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12 Steps: A Spiritual Journey   BOOK
One of the keys when recovering from chemical dependency is to regain one’s feeling of control of one’s existence, and one’s feeling of wholeness. This book gives the recovering person help in gaining a foothold in the chemical free world while at the same giving instruction on how obtain a renewed mental and physical consciousness.

Abusing Over-the-Counter Drugs   VIDEO
Teen drug abuse isn’t limited to illicit drugs. Many OTC (over-the-counter) drugs are misused by kids—from cold remedies to pain killers to diet pills.

The Addicted Brain VIDEO
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 joggers’ highs, for the compulsion of some people to seek thrills, for certain kinds of obsessive-compulsive behavior, even for the drive to achieve power and dominance. The program explores developments in the biochemistry of addiction and addictive behavior. (26 minutes, color)

Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, & Recovery   BOOK
For families of addicts, feelings of fear, shame, and confusion over a loved one's addiction can cause deep anxiety, sleepless nights, and even physical illness. And the emotional distress family members suffer is often compounded by the belief that they somehow caused or contributed to their loved one's addiction—or that they could have done something to prevent it.

The Addiction Files: Case Study of a Recovering Alcoholic VIDEO
Is Brian’s alcoholism a fate predetermined by his physiology? If so, why is Brian’s sister not an alcoholic as well? In this case study, Brian, a recovering alcoholic, is examined at the social, physical, and even genetic level. Specialists compare the evidence of a specific link to alcoholism with the more generalized factors of environment and behavior. From brain scans to blood tests, this program explores alcoholism and addiction from all angles to shed light on what alcoholism is—and is not. (30 minutes, color)

Addiction-Free Pain Management : Professional Guide   BOOK
This professional guide serves two purposes: (1) defines and explains Addiction-Free Pain Management, and (2) explains how to get the full benefit from the Addiction-Free Pain Management Workbook. Case examples are cited to demonstrate how the system works.

Addictions and Mental Illness VIDEO
Many people who are mentally ill are also addicted to drugs and alcohol. These are separate problems that require separate treatments, yet few people have been diagnosed correctly for both conditions. This program from The Doctor Is In profiles a woman who is manic-depressive and alcoholic, and a man with schizophrenia who is also alcoholic. Dr. Fred Goodwin, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, explains ongoing research that may help identify and treat adolescents before they begin to experience problems. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center production. (28 minutes, color)

Addiction and the Human Brain VIDEO
Drug addiction is a disease of the brain, and teens are at highest risk for acquiring this disease. That is the startling conclusion recently arrived at by brain experts, based on the latest research findings. This program illustrates the amazingly complicated structure and function of the brain using colorful and compelling visuals and computer animations. It explains the changes to the brain caused by prolonged use of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, nicotine, alcohol and methamphetamine, and shows why voluntary drug use eventually becomes involuntary and compulsive. Studies indicate that drugs affect the developing brain more than the brain of someone more mature, thus putting teens at a higher risk of addiction. Interviews with recovering teen addicts, an addiction counselor, and brain experts and researchers give the program realism and intensity, and provide sobering thoughts to viewers.

The Addictions Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Quitting Alcohol & Drugs  BOOK
At any given time there are 18 million adult alcoholics and drug addicts in America. Of the 17 percent who quit each year, most do so on their own. Now, this life changing handbook helps addicts understand the negative effect it has on their lives


AD/HD and Addiction
Have you ever felt out of control, like you just can't get enough food, gambling, sex, or alcohol? Have you ever been diagnosed with or suspected that you might suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? If so, AD/HD could be fueling your addiction. Even more serious, undiagnosed or untreated AD/HD might be undermining your recovery efforts. Family therapist and addiction specialist Wendy Richardson explains the explosive link between AD/HD and addiction and offers tips on how to combat its devastating effects. VIDEO

Adolescent Relapse Prevention Workbook BOOK
Chemically dependent adolescents have a tendency to relapse because of problems they experience at home, school, and with their friends. These problems activate urges and cravings to use alcohol and drugs.What is needed is a brief, yet effective sequence of
steps that adolescents can use to identify and manage those high-risk situations.

