseling, or for individuals and family members who are new to the recovery process.

VD #376, I GET SO MAD! (1993)
14 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School
I Get So Mad! is designed to illustrate typical reactions children have to becoming mad or angry. In an entertaining format, the program shows communicating important messages face to face. The video is divided into three segments, each containing a vignette about a child who has become mad and with the help of an
adult, successfully works through the problem. Each segment is introduced by a storyteller and followed by a musical message. The storyteller also appears after each segment to ask a couple follow-up discussion questions. Excellent for use with children K-3. It includes a discussion guide, music lyrics, and an audio cassette of the songs for use in class.

VD #52, I LIVE IN AN ALCOHOLIC FAMILY (1988)
33 minutes/Open Captioned/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families
Using true-to-life stories, this program explores how three teenagers are helped to come to grips with the reality of having an alcoholic parent.

VD #583, I'LL FIX ANTHONY: A WHIMSICAL STORY OF SIBLING RIVALRY (1991)
13 minutes
Preschool - Intermediate
Stimulates talk about sibling relationships. Illustrates that sibling rivalry is not uncommon. Provides an opportunity to consider the fun and value of imagination. Summary: Nicholas imagines the day when he'll have revenge on his older brother, Anthony, who is not very nice to him.
VD #275, IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND (1992)
31 minutes
Middle School
Produced entirely by middle school students for other school children. It presents a unique perspective on drug abuse and its effects through the eyes of these children. This video is a teaching tool to help students learn about the consequences of drug abuse.

VD #503, IF YOU LOVE ME (1977)
60 minutes
Adults/General Audience
One of the original Alanon films. This video traces a woman's struggle to cope with her husband's progressing alcoholism. Providing an excellent example of co-dependency issues and the effects of substance use on family life, this video also has some excellent examples of enabling behaviors. The video concludes with the wife going to Alanon and realizing that she is not alone and there is help.

VD #53, I'LL QUIT TOMORROW (1976)
88 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
This story line tells of what happens to Steve Miller and his family as he develops the illness of alcoholism. Describes how it progresses in his family and work life; traces the progress of the disease, and how it was finally arrested by the successful intervention of his family and employer.

FL #29 I'M NOT JUDGING, I'M NOT SAYIN (2001)
60 minutes
Adults
At The Funnybone Comedy Club, Mark Ludlow talks about substance abuse issues.

VD #424, IN CONTROL (1994)
18 minutes
Adults
This is an excellent DUI/DWI driver intervention video. Using a news story format, it provides real stories of what drunk driving has done to victims and drivers who have chosen to drive drunk or drugged. The video also provides testimonials of several people who have driven drunk and from emergency personnel on the effects of drunk driving.

IN SEARCH OF CHARACTER SERIES (1999)
30 minutes
Grades 6-12
Core virtues that help teens develop into caring, respectful, responsible people who make choices based on what's right, rather than what's easy.

VD #575, Trustworthiness - Keeping promises, reliability, honesty, keeping a secret, integrity, loyalty.

VD #577, Responsibility - Doing what needs to be done. Being reliable. Being accountable for your actions. Fulfilling your moral obligations. Using good judgment. Exercising self-control.

VD #576, Respect - Treating others the way you want to be treated. Having consideration for others. Treating people with civility. Being accepting of differences. Solving problems without violence.

IN SEARCH OF CHARACTER SERIES (CONTINUED)

VD #578, Fairness - Treat others the way you want to be treated. Treat people equally. Consider the feelings of all people. Be open minded. Play by the rules. Don't take advantage of others.

VD #579, Diligence - Always do your best. Be willing to risk failure to accomplish a higher goal. Be self-disciplined. Learn from your mistakes & failures. Look at the big picture. Set goals. Don't give up. Don't leave things unfinished. Don't procrastinate.

VD #291, INHALANT ABUSE: BREATHING EASY (1996)
24 minutes
Adults/Counselors/ Community Prevention Personnel
This video focuses in on the causes and prevention of inhalant abuse, looking at the psychological and physiological aspects of addiction, the environmental factors which lead to inhalant abuse, and the terrible consequences of their actions. Interviews with a "sniffer" bring home the social and psychological factors which contributed to his addiction. The program concludes with the coordinated effort of one community to overcome this problem among its youth. This is an excellent overview of inhalant use and its prevention. It also includes materials suitable for use with Native American populations.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO IS NOT INTENDED,UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TO BE SHOWN TO CHILDREN.

VD #252, INHALANT ABUSE: KIDS IN DANGER/ADULTS IN THE DARK (1991)
18 minutes/Video Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Counselors/School Personnel
This video utilizes a variety of approaches to teach ADULTS ONLY about the serious problem of inhalant abuse. The video teaches: the telltale signs of inhalant abuse; the ordinary products that can be misused; how children conceal their abuse; how substances are inhaled; practical steps for effective prevention.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO IS NOT INTENDED, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TO BE SHOWN TO CHILDREN.

VD #54, INNOCENT ADDICTS (1987)
29 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
The true stories of twelve mothers recovering from substance abuse form the backdrop for an exploration of the issues surrounding drug use during pregnancy. This program presents the facts clearly and sensitively, from the emotional and physical effects on mother and child to recovery and rehabilitation.

VD #55, THE INTERVENTION (1979)
28 minutes
Adults
The sequel to The Enablers, this video shows what happens when people around the alcoholic who are motivated by love and concern agree to work with a counselor and participate in an intervention program.

VD #334, INTERVENTION: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FRIENDS (1996)
16 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults
Using compelling stories of people who have conducted real interventions, this excellent video explains how interventions are conducted and how they may save someone's life. The video contains six different testimonials from family and friends of substance abusers, intermixed with related facts about helping get loved ones into treatment. The video also touches on related substance abuse issues such as children of alcoholics, denial, and co-dependency. This video also includes a workbook and a national number for helping those interested in stopping a loved one's alcohol or drug problem.

VD #56, THE INVINCIBLES (1991)
21 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
In the midst of the poorest neighborhoods, some kids catch a glimpse of a world that lies beyond gang colors and street drugs. Let's call them the "Invincibles". This video paints a sensitive portrait of three young men who made a difference in their own lives. For each young man, the path is different but the message is clear: Yes! There is a way, but you must go out and find it.

VD #57, INVISIBLE LINE (1988)
31 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Parents/Families
A situation that can literally happen to anyone who has decided to use alcohol and other drugs. It is the story about a teenager who, very typically, started by drinking beer and wine, advanced to pot, then pills, and finally, to cocaine. The transition from user to abuser to addict is almost imperceptible. This will give young people and students much to think about, stimulate discussions, and provide information that could save their lives and the lives of their friends.

VD #413, IS YOUR BABY COMFY? (1990)
16 minutes
Adults
This is a basic post-natal education video for mothers of alcohol & drug affected babies. Geared for low to median educational levels, this film shows basic techniques for child care, feeding, quieting infants, putting children to bed, and basic play techniques. This video is a must for any parenting or counseling group which deals with parents of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or fetal alcohol effects (FAE) drug addicted children.

VD #313, IT SURE BEATS SITTING IN A CELL (1987)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Corrections
This is an Alcoholics Anonymous guide to preventing alcohol problems after prison release. Through testimonials and easy to follow instructions, the video shows ways inmates can change behavior to prevent anger, loneliness, and relapse. This video is excellent for alcohol education and relapse prevention inside and outside of the prison system.

VD #58, IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME (1988)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
A teenager with a drinking problem that is seriously affecting his school attendance and performance is referred to a peer group within the school. Filled with anger, he denies that he needs to be there. Each member takes turns explaining why they are in the group as he listens. Slowly, his sullen attitude begins to melt as he realizes he might be among friends that understand.

VD #336, IT'S NOT JUST HEARING AIDS (1994)
60 minutes/Voice & Closed Captioned
High School/Adults/Deaf & Hearing Impaired Community
This important video gives critical information about AIDS such as how it is transmitted and who is at risk. Includes an explanation of HIV testing and an interview with an AIDS victim. Produced by deaf people, this factual video is presented in a clear, straight forward manner- a valuable tool for AIDS awareness programs.

VD #59, IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM (1989)
32 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults/General Audience
John Bradshaw, recovering alcoholic, author and well-known authority on the problems surrounding alcoholism, addiction and the family, hosts this excellent introduction to co-dependency and family systems. He leads a group of co-dependents as they talk about how a family member's alcoholism or addiction affects their lives.

VD #327, JAM: THE PERFORMANCE EDGE (1995)
9 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This short video shows the effects of tobacco and alcohol on physical performance. Done in a quick MTV style, it is a great discussion starter for coaches and teachers. The program includes a discussion guide and JAM magazine.

VD #237, KEEP MOVIN' (1993)
10 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School (Children Ages 3-6)
This video addresses issues of self esteem, community safety, healthy habits, and social skills as appropriate for preschoolers. The video promotes the concept that a drug-free body is a healthy body.

VD #505, KEVIN'S STORY : PART I & II (1989)
19 and 27 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This is the story of Kevin who was court ordered to talk to schools for a year about his alcohol related fatal crash. Both tapes provide the background for this story, along with actual footage of his lecture to teens about drinking and driving. This video is both emotional and honest, dealing with the tragic results of Kevin's crash. His message is clear - drinking and driving are not worth the risk.

KIDS AT RISK VIDEO SERIES (1992)
Leader's Guides Available
Middle School

1) VD #172, An Attitude Adjustment for Ramie 15 minutes
A story about kids who learn from a peer helper how to process their feelings so they can deal with their problems more effectively, relate to others in healthier ways, and feel good about themselves.

2) VD #173, Blaming Kitty 20 minutes
A story about kids who worry about alcohol and other drug use problems in their families and how they learn to cope. The video gives all children a non-threatening perspective on parental alcohol and other drug use.

3) VD #174, Covering up for Kevin 18 minutes
The story of two middle school boys and their struggles with questions about alcohol or other drug use. This video shows kids how using alcohol or other drugs can seriously affect their lives as well as the lives of their families and friends.

4) VD #175, Double Bind 15 minutes
A story about kids in unsafe situations who learn from a trusted school counselor how to take care of themselves. The video teaches children critical safety and survival skills.

VD #597, KIDS HELPING KIDS: PROGRAM OVERVIEW.
Approx. 10 min
High School
About a youth program, located in Cincinnati, OH. Program involves how kids help each other with substance abuse issues. Includes interviews with families and teens.

VD #60, THE LAST TO KNOW (1984)
33 minutes
Adults/Woman
A realistic portrayal of four women alcoholics - three recovering and one still drinking and using drugs. In their own words and in their own environments, these four women from different social status share their feelings and struggles candidly and honestly.

VD #564, THE LAW AND YOU (1993)
16 minutes/Video
High School
This video guide for young people about what to do and how to act if stopped by law enforcement, regardless of the reason. The video shows how to handle yourself if stopped on the street, at the door or if you are arrested.

VD #266, LESSONS FROM HISTORY: A CELEBRATION IN BLACKNESS (1993)
120 minutes
Middle/High School
How did Africans build the pyramids? Who was Imhotep? What were some historical African strengths and mistakes? Show black youth their rich culture that goes beyond the slave trade.

VD #61, LIFE, DEATH, AND RECOVERY (1977)
23 minutes
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
In this unique and informative film presentation, Dr. Joseph Pursch assumes the identity of an alcoholic in a typical business setting.

VD #590, LIFELINES: TO HEALTHY BABIES
16 minutes
Adults
Information about how alcohol and street drugs can harm the fetus - presented through animated graphics and narration by a doctor. Presents the dramatized stories of 3 low-income women of different ethnic backgrounds who were faced with choices to make about cigarettes, alcohol, drugs.

VD #334, LIFT IT UP (1996)
8 minutes
High School/Adults/General Audience/African Americans
This short film shows the connection between alcohol and various types of violence. Using a poem by Maya Angelou as a preface and conclusion. The video provides clear evidence of alcohol being related to rape, murder, and other violent crimes. It also contains an excellent short vignette relating alcohol to domestic violence.

LIVING SKILLS SERIES (1995)
17-23 minutes/Closed Captioned/ Leader's Guides Available
Adults/General Audience/Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
This is a six-video series for those in treatment, aftercare, or general recovery. It provides programs on basic living skills and information to help clients deal with everyday living after drug or alcohol abuse. Each video comes with discussion questions, a facilitator's guide and workbook to provide practical exercises. The video format contains overviews of the basic skills and combines these with realistic vignettes to illustrate each life skill so that even low functioning viewers will be able to understand. The video titles focus on six subject areas:

1)VD #360, Values & Personal Responsibility
2) VD #361, Refusal Skills
3) VD #362, Making Decisions
4) VD #363, Hygiene & Self Care
5) VD #364, Looking For Work
6) VD #365, Managing Money

LIVING SOBER PROGRAM SERIES (1994)
13-17 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
The Living Sober Program is designed to help address the "nuts and bolts" issues of recovery. The videos are short, interesting and involve real life situations that clients can relate to. The series contains eight videos related to specific aspects of treatment and recovery. Each video asks clients to practice facing issues they are sure to meet in every day life. The series is excellent for any treatment program, is ethnically diverse, and can be used separately or as a set. The Living Sober Counseling Manual and Client Workbook are both available for use. The eight video topics are:

A) VD #378, Resisting Social Pressures to Use Chemicals
B) VD #379, Coping With Cravings and Thoughts of Using

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C) VD #380, Managing Anger in Recovery
D) VD #381, Managing Feelings of Boredom and Emptiness
E) VD #382, Coping with Family and Interpersonal Conflict
F) VD #383, Building A Recovery Network and Sponsorship
G) VD #384, Coping with Relapse Warning Signs and High Risk Situations
H) VD #385, Recovering From Crack/Cocaine Addiction

LIVING SOBER PROGRAM SERIES II (1997)
18-24 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
A continuation of the original Living Sober Program Series, this video set continues to address the "nuts and bolts" issues of recovery. The series contains six videos related to specific aspects of treatment and recovery. Each video asks clients to practice facing issues they are sure to meet in every day life. The series is excellent for any treatment program, is ethnically diverse, and can be used separately or as a set. The facilitator's guide is provided, along with client worksheets for easy use in groups. The six video topics are:

I) VD #479, Motivation and Recovery
J) VD #480, Relationships: Amends, Assertiveness...
K) VD #481, Relationships: Passion Rejection...
L) VD #482, HIV & Sexuality Issues
M) VD #483, Other Addictions: Gambling, Sex & Tobacco
N) VD #484, Balanced Living

LIVING SOBER III SERIES (1999)
15-23 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
Adult
This five video set provides practical lessons on handling issues related to recovery. Done is a style easy to follow, these videos cover the following issues:

O) VD #569, Compliance with Aftercare & Outpatient Treatment
P) VD #570, Low Motivation to Change
Q) VD #571, Relationship to Therapist and Group
R) VD #572, Compliance with Meds/Self Help
S) VD #573, Compliance With Lifestyle Changes

VD #399, LOOKIN' GOOD (1988)
58 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School (Grades 7-9)
Two 29 minute episodes. Two programs show how a group of concerned students, with the help of their school and community, build a peer support group to help resist the pressure to use drugs. Based on actual events involving alcohol and other drug use.

VD #62, LOTS OF KIDS LIKE US (1983)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families
This video tells the sensitive story of Ben and his sister, Laurie, as they try to cope with their father's alcoholism. They are frequently burdened by tremendous feelings of guilt and often exposed to physical and emotional abuse as they suffer in silence out of a need to keep the "family secret". "You're not alone," and "it's not your fault," are the major messages of this video.

VD #198, MAGGIE'S SECRET (1991)
33 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Adults
This is the story of John and his teenage sister Maggie as they cope with the shame and despair they feel as they try to cope with their parent's chronic drinking and their father's frequent absences. The focus is on Maggie as she tries to protect both her mother and brother. The story shows how the situation affects her grades and relationships, and culminates when her father, in drunken stupor, attempts to take advantage of her. The story concludes with a friend and a teacher confronting her about the situation, and Maggie finally admitting that she has a problem.

VD #359, MAIN LINE (1995)
16 minutes
EAP/ Adults
Using a news program format, this video covers the story of an imaginary fatal work accident. The "Main Line" program story investigates the causes and consequences of one employee's drug use and how it led to an explosion that killed him and injured five others. The video discusses the accident with co-workers, therapists, emergency teams, and others all touched by the tragedy. The video drives home the point that everyone in the workplace is affected by one person's alcohol or drug use.

VD#635 MAKE THAT RIGHT CHANGE: THE FOUR PHASES OF ADOLESCENT RECOVERY (1999)
26 minutes/ Curriculum
Adolescents/Adults
The inability to deal with intense emotions often results in relapse for teenagers in recovery. In the video teens expose their vulnerabilities and gain advice on recovery issues.

VD #492, MAKING RESPONSIBLE CHOICES (1998)
30 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School
This program uses four vignettes to give students a clearer understanding of why some choices are better than others and why they need to take personal responsibility for their actions. This video covers why all these choices are so important, with stories about drug use, cheating, stealing, and sex. Discussion questions after each segment give classes and groups a chance to discuss these issues and how they would do in a similar situation.

