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Heroin is an opiate drug-and a significantly addictive substance. Making the decision to become sober can be extremely challenging, as critical questions arise: What am I going to do if I decide I'm going to stop? How long can I stay away from it? Is it possible for me to resume a normal lifestyle? This award-winning video traces the steep path from the initial infatuation, allure, and lifestyle involved with heroin use to the inevitable devastation...
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Every year, more than 800 construction workers in the U.S. lose their lives while on the job, and approximately 31,000 suffer serious injuries. As tragic or debilitating as these cases are, the reality is that they are also preventable. This video compilation uses powerful animated sequences to show how such hazards occur, and how close attention to OSHA safety standards can protect lives and livelihoods going forward. With an average length of three...
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Whether it's caffeine, nicotine, or morphine, drugs of choice have defined our lives and history, with sometimes benevolent, sometimes tragic results. This program focuses on the history of America's drug use and abuse, from the days when the early European settlers became enamored of tobacco, through Prohibition, and up to today. The problems we see today existed in other forms and with other drugs throughout our history. The reasons for using drugs...
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Inspired by the award-winning documentary Through a Blue Lens, this gripping program captures the reactions of seven high school students with a history of substance abuse as they are brought face-to-face with men and women struggling to break their addictions, as well as with a group of police officers-the force behind this video-that has dedicated itself to deterring teens from using drugs. During that journey of self-discovery, each student undergoes...
25) Narcotics
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Strictly speaking, the term "narcotic" refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their synthetic substitutes. This video delves into the history of narcotics such as heroin, opium, codeine, and morphine; the effects of narcotics on the body and the short- and long-term health impacts; and teenage attitudes toward narcotics. In addition, the video considers legalization and regulatory issues involving narcotics, as well as physical and psychological...
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Normal lungs are a healthy pink color; when they filter smoke they turn black, and the resulting tissue damage can lead to tumors and other serious lung disease. Smoking also affects the cardiovascular system, possibly leading to atherosclerosis, heart attacks, and strokes. If you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, it's never too late to quit.
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In this gritty program, filmed cinema verite-style, five small-time African-American dealers living in Baltimore openly talk about "slingin' drugs" in the uncensored language of the streets. Clips of drug use, violence, and arrests interspersed with onscreen statistics provide contexts for interviewer questions about life and death in Mobtown's drug culture. Will these young men end up in a luxury car, a police cruiser, or an ambulance? Even they...
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High-dose pain management therapy involving narcotics has placed doctors and patients under scrutiny by federal regulators. Is the Drug Enforcement Administration simply cracking down on criminal overprescription and prescription forgery, or is it unfairly targeting doctors for merely doing their jobs, and punishing people with chronic pain? This ABC News program weighs in on the question through interviews with DEA Administrator Karen Tandy, a doctor...
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You see an apparently intoxicated couple with a young girl getting into a car - a fatal accident, perhaps, in the making. Should you mind your own business or get involved? There's no easy answer to that kind of question, and Waste of Candy doesn't try to offer one. Instead, this true-to-life dramatization captures the uncertainties as it lets the situation play out in real time, ending in two of several possible outcomes - one of which hints at multiple...
30) Graduation Day
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Kelly loves to shoot videos, and on his high school graduation day, he kept the camera rolling straight through commencement and the party that followed. But what should have been a quirky keepsake turned into a record of tragedy as drinking and driving led to the violent deaths of two of his closest friends. This dramatization-made up almost entirely of true-to-life home video footage-unfolds slowly, creating a sense of impending disaster that builds...
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Today's teens are more likely to abuse prescription and over-the-counter meds than illegal drugs like marijuana. This video explores the "pharming" phenomenon among young adults, who discuss their exposure to and knowledge of drugstore staples and other readily accessible chemical substances. Subjects covered include the date rape drugs GHB and Rohypnol, inhalant abuse, ecstasy/MDMA, steroid abuse, methamphetamine ("meth"), and dangerous drug impurities....
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This concise explanation of alcoholism combines expert commentary with one family's experience. A sober alcoholic, his wife, and their daughter discuss the progression of his alcoholism and its devastating impact on their lives. Experts explain how family members often act as enablers, unintentionally making it easier for the alcoholic to keep drinking. Finally, the program addresses treatment options for alcoholics and sources of support for families....
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Teenage drug use has reached epidemic proportions on some high school institutions. Most teens have a tendency to feel indestructible and immune to the problems that others experience. Some teens will experiment with alcohol, drugs, prescription medications and may continue to use and develop a dependency. When a teen chooses go to school under the influence of drugs or alcohol it can have serious consequences including an impact on their scholastic...
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Once confined to the inner city, heroin addiction is on the rise in suburban and rural communities. This ABC News program shows how a growing number of teens and young adults are getting hooked on heroin through gateway drugs like OxyContin. After a suburban father describes the prescription drug habit and heroin overdose that took his daughter's life, a young mother in rural Ohio explains how she began that same perilous journey and can't quit. In...
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How did an obscure chemical compound become an entire generation's drug of choice? Why has law enforcement gone into overdrive to fight it? In Ecstasy Rising, Peter Jennings leads a groundbreaking investigation into the faulty science behind the anti-Ecstasy campaign, highlighting the futility of government scare tactics and how they have damaged the overall credibility of anti-drug efforts. The program accurately assesses Ecstasy's risks, and incorporates...
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Alcoholism affects not only the person suffering from the disease but the alcoholic's family as well. This program takes an in-depth look at the effects of alcoholism on both the individual and the family, contrasting an urban and a rural home linked by the common problem of alcoholism. From the alcoholic to his or her spouse and their children, everyone is affected. As other family members seek to cope and prevent the destruction of the family, unhealthy...
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Aimed at young people as well as teachers, counselors, and parents, this program explores the threat of party drugs in a nonjudgmental way, encouraging young people to make responsible choices. It looks at a range of popular party drugs-including alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, amphetamines, and LSD-and contrasts their medical applications with their typical recreational uses and abuses. Young users deliver frank testimonials about their experiences...
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Banning alcohol on college campuses to curb binge drinking-periodic episodes of excessive alcohol consumption-has sparked violence and debate around the country. This ABC News program visits trouble spots such as Michigan State University as anchor Forrest Sawyer talks with the President of the University of Iowa about community coalitions, alcohol education programs, alternative activities, and other initiatives as substitutes for bans. In addition,...
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The plight of child sex slaves has been well publicized, but seldom do outsiders have the opportunity to see inside their miserable world. Recently, however, an undercover film crew did get inside. The crew gained rare access to Diana and Lina, two teenage prostitutes at a brothel in the island city of Batam in Indonesia. Focusing on the girls' plight and the mission to save them, they filmed every event leading to the girls' rescue. It's a confronting...
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This program discusses the effects and repercussions of drug abuse physically and mentally and educates teens on the dangers of drug addiction. Subjects covered include the dangers of drug abuse; peer pressure and drug abuse; stimulant drugs and depressant drugs; physical and mental addiction; prescription drugs; the side effects of dangerous drugs; and where to turn for help with drug addiction. After viewing the program, students will have a better...