Adolescent Relapse Warning Signs  BOOK
 This pamphlet is written for adolescents who are recovering from alcohol or drug use to help them recognize physical, emotional, and behavioral warning signs of the relapse process.

Adult Children of Alcoholics  BOOK
This ground breaking book gives a new understanding of the adult child of an alcoholic by listing the characteristics the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACoA) share.s groun

Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Family Secret VIDEO
In this program, famous adult children of alcoholics speak out about childhood nightmares and adult behavior that continues to reflect the problem of a parent’s alcoholism: some chose alcoholic partners, others developed drug, gambling, or other addictions. All speak of the difficulties of coping with the damage inflicted by an alcohol-centered childhood. (52 minutes, color)

Aggression, Family Violence and Chemical Dependency   BOOK
This book describes the link between chemical dependency and the effects on the family. It shows how chemical dependency can lead to problems such as sexual abuse and violence. It details what kinds of treatments should be given for various members of a family who have been affected by a loved one suffering from chemical dependency.

Alcoholism and Co-dependency VIDEO
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 behavioral patterns often emerge: spouses face frustration, shame, and a feeling of helplessness, and children try to hide the problem, creating stresses they can carry with them for the rest of their lives. The program provides a broad insight into alcoholism and how it affects those on its periphery. (24 minutes, color)
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Alcoholism and Homosexuality    BOOK
Here is a landmark volume on alcoholism - possibly the first to examine current knowledge on homosexuality and alcoholism.

Alcohol: Drug Undercover     VIDEO
The hallmarks of adolescence that the alcohol industry uses to lure young people into drinking – their spirit of rebellion, need for social acceptance and desire to appear sophisticated -- are used in this video to drive home the opposing argument.

Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective   BOOK
Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective presents an overview of trends in the treatment of alcohol problems over a 20-year period from three vantage points: broader treatment perspectives, experienced views from the field, and personal perspectives.

Amphetamines   BOOK
The proper medical application of amphetamines, the street names of the drugs, and their short- and long-term effects on the body and brain, including strokes, heart attacks, irreversible brain damage and dangerously elevated body temperature are set forth.

Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids  BOOK
Readers discover that steroids are synthetic male sex hormones, which promote the growth of skeletal muscle and the development of male sexual characteristics. They are warned that other substances, such as DHEA taken for the same purposes as steroids, are just as dangerous and have no beneficial effect.

Anger - The Bottom Line
Dr. Nuckols addresses how angry people can be compared to the alcoholic or addict new to treatment, most are in denial about their anger. He also explains how many people withdraw or use alcohol and drugs, attack others or abuse themselves to try to make their anger go away. He emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for your anger in order to eliminate problems with relationships, getting and keep a job and staying out of trouble with the law.  VIDEO

Animated Neuroscience and the Action of Nicotine, Cocaine, and Marijuana in the Brain VIDEO
Using sophisticated 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of the three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external environment through the body to the brain, where viewers learn about the cellular targets of these drugs, and how each drug interacts with them and subsequently affects the body. Images of actual neurons used in the animations create a realistic effect that helps viewers understand the concepts presented. (25 minutes, color)

Beat The Street 5 Part Series
Provides counselors with the complete curriculum needed to implement an effective relapse prevention component within their facility. It includes 43 activities with reproducible client worksheets helps clients take what they have learned from the videos and apply it to their own lives. The guide also offers 98 discussion questions providing counselors a format for leading discussion following the viewing of each tape. Questions are designed to help viewers clarify the relapse traps shown in the tapes.
 

Beyond Cold Turkey: Tobacco Quitting Methods VIDEO
This up-to-date video clearly identifies the major medical quitting methods that are currently available to anyone who wants to stop smoking or chewing tobacco. Two teen presenters offer an overview of nicotine and its addictive properties, as well as an explanation of the withdrawal process. The program looks at five FDA approved methods that are commonly used today: the anti-smoking pill (Zyban™), nicotine gum, the nicotine inhaler, nicotine nasal spray and the nicotine patch. Quitting “cold turkey” is also explained. The pluses and minuses of each method are reviewed by the presenters, with additional commentary from a prominent physician who specializes in smoking cessation. Proper usage and side effects for each method are explained in a simple, concise manner. The importance of joining a cessation support group is also discussed. Teens learn that smokers who use nicotine replacement therapy together with a behavioral change program double their chances of successfully quitting. Activities in the Teacher’s Resource Book aid students as they expand their knowledge. This video is sure to offer helpful information to any student who is struggling to break free of tobacco addiction.

Binge Drinking    BOOK
This information-packed pamphlet speaks to teens through hip graphics and conversational language. The pamphlet includes references to the In the Know Zone the website, with in-depth information, interesting images and an interactive quiz.

Binge Drinking Blowout:The Extreme Dangers of Alcohol    VIDEO
Nothing makes the hazards of underage drinking more real than the first-hand accounts of people who have suffered them. This video examines the life-threatening nature of teen alcohol use from medical and personal perspectives

Breaking the Cycle of Addiction and Abuse: Donna’s Story VIDEO
By the time Donna Gamble turned 13 she was a drug addict and a prostitute, just like her mother. Today, she is a fiercely determined survivor who has emerged as a powerful voice in counseling members of the Cree Nation and others about how to triumph over addiction. In this poignant yet inspiring program, Donna describes her struggle to start a new life while trying to help improve the lives of others traveling the path she once knew all too well. With courage and candor, she also reveals her ongoing effort to come to terms with the suppressed rage that still flows from her childhood memories of sexual abuse and physical violence. Contains explicit material. (52 minutes, color)

Building a Bridge to the Hip Hop Generation
With a group of young adults of the Hip Hop Generation, Delbert Boone discusses the influencing factors of their generation and how they have relied on clothes and music to define their culture. He addresses their values and morals, rites of passage, social norms and the mixed messages they have received from the media and their peers. He discusses why most of them got their education off the street and they felt that school was not going to do them any good. Boone also addresses interpersonal relationships and why most young people of their generation don’t want people in their business and often isolate and start using drugs. Boone addresses why this generation does not believe a job can get them the things they want in life and explains why drug trafficking appeals to them.

Brief Strategic Group Therapy: Making Group Therapy Work in the Managed Care  Environment    BOOK
The role of group therapy in the new era of chemical dependency and behavioral health. How to implement targeted group treatment plans using powerful integration of cognitive, behavioral, and experimental methods.

Cake Night: A Journey Towards Recovery VIDEO
Set in the Canadian addiction treatment center of Edgewood, this program explores the private world of substance abuse rehabilitation through the eyes of six addicts and their families. Despite varied backgrounds, the goal of these patients is to turn their backs on substance dependence by facing their addiction and to arrive clean and sober to Cake Night, the monthly celebration of recovery. The impact of addiction on the family, the concept of dependency as a disease, and the debate surrounding this popular model of treatment are also explored. (46 minutes, color)

Cause Of Death Heroin  PAMPHLET
The mechanism by which this derivative of opium lures its users into addiction, then traps them with unbearably painful withdrawal symptoms is explained, as are the short- and long-term physical effects of heroin, the risk posed by needle sharing among abusers, and the grave danger of fatal overdose.


Challenging the Lifestyle
With a group of residents at Crossroads Adult Transition Center in Chicago, Illinois, Michael Johnson challenges the group to take a serious look at their alcohol, drug and criminal lifestyle. He explains that when you look at the lifestyle associated alcohol, drugs and criminal activity you have to ask yourself, “what is the payoff?” After listing the payoffs for the lifestyle he discusses feelings of isolation, loneliness, experiencing a sense of failure and being an embarrassment to family.
 

Changing Lives  VIDEO
While addiction may cause similar changes in the brains of different people, recovery is a very individual solution. Changing behavior is the aim of treatment, but no single treatment program will work for all addicts. This program visits the Ridgeview Institute near Atlanta to interview recovering addicts and sit in on a group therapy session. Mr. Moyers also visits Project SAFE, an innovative treatment program that reaches out to disadvantaged mothers who are addicts, and to their children who are at serious risk of becoming addicts. (81 minutes, color)

Character Education Series  VIDEO
The Character Education Series is an effective tool for professionals. The series includes the following programs: Character Education: Restoring Respect & Responsibility in Our Schools, Character Education: Application in the Classroom, Elementary Version, Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education and Character Education: Application in the Classroom, Secondary Version.

Chemical Dependency and Anti-Social Personality Disorder   BOOK
This ground breaking book presents the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how to develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies for them.

Chemical Dependency and Intimacy Dysfunction    BOOK
The failure to deal with social-sexual issues may impair the progress of recovery in a chemically dependent individual and his or her family. The failure to deal with sexual compulsivity in intravenous drug abusers may seriously impair our ability to deal with AIDS. The failure to deal with chemical dependence may render family therapy ineffective in the treatment of sex offenders.


Chemical Dependency in Nursing
A basic training video for health care managers and supervisors which dramatically reveals the signs and symptoms common to chemically dependent nurses. Length: 30 minutes.

Children of Alcoholism: A Survivors Manual    BOOK
Children of Alcoholism exposes "the terrible family secret" and draws on interviews with over 200 survivors to share the realities of family alcoholism, such as the frequent occurrence of child abuse, the ruined family holidays, the "crazy" fantasy-like atmosphere of the alcoholic home.

Club Drugs: The Real Deal   VIDEO
While drug use among teenagers has leveled off in the last few years, a dangerous menace known as "club drugs" offers an even greater threat to today's teens. The names for these easy-to-come-by drugs include Ecstasy, GHB, methamphetamine, Rohypnol (the date rape drug), ketamine and many others. With false promises of "safe" highs, the drugs are packaged specifically to appeal to trend conscious teenagers.

Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling: Principles, Models, Methods, Revised Edition   BOOK

Clean Start: An Outpatient Program for Cocaine Recovery  BOOK
“Practitioners of varying experience will find the usefulness of this “how to” manual unsurpassed in the addicted client and facilitating group process.

Cocaine Craving and Relapse : A Comparison Between Alcohol and Cocaine  BOOK
In this presentation, Terry Goirski, presents a treatment model that describes craving as a three-stage process involving Setup Behaviors, Trigger Events, and The Craving Cycle.

Cocaine and Crack  VIDEO
The video shows viewers how cocaine has an addiction rate as high as 75%, and many users, especially with crack, become addicted after their first use. Recovering addict "Richard," a college graduate from a nice family, his powdered cocaine habit progressed into overwhelming crack addiction.


Cocaine Monkey
Brother Earl explains in graphic and memorable terms why cocaine is the most powerful addictive substance known to man.

Confronting Drunk Driving  VIDEO
This memorable video features the true story of Mike Poveromo, a young man who killed his two best friends in a drunk driving car crash when he was a teenager. Today, Mike tours the nation’s high schools to share his story, and to warn students never to drink and drive. In addition to interview segments that recount Mike’s dramatic story, viewers will also hear from law enforcement officers who explain the legal risks involved in drinking and driving, including harsh jail sentences for those convicted of driving under the influence (DUI). Viewers will also hear from emergency room physicians who describe the traumas and deaths they have seen as a result of drunk driving. Teens will also hear from parents and family members who have been left devastated by the loss of a child as a result of drunk driving. In addition, Confronting Drunk Driving offers important tips for how to avoid being a passenger in a car driven by an intoxicated driver. Teacher’s Resource Book offers many useful and thought-provoking worksheets for classroom use.

Crack Attack!
Crack cocaine literally "attacks" the users life at every level, physical, psