THE BRAIN: The addicted brain

#1100-57, 26 minutes, 2000 This documentary takes viewers on a tour of the world’s most prolific manufacturer and user of drugs – the human brain. The biochemistry of the brain is responsible for jogger’s highs, for the compulsion of some people to seek thrills, for certain kinds of obsessive-compulsive behavior,...

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Addiction in the Family: The Domino Effect

800-6, 24 minute,  1998 Claudia Black presents three particular areas that greatly impact the family: Powerlessness, Unmanageability, and Tough Love. She also uses pictures drawn by young family members to illustrate how the addiction has impacted the family and interactive graphics that underline specific points of her presentation.   Request

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ADDICTION: WHY CAN’T THEY JUST STOP?

500-30 disc 1 500-31 disc 2 500-32 disc 3 500-33 disc 4 6 hours total, 2007 Several of the nation’s leading experts on drug and alcohol addiction, together with a group of accomplished filmmakers, have assembled to create ADDICTION, an unprecedented documentary aimed at helping people understand addiction as a...

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HOOKED – The Addiction Trap

#500-27 – 25 minutes #500-28 – 28 minutes #500-29 – 27 minutes AGC United Learning, 1999 Hooked: The Addiction Trap explores the multi-faceted subject of addiction in a three-video format: Part One: What is Addiction? Part Two: The Consequences of Addiction Part Three: Alternatives to Addiction The video uses the...

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LIVING WITH ADDICTION: A Family Disease

#500-26, 21 minutes, 2002 Living with Addiction: A Family Disease is designed to help educators work with teens to understand that addiction is a disease they did not cause, cannot control and cannot cure. Addiction is progressive and only the addict can decide to seek treatment. This program also assures...

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POLITICS OF ADDICTION

500-25, 1998 The story of how our society meets the challenge of translating what scientists, doctors, counselors, and recovering addicts have learned into rational public policy is complex and sometimes contradictory. This program looks to find an alternative to current policies. Proposition 200 proposed a reassessment of the status of...

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Women and Alcohol

400-29, 17 minutes, 2006 This ABC news program explores how binge drinking affects a woman physically and on her physiology. It also shows how binge drinking can turn women into targets of sexual assault, although these tragedies are often not remembered by the victims. Request

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