VD #140, THE MANOCHERIAN FOUNDATION ROAD SAFETY PSA'S (Public Service Announcements) (1991)
24 minutes
High School/Adults
An excellent documentary of the tragic DUI accident involving Bruce Kimball (Olympic diver) in Florida. Interviews with families of the teenage victims, police and those involved with the court case really make an incredible impact.

VD #298, MARIJUANA AND HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY (1986)
22 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This program about Marijuana provides the hard facts on its effects concerning the body and mind. Using medical photos, X-rays, and microscopic images, the program describes the chemical's damaging effects on the organs of the body, reproductive system, and immune system. The program also has former users cite physiological and psychological damage caused by the drug. The hazards of driving under the influence, harm done to the unborn child, and the dangers of mixing marijuana with alcohol are also discussed.

VD #304, MARIJUANA AND THE MIND: INTOXICATION AND ADDICTION (1991)
22 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/ Adults
This video uses the testimony of former users, medical experts, and laboratory studies to show marijuana's physical and psychological effects. Marijuana is shown to be physically addictive and to distort memory and learning, visual perception, motor skills, attention, and judgment. The video also talks about warning signs of use, its effects as a gateway drug, and the negative effects on work and social lives of users.

VD #618 MARIJUANA EXPOSED (2000)
18 minutes/Teacher's Guide Available
High School
Designed to teach students about marijuana and the physical, social, and legal consequences of using it. This video also addresses the misconceptions about this drug. Students need to learn the simple truth: that using marijuana is not healthy, dangerous, and illegal.

VD #594, MARIJUANA Y LA MENTE, LA: ADDICCION E INTOXICACION
29 minutes
Adults
This video uses the testimony of former users, medical experts, and laboratory studies to show marijuana's physical and psychological effects. Marijuana is shown to be physically addictive and to distort memory and learning, visual perception, motor skills, attention, and judgment. The video also talks about warning signs of use, its effects as a gateway drug, and the negative effects on work and social lives of users.

VD #357, MARIJUANA: WHAT CAN PARENTS DO? (1996)
14 minutes
Adults/Parents
This NIDA sponsored program is an excellent resource for family groups and parents. Using teen testimonials, vignettes and the advice of experts, this video shows what happens to teens who smoke pot, how parents can deal with the problem, and why marijuana today is not the same as the pot smoked in the 1960s and 70s. This program will cover all the information parents need to keep their teen off marijuana and how to deal with the problem calmly and openly.

VD #604, MARIJUANA WITH DELBERT BOONE (1997)
30 minutes
Adult
Delbert Boone discusses the hazards of marijuana use, and the misperceptions people have about marijuana. He explains how marijuana impairs judgment and motor skills, and can impair the users ability to concentrate, solve problems, learn and retain new information.

VD #63, MARKETING BOOZE TO BLACKS (1990)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This video examines the impact of alcoholism and other alcohol-related problems in the African-American community. The program exposes the messages in alcohol ads and raises questions about the industry's support of civic groups.

VD #236, MARSHA'S MOMENTS (1993)
10 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School (Grades 2-6)
Through the daily events in Marsha's life, youth are encouraged to find healthy mechanisms for dealing with problems without becoming involved in drug-related activities. This video also addresses the effects of peer pressure on decision making and demonstrates refusal skills appropriate for the target group.

VD #64, MASKS OF DENIAL (1987)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Adults
This video focuses on the psychological/emotional problems confronted by adults who grew up under an alcoholic parent. A drama that offers character sketches of typical adult children of alcoholics and suggests resources for help and counseling.

VD #65, MCGRUFF'S GANG ALERT (1990)
16 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School (Grades 1-6)
McGruff explains how street gangs hurt the community and disrupt the lives of its members. Dramatizations from McGruff's files show that gangs take away young people's freedom to make their own decisions. Examples such as loneliness, wanting to be part of a group, and peer pressure show why young people sometimes join gangs. He proves that whatever the reasons for joining, being in a gang is always a dead end. McGruff encourages kids to make their own choices and talks about what to do if they are approached by gang members.

VD #600, MEDIA SHARP, ANALYZING TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL
Approx. 10 minutes/Leaders Guide Available
High School/Adult
This video will help enhance the ability of youth to assess media messages about alcohol and tobacco, increase youth's understanding of potential influence of such messages on behavior and heighten youth's ability to resist the influence of such media messages on their behavior. Leader's guide and video combination includes questions to track media messages in order to assess media messages.

VD #66, MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ALCOHOL (1991)
57 minutes/ 2 Parts
High School/Adults
Tape one illustrates the effects of alcohol and other drugs on the body organs. The video shows how the steady use of alcohol (not necessarily abuse) debilitates the body's ability to cope with the disease. Tape two deals largely with the effects of alcohol upon the brain and nerve tissue.

VD #68, MEDICAL ASPECTS OF CO-DEPENDENCY (1986)
28 minutes/
High School/Adults
Dr. Max Schneider describes the nature of the illness of co-dependency. He explains the physical and emotional strains alcohol/drug abusers place on family, friends, and co-workers.

VD #69, MEDICAL ASPECTS OF MIND ALTERING DRUGS (1987)
30 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
Dr. Max Schneider illustrates the mental and physical effects of drugs on human physiology. Not a medical lecture, this video is an elaborate production combining dramatic vignettes, computer generated graphics, and live action with important information regarding today's most abused drugs.

VD #278, MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SENIORS AND SUBSTANCES (1994)
28 minutes
Adults/Senior Citizens
An awareness video for older adults and their families. A must see for anyone providing services for seniors. This video addresses issues regarding the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications, as well as alcohol.

VD #70, MEDICAL ASPECTS OF TOBACCO (1990)
27 minutes
High School/Adults
This is not a medical lecture. It is an elaborate production combining a dramatic story, animation and real-life interviews with important information about the effects of tobacco vital to everyone. Tobacco contains an addictive drug and has been called one of the "gateway" drugs.

VD #338, MEETING THE CHALLENGE: WORKING WITH DEAF PEOPLE IN RECOVERY (1994)
60 minutes
Adults/Professional/Deaf & Hearing Impaired Community/Voiced, Signed, Captioned
Narrator, Mike Eisle in this program covers a variety of issues concerning therapy and group work for those who are in need of substance abuse treatment and are also hearing impaired or deaf. This is a vital resource for anyone who may deal with a client with hearing loss in their program.

VD #71, MEETING THE CHILD WITHIN (1989)
25 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
Bob Earl examines events typical of children growing up in chemically dependent families. He shows a series of intense vignettes that illuminate the overt and covert messages children of alcoholics receive intended to stir memories of sexual abuse, physical violence, lies, humiliations, and emotional abuse. COA issues addressed.
VD #456, MEN, MYTHS, & DOGS (1993)
13 minutes
High School/Adults/ African Americans
This dramatic comedy depicts a young man who must deal with competing, and ambivalent attitudes about how men treat women. Rod, the young man, struggles to develop his own personal relationships free from peer pressure and negative role models. This is an excellent video for young adults dealing with attitudes toward sex, peer pressure, and respect for others.

MENNINGER CLINIC SERIES (1992)
14 to 59 minutes/ 3 Videos
Adults
This is an excellent series dealing with family trauma and how it affects children and the family. This three video set covers divorce, family stress, and learning disabilities and how they can affect family structure and functioning. Each video uses vignettes of realistic family situations to show how these situations can be handled in the child and family's best interest. This is a must for any SAP or counselor wishing to understand family issues related to child problems. The three videos include:

1) VD #507, Families, Trauma & Stress - Normal and Traumatic Stress and Coping Skills : 59 Minutes
2) VD #508, Pain Games - Children in the Middle: 14 Minutes
3) VD #509, Learning Disability - A Family in Crisis - Effects on the Entire Family: 41 Minutes

VD #323, MEN'S WORK (1992)
50 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Deaf & Hearing Impaired Community/Close Captioned
Hosted by Paul Kivel, co-founder of the Oakland Men's Project, this video uses dramatic role plays to help us see how violence affects our own lives. The video teaches how to recognize violence in ordinary situations and work toward personal solutions. Geared toward men, it focuses on domestic violence prevention, with role plays also touching on date rape, sexual harassment, and child abuse.

VD #72, MENTAL WELLNESS: MAKING IT HAPPEN (1988)
21 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Adults
This program shows teens how to enhance their self-esteem by working to improve their acceptance of responsibility, their competency to handle tasks, and their ability to balance commitments. Dr. Gene Kornhaber discusses specific ways teens can learn to cope with everyday conflicts. A brief, non-threatening quiz offers young people the opportunity to evaluate their own mental wellness.

MENTOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING VIDEOS (1992)
Counselors/Social Workers

1. VD #149, Relapse and Prevention
55 minutes
Counseling techniques examined include developing the patient's cognitive skills and coping strategies, as well as involving family members in the process. Relapse signs examined.

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2. VD #150, Assessing Childhood Trauma
67 minutes
This special program offers perspectives into the world of childhood and the trauma experienced therein. Examining the two major types of trauma, cumulative and specific, the video reviews the many symptoms of repressed or blocked emotions and focuses on resolving the conflict.

VD #281, MESSAGES OF CONCERN: ALCOHOLISM AND THE OLDER ADULT (1990)
20 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Senior Citizens
This video uses a woman's journal entries about her father as a stage for discussion of seniors and alcohol abuse. It discusses reasons why seniors abuse alcohol, symptoms of abuse, and how to provide support for an older person abusing alcohol.

VD #617 METHAMPHETAMINE: THE CRYSTAL CAGE (1998)
30 minutes /Closed Captioned
High School
This video educates adolescents on what crystal methamphetamine are, the dangers of using this drug, and how addiction occurs. Interviews with adolescents who have become addicted are used as examples how this drug affects lives.

VD #472, METHAMPHETAMINE: THE RUSH TO CRASH (1997)
28 minutes
Adults
This video examines all aspects of methamphetamine use and abuse. It details this drug's effects on the users' physiology, energy supply, and mental health. The video pays special attention to how methamphetamines disrupt the user's normal physical cycles, why people use the drug, and issues related to recovery. Interviews with professionals and former users help to emphasize methamphetamine's dangers.

VD #619 - VD #629 MICHAEL JOHNSON'S TWELVE STEP SERIES
Times range for 30 - 55 minutes
Adults
This video series helps individuals in recovery to apply the 12 step principles to their daily lives. Explaining lifestyles, value systems, and the thinking process of the inner-city persons in recovery, Johnson illustrates the difficulties many face within the 12 step boundaries, how the recovering person sabotages use of these principles, and what is required to recognize addictive cycles, relapse triggers, and the process to succeed in a life of recovery.

VD #73, MIRROR OF A CHILD (1989)
35 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
The story of a woman, a child of an alcoholic, as she comes to the realization of why she feels, and is like she is. The truth unfolds before her in the guise of her niece, in whom she begins to see herself.

VD #547, THE MISADVENTURES OF WAGS & FRECKLES (1988)
9 minutes
Elementary School
Two lovable dogs, Wags and Freckles, stumble upon some half empty beer bottles and decide to taste the alcohol, even though their friend Spot warns them not to. The chaotic results teach youngsters the effects of alcohol on behavior, judgement and physical coordination.

VD #188, MONICA AND THE POWERFUL DRUG (1992)
17 minutes
Elementary School (Preschool - 2nd Grade)
An animated musical cartoon intended especially to educate young children about alcohol. The cartoon depicts a girl monkey, 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 or alcohol.

VD #74, THE MORNING AFTER: THE STORY OF VANDALISM (1990)
27 minutes
Middle and High School
"The Morning After" tells the story, largely in their own words, of four high school boys who all but destroyed a school during a late-night rampage while under the influence of alcohol. Now they are paying.

VD #75, THE MOUNTAIN (1979)
15 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
All Audiences
A thought provoking fable is narrated by Dick Van Dyke. The villagers'react to a series of accidents on a mountain and simplistic and ineffective solutions. Reason ultimately prevails. This modern fable is an allegory for a multitude of problem solving situations, ranging from substance abuse to any number of social issues.

VD #607, MULTICULTURAL TALES (1997)
32 minutes/Leader's Guide Available/Close Captioned
Elementary
Includes Anansi, the Spider (Ghana), The Magic Tree (Congo), Arrow to the Sun Tales (Pueblo Indian) - Multicultural Tales. After viewing, students will be able to summarize the three tales and morals of each story, discuss folklore or mythology, explain why folk tales are important to a culture.

VD #603, MURALS REFLECTING PREVENTION (1994)
10 minutes/Leader's Guide/Closed Captioned
K-12
Video accompanies learning guide in order to teach alcohol and drug prevention in a creative hands-on project through the arts.

VD #76, MY FATHER'S SON (1984)
33 minutes
Middle and High School/Families
A video that dramatically portrays the devastating legacy of alcoholism. It follows a 16 year old boy, son of an alcoholic, trying to lead a normal life amidst the chaos of a dysfunctional family. This video effectively provides children of alcoholics, as well as children of other dysfunctional families, with an awareness of their higher susceptibility to chemical addiction.

VD #164, MY FRIENDS, MY FRIENDS: ALCOHOL AND AUTOMOBILES (1990)
22 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
A young filmmaker has lost an alarming number of former school friends to alcohol-related car crashes. This is the true, powerful story of three survivors - teens who killed people by drinking and driving. Despite funeral after funeral, a new generation of teens carries on this fatal pattern. This video stimulates discussion on why teens drink and drive, movingly and memorably conveys the legal and personal consequences that can result from drinking and driving and motivates viewers to explore alternatives to this kind of behavior.

VD #77, MY KID IS DRIVING ME CRAZY (1986)
57 minutes
High School/Families
This video deals with parental denial, guilt, enabling, fear, anger, blaming and loss of control. In denial about the problems, parents unwittingly enable their child to continue unhealthy and destructive behavior. The video also deals with family recovery, accepting the disease, learning to express feelings, learning to set limits, and learning to have fun. With help, parents and their children learn to overcome denial and begin recovery. This presentation is comprised of two videos, each capable of being shown separately or as a unit.

VD #443, MY POT VIDEO (1997)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
High school student Mike Morgan is court-ordered to produce a video on pot use among teens. An occasional user himself, Mike is at first skeptical that pot is dangerous or addicting, but through interviews with former users, a counselor, and friends struggling with their own problems, he soon learns the disturbing truth about this drug. My Pot Video combines a teen's point of view with documentary style and telling portraits of marijuana use. It offers an accessible and engaging portrait of marijuana's dangers which all teens will be able to identify with.

VD #199, MY STORY (1992)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
This video encourages young people to assess the impact of drugs on their lives and to make realistic and responsible decisions about protecting themselves from drugs. This video differs from most "drug videos" because it shows young people communicating in their own words, with their own voices. The story is based on the real experiences of a young woman who is known as "Jane."

VD #78, NEW CRACK FACTS (1989)
14 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults/Families
This program is designed to inform parents and teenagers about the dangers of crack. It provides important facts through the use of personal accounts, medical information, statistics, and graphic illustrations of the effects of crack upon the brain and brain cells. Through the personal accounts of Steve Morell (who is dying of AIDS), an ex-user and her children, along with information provided by New York police officers, the viewer learns of the devastating effects of crack on the individual and on society itself.

VD #287, #288, NIDA SERIES: ADOLESCENT TREATMENT APPROACHES (1992)
25 minutes
Adults
This video examines the family's role in treating alcohol and other drug problems among adolescents. Family therapy and other treatment programs are also presented.

VD #284, NIDA SERIES: ASSESSMENT (1992)
22 minutes
Adults/Drug Abuse Counselors
This videotape gives an overview of the assessment process and makes clinicians more comfortable conducting assessments and selecting diagnostic tools during the client's treatment. Assessment tools are examined including; Addiction Severity Index, Problem Oriented Screening Instrument For Teenagers, Adolescent Problem Severity Index, and the Personal Experience Inventory.

VD #289, NIDA SERIES: COMING TOGETHER ON PREVENTION (1992)
25 minutes
Adults
This is a promotional videotape for the National Institute On Drug Abuse. It outlines the services provided by the NIDA and shows how NIDA programs are helping fight substance abuse across the country. It also describes several prevention and early intervention programs conducted by the NIDA.

VD #283, NIDA SERIES: DRUG ABUSE AND THE BRAIN (1993)
25 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Drug Abuse Counselors
This video provides a detailed look at the biological basis of drug addiction. Through animation and interviews with experts, viewers will come to understand how the brain's reward system operates and how drug abuse can cause fundamental changes in how the brain works.

VD #412, NIDA SERIES: DRUG ABUSE AND HIV: REACHING THOSE AT RISK (1993)
17 minutes
Adults/Drug Abuse Counselors
This video profiles HIV prevention efforts aimed at intravenous (I.V.) drug users. Using Chicago pilot programs as a backdrop, this video shows users and counselors that there are ways that communities can prevent the spread of AIDS, even without giving up the drugs themselves. It provides of examples of techniques which reduce risks among users and shows how counselors, prevention professionals, and community outreach workers can get this message into the communities.

VD #476, NIDA SERIES: DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT IN PRISON- A NEW WAY OUT (1994)
23 minutes
Adults/ Corrections/Drug Abuse Counselors
This video profiles the therapeutic community model in corrections and how it is helping prisoners with substance abuse histories overcome their addictions. It uses a case study in Delaware and interviews with professionals and inmates to show how treatment in prison changes behavior and attitudes.

VD #282, NIDA SERIES: DUAL DIAGNOSIS (1993)
27 minutes
Adults
Experts believe that between one-third and one-half of all addicts suffer from serious psychiatric disorders. This video focuses on the problem of mental illness in drug-abusing and drug-addicted populations and examines various approaches useful in treating dually-diagnosed clients.

VD #286, NIDA SERIES: METHADONE, WHERE WE ARE (1993)
33 minutes
Adults
This video examines many issues such as the use and effectiveness of Methadone as treatment, the biological effects of Methadone, the role of the counselor in treatment; and the societal attitudes and stigmas regarding Methadone treatment and Methadone patients.

VD #285, NIDA SERIES: RELAPSE PREVENTION (1992)
24 minutes
Adults
What do we really know about relapse and how can we help clients avoid it? This videotape addresses these questions by providing information on the phenomenon of relapse and its often chronic appearance in the lives of alcohol and other drug abusers.

VD #288, NIDA SERIES: TREATMENT ISSUES FOR WOMEN (1992)
22 minutes
Adults
This videotape examines the challenges that women bring to treatment, along with ways to deal with relationship building, sexual and physical abuse, anger, and role confusion. Specific issues, methods, and techniques are presented to help viewers understand the multifaceted dimensions of treating women who use drugs. Scenes from several innovative treatment programs show how treatment services have been enhanced to serve women.

VD #79, NINETY-NINE BOTTLES OF BEER (1973)
23 minutes
Middle and High School/Families
A non-judgmental presentation that simply relates experiences and feelings of young people as they relate to alcohol.

VD #171, NO VICTORY: TEENS DRIVING DRUNK (1990)
28 minutes
Middle and High School
Looks at how easily an "All American" type young man's life is taken when his friends believe that he is okay and let him drive while intoxicated. An alternative scenario is also offered - one that would have saved a life.

VD #516, "NONE FOR UNDER 21" - SAYING NO TO ALCOHOL (1999)
11 minutes
Middle School
This video contains three separate scenarios for grades 5-8 about drinking. Stories include such topics as going to parties with alcohol, experimenting with alcohol to be like others, and riding with drunken drivers. The program also includes markers to stop the video for discussion and ending sequences to show viewers what they should do in the situation.

VD #612 NOTHING TO RAVE ABOUT: A CLUB DRUGS PREVENTION VIDEO (2001)
24 minutes
High School
Across the country, increasing numbers of young adults consider club drugs a harmless enhancement to a night of dancing, bar hopping, or concert going. Young people, ages 17 - 22, learn the hard way there is no such thing as a safe or recreational drug. They discuss the use of MDMA (ecstasy), GHB, rohypnol, ketamine. Also discussed are loneliness, depression, rape, and death.

VD #501, NOT OUR KID: PARENTS & PREVENTION (1987)
60 minutes
Adults/Parents
This is a lecture teaching parents how to deal with drug abuse and prevent their children from starting. The program covers such diverse issues as cultural acceptance of drug use, how we ingrain children that drug use is OK to stop feeling bad, and how we pass on these ideas to our children. The lecture then teaches parents how to teach their children to say no, how to represent authority, and how to get kids involved in alternatives. There is an additional segment which is a must for viewers dealing with resiliency issues and parents connecting to their children.

VD #330, NOW YOU'RE TALKING (1993)
18 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
Parents and children will see real life situations involving drinking and drug use. Watch these scenes and see how parents and kids often react when facing decisions about alcohol and drugs. The video provides three vignettes to provide examples of miscommunication and conflict resolution skills between children and adults. It also provides discussion breaks between segments to allow children, parents and groups to discuss the issues covered.

VD #426, OLGA'S STORY (1990)
20 minutes
Adults/Women
This is an interview with Olga, a Hispanic American woman who contracted AIDS through heterosexual contact. She discusses her background, how she contracted the disease, and what her symptoms have been. She also explains how the disease has affected her health and her ability to raise her children. Although dubbed from the original Spanish, this film is an excellent prevention video for HIV, Hispanic health issues, or women's health issues.

VD #504, OPEN SECRETS (1985)
28 minutes
High School/Adults
This is the story of one family's chemical abuse and its tragic results. Told from the perspective of each family member, including the alcoholic father, drug using children, and co-dependent mother, we see how denial, leniency, and enabling combine to destroy a family. The story uses flashbacks and hospital scenes to show the results of their chemical use and behavior.

VD #293, OPERATION T.A.C.T.I.C. (1995)
15 minutes
High School/Adults
This is an awareness video about the hazards of smokeless tobacco. Using still photos, medical testimonials, and American Dental Association research, this film provides a background of the types of smokeless tobacco, use by the public, and the results of using smokeless tobacco on the body. This video also includes the story of Shaun Marsee, a high school track star who developed cancer from smokeless tobacco and died at the age of 18.

OUR CHANCE - (FOR ADULTS IN THE COMMUNITY)
30 minutes each
The community component features effective prevention and intervention efforts in three very different communities that provide useful, adaptable models for local prevention activities with parents and other adults who want to protect young people from the pressure to turn to drugs.

VD #264, Includes the following programs:
Partners (Burlington, Wisconsin)
Sunrise House (Salinas, California)
Parents and Schools (St. Louis, Missouri)

VD #265, Includes the informational program:
About "Your Choice. . .Our Chance"

VD #473, OUR SMOKING VIDEO (1997)
20 minutes
High School
Page and Ryan, seniors who are teamed in an advanced video production class, have been caught smoking on school property. Instead of facing suspension, they accept the assignment of producing a video about tobacco and smoking for the student body. Highly resistant at first, Page watches as Ryan builds the first sequences for their production, which includes messages sent about smoking and interviews with young people expressing their views on the subject. For her contribution, Page surfs the internet for information about tobacco and nicotine. Struck by the hard evidence against smoking, her position gradually softens. The video ends with an emotional interview with Page's mother, an addicted smoker, which leads Page to decide to quit smoking and her mom to do the same.

VD #388, OUT OF THE NIGHT (1996)
17 minutes
High School Students
This is a story about a group of teens who "survive" an automobile crash after a party. The characters review their night of drinking and marijuana use as they wait for help to arrive. The video covers their actions from the time they leave home to when they are involved in the accident and afterward. An ironic and tragic ending helps to bring the message home that it's not safe to be in a car while intoxicated, even as a passenger. The video also provides insight into how neglect of safety belts and inappropriate actions by intoxicated passengers can cause accidents, even with a designated driver. A must see for any teen substance abuse education program.

VD #559, OUT MAKING SCHOOLS SAFE FOR GAY TEENS (STUDENT & FACULTY VERSIONS) (1999)
26 minutes student version & 42 minutes staff version/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adult/Professional
By watching this video, viewers should gain a better understanding of what the lives of gay teens are like, and how being gay is both very different from and somewhat similar to being straight.

VD #519, OUTSIDE THE GOLDEN HOUR (1997)
19 minutes
High School/ College/Adults
This video, created by the Miamisburg Fire and Police Departments, discusses the impact of accidents and injuries outside "the golden hour" (A rescue term for the highest time a victim usually survives outside the emergency room). It uses the real example of one such alcohol related crash and interviews with family, friends, and the driver to show that although physical scars may heal, the emotional scars often never do. This video is an excellent program for driver intervention or alcohol education programs and realistically shows that you can never really "make up" for all the pain of an alcohol related accident.

VD #366, PARENTING TODAY: BABY STEPS - THE FIRST 12 MONTHS (1992)
40 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/ Adults/ Parents
This parenting video, " Baby Steps: The First 12 Months," can help make the first year of new responsibilities an easier one for you. It takes a good look at a baby's changing behaviors - why moods and needs change and what you can do about it. Hosted by actress Michael Learned, this video lets you sit in on the lives of real parents with infants. It will provide you with solid, down-to-earth advice from some of the nation's top experts and get you on your way to developing a positive experience with your new baby.

VD #368, PARENTING TODAY: MIDDLE CHILDHOOD YEARS-6 THROUGH 10 (1993)
40 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/ Parents
This special video is designed to answer many of the questions you have about your 6 to 10 year old. You'll learn how to teach your child respect and responsibility for themselves and others. Why it's important to let children make their own choices and how to help your child build self-esteem, and why letting them experience the consequences of their actions can teach responsibility. This video provides real life advice and vignettes for parents of grade school children along with some excellent help from child care experts.

VD #367, PARENTING TODAY: SMALL STEPS, GIANT LEAPS-12 MONTHS TO 3 YEARS (1992)
40 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/ Adults/ Parents
This special video helps you prepare for your toddler's highs and lows. Learn about your child's need to explore and show independence and how to child proof your house. See how you can help your child share with others, and how the new skills of walking and talking require some creative parenting skills. This video gives practical advice for parents with toddlers in many situations. You'll hear from real life parents of toddlers and get the latest advice from experts. This is a must for anyone in need of real solutions for their preschooler.

VD #343, PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG FREE AMERICA PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (1996)
20 minutes/Divided into 30, 15, and 10 second spots
Elementary/ Middle/ High School/ Parents/ Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) This is a collection of anti-drug advertisements from the Partnership For A Drug Free America. The spots are divided into ads for young children, middle school students, adolescents, parents, and the workplace. They cover a wide variety of topics such as inhalants, marijuana, workplace drug abuse, talking to your kids about drugs, saying "no" to drug pushers, and use by suburban kids. There are also spots specifically for African-American children, girls, and children from the suburbs. An excellent resource for presentation openers, this video contains something for everyone.

VD #83, THE PARTY'S OVER (1991)
47 minutes
High School/Adults
Crisis intervention is a compelling, compassionate process designed to deliver the message to an addicted loved one..."the party's over." The Party's Over bears witness to three real-life interventions, recreated by the actual families involved. These are not actors, but everyday folks whose lives have changed so powerfully, they call it the single most important event of their lives.

VD #614 PATHWAY TO CHANGE: MICHAEL JOHNSON
40 minutes
Adults
Pathway To Change clearly illustrates how negative behavior can eventually cause problems and lead to negative consequences. Johnson demonstrates the "pathway to change" by taking the viewer through a series of examples and analogies as he lists a person's emotions, behavior and feelings under columns titled "problems" and "solutions". His demonstration clearly explains how by changing things from the "solution column" a person can limit or eliminate many negative consequences.

VD #84, PEER INTERVENTION: DRUG ABUSE (1991)
17 minutes
Middle and High School
This video talks about helping peers that you know or suspect are having problems with alcohol and/or other drug use/abuse.

VD #85, PEER PRESSURE, DRUGS...AND YOU (1990)
32 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This video teaches effective assertiveness strategies for resisting peer pressure to use drugs. Using role-play close to teen experience, it makes students aware that pressure from others need not compromise their values, that they are entitled to do what's best for them.

VD #195, PERFORMANCE (1986)
41 minutes
High School/College Students
David Ohlms, M.D. discusses the impact of alcohol and other drug use on athletic skills and development. An informative video, particularly suited to school athletic programs.

VD #467, THE PHYSICIAN DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE (1991)
22 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Medical Professionals
This is an educational video to raise physician awareness of alcohol and drug problems. The video is formatted to provide information about substance abuse, identify signs of use for medical professionals, and encourage professionals to actively educate patients about the risks of substance abuse. This program also looks at prevention and early intervention issues and how physicians can contribute to the health of at-risk patients.

VD #86, PICKING UP THE PIECES (1989)
48 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families
"Mom is an alcoholic and no one in my family talks", says 16 year old Patty. Patty suffers from a drinking problem - her mother's. Her dad is in heavy denial, and Patty is trapped in the cover-up. Then, a sympathetic friend introduces Patty to Alateen, and she finds out she is not alone or unique. However, there is no sudden or happy ending here, only Patty's tentative steps toward her own recovery and her refusal to be a victim, showing teenagers that their own survival is what counts and that an alcoholic parent is not their responsibility.

VD #210, PIECING IT TOGETHER (1997)
24 minutes
High School Students
This video dispels some of the myths surrounding substance abuse and driving under the influence. The information focuses on teens but can be used with any college or young adult audience. Using a puzzle format, the video shows various laws and facts that provide support for not driving drunk or high, the 21 year drinking age, and that there is no safe time to use chemicals. This is a good basic video for any driver education or teen awareness program.

VD #428, PLAYING IT SAFE (1988)
9 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School Students
This award winning video is targeted for teens who might become or are already sexually active. Comprised of a series of dramatizations, this program focuses on self-control, assertiveness, and how to say no to peer pressure. Each vignette shows young adults how to communicate personal decisions on sexual issues. Facts about AIDS, venereal disease, unwanted pregnancy, and other dangers of casual sex are emphasized so that viewers will consider the risk before they become sexually active.

VD #228, POOR JENNIFER - SHE'S ALWAYS LOSING HER HAT (1991)
34 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Teachers
Designed to educate adults about the issues faced by children of alcoholics and to encourage them to respond to the needs of children of alcoholics. The video focuses on both the dynamics of family alcoholism and the healing that begins with awareness and with the breaking of silence. The drama centers on Annie, an adult, struggling with her mother's denial of her alcoholism and her own need to talk about childhood experiences while living in an alcoholic family.

VD #490, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (THE DOCTOR IS IN...) (1998)
30 minutes
Adults
Hosted by Jamie Guth, this video takes a look at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) . Using multiple interviews, this program explains the causes and results of trauma in a variety of situations including war veterans, disaster victims, and survivors of rape and incest. These stories are interwoven with clinical issues and steps for overcoming traumatic events and memories.

VD #477, THE POWER OF ADDICTION (1990)
19 minutes
Adults
What is addiction? Who is prone to addiction? How can addictions be overcome? The physiological and psychological mechanisms of behavioral addictions, such as compulsive gambling and compulsive shopping, and chemical addictions, specifically cocaine, are explored in this program. Biochemical, genetic, and environmental factors are suggested as causes for addictive behaviors; drug therapies and support groups are discussed as valuable aids to recovery.

THE POWER OF CHOICE SERIES - (Vol. 1, 1987; Vol. 2-12, 1988)
High School/ Leader's Guides Available
Comedian/teen counselor Michael Prichard toured the U.S. to talk with high school students about how they make choices in life.

1) VD #87, The Power of Choice - 60 minutes
The original PBS TV special. How to be a V.I.P. by using Vision, Initiative, and Perspective as tools for making the best choices.

2) VD #88, Acting on Your Values - 30 minutes
Knowing what you value is the key to making choices that are right for you.

3) VD #89, Self-Esteem - 30 minutes
What is self-esteem, what does it do for you, and how can you get it?

4) VD #90, Coping With Pressure - 30 minutes
How to handle pressure in ways that serve your best interests.

5) VD #91, Drugs and Alcohol, Part I - 30 minutes
An honest look at making hard choices in the real world.

6) VD #92, Drugs and Alcohol, Part II - 30 minutes
What to do when someone you care about is hooked.

7) VD #93, Drinking and Driving - 30 minutes
How to stay out of (or get out of) drunk driving predicaments and still be cool.

8) VD #94, Sex - 30 minutes
How to make choices tonight that you can live with tomorrow.

THE POWER OF CHOICE SERIES (CONTINUED)

9) VD #95, Friendship and Dating - 30 minutes
How to create and maintain quality relationships.

10) VD #96, Depression and Suicide - 30 minutes
What to do if you or someone you care about is at risk.

11) VD #98, Communicating With Parents - 30 minutes
What you can do to get your parents to listen and understand.

12) VD #99, Raising Your Parents - 30 minutes
How you can make your relationship with your parents work better.

VD #349, POWER SURGE SERIES: AIDS & STDS (1993)
16 minutes/Voice & Captioned /Leader's Guide Available
High School /Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community/ This video from the Power Surge Series is a great discussion of the issues surrounding AIDS & STDs. Done with modern graphics and images this video covers a variety of ten sexuality issues such as monogamy, , condoms and abstinence. Experts are included for advice about being safe in sexual situations and diverse teens explain how they got the diseases and what they face in the future.

VD #350, POWER SURGE SERIES: ALCOHOL (1993)
16 minutes/Voiced & Captioned/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Deaf & Hearing - Impaired Community
This Power Surge video provides a great overview of what can happen when teens use alcohol. Using testimonials of teens and experts along with great graphics, this video shows teens where alcohol use can lead including DUI, poor self-esteem, and other drug use. The video also shows teens that the best way to prevent alcohol use is never to start and how to help a friend with an alcohol problem.

VD #351, POWER SURGE SERIES: DRUGS (1993)
16 minutes/Voiced & Captioned/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community
Another video in the Power Surge Series, this program provides teens with a great look into the effects and consequences of drug use. Using testimonials of teens, counselors, and police, it gives a glimpse of treatment, the effects of peer pressure, and enforcement efforts. The video also profiles a variety of drugs, with a special focus on marijuana abuse.

VD #352, POWER SURGE SERIES: SELF-IMAGE (1993)
16 minutes/Voiced & Captioned/ Leader's Guide Available
High School /Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
This video from the Power Surge Series is fast paced with great graphics and great music. Done in an MTV style, it provides teenagers with the basics of what self-esteem is, how you can boost it, and who you are is more than what you wear or who your friends are. The video includes some common things that teens say about themselves inside, whether popular or not, and includes stories of regular kids who had self -esteem problems.

VD #353, POWER SURGE SERIES; TOBACCO (1993)
16 minutes/Video & Captioned/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/ Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
A wonderful video from the Power Surge Series profiles teen tobacco use. Using great testimonials from teens and experts, it shows the effects of tobacco on health and lifestyles. The video also includes information on chewing and snuff, touches on peer pressure to smoke, and even gives the example of the Shaun Marsee story. Marsee was a high school track star who died at 18 from oral cancer from dipping snuff.

VD #354, POWER SURGE SERIES: VIOLENCE (1993)
16 minutes/Video & Captioning/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/ Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
Teens and experts discuss the tragic effects that violence has on adolescents. This video, from the Power Surge Series, covers important issues related to teen violence and conflict management including gangs, consequences of violence, and the costs in lives and futures. Excellent testimonials by teens highlight this film.

VD #161, PREVENTION (1987)
12 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This startling video poses the question, "Exactly what are we trying to prevent?" The answer is provided in a series of six powerful stories of drug and alcohol abuse which provide a stunning glimpse of those "other" consequences of alcohol and drug use and shares their personal experiences. Addiction, unwanted pregnancy, loss of potential, involvement in crime and accidents and suicide are the legacies of their actions.

VD #415, PREVENTION WORKS: HOW TO MAKE IT WORK IN YOUR COMMUNITY (1996)
42 minutes
Adults
This documentary/training video begins with a brief overview explaining what prevention is all about, why it is needed, and what elements make effective prevention. Next, nine short segments showcase various types of prevention programs. The video ends urging viewers to call CSAP for more information on prevention.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS LIVING FREE (1992)
60 minutes each/Leader's Guides Available
Adults

1) VD #238, Lifestyles and Values
This program includes simple, yet critical information to highlight the difference between positive lifestyles and destructive lifestyles, between positive values and destructive values. It demonstrates that destructive lifestyles and values only lead to a lack of true freedom. The video is divided into two segments to facilitate discussion of the topics covered.

2)VD #239, Relapse, Recidivism and Recovery
This program is an excellent tool to prepare client/inmate groups for re-introduction into the community. The video presentation enforces the idea that every individual makes the choices that determine his or her future. The video is divided into sections to allow discussion of the topics covered.

VD #316, PRIVATE VICTORIES (1988)
116 minutes/Four 29 minute episodes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
These video emphasizes that young people can achieve private victories by caring enough about themselves to reject drugs. They show how deciding against drugs can influence friends to do the same. The episodes use the story of a student's choices at a new school as the backdrop for this excellent high school drama on decision making and drugs.

PROJECT ALERT VIDEO SERIES (1992)
8-11 minutes each
Middle School Students
This is a collection of videos, which touches on a variety of substance abuse issues. With excellent scenarios, these videos are culturally diverse enough to use with any group. These videos will stimulate discussion among early adolescents about topics ranging from marijuana use and peer pressure, to drug-free lifestyles and smoking. Two of the videos are testimonials from older teens, while the others are stories common to middle school students. Each of the latter videos has several endings to show different ways to resist peer pressure or find alternatives to use. The first five videos are geared for a 7th grade population, while the sixth is a smoking awareness video for 8th grade. Topics are listed below.

7th Grade Videos:

Lesson 1: VD #418, "Let's Talk About Marijuana" -Teen Marijuana Testimonials
Lesson 5: VD #419, "Lindsey's Choice" - Smoking Issues
Lesson 7: VD #420, "Pot Or Not"- Marijuana Use
Lesson 9: VD #421, "Clearing The Air" - Teen Smoking Testimonials
Lesson 10: VD #422, "Saying No To Drugs" - Drug Free Alternatives & Parties

8th Grade Videos:

Lesson 2: VD #423, "Paul's Fix" - Teen Smoking

VD #563, PROJECT SNAPP: SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE FOR PREGNANCY AND AIDS PREVENTION (1996)
13 minutes
High School
This is the companion video to the Project SNAPP Curriculum. It includes 8 lessons related to pregnancy and AIDS prevention.

THE PROMISE OF RECOVERY VIDEO SERIES (1995)
24-32 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Mental Health
This video series is designed to educate consumers with psychiatric disorders and their families about psychiatric illness, professional treatment, and the recovery process. This program aims to instill hope in the consumer and family that recovery is possible and to illustrate both the struggles of recovery and the positive outcomes which can be achieved. It also aims to motivate the consumer to take an active role in recovery and to use the "tools" of recovery to manage symptoms of psychiatric illness. The 11 video series includes a discussion guide and workbook. Series titles are:

THE PROMISE OF RECOVERY VIDEO SERIES

A) VD #538, Understanding Psychiatric Illness and Recovery
B) VD #535, How to Use Therapy & Counseling
C) VD #536, The Role of Medication in Recovery
D) VD #537, Developing a Relapse Plan
E) VD #538, Psychiatric Illness & The Family
F) VD #539, Specific Psychiatric Disorders-Depression
G) VD #540, Specific Psychiatric Disorders-Borderline Personality Disorders
H) VD #541, Specific Psychiatric Disorders-Bipolar Illness
I) VD #542, Specific Psychiatric Disorders-Anxiety & Panic Disorders
J) VD #543, Specific Psychiatric Disorders-Schizophrenia
K) VD #544, Specific Psychiatric Disorders-Eating Disorders

VD #144, PROMISES, PROFILE OF AN ALCOHOLIC (1983)
30 minutes
High School/Adults
The re-enactment by the actual people telling their story of a successful Hollywood theater producer's struggle with alcoholism. The key to this video is the reluctance of the alcoholic to admit to his disease in light of the fact he has not reached the "bottom" he believes is necessary to qualify him as an alcoholic.

VD #242, PSYCHEDELICS: THE BAD TRIP (1992)
25 minutes
High School
Psychedelics, or hallucinogens, are mind-altering drugs that can be emotionally addictive. These drugs have many names, including Acid, Crystal, Angel Dust and White Lightning. In this program, the physical and psychological effects on the user are reviewed and it is stressed that the effects of psychedelics on the user are unpredictable and often life-threatening. Explanations of "bad-trip panics" and "flashbacks" are provided, and the kind of help available to users is detailed.

VD #611, PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION
30 minutes/Discussion Guide
High School/Adults
Delbert Boone discusses chemical addiction. Boone explains how chemical substances move through the body to the brain, where the psychological effects upon the addict include denial, rationalization, minimization and projection of the addict's problem

VD #610, READY OR NOT: TALKING WITH KIDS ABOUT ALCOHOL (1995)
30 minutes, Discussion Guide Available
Middle School
This video is designed to help parents and caregivers talk with middle school students to prevent underage drinking. Five steps discussed include talking with your child, being a good role model, disapproving of illegal underage drinking, supervising your child and recognizing a problem behavior and seeking help when necessary.

REAL LIFE PARENTING SKILLS PROGRAM SERIES (1995)
15-17 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults
This is a parenting series for adults in recovery and anyone attempting to rebuild family relationships after trauma. The series provides three videos on the basics of parenting and family skills. The series also includes facilitator's guides and workbook activities for use in group work or therapy. Topics include:

1) VD #485, Handling Anger: This video shows how to manage anger without taking it out on your children. It also shows how to handle a child's anger and prevent angry exchanges before they happen.

2)VD #486, Building Trust: This video addresses ways to balance recovery needs with those of your family. It also suggests ways for dealing with past feelings of anger, resentment, and mistrust related to substance abuse issues.

3) VD #487, Setting Rules & Limits: This video teaches parents how to re-establish boundaries and rules. It addresses how to set limits, establish consequences, and enforce rules. This video also shows how to act as a good role model for children.

VD #478, REAL PEOPLE: TEEN MOTHERS AND FATHER SPEAK OUT (1995)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
Viewers meet three teen mothers and two teen fathers who speak about teen parenthood and the attitudes and behaviors which led them there. The teens are ethnically diverse and discuss family life before the pregnancy occurred, self-esteem issues related to having a child, birth control, misconceptions about what having a baby would be like, and the new problems having a child as a teenager has brought to their lives. Their stories, coupled with an excellent leader's guide will give teens a real sense of what being a teen parent is really like.

VD #634 RECOVERY: A FAMILY AFFAIR (2002)
30 minutes/ Discussion Guide
Adults
This video focuses on family issues related to addiction, recovery, and re-entry into society. Ms. Rosetta Oliver presents the challenges of welcoming a recovering addict home, including unrealistic expectations, transitions back into society, and the stress associated with "building a new life." Healthy boundaries, positive relationships, support groups are discussed to family members.

VD #464, RECOVERY AND HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY: ALCOHOL (1992)
15 minutes
High School/Adults
Recovery from alcohol addiction can be a grueling process - both physically and mentally. Viewers learn about the medical complications commonly faced by alcoholics, special concerns of female alcoholics, problems with sexual dysfunction, malnutrition, and depression. Interspersed are candid interviews with individuals who are in recovery.

VD #145, RECOVERY AND HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY: DRUG ABUSE (1992)
18 minutes
High School/Adults
When people give up drugs and/or alcohol, they often expect to feel wonderful instantly. But recovery from such abuse takes time and has its own share of pain, special problems, and discomfort. The video gives up-to-date medical information, explanatory visuals, and testimonials. The common after effects, both mental and physical, experienced by those in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction are discussed. The special physical problems that women may experience in recovery are also addressed.

VD #101, RECOVERY ROULETTE (1984)
21 minutes
High School/Families
Humor and a light touch help this animation tell the story of visitors from a far galaxy who discover the disease of chemical dependency. The issue of relapse is also discussed with emphasis on how recovering people need to know that cough syrup, tranquilizers, or sleeping pills can create a new addiction or lead them back to the old one.

VD #391, REFLECTIONS FROM THE HEART OF A CHILD (1996)
32 minutes/Voiced & Closed Captioned/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/General Audience/Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
Reflections from the Heart of a Child, vividly portrays the impact of chemical dependency on the family as three young lives are ravaged by a father's alcoholism and a mother's inability to cope. An excellent film depicting COA roles and family dynamics in a chemical dependency setting, this video is an updated version of the original Soft is the Heart of a Child video.

VD #102, REFUSAL SKILLS: FOR TEENS UNDER PRESSURE (1991)
20 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School (Grades 4 - 9)
This video teaches students the positive refusal skills that can help them say no in pressure-filled situations typical of teen experience, then follows each with a role-play showing viewers how to substitute constructive for destructive behavior. Provides responses that work.

VD #103, THE REHEARSAL: UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION (1989)
21 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
A play that a high school class is rehearsing for has raised some questions and uncovered conflict within a group of adolescents. These questions, and conflicts the kids have with the characters they play, provide opportunities for discussion about addiction, dependency, and substance abuse. The program provides good discussion provoking content, and the educational content is easily absorbed and understood.

VD #273, REMOTELY SCIENCE (1993)
22 minutes
Elementary School
Produced by 8th grade students to show that science is fun. It contains strong messages to discourage drug use while also encouraging interest in science, particularly among girls and minorities.

VD #488, RESPECT: KEEP IT REAL (1996)
26 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This ethnically diverse video provides an excellent overview of what respect is, how it works and why everyone should have it. Using three vignettes this video discusses respect for feelings, respect for authority, and respect for one's self. It concludes with the strong message that the respect you give is the respect you receive from others.

VD #558, RESTLESS, IRRITABLE & DISCONTENTED: THE BASICS OF RELAPSE (2000)
18 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
Based on the firsthand testimony of alcoholics and addicts in recovery, this video examines the attitudes and behaviors that warn of relapse. Through personal stories, the viewer learns how to identify and minimize high-risk situations, how to cope with cravings and the importance of staying connected to the community of other recovering addicts and alcoholics.

VD #244, REX A. CANINE, PART 1 (1993)
14 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School
This video is designed to teach about tobacco advertising. Rex A. Canine is an animated dog who refuses to be the representative for a major tobacco company. One major goal of this video is to help young adolescents develop their critical-thinking skills so they will understand how advertising campaigns are designed to influence them, and will be able to turn their backs on the cigarette companies' manipulation.

VD #250, REX A. CANINE, PART 2 (1994)
14 minutes
Elementary School
This video takes a look at chewing tobacco advertising and promotions. Rex exposes methods used by tobacco companies to get young kids to try chewing tobacco. The video also discusses some of the medical consequences of using chewing tobacco.

VD #531, THE RIGHT CHOICES: SKILLS FOR LIFE (1999)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This video raises provocative questions about what is right and wrong, and how to best determine a good choice. The video uses scenarios related to real-life problems and solutions. Story topics include: threats of violence, riding with drunk driver, neglecting school and cheating, and crossing the line between teasing and being mean. On-screen questions help aid discussion. This is a must for any health, character development or social skills discussion.

VD #549, RIGHT TURNS ONLY (1993)
150 minutes/ Seven 20 minute programs/ Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This video focuses on a group of racially and ethnically diverse students who work together to produce a video about the causes and consequences of drug use.

VD #457, RISK-TAKING: THINKING IT THROUGH (1996)
25 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
This video helps middle school students understand the difference between positive and negative risk-taking and the influence of peers on risky behavior. Focuses on how to predict the consequences of risky behavior using three realistic scenarios. After each scenario, a narrator looks at the risk illustrated and examines the thinking behind the act. This is an excellent video for helping students make better decisions.

VD #105, RISK-TAKING AND YOU (1988)
23 minutes
Middle and High School
This program examines why teenagers are so inclined to take senseless risks, and challenges students to explore risk-taking in their own lives. Using both interviews with teenage risk-takers and compelling dramatizations, the program illustrates the differences between healthy and unhealthy risk-taking.

VD #469, ROLES (WITH CLAUDIA BLACK) (1986)
50 minutes
Adults
This video provides an in-depth discussion of the different roles that children of alcoholics and addicts take on to survive. Claudia Black describes each role, its traits, and what children are most likely to assume them. She also provides insight into how the children of alcoholics (COA) roles compensate for dysfunctional family systems and how these traits carry over into adulthood.

VD #106, ROMANCE TO RECOVERY (1980)
34 minutes
High School/Adults
The stories of Dick and Jane, Richie and Janie, in alcoholic relationships. More importantly, it focuses on the recovery of both the alcoholic and the co-alcoholic.

VD #196, SANE AND SOBER (1993)
15 minutes
Adults
This video provides insight, courage and hope to those with a dual diagnosis of chemical dependency and mental illness. It is designed to help them realize that a return to full and active lives is possible with treatment. Eight people with illnesses ranging from schizophrenia to depression, in addition to addiction disease, speak candidly about their struggles with their conditions, and the hope and promise they have found in recovery.

VD #574, SAVING LIVES: TOBACCO PREVENTION WORKS! (1999)
10 minutes
Professionals
This is an overview of successful tobacco prevention efforts, the problem of tobacco use, and how local programs can get started preventing and controlling the problem of tobacco use.

VD #107, SCARED, SAD, AND MAD (1989)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary/Families/Parents/Teachers
This video describes the feelings of young children about an alcoholic parent. Those feelings are shown in this story by a rabbit named Fergus whose father drinks too much. Fergus meets some real-life children who share his problem and help him understand and cope with it.

VD #499, SCARED SILENT (1995)
58 minutes
High School/Adults
This is a candid look at child abuse hosted by Oprah Winfrey. It looks at sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children and how this trauma carries over into adulthood. It also provides a look at abusers, their motives, and how victims can begin to recover from the scars left by abuse.

VD #499, SECOND HALF: THE THOMAS HENDERSON STORY (1988)
29 minutes
High School/Adults
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson was the National Football League's first cocaine casualty. It cost him his career and, for a few years, his freedom. More importantly, Thomas has been clean and sober since 1983 and has a message for young and old: "Life can be better." It can be different. You don't have to live this way anymore". Second Half is full of hope for everyone, especially minorities and kids at risk. It offers a way out and a road map to successful recovery.

VD #565, THE SENTENCING OF BILL THOMAS (1993)
16 Minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adult/Corrections
This video discusses the background, arrest, incarceration and trial of Bill Thomas, a teenager accused of selling drugs. The video takes viewers through Bill's ordeal and then asks them to pass sentence on Bill.

VD #532, SET UP FOR RELAPSE (1999)
31minutes
Adults/African Americans
Hosted by Michael Johnson, this video explores the reasons for relapse in "resistant" clients. Using an excellent Afro centric perspective he also addresses cross cultural issues which also impact recovery. This video also looks at the "missing link" in the recovery process-which is the difference between life on the street as clients remember it and how life actually is. Although looked at from an Afro centric perspective, this video is good to any recovering group.

VD #290, SEX, LIES AND PROFITS (1994)
17 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
A film by the Manocherian Foundation on alcohol promotion and its often tragic effects. This video addresses the topics of alcohol advertising, drinking and driving, and binge drinking. It also graphically shows the results of alcohol abuse.

VD #389, SEX, LIES AND THE TRUTH (1993)
30 minutes/Voiced and Closed Captioned
Middle School/High School/Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
This is an entertaining and powerful 30 minute video revealing the hard truths about sex in the 90s. Young viewers come face to face with the realities of unwanted pregnancies, STDs and AIDS. They meet kids just like themselves who gambled everything for a moment's fling - and who lost it all to a deadly disease. Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble, along with professional athletes, entertainers and celebrities, communicate the life saving message: waiting isn't a sign of weakness.

VD # 589, SEXUAL ORIENTATION: READING BETWEEN THE LABELS
28 minutes
High School/Adults
This video discusses identification, labeling, and hiding the sexual orientation of homosexuality among adolescents. Interviews with males and females.

VD #108, SHAME AND ADDICTION - John Bradshaw (1988)
28 minutes
High School/Families/Adults
John Bradshaw talks about shame and guilt, healthy and unhealthy emotions, and the connection between shame and addictive behavior. A sensitive subject for many, John tempers his message with humor and insight, making this a very informative and enlightening video.

VD #591, SHARING MY FEELINGS
13 minutes
Preschool/Kindergarten
This colorfully animated program encourages young children to express their feelings concerning an adults use of alcohol or drugs. Through lively songs, it illustrates the different kinds of emotions children may experience with the reassuring message that these feelings are normal.

VD #518, SHATTERED (1986)
59 minutes
Adults/Parents
This is a story designed to illustrate teen drug use to parents and what they can do about it. Hosted by Burt Reynolds and Judd Nelson, Shattered looks at the subtle evil of teenage addiction and dramatically offers hope and the means to stamp out the problem. The story follows the addiction, crisis, and recovery of two young people and how their families break through the pain and denial around their children's addiction. Although slightly dated, this video provides the illustrations of addictive behavior, which parents need to see and understand.

VD #601, SHEILA: NOT ALONE (2001)
30 minutes
Adult
Part of "Beat The Street" series. Presents the story of an African-American woman with four children, and her struggles to build a safe and sober home. Sheila was born into an alcoholic family. This video focuses on Sheila, her addiction and relapse.

VD #207, SILENT SUFFERING: SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE DEAF COMMUNITY (1993)
30 minutes/Voice & Open Captioned
Adults/Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
Hosted by Alan Barnwiolek, a deaf actor who first translated "Alcoholics Anonymous" into ASL, this video covers multiple issues related to substance abuse in the deaf community. This program covers cultural, treatment, and recovery issues with the experts and shows that there is hope for the deaf community when it comes to substance abuse. A great introduction for deaf clients and clinicians alike.

VD #369, THE SINGING DOG (1996)
10 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School
This animated program is a wonderful allegory about keeping secrets and hiding a parent's alcoholism. In the story, Mr. Whipple is an alcoholic whose drinking is kept a secret in the household. The family dog, Charles, can sing, and he breaks the silence about the not-so-hidden problem. Mr. Whipple denies that Charles can sing because he does not want to hear what the dog has to say. Daughter Penny is confused by her father's denial and her mother's unquestioning loyalty to the family.

VD #633 SMART AND SOBER (2002)
24 min/Leader's Guide Available
High School
Hosted by Henry Winkler. A group of teens has a candid discussion with Henry Winkler about using versus not using alcohol. Choices and consequences of actions taken by teens are discussed.

VD #425, SMART SEX: MTV'S CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM (1995)
24 minutes
High School/College Students
Hosted by Christian Slater, this video discusses the risks for HIV/AIDS for young adults. It provides testimonials from young adults touching on a variety of issues including STDs, unsafe attitudes, virginity, secondary virginity, choices and alternatives to sex, and safe sex practices.

VD #494, SMOKING AND HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY (1995)
19 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This powerful program parallels the addictive nature of cigarettes with other drugs. It uses dramatic statistics and illustrations, along with "inner body" photography to show the actual affects of smoking on the human body. The program also covers the long term physical effects of smoking and the effects of second hand smoke. The tobacco industry's efforts to recruit new smokers and their efforts to promote smoking in third world countries are also included.

VD #203, SOAPBOX: HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS & TEEN DEPRESSION (1988)
60 minutes
High School
Hosted by Tom Cottle, this video uses discussion with real teens to focus on important issues, which affect teenage life. This episode provides discussion and facts on dropping out and teen depression. This series is particularly valuable for parents who may be wrestling with these teen issues. It also allows for teenagers to express in their own words the reasons for dropping out and lets them provide explanations for teen depression and suicide. This video is somewhat dated regarding clothing styles, but still provides excellent information on these issues.

VD #204, SOAPBOX: TEENAGE DRINKING & DRUG USE. BACK FROM DRUGS (1988)
60 minutes
High School
Hosted by Tom Cottle, this video discusses issues vital to today's youth and addresses the joys and traumas of growing up in today's America. The topics for this episode of Soapbox are teen drinking and drug use. Recovering teens discuss and explain the reasons for substance use and the roles that peer pressure and parents play in their choices. The video then moves into the issue of helping teens overcome substance problems. It shows the inside of a rehabilitation center and discusses what made using teens decide they needed to escape substance abuse. This video is somewhat dated regarding clothing, but it provides excellent information and interviews with recovering teens and touches on a variety of important recovery issues.

VD #138, SOFT IS THE HEART OF A CHILD (1978)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School/Families
An emotion-packed story dealing with the effects of alcoholism on children in a family situation in which the father drinks heavily, mistreats his wife and children, and refuses to acknowledge his problem.

VD #248, SOMETHING WRONG AT HOME: THE ALCOHOLIC FAMILY (1993)
14 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School(Grades 2 - 4)
Children who live in an alcoholic family are aware that something is wrong at home, but confused and uncertain of the reason, they often blame themselves. This program helps young viewers understand that children are never the cause of a parent's drinking. The program suggests specific steps that students can take to make life better for themselves, and identifies sources of help.

VD #109, SONS AND DAUGHTERS: DRUGS AND BOOZE (1983)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Parents
Using scenes from everyday life, this program offers realistic, pragmatic advice to parents whose children may begin or have already begun to use alcohol and/or other drugs. The parent's role in prevention is also explained and reinforced.

VD #500, SONS AND DAUGHTERS: PARENTS & PROBLEMS (1989)
34 minutes
Adults/Parents
Discusses the parental relationship to drug prevention. This video looks at common alcohol and drug dilemmas for parents using a vignette and discussion format. The program provides examples of trust issues, leniency, and balancing safety with peer pressure and popularity. This is an excellent video for any parent education group.

VD #111, SOOPER PUPPY - FLYING HIGH (1988)
16 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School(Grades K-3)
Another adventure in which Baxter is confronted by the junkyard dogs again. This time, they try to persuade him that smoking questionable substances and getting high is a good way to make friends and be accepted by the "in" crowd.

VD #112, SOOPER PUPPY - PUFF OF SMOKE (1988)
15 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School(Grades K-3)
Baxter tries to rescue a friend he thinks is in trouble - there is smoke coming out of his friend's home. Very quickly, Baxter is informed that no one is in trouble, the friend was "just smoking a cigarette." Now, Baxter feels guilty about ruining his friend's cigarette and goes to get another one. Grandpa, upon seeing Baxter with the cigarette, explains to Baxter the dangers of smoking and that real friends don't "help" their friends this way.

VD #110, SOOPER PUPPY - SELF ESTEEM (1988)
19 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School(Grades K-3)
Baxter is a puppy who gets in trouble for chewing on a rug. His master scolds him, which leads to Baxter feeling dumb and unhappy, certain he will never be able to do anything right again. Because of Baxter's low self esteem, and the lure of belonging to a "special" club, he allows two other dogs to talk him into letting them into his master's garage, where the three of them get into the trash, where Baxter samples cigarettes and beer to prove himself as worthy to join the club. He is caught, and called a "bad dog" and a "failure." Then he runs into a hound called Grandpaw, who tells him about Sooper Puppy. Baxter's attitude is changed, and the day is saved.

VD #113, SOUND OF SILENCE - Claudia Black (1986)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
An intense program featuring interviews with people who have experienced physical and sexual abuse in families with alcohol and drug abuse problems. This video also deals with domestic violence/dysfunctional family situations. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES OR THOSE WITH NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF ALCOHOLISM DYNAMICS!

VD #525, SPIRITUAL AWAKENING (1995)
25 minutes
Adults
This video shows clients how 12 step living, spirituality, and AA principles work in recoveries to create a spiritual awakening. The video also includes information on how internalization of the 12 step way of life can help foster spiritual growth and happiness.

VD #190, SPIRITUALITY with Rev. Steve Little (1992)
60 minutes
Adults
The 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous explained in a way that even the most hardened and cynical agnostic can accept. Presented in three segments: (1) Normal, Healthy Spiritual Development (2) Impact of Addiction on Healthy Spiritual Development and How it Produces a Change (3) Treating the Spiritual Components of Addiction.

VD #286, STAYING OUT OF TROUBLE (1990)
7 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School
Animal puppets teach the steps for staying out of trouble. Foxy finds a pill that looks like candy. Max wants to copy Miranda's paper. In each case the puppet characters stop, think about what may happen, find something to do instead, and congratulate themselves for doing the right thing.

VD #294, STAYING SOBER, KEEPING STRAIGHT (1990)
35 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
This video uses the stories of three recovering individuals, who are each threatened with relapse. The difficult, but very common situations dramatized identify relapse causes and illustrate how such situations can be managed. Informative and instructional, this film focuses on important issues faced in early recovery.

VD #251, A STONE'S THROW AWAY (1994)
5 minutes
Adults/Parents
This presentation sensitively addresses adult behaviors toward alcohol and their impact on our children and ourselves. The program gently urges us to reflect on our attitudes toward alcohol and empowers us to take individual and collective action - without preaching or handing out hard statistical data. A perfect meeting opener to get your audience thinking and open to new possibilities.

VD #493, STOP THE SALE - PREVENT THE ADDICTION (1995)
26 minutes
High School/Adults/ Parents/Community
This video underscores the problems of tobacco use among young people and the importance of stopping the sale of tobacco to minors. The first section of this video highlights the influences that lead young people to smoke or use chewing tobacco. The rest of the video features programs that are working to prevent tobacco sales to minors. This video is intended to educate communities on the risks of underage tobacco use and how any community can stop the sale and prevent the addiction.

VD #267, STORIES FROM THE BLACK TRADITION
52 minutes
Elementary and Middle School
This collection of five stories includes classics such as Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears. Children will enjoy watching these beautifully woven tales.

VD #115, STORY ABOUT FEELINGS (1991)
10 minutes
Elementary School
Five to eight year old children learn about alcoholism and other drug dependencies and realize what their feelings are regarding these diseases.

VD #280, STRAIGHT AT YA (1988)
44 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Junior and High School (Grades 7-9)
Kirk Cameron, star of ABC's Growing Pains, talks with students about the pressure to use drugs and the benefits of choosing a positive and healthy lifestyle. Classroom scenes are supplemented by animation and flashbacks that depict how youngsters can more effectively deal with real-life situations.

VD #116, STRAIGHT TALK (1988)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This is a hard hitting, gut level monologue delivered by Roland Abner, a recovering alcoholic/addict who was a heroin addict by the age of eleven, and an alcoholic by fifteen. The "straight talk" involved in this video is similar in format to that of an AA "lead". It is captivating, powerful, and comprehensive as it deals with its subject matter.

VD #117, STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT DRINKING (1989)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/College
Designed to help young people make informed decisions about drinking, it opens with high school and college students voicing their opinions about whether or not it's "okay" to drink. The program continues with actual teenagers talking about the messages society gives them about drinking and peer pressure.

STRAIGHT TALK SERIES (1993)
30 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
High School/College/Young Adults
The Straight Talk Series features the frank testimonials of 19 teens with significant chemical dependency issues who range from 13 to 22. This is the straight story from young people who have been there. In the starkest terms they discuss their most personal issues. They represent a cross section of 90s youth, from gang members to straight A students. No matter who your viewers are there is a straight talker their age, sex and ethnic background dealing with problems like their own. Straight Talk includes three video, approximately 30 minutes each:
1)VD #345, Starting Early- covers pre-addiction issues: home life, early school experiences, self-esteem in early childhood, and special education placements.

2)VD #346, Hitting Rock Bottom- addiction issues: drugs of choice, abusive relationships, sexually acting out, suicidal tendencies.

3)VD #347, Getting Straight- recovery issues: staying straight, coping with relapses, dealing with the past and regaining a vision for the future.

VD 3279, STRAIGHT UP (1988)
90 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
Six, 15 minute episodes. Academy award-winning actor Lou Gossett, Jr., as Cosmo, takes a boy named Ben on a journey in the fate elevator. Ben's travels teach him valuable lessons about why drugs are harmful and how to refuse them.

VD #118, STREET DRUGS (1989)
30 minutes
High School/Adults
"Street drugs" are any substance bought or sold, used or abused outside a normal doctor-patient relationship. Hosted by Jimmy Smits, this straightforward objective presentation shows you how these drugs affect both the brain and the body. It covers initial effects, withdrawal, and long-term effects of each drug, and makes clear the dangers of drug use.

VD #444, STREET GANGS: THE CIRCLE OF VIOLENCE (1996)
30 minutes
High School/Adults
Featuring Delbert Boone and gang crime specialists from around the country, this video addresses gang history and profile. Viewers will learn how to work effectively with this challenging population, by understanding gang culture and gaining insight into why people join gangs. Learn the skills to recognize and understand gang activity and why it is important to remove graffiti. This video also contains some excellent testimonials from present and former gang members.

VD #489, STREET SOLDIERS (1997)
88 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
Narrated by Danny Glover, this video follows the real life struggles of three habitual juvenile offenders as they try to turn their lives around. The video shows this struggle in the context of the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco and its founder Joe Norris. This facility and others like it are helping to save young African-American men from the streets and working to change lives in the African-American community.

VD #80, STRESS: CONTROLLING THE TIME BOMB WITHIN (1994)
24 minutes
Adults
This video discusses when and why stress occurs. It provides an overview of why people have trouble dealing with stress, different coping skills for dealing with the problem, and provides information on when a doctor or hospitalization is needed. The video concludes with information on types of stress therapy which are available.

VD #143, STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (1991)
20 minutes
Teachers/Professionals
American youth have the highest levels of illicit drug use of any industrialized nation in the world. This program will offer alternatives for those already abusing drugs, and discuss what steps to take to avoid the dreaded wasteland of drug abuse. This video will answer questions students may have about the drug epidemic today, including statistics and figures showing how large the problem has become. Suggestions on setting up support groups are provided as well as establishing open-door policies with counselors, and seeking outside drug treatment.

VD #123, STUDENT STRESS: COPING WITH ACADEMIC PRESSURES - THE ABC'S OF BURNOUT (1989)
19 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
Homework, extra-curricular activities, social life and work, and college planning present teenagers with a complicated schedule, rivaling that of most adults. The resulting stress can leave a student overburdened, ineffective, even physically ill. Such a student is also left without defenses against peer pressure.

VD #463, SUBSTANCE ABUSE & NUTRITION (1997)
25 minutes
Adults
This video explores the various effects that substance abuse has on nutrition and how those in recovery can reverse the effects of bad nutritional habits. The video covers several drugs and their effects on nutrition, common nutritional problems for those in recovery, and provides a guide to healthy eating. Information on the food pyramid and what foods to steer clear of are also reviewed.

VD #205, SUCCESS STORIES: CHANGE IS POSSIBLE (1995)
32 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Corrections
Four people who have struggled with substance abuse, destructive behavior, and prison time discuss how they found a path to a better life. All now in recovery with between 4 and 21 years sober and free, these individuals provide examples of the basic ideas for beating prison, drugs, and destructive behaviors. Topics include decision making for: seeking help, preparing yourself, avoiding the wrong friends, making use of time in prison or treatment, and accepting responsibility for actions. The leader's guide also provides a companion workbook for use with any group or individual to help show them change is possible.

SUCCESS STORIES II (1999)
33-48 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults/Corrections
This three video series is for anyone preparing to leave or just leaving a correctional setting or therapeutic community. Each video covers a separate aspect of re-entry into society. Using stories of real men and women who have learned the hard way about addiction and crime. They share their stories and what it takes to live for years clean and free. Their stories reveal hard-won lessons - and provide positive models- that can help others succeed. This video set includes:

1) VD #513, Release Day-Where Do You Go?
2) VD #514, Family Issues, Support Systems
3) VD #515, Work, Anger and Self Esteem

VD #455, SURVIVOR'S PRIDE: BUILDING RESILIENCY IN YOUTH AT-RISK (1996)
62 minutes
Adults/ High School
The first comprehensive video program to provide an overview of the seven key factors which foster resiliency. Hosted by Dr. Steven Wolin, this video shows how to recognize and foster children's inner strengths. The video also provides excellent interviews with adolescents who examples of the seven key strengths which foster resiliency including: insight, independence, initiative, relationships, creativity, humor, and morality.

VD #235, TAKE A LESSON FROM ORMONDO (1993)
24 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High school/College/Adults
This video examines how involvement in the drug abuse culture affects the family unit. The video also explores the individual, familial, and environmental factors that can influence involvement in drug-related activities. In addition it incorporates healthy alternatives to drug abuse involvement in a format that is appealing to adolescents.

VD #491, TAKING CHARGE OF ME: EMOTIONAL I.Q. (1997)
23 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
For middle school students, or anyone struggling with the problems of growing up. This program shows that emotional I.Q. is important to achieving goals and gaining success. The program helps students manage anger, deal with frustration, persist at tasks, work cooperatively, respect other points of view and develop social confidence. This video makes it clear that while you don't have to like everyone and everything, it is necessary to respect everyone. The video also helps deal with social anxiety in various group situations.

VD #139, TATTLE (1989)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
When two members of a swim team become addicted to cocaine, the other members must decide whether to maintain a code of silence or to tell the truth. The clear message of this superbly acted after-school special is that chemical dependency is damaging and dangerous - the best way to protect a friend in trouble is to get help as soon as possible.

VD #230, TEEN DRIVER (1993)
15 minutes
High School
This is the teenage version of the State Farm Insurance designated driver campaign. This video was developed specifically for audiences not yet of legal drinking age. The stories of three teenagers who were in accidents, or who were ticketed, are presented. The stories deal not only with driving under the influence, but also with situations caused by inexperience and bad choices. The message emphasized is the economic cost and the inconvenience that these situations caused. For audiences over the legal drinking age, the video "Final Choice -The Brad Shipman Story" is recommended.

VD #314, TEEN SEXUALITY IN A CULTURE OF CONFUSION (1995)
45 minutes
High School
This video documentary profiles the lives of 8 young people of diverse race, ethnicity, socio-economic level, geographic local, and sexual orientation. The group shares their personal experiences and outlooks on a wide range of issues, including body image, gender identity, peer pressure, family, religion, and decisions about how and when to act on their own sexuality. Two of the eight talk about living with AIDS. Between segments six scholars examine the messages and standards that popular culture communicates about sex, love, beauty, and the body. Designed to educated teens, adults, and educators, it shows the problems between the media image of cultural values and the real life struggles for teens concerning identity, sexual, and social growth.

VD #556, TEEN SUICIDE (1994)
35 minutes
High School
This video looks at the reasons troubled teens consider, attempt or commit suicide. It uses familiar circumstances that often lead to stress for teenagers and offers examples of how teens talk and act when they are losing control. It gives suggestions for what teens can do if they start to feel out of control of how to help a friend or family member who may be losing control.

VD #533, TEEN TRUTHS: ABOUT HATE AND VIOLENCE (1998)
45 minutes
High School
This program explores the origins of hate through the eyes of today's teenagers as they come face to face with their own racism, ethnic bigotry, religious hatred and sexual discrimination. Initially teens in the program express the attitudes that exclusion of some groups and individuals is a necessity, that racism is not a problem, and that often attitudes can justify. Through interactive experiences with other teens and victims of hate these young people gradually learn to face the destructive reality of their prejudices.

VD #169, TELL SOMEONE...A MUSIC VIDEO (1987)
4 minutes
Middle and High School
A music video, which tells the story of 5 different teenagers living with alcoholic parents. An excellent way to generate discussion about denial.

VD #318, THINK ABOUT IT; BE SMART! DON'T START! PASS (1991)
13 minutes
High School
This videotape provides a series of situations combined with interactive segments in which young moderators provide opportunities for discussion of the important issues presented. The videotape concludes by prompting youth to consider how this information applies to their own situations.

VD #299, THINK DON'T DRINK: STORIES FROM THE FRONT (1994)
15 minute
High School and Adults
This is a DUI prevention video from the Ohio Department of Public Safety. It is formed from interviews with those who have had a loved one or friend killed by a drunk driver. The victim, the crash, its aftermath, and losses to the victim's families due to drunk driving are described. This is an excellent video for anyone doing DUI prevention or alcohol education programming.

Filed, THROUGH A BLUE LENS (1999)
56 minutes
Adults
Filmed by policemen in Vancouver, Canada, this video graphically shows the effects of addiction and mental illness among the homeless in this city. Addicts tell their own stories to prevent others from following in their path. The video contains scenes from the street, scenes of overdoses, and physical problems resulting from use. The video ends with mixed scenes of recovery of some of the people and denial by others who were interviewed on the street.
* Warning: This video graphically shows injection drug use and may cause triggers in some viewers.

VD #584, THROUGH MY EYES (1991)
9 minutes
Adults
Is part of a series on children exposed to violence. Focuses on the role of the criminal justice system in responding to child victims and witnesses. In the voices, artwork and writings of children, this video conveys how children experience violence in their lives. Helps viewers to better understand from a child's viewpoint the trauma they experience when they have been victims of abuse, have seen violence or seen their mothers beaten by their fathers.

VD #474, TIME LIFE MEDICAL: ANOREXIA & BULIMIA (1996)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This video is an overview for sufferers of eating disorders and their loved ones. It provides information on what eating disorders are, the causes, and who is most at risk. The video then profiles two of the most common disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Issues related to these disorders are discusses including related health problems, relapses, and treatment issues.

VD #475, TIME LIFE MEDICAL: STRESS & ANXIETY (1996)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adult
This video discusses stress and anxiety related disorders. It provides an overview of fight-or-flight responses, related issues for both stress and anxiety, and management strategies including medications and group support. The relationship between stress related disorders and other medical conditions are also discussed.

VD #268, TO BE POPULAR OR SMART: THE BLACK PEER GROUP (1993)
60 minutes
High School/Adults/African Americans
Why do black children believe that being smart and receiving good grades is acting white? Learn how influential peer pressure is on today's youth. Find out how the peer group can be used to reinforce academic achievement.

VD #121, TOBACCO AND YOU (1990)
23 minutes
Middle and High School
This program interweaves a TV talk-show on tobacco's health dangers with interviews with young teen smokers who offer their rationales for continuing to smoke. Looks at the impact of advertising and the social implications of tobacco use, noting that three out of four teens do not smoke and advises that the best way to overcome a nicotine addiction is never to use tobacco in the first place.

VD #506, TODAY'S MARRIAGE: THE SIX STAGES (1993)
62 minutes
Adults
Today's couples are seen with the most important themes in marriage. Each theme is acted out over the six stages: the honeymoon, expectations, power struggle, seven year itch, reconciliation, and acceptance. The film provides scenarios of each stage with commentary to illustrate how all couples reach certain stages in their relationships. Hosted by Dr. Liberty Kovacs, this is an excellent video to illustrate where the strengths and weaknesses of adult relationships lie.

VD #200, TOGETHER: FAMILIES IN RECOVERY (1989)
30 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults/Families
This is a new relapse prevention video, which is designed for the entire family. The program dramatically depicts necessary relapse prevention techniques for addicted and non-addicted family members as it follows three different families confronted with the threat of relapse.

VD #122, TOO GOOD TO WASTE (1985)
24 minutes
Middle and High School
This video depicts life before and after recovery through interviews with teenagers and young adults 12-21. Scenes are filmed against a backdrop of a recovery treatment program. All the kids are engaging in healthy, positive activities while simultaneously telling of the pain, misery and hopelessness that used to fill their lives. This contrast provides a powerful message.

VD #417, TOO YOUNG TO BE HIGH: THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL & DRUGS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH (1989)
35 minutes
High School/Adults/African Americans
Hosted by Clyde Grey, this excellent video deals with how alcohol and drugs are marketed to and affect African American youth. Using testimonials, statistics, and the information of professionals, this video shows how alcohol and drugs are leading more and more black youth into crime, violence, and death. It also touches on causes for alcohol and drug use among black children such as parental use, discipline problems, etc. The second half of this video has examples of culturally specific programs that have boosted children's self-esteem, given them a sense of self, and prevent children and teens from starting substance abuse.

VD #123, THE TRUTH ABOUT ALCOHOL (1991)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School(Grades 5-9)
This video opens with a typical situation in which teens might find themselves pressured to try alcohol. Calling a drink a drink, whether beer or wine cooler or whiskey, it discusses the way alcohol affects the body. The video labels alcohol a junk food with no nutritional value; shows how it harms body tissue and may even kill you; cites advertising's impact on teenage drinking habits and highlights alcohol's danger not only to drinkers but also to those around them, especially when drinking and driving are involved. It shows how a prearranged signal for her mother to come and get her enables Sarah to avoid having to drive home with the drunken father of the children she is baby sitting. It presents a scenario about an alcoholic family system, showing how each member plays a defined role. It also lists sources of help for children of alcoholics (COA's) and concludes with a clear message to viewers: Don't drink.

VD #588, THE TRUTH ABOUT DRINKING
Teens
30 minutes
Relates that anyone who drinks is in danger of abusing alcohol and suffering one of many life-altering consequences. Teens who are current drinkers see firsthand what the future may hold for them if they continue to drink. They experience the potential consequences of alcohol use from every perspective, including simulated "deaths" in an accident.

VD #167, THE TRUTH ABOUT INHALANTS (1992)
18 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School(Grades 5-8)
Alerts viewers to the dangers of inhalants, the fumes or vapors found in common household products. Increasing numbers of young people are sniffing them for the highs they produce. Gives viewers the facts they need to know: what inhalants are, how they work, and how breathing them in, purposely or accidentally, can quickly damage body organs and even cause death. The video also provides tips on their safe use.

VD #187, A TUNE FOR TIPPY (1988)
10 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School(Preschool - 3rd Grade)
Tippy is a puppy whose father is sick with alcoholism. Mrs. Hoot, the school nurse, tells Tippy about the effects of alcohol on the body and how to determine if someone is sick with alcoholism. She explains that alcohol is a powerful drug that children should never drink. Mrs. Hoot tells Tippy that there is help available for his father, mother and himself. Later, when talking with his friends, Tippy finds that he's not the only person with an alcoholic parent, he did not cause his father's sickness, and he can't cure it. Then, his friends sing him a song reminding him that things can get better.

VD #295, TWEE, FIDDLE, & HUFF (1991)
17 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School(Preschool - 3rd Grade)
Twee, Fiddle, & Huff is a fable about three Woolum kids who are troubled by their parents' nonstop dancing with a genie that comes out of a bottle. In the homes of Twee, Fiddle, & Huff the grown-ups get so dizzy they forget how to put the genie away and the Woolum kids suffer the consequences. This story shows children that they are not to blame for their parent's drinking and not alone. It touches on the subjects of how children deal with parents who abuse alcohol, counseling, and coping with feelings. This is an excellent video for young children of alcoholics (COA's).

VD #124, TWELVE STEPS (1986)
35 minutes
High School/Adults
This video is designed to offer general understanding of, and encourage participation in, the many support groups who embrace the Twelve Step Program. It provides an important relapse prevention tool for individuals and their families touched by alcoholism, drug addiction, over-eating, gambling, and other life-stress problems. It can be meaningful to those simply interested in a better guide to living.

VD #430 - #443, THE 12 STEPS: RECOVERING FROM ADDICTIONS SERIES (1992)
13 Episodes/30 minutes each/ Leader's Guide Available
Adults
The first broadcast-quality video series based on the process originated in AA and used in other recovery programs such as Al-Anon, N.A., and other recovery groups. Each episode teaches one of the 12 Steps plus an additional video on relapse prevention, using the stories of real-life recovering addicts. The series offers advice from renowned experts in addiction treatment from prominent rehabs. It reflects the most up-to-date research on each subject, stressing the benefits of recovery, not the horror of failure. The viewer's guide for this series is a work book which can be used by anyone working steps or in a 12 step group. This series is a must see for any recovery group or the loved ones of addicts.

VD #166, UNDER CONTROL (1992)
26 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School to Adult
This hard-hitting drama illustrates how debilitating and dangerous enabling/co-dependent behavior is. Marge Davidson is an alcoholic. Stacy, her 18-year-old daughter, has learned to keep things "under control" by covering up for her, allowing her mother to continue her alcoholism at the expense of Stacy's needs. When Stacy finally realizes that her own life is out of control, she takes action by backing down as her mom's rescuer and seeks help for herself.

VD #168, UNDER THE INFLUENCE II...A DECADE LATER (1985)
27 minutes
Middle and High School/Adults
Updating the original "Under the Influence," this new program recreates the original driving experiment while incorporating new material. A group of rookie cops is put through their paces on a test track. As they try to match their skill after several drinks, it clearly depicts how alcohol impairs judgment and performance, even at .05 blood alcohol content (Legal limits range from .08 to .10 blood alcohol content, or "BAC").

VD #125, UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION (1988)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/College/Adults
Author Roberta Meyer conducts an imaginative and visual tour through a 'life gallery' in this discussion and portrayal of addiction. The video follows three friends from their student days into their adult lives. Each has distinctly different reactions to the alcohol and drugs they use. The video gives poignant and realistic views of the effects of addiction on the addicts' family and friends and a good general description of Employee Assistance Programs and interventions as the addict seeks sobriety. Very helpful steps are outlined so that the viewer will not only understand addiction, but also know what to do about it.

VD #126, UNTIL I GET CAUGHT (1980)
27 minutes
High School
This is a drinking and driving video which dramatizes the dangers, injuries and deaths involved in drinking and driving.

VD #269, UP AGAINST THE WALL
103 minutes
High School/Adults/African Americans
Excellent as a curriculum enhancement for administrators and teachers... for drug awareness, peer pressure, rites of passage, teen sexuality, and African American culture.

VALUES AND SOCIAL SKILLS: STRAIGHT TALK III (1997)
25 minutes each
High School/Adults
This three video series is based on candid interviews with a diverse group of teens and young adults from a variety of home and cultural backgrounds. They discuss the influence of family, community and school on their self-esteem, personal codes of morality and on their ability to function socially. Each video discusses a different issue related to personal values and social skills.

1) VD #460, Family Life: Teens discuss growing up issues. What their families were like and the values and social skills they learned (or failed to learn) at home.

2) VD #461, Finding Yourself: Teens discuss puberty, having an identity crisis, getting into trouble, questioning authority, and learning to separate their personalities from those of their parents.

3) VD #462, Taking Responsibility: Discusses where attitudes are at now, and looks back on values and social skills they learned from parents and developed on their own.

VD #592, VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE
14 minutes
Adults
Discusses violence in the workplace and how to work through conflicts in a step-by-step process.

VD #257, VIOLENCE PREVENTION: INSIDE OUT (1993)
62 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School
This unique program explores the timely subject of violence - how it starts, how it affects us, and how to prevent it at home, at school, and in the community. Frank and straightforward interviews with youths in juvenile detention centers, treatment programs, in schools, and on the streets offer a comprehensive view of the cycle of violence as it manifests itself in a variety of situations - domestic, sexual, gang-related, and institutional. A three-part format presents an understanding of the causes of violence, discusses alternatives to violence, and addresses ways of effectively coping with experiences of violence. The accompanying leader's guide provides a comprehensive curriculum guide to facilitate presentation of the video.

VD #593, LA VIOLENCIA EN LA FAMILIA: ASUNTO PRIVADO ( SPANISH VERSION OF
FAMILY VIOLENCE: PRIVATE BUSINESS, PUBLIC PRICE)
29 minutes/Discussion Guide Available
Adults
Interviews with victims, therapists, and police officials effectively illustrate the many aspects of domestic abuse. Victims discuss how and when their abuse started and describe different violent episodes. Medical professionals discuss the ways that batterers control their partners and the wide range of abusive behaviors. Police also provide information about how they respond to 911 calls and how they attempt to help domestic violence victims; including the Protection from Abuse Act which provides an alternative to arrest and prosecution.

VIOLENT TIMES SERIES: STRAIGHT TALK II (1996)
23-25 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This three video series features the frank testimonials of 13 teens who've been exposed to violence in their daily lives. Some are perpetrators; some are victims and some witnesses. Many were victimized early in life and acted out violently themselves as they entered their teens. Now they're learning to cope with their past and prepare for a positive future. Violent Times explores the world of kids growing up with violence a daily part of their lives and carried into their adult experiences. It includes all three parts to the video series, all roughly 25 minutes each.

1) VD #394, A Time of Rage: Teens describe their violent behaviors and the resulting trouble.

2) VD #395, A Time of Grief: Teens discuss physical and sexual abuse suffered.

3) VD #396, A Time of Healing: Recovery issues-teens discuss how they've managed their anger.

VD #307, VISION 2000: CELEBRATING THE DIFFERENCES (1994)
29 minutes
High School/Adults/African Americans
Patricia McCloud, a nationally known African American speaker, gives an inspirational and informative speech on America's new diversity. Intended for the African American community, this lecture provides a glimpse of what America will look like in the 21st Century and how African Americans can begin preparing today to meet new opportunities and challenges. Filmed at the 1994 AT&T African American History Celebration, this video is an excellent opener for discussions on self-empowerment, diversity, African American history.

VOICES FROM THE VILLAGE (1997)
55 minutes each
Adults/African Americans
This set is a selection from the award winning "Voices from the Village" television series. Originally aired on Public Broadcasting, this series takes a look at African American social and health issues. Selected videos include:

1) Video #527: The Need for Spirituality- Part 1: The need for spirituality in the African American community is examined.

2) Video #529: Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: Health and wellness issues which affect African-American men and women.

3) Video #528: The Need for Spirituality- Part 2: The continued need for spirituality among African-Americans.

4) Video #526: Faith Addiction: The use of faith and church support to defeat addictive behaviors is examined.

VD #127, WALL OF DENIAL (1991)
47 minutes
Adults
In the spirit of the streets and language used on the prison yard, "Wall of Denial" educates "hard to reach" individuals about the largest stumbling-block to recovery from addictive disorders: denial. The video emphasizes the three manifestations of the denial process as it affects the addict's thinking, feelings, and behavior.

VD #128, WASTED, A TRUE STORY (1983)
22 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle and High School
This video relates the history of a teenager's successful battle against alcohol and marijuana addiction. It is narrated by Tim, an alcoholic and drug addict, and includes comments by his older sister. The video explores attitudes toward his disease and the feelings and attitudes of his family before and during recovery.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE? (1995)
4 programs/56 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This is a four part series on violence hosted by Bill Moyers. Designed to be used as a series or as individual stories, they cover a variety of violence related topics ranging from violence in the media to community prevention efforts. The series includes individual stories in each episode, including:

1) VD #300, Episode One: A look at violence through the eyes of those incarcerated for violent crime, young adults who commit violent felonies and efforts to reform them and gang violence.

2) VD #300A, Episode Two: Domestic violence and law enforcement prevention efforts, the effect of violence on children, and the impact of violence in the media.

3) VD #300B, Episode Three: The causes of violence, random violence: The death of James Darby, prevention efforts through inner city churches and communities, success stories in violence prevention including the "Cleveland Works" campaign.

4) VD #300C, Episode Four: Efforts across America to reduce violence: Pilot schools that deal with violence and substance abuse, new inner city schools with small classes to reduce conflict, conflict resolution through work programs and community policing.

VD #208, WHAT IS THERAPY? (1994)
25 minutes/Signed, Voice & Open Captioned
Adults/Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
Freda Norman narrates this educational videotape about receiving help through therapy. The tape is unique in that it is presented in American Sign Language, voice and captioned. This is an excellent video to help deaf clients learn how to deal with problems and let them know what will be happening in counseling.

VD #397, WHAT SHOULD I TELL MY CHILD ABOUT DRINKING (1996)
46 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
Hosted by Meryl Streep, this video offers viewers advice about both good parenting and how to discuss alcohol. Actors performing in a series of believable family situations make this valuable information easily accessible to parents who nee an introduction to an often difficult subject. The video is divided into two parts. Part A looks at the need for parents to take responsibility for discussing alcohol with their children. Part B uses teachable moments to instruct parents about how they can initiate alcohol related conversations with their children when they are likely to hear key messages.

VD #129, WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY CHILD (1991)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
A 20/20 presentation on fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) children as they grow up, the puzzling behaviors that confound adoptive parents and the children themselves, and the options, if any, available to them. Among those featured is Adam, a Native American baby of white parents and featured in his adoptive father's book, "The Broken Cord."

VD #377, WHEN ANGER TURNS TO RAGE (1995)
28 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
Anger often gives rise to fury that middle school students can neither understand nor control. Program helps young teens understand and deal with angry feelings. This video teaches anger management skills that can lead to better relationships between students and a more peaceful school environment. Students see how mastering anger management skills such as taking time out and using a good self-talk will enable them to gain control of their anger before it turns to rage.

VD #130, WHEN YOUR PARENT DRINKS TOO MUCH (1987)
27 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
All Ages/General Audience
When a parent has a drinking problem, it affects the whole family. An estimated 28 million Americans, 7 million of them under the age of 18, have suffered the anger, humiliation and helplessness that are a part of living with an alcoholic. Despite their numbers, most of them feel terribly alone. Host Alan Thicke and several actors show how a parent's alcoholism can disrupt a young person's life and how children of alcoholics can deal with the problem constructively and take positive action to improve their own lives.

VD #319, WHY ARE YOU SO ANGRY? (1991)
33 minute/Leader's Guide Available
Adults
This video discusses the ways that adults can handle stress and anger in their everyday lives. Using several scenarios, including several touching on recovery and substance abuse, this video shows examples of how to recognize anger and stress, handle it, and let the frustration out in productive ways. Examples of how to control anger in work and family settings are also included.

VD #616 WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE'S EARS (1993)
10 minutes/Spanish Language Version
Elementary and Middle School
King Lion tries to resolve the problem of who killed the baby owl and the antics of the animals are then unraveled. The end of the story finds the animals angry with the mosquito who is responsible for causing all of the chaos in the first place. (See English version in video "Stories From the Black Tradition").

VD #131, WOMEN AND ALCOHOL: THE JOURNEY THROUGH DARKNESS INTO LIGHT (1987?)
57 minutes
Adults/Women
A series of interviews in which four women tell their personal stories of their journeys from alcoholism to recovery. They speak with disarming candor, compassion, and humor. These shared experiences shed light on the inner landscape of the alcoholic woman and can be used as a tool of prevention, treatment, and recovery.

VD #568, WOMEN AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY (1986)
38 Minutes
Adult/Women
This video is an overview of women and substance abuse issues. (Especially alcohol) It includes excellent information related to dependent disease, treatment, and special women related issues.

VD #162, WOMEN, WINE, AND WELLNESS: ALCOHOL AND YOUR BODY (1991)
10 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This video takes a serious look at the gender specific issues relative to women and the consumption of alcohol. Even with allowances for the basic difference in size between men and women, women are more susceptible to intoxication and disease of the liver than are men. Women may be trapped in a dangerous cycle when they combine the empty calories of alcohol with an unbalanced diet. Even more serious are results of alcohol abuse which include loss of judgment and addiction.

VD #165, WOMEN, WINE AND WELLNESS: FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME (1991)
9 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults/Women
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), or the resultant effect of alcohol on the fetus, is responsible for numerous congenital defects such as retardation, learning disabilities and physical deformities. This important video addresses the cause and effect of this disastrous syndrome, clearly explaining the technical aspects as well as providing basic prevention guidelines.

WORKING IT OUT AT MADISON SERIES (1993)
30 minutes each/Leader's Guide Available
High School
Lively, entertaining and thought-provoking, Working It Out At Madison handles controversial topics with sensitivity and directness. Each video offers young people an understanding of underlying causes of the problems and gives teens the direction they need to take the necessary steps to make positive choices. While empowering teens to take responsibility and "Work It Out," the series encourages use of adult advice and assistance where appropriate.

1) VD #180, Working It Out - Conflict resolution through teen mediation
2) VD #181, Class Act - Drop out prevention
3) VD #182, The Boy Wonder - Children of alcoholics
4) VD #183, Best Friends - Substance abuse, peers, and prevention
5) VD #184, The Circle - Alcohol abuse and recovery programs
6) VD #185, Not Just Anybody - Dating pressure and violence
7) VD #186, Breaking the Chain - Building healthy relationships

VD #309, "YEAH, BUT..." (1984)
27 minutes/ Leader's Guide Available
High School/Adults
This video is designed to penetrate and defuse the anger and resistance of a client when he/she appears at a DUI(DWI) session and to provide a dramatized explanation of what typically happens in a drinking driver program. The video traces the path of Max: drinking, driving under the influence, being arrested, being sentenced, and eventually attending a DUI program. This video is excellent for introductions of and during first-offender & multiple-offender DUI programs.

YOU CAN CHOOSE - (1992)
(Vol. 1-4, 1991; Vol. 5-6, 8, 10)/Leader's Guides Available
Elementary School (Grades K-4)

1) VD #133, Cooperation - 28 minutes
Moose learns to work in harmony with other people. When his insistence on always having his own way causes the breakup of his singing quartet, Moose discovers the benefits of cooperating and learns what it takes to be a cooperative person.

2) VD #152, Being Friends - 28 minutes
When Missie is not invited to the "in" party, she and her friends sort out some difficult issues about friendship and deal with what it means to be left out. Viewers will learn about the values of having good friends, what makes good friendships work, and that it's good to be open to friendships with people who are different.

3) VD #153, Being Responsible - 28 minutes
Rhonda Bird faces a tough choice between having a good time and being responsible to her friends. When a chance to go to Disneyland conflicts with her commitment to work on a school group project, Rhonda makes the responsible choice, winning the respect of her friends and making her feel very good about herself.

4) VD #151, Dealing with Disappointment - 28 minutes
When her baseball team falls into last place, Missie must learn how to keep perspective and handle disappointment in a positive way. Viewers will learn ways to help themselves keep perspective and handle disappointments constructively, and that losing doesn't make them losers and failing doesn't make them failures.

5) VD #135, Dealing With Feelings - 25 minutes
Tuggie Turtle discovers the importance of being honest about his emotions. In trying to hide his fears about going on a weekend campout, Tuggie makes himself miserable and almost ruins a friendship before learning that it's best to accept his feelings and express them honestly and positively.

6) VD #136, Saying No (To Smoking) - 28 minutes
Missy Mouse has to choose whether to say "no" to a friend or do something she knows is wrong. When Missy's best friend, Rhonda Bird, tries to pressure her into smoking cigarettes, Missy agonizes over her options before discovering that there are ways to say "no" without ruffling Rhonda's feathers.

8) VD #545, Asking For Help - 28 minutes
Moose learns not to let pride or embarrassment get in the way of asking for help. After ruining a group science project, Moose finds that the only good way to cope with his "secret" reading problem is to get the help he needs to overcome it.

10) VD #546, Resolving Conflicts - 28 minutes
Tuggy and Rhonda learn that there are ways to resolve disagreements without fighting. When a dispute between them puts their class art project in jeopardy, Tuggy and Rhonda learn to work out interpersonal conflicts in a peaceful and positive way.
VD #387, YOU CAN REFUSE (1992)
20 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Middle School
This video will teach upper elementary and middle school students the refusal skill. By using this skill students will be able to stay in control of the situation when friends ask them to do something that could lead to trouble. The trouble could involve breaking the law, or family or school rules. It could also involve thing that are unsafe or unhealthy like smoking and drinking. This video shows things they should say no to and how to say no without losing friends.

VD #132, YOU CAN SAY NO TO A DRINK OR A DRUG (1987)
30 minutes/Leader's Guide Available
Elementary School/Families
Hosted by baseball player Keith Hernandez, this video gives young people the tools they need to say "NO" by providing them with real-world examples of other kids who've faced situations where they said "NO" to drugs and alcohol.

VD #340, YOUNG PEOPLE AND AA (1988)
28 minutes/Voiced & Closed Captioned
High School/College/ Young Adults/ Deaf & Hearing-Impaired Community
Four young A.A. members describe what it was like drinking, what happened to bring them to A.A., and what their lives are like sober today. In keeping with AA Traditions, the identity of the AA members is protected.

VD #585, YOUNG WOMEN'S LIVES: BUILDING SELF-AWARENESS FOR LIFE (1998)
30 minutes
Adults
Written from a perspective that acknowledges young women as powerful and creative agents of their own development in a society that places structural constraints on them. Several young women speak candidly about their experiences as women in our society. Their thoughts, feelings, and reflections were taped during a live workshop.

VD #259 - 265, YOUR CHOICE . . . OUR CHANCE (1990)
15 minutes each/Leader's Guides Available
Middle School/Community
Effective drug abuse prevention education must begin before children are established users of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs. This series is designed to bring together schools, families, and communities in a working partnership to prevent the use and abuse of drugs by students in the vulnerable preteen years.

YOUR CHOICE - (FOR STUDENTS)
15 minutes each
The student component of the series focuses on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that influence drug use:
1) VD #259, Penalty Kick (Risk Factors)
2) VD #259, I Think, I Am (Self Concept
3) VD #260, Fitting In (Stress)
4) VD #260, The Big Break (Media)
5) VD #261, Thanks, But No Thanks(Peer Pressure)
6) VD #261, Good Practice Today!(Refusal Skills)
7)VD #262, Sister, Sister (Health-Enhancing Alternatives)
8) VD #262, Decisions (Decisions and Actions)
9)VD #263, A Friend Indeed (Response-ability)
10) VD #263, Like You, Dad (Wellness)

MH #884, About Young People and Self-Esteem (1991)
18 minutes
Middle School/ High School/College
This video raises teens' awareness of their own special qualities, and promotes the power of positive thinking. Contains a mix of lively animation and interviews with teens and experts that address specific concerns of young people. Topics include: friendships, social development and meaningful relationships at school and home.

MH #883, About Young People and Stress (1991)
19 minutes
Middle School/High School/College
This video shows that stress does not discriminate by age. Young people are susceptible to its effects, and may be tempted by unhealthy methods to control it. This video specifically advises against using drugs or alcohol to "tune out" problems.

MH #900, After the Tears (1986)
20 minutes
High School/Adults
Teens and adult siblings share their feelings about having a family member with a mental illness.

MH #980, Beating the Blues (1998)
30 minutes
Adults
Tony Dow (Wally Cleaver from TV's Leave It To Beaver) talks about his personal struggle with depression.

MH #911, Black & Blue-Depression in the African -American Community (2000)
Adults
Features Annele B. Primm, MD, noted African American psychiatrist, from John Hopkins Medical Center, and real people explaining their experience with clinical depression. In addition to medical, social and family support issues, this video includes the spiritual aspect that is important to many in the African American community.

The Brain Series (1988)
30 minutes each
High School/Adults
Three programs from PBS series:

MH #901, Learning and Memory
MH #902, The Two Brains (right & left hemisphere)
MH #903, Madness

MH #976, Breaking the Dark Horse (1997)
32 minutes
Adults
A young woman with manic depression and her family cope with her illness. Documentary depicting Mindy in her life-long struggle with mental illness. Mindy has manic depression (bipolar disorder) and moves from one extreme of her disorder to the other quickly. She and her family share their personal story of learning to live with mental illness and how each has been affected.

MH #987, Caring for Ourselves (1989)
50 minutes
Adults
Co-dependence self-help with Melodie Beattie.

Clozaril - The following videos, produced by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, are available on Clozaril, a medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia:

MH #950, What to Expect (1993; Adult; 14 min.; overview with comments from family members and consumers)
MH #949A, Clozaril: An Overview (1993; Adult; 28 min.; for clinicians)
MH #949, Clozaril Efficacy (1993; Adult; 5 min.; before and after profiles of consumers)
MH #954, Living with Clozaril (1995; Adult; 17 min.; consumers share their experiences)
MH #951, Schizophrenia: Cutting Edge Medical Report (1995; Adult; aired on the Discovery Channel, gives an update on schizophrenia and Clozaril)

MH #905 & 906, Dark Glasses and Kaleidoscopes: Living with Manic Depression (1997)30 minutes
High School/Adults
Produced for the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association, this video features actor Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver on the TV program, Leave it to Beaver. This video is intended to describe the illness and provide possible treatments.

MH #995 Day for Night: Recognizing Teenage Depression (1999)
26 minutes/Leaders Guide Available
High School/Adults
This video describes teen depression and its symptoms and treatment. The video features: true stories of several teenagers and their battles with clinical depression;
insight from family members and friends of depressed teens; and interviews
with mental health professionals.

MH #984, Dead Blue: Surviving Depression (1998)
55 minutes
Adults
HBO-produced documentary that chronicles the lives of three people suffering from depression and their families. Featured are Mike Wallace, from 60 Minutes, author William Styron and clinical psychologist Martha Manning who have learned to live with the illness.

MH #907, Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays! (1991)
13 minutes
Elementary School/Middle School
This video provides children with an understanding of stress and the importance of
developing stress survival skills in a bright, humorous, animated format.

MH #908, Everybody Needs a Hand to Hold On To (1995)
18 minutes
Adults
Narrated by Walter Cronkite, was produced by the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association with a grant from Eli Lilly & Co. For those who suffer from a depression-related disorder, this video provides comfort and hope. The video shows how treatment can help restore people to productive, satisfying lives.

MH #882, Faces of Anxiety (1990)
28 minutes
Adult
This video follows Gary Tollefson, MD, PhD, as he sees his patients with anxiety disorders (phobias, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorders). The viewer learns about a variety of treatment options - behavior modification, psychotherapy, coping techniques and medication - and begins to understand that persons with anxiety disorders can recover and return to normal life activities. (Produced by the American Psychiatric Association.)

MH #910, Faces of Depression (1993)
12 minutes
Adults
Real patients share their inspirational stories of struggle and triumph. Produced as part of the national public education campaign on clinical depression, sponsored by the NMHA and made possible through an educational grant from Eli Lilly & Co.

MH #990, Families Coping with Mental Illness (1995)
22 minutes
Adults
This video shows 10 people talking about their experiences with mental illness of a family member. Provides suggestions and insight into the problems of living with mental illness. Appropriate for families or mental health professionals.

MH #970, Fighting Depression, You're Not Alone (1997)
25 minutes
Middle School/ High School/Adults
Children and their families discuss their experience of depression. Tips on how to recognize the signs of depression and suggestions on where to seek help are included.

MH #989, Four Lives: Portraits of Manic Depression (1988)
60 minutes
Adults
Hosted by Patty Duke, this documentary gives personal accounts from four individuals with manic-depression (bipolar disorder) and their families.

MH #921, Good To Be Home (1987)
15 minutes
Adults
Explains how community support can help people with chronic mental illness when they come home from the hospital.

MH #988, How to Stop the One You Love from Drinking and Using Drugs (1989)
56 minutes
Adults
Based on the book by Mary Ellen Pinkham and hosted by Mariette Hartley, uses dramatized situations and information that explains the process of "intervention."

MH #915, Human Development-The First 2-1/2 Years: Social & Emotional Growth (1991)22 minutes
High School/Adults
Key points about this period for healthy emotional development. Discussion guide included.

MH #916, Humor Your Stress (1996)
60 minutes
Adults
Loretta LaRoche, the master of mirth, shares tips on using humor to handle stress. Excellent program for group.

MH #917, I Like Being Me: Self-Esteem (1990)
26 minutes
Middle School
Makes students aware of the powerful impact their self-esteem has on their ability to behave in their own best interest. Includes teacher's guide.

MH #977, I Love You Like Crazy - Being a Parent with a Mental Illness (1999)
27 minutes
Adults
Eight mothers and fathers who have mental illness discuss the challenges they face as parents. Issues of work, fear, stigma, relationships with children and other family members, with professionals, and with the community at large are discussed.

MH #982, I'm Still Here: The Truth About Schizophrenia (1997)
67 minutes
Adult
This video strips away the ignorance and fear associated with schizophrenia, reminding us that, despite the distortions of personality and perception induced by a chemical imbalance of the brain, many of those living with this illness lead lives of extraordinary courage and accomplishment. Produced by Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc. and Janssen Research Foundation.

MH #994 Life After Trauma:What Every Person Should Know (2000)
25 minutes
Adults
This video describes the symptoms and treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Doctors who treat it and people who lived through it will discuss trauma and
its aftermath. PTSD is an anxiety disorder that affects about 1 in 13
Americans at some point during their lifetimes and occurs following exposure
to an extremely traumatic event.

The Many Faces of Depression (1991)
30 minutes each
Adults
MH #918, Part I: Recognition & Diagnosis
This video features guest experts who examine the latest strategies for identifying and managing this potentially life-threatening condition that affects an estimated 17 million Americans.

MH #919, Part II: Therapeutic Strategies
Guest experts discuss treatment aspects of depression.

MH #986, Mental Illness: Awareness and Hope (1987)
13 minutes
High School/Adults
Straight-forward facts and information on mental illness from individuals, families and professionals. Produced by the American Mental Health Fund (now part of the NMHA).

The Mind Series (1988)
30 minutes each
High School/Adult
Condensed versions of highly acclaimed PBS series. Titles include:

MH #924, Aging MH #923, Development MH #929, Thinking
MH #925, Addiction MH #928, Language
MH #927, Depression MH #926, Pain and Healing

MH #930, Mirrors (1988)
12 minutes
Adults
Self-esteem and your children. Excellent for parents. Produced by Keebler Co. in cooperation with National PTA.

MH #931, Moods and Music (1990)
60 minutes
Adult
Discusses composers with mood disorders. Includes treatment and medical opinions. Beautiful music and very interesting.

MH #932, Moving Back Into the Light (1993)
15 minutes
High School/Adults
Developed by Eli Lilly & Co. for the NMHA's national public education campaign on clinical depression. This video exposes the myths and corrects misconceptions about the illness and its treatment.

MH #952, NARSAD Cutting Edge Medical Report on Schizophrenia & Depression (1997) 20 minutes
Adults
Two segments dealing with the latest developments in the treatment of schizophrenia and depression. These are discussed separately.

MH #953, NARSAD Cutting Edge Medical Report on Preventing Relapses in Schizophrenia (1997)
20 minutes
Adults
Two segments dealing with the latest developments in the treatment of schizophrenia and depression. These are discussed separately.

MH #888, The Panic Prison (1989)
28 minutes
Adults
True-life video that captures the experiences of patients with panic disorder and the doctor who treats them. The viewer meets real patients and accompanies Dr. Gormon on his regular routines: interviewing and treating patients, visiting a support group and participating in ongoing research into the causes and genetic links of panic disorder. (Produced by the American Psychiatric Association.)

MH #887, Pastoral Counseling: A Ministry of Mental Health (1995)
15 minutes
Adults
Describes pastoral counseling through vignettes using pastoral counselors and their clients from various religious denominations. Produced by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors for the NMHA's Depression Campaign.

The Power of Choice Series (1987)
30 minutes each
High School/Adults
#1 The Power of Choice (60 min.) original PBS special with comedian/teen counselor Michael Pritchard as he tours high schools across the country and shows young people how to be V.I.P.'s - to use Vision, Initiative, and Perspective to make the kinds of choices that put them in control of their lives.

MH #933, The Power of Choice MH #939, Drinking and Driving
MH #934, Acting On Your Values MH #940, Friendship and Dating
MH #935, Self Esteem MH #941, Depression and Suicide
MH #936, Coping With Pressures MH #942, Communicating with
MH #937, Drugs and Alcohol, Part I Parents
MH #938, Drugs and Alcohol, Part II MH #943, Raising Your Parents

MH #955, Primetime (ABC News) Almost Home (1995)
12 minutes
Adults
The Lori Schiller story, author of The Quiet Room, and in recovery from schizophrenia shares her personal story in an update of a previous PRIMETIME broadcast.

MH #972, Schizophrenia: Gaining More Control Over Your Life (1997; Adult; 26 min.) Some of the ways to help relieve or minimize symptoms of schizophrenia are discussed. Hypothetical patient testimonials and scenarios using actors are used to illustrate before and after treatment using medications. Produced by Eli Lilly & Company.

MH #957, Schizophrenia: The Hidden Illness (1987)
20 minutes
Adult
Information about how community support and understanding can help persons with schizophrenia adjust to living in the community.

MH #956, Schizophrenia (two - part series)

Part I: Surviving in the World of Normals (1991)
58 minutes
Adults
Frederick Frese, PhD, gives a personal account of his own diagnosis of schizophrenia and discusses coping strategies.

Part II: A Love Story: Living with Someone with Schizophrenia (1991)
100 minutes
Adults
Penny Frese, PhD, shares her personal story of her relationship with her spouse, psychologist Fred Frese, and describes how she and their four children have coped with living with a person with schizophrenia.

MH #981, Sharing the Hope- A Parent's Guide for Managing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (1997)
18 minutes
Adults
Provides information to parents of children and teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Three families share their experiences in recognizing OCD, coming to grips with the diagnosis, and finding practical ways to enable their children to lead full, productive lives. Also features interviews with experts who give updates on the latest advances in treatment.

MH #985, Shattered Dreams (1993)
23 minutes
Adults
This video describes the trauma experience by parents and siblings of loved ones diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bi-polar depression or major depression. Silhouetted narrators speak the words of family members as they discuss their successes and failures in coping with and caring for their relative with mental illness. Can be used as a training tool for mental health professionals to encourage family and professional collaboration.

MH #959, Stress To Your Advantage (1986)
30 minutes
Adults
Condensed version from the Bodywatch series. Dr. James "Red" Duke; psychologist Judy Rodin, and editor-in-chief of American Health magazine T. George Harris examine stress and why some people cope with it better than others.

MH #979, Taking Back Your Life: Managing Panic & Other Anxiety Disorders (1998)
2 hours
Adults
Video tape of evening community program featuring Sally Winston, PsyD. Handouts available.

MH #960, Taking Control of Depression (1992)
15 minutes
Adults
Ed Asner narrates this patient education video, which provides information about clinical depression. Produced by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

MH #961, Teen Suicide: Listen Up! (1993)
13 minutes
High School
Through a series of scenarios written and acted by teens concerned with suicide prevention, many of the warning signs of suicidal behavior are identified and discussed.

MH #963, The Touching Tree: A Story of a Child with OCD (1993)
37 minutes
Adults
Traces a young boy's struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in a school setting. Diagnosis and treatment are discussed by professionals.

MH #962, To Paint the Stars: The Life and Mind of Vincent Van Gogh (1990)
55 minutes
Adults
Analysis of the nature of Van Gogh's mental illness; shows many of Van Gogh's works and words.

MH #964, Understanding and Communicating With A Person Who Is Hallucinating (1989) 63 minutes
Adults
This video focuses on one of the most troublesome symptoms of schizophrenia hallucinations. In easy to understand language, Mary Moller, MSN, RN, CS, explains how the brain functions, describes what happens during a hallucination, and offers proven techniques for helping a person through this frightening experience. Especially helpful for professionals, consumers, and family members.

MH #974, Understanding Depression (1996)
15 minutes
Adults
People with depression and the mental health professionals discuss causes and treatment. Produced by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.

MH #975, Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (1996)
11 minutes
Adults
People with the disorder and experts discuss symptoms and treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. Produced by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.

MH #973, Understanding Panic Disorder (1996)
14 minutes
Adults
Patients and experts discuss panic disorder. Includes information on causes and treatment. Produced by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.

MH #978, Understanding Social Anxiety Disorder - It's More Than Just Shyness (1998)
16 minutes
Adults
People with social anxiety disorder and their family members discuss how it has affected them. Experts, including Jerilyn Ross, PhD, Pres. Of Anxiety Disorders Association of America, discuss the scope of the problem and effective treatments. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and Freedom from Fear, this video was made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from SmithKline Beecham.

MH #944, Voices of Strength: An Inside Look at Children's Mental Health (1997)
20 minutes
Adults
This video highlights the stories of young people who experience mental health problems and their families. They tell how they found community resources and supports, built upon their individual and family strengths, and developed new skills to help them succeed.

Wellbeing, video series on depression:
Time varies for each
Adults

MH #945, Understanding Depression (1996)
7 minutes
This video discusses questions someone diagnosed with depression may have including "Why me?" and "What happens next?"

Wellbeing series cont'd:

MH #946, Treating Depression (1996)
8.5 minutes
This video discusses antidepressant medications and psychotherapy. Common misconceptions about medications are clarified.

MH #947, Depression & Relationships (1996)
13 minutes
This video discusses how depression and the negative thinking it causes can put a strain on relationships - with our friends, spouses, and children. Ways to improve communication and the benefits of support groups are discussed.

MH #948, Managing Depression (1996)
8 minutes
This video outlines important ways to manage depression and stay well. Spotting the early warning signs of a reoccurring depression and how to lessen its impact are discussed.

MH #965, What Do I Tell My Children? (1989)
30 minutes
Adults
This award-winning video is a sensitive and practical resource on bereavement narrated by Joanne Woodward. Professionals in the field, including Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, offer advice for coping. Demystifies and normalizes the grieving process, helps professionals and parents feel more comfortable talking about the death of a loved one. Can be used for in-service training for nurses, hospice staff and volunteers, medical and nursing schools, social workers, clergy, teachers and administrators, daycare centers and funeral directors.

MH #988, What's With You My Friend? Images of Depression (1990)
60 minutes
High School/Adults
Combination Speaker/Video Educational Program on depression awareness designed to meet the needs of different audiences: general/community, older adults, adolescents/young adults or workplace.

MH #899, When Doubts Never Stop…Overcoming Obsessions & Compulsions (1996)
16 minutes
Adults
This community education program contains a video, slides and fact sheets about obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Produced by Solvay Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacia & Upjohn

MH #966, When Mom and Dad Break-Up (1989)
32 minutes
Elementary/Middle School
This video should be viewed by children with an adult. Hosted by Alan Thicke
(TV's Growing Pains) and developed by leading family experts, this video offers reassuring information to common questions by children who are going through divorce: "Was it my fault?" "Do Mom and Dad still love me?" "Will I always feel this bad?" Includes guide for parents.

MH #991, When the Music Stops: The Reality of Serious Mental Illness (1987)
20 minutes
High School/Adults
What mental illness means to the families who are affected by it. Basic facts and current research on bio-chemical basis of mental illness.

MH #967, When You're Mad! Mad! Mad! (1992)
27 minutes
Middle School
Through a series of angry outbursts with middle school age youth, this video demonstrates that anger is a normal emotion. This video offers suggestions on positive ways to express and deal with anger. Includes a teacher's guide.

MH #968,Why Are You So Angry? (1988)
35 minutes
Adults
This video examines anger in various situations and offers a positive approach to identifying problems and developing action plans to resolve anger. Comes with a workbook.

MH #886, Windows Into the A.D.D. Mind (1994)
81 minutes
Adults
Dr. Amen explains Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in clear, easy-to-understand language. Illustrates the impact of ADD on relationships, school, work and self-esteem. Provides practical suggestions to help people with ADD and their families.

VIDEOS (AVAILABLE FOR CHECK OUT THROUGH THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FRANLKIN COUNTY, call 221-1441)

About Job Stress (1991)
18 minutes
Adults
This video addresses common job-related stresses from all types of jobs including: workplace conditions, deadlines, promotions or added responsibilities on the job due to reduction in the workforce. Offers practical suggestions on how to control stress and avoid job burnout.

The Blues: Not A Normal Part of Aging (1998)
22 minutes
Adults
A community education program on clinical depression in the older adult population. This video profiles three individuals who share their stories on successful battles with clinical depression in later life. Speaker's manual available.

The Challenge of Hope: Partners In Care (1999)
13 minutes
Adult
This video discusses effective community-based treatments for persons with serious mental illness. Produced as part of the National Mental Health Association's Partners In CARE program. Six model programs for effective community-based services for persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses are outlined.

Claire's Story: A Child's Perspective on Childhood Depression (1994)
Part I, 20 minutes., Parts II & III, 30 minutes
Middle School
Thirteen-year-old Claire narrates her own experience of depression. Claire, who was diagnosed at the age of 11, addresses the facts and fiction of depression along with an adult narrator. Includes teacher's guide with reproducible handouts for use in the classroom, meetings, or to send home to parents.

Depression: A Changing Perspective...Reaching Out (1994)
14 minutes
Adults
Produced by the National Institutes of Mental Health, this video features celebrities and public figures who overcame depression through treatment. Also presents vignettes which reinforce essential information and capture real life experiences. Included with the video is an educational guide for presenters.

Depression and Manic Depression: Real Stories/Real Hope (1998)
42 minutes
Adults
This video was created for National Depression Screening Day '98 and offers individual vignettes which feature a wide variety of ages, sexes, and ethnic diversity. Treatment options described include medication, psychotherapy and self-help groups.

Depression and Women: Dispelling the Myths (1998)
16 minutes
Adults
Features the inspiring profiles of five women, ranging in age from 18 to 80, who share their stories of their successful battles with depression. Produced by Eli Lilly & Co. for the NMHA's public education campaign on clinical depression.

Depression in the Workplace (1988)
20 minutes
Adults
Helps supervisors and managers recognize depression as a possible factor in performance-related problems. Offers helpful suggestions on how to approach an employee who may be experiencing depression. (Call 221-1441 to arrange a speaker to accompany this video.)

Downtime: A Worksite Guide to Understanding Clinical Depression (1993)
25 minutes
Adults
Narrated by Dick Cavett, this video offers practical advice to employers on how to recognize depression in the workplace and what to do about it.

National Anxiety Disorders Screening Project: Stories of Hope & Courage (1999)
15 minutes
Adults
This video features inspiring profiles of individuals who overcame the disability and suffering from an anxiety disorder. Marc Summers of Nickelodeon's "Double Dare" fame is the host. He also has obsessive compulsive disorder and shares his personal experience.

Panic Disorder: Stories of Hope (1993)
19 minutes
Adults
This video is hosted by television personality Willard Scott, who has panic disorder. It features three people from diverse backgrounds who have successfully fought this illness and have found the treatment they needed to overcome their panic attacks.

Schizophrenics Anonymous (1995)
28 minutes
Adults
On this tape, Joanne Verbanic, founder of the group from the Mental Health Association in Michigan, explains her own personal story of recovery from schizophrenia and outlines the purpose of Schizophrenics Anonymous as a six-step recovery program.

The Sky Is Falling: Understanding & Treating Anxiety & Panic Disorders (1998)
Approx. 6 hours
Adults
Videotape of conference held at Riverside Methodist Hospital on June 4, 1998. Features Mark Pollack, MD and Sally Winston, PsyD. Handouts available.

Teaching Tool (curricula, no video)

Turtles & Dragons In The Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Childhood Depression (1998)
This notebook has background information on childhood depression and features classroom activity suggestions to integrate mental health education into the curriculum. A depression checklist is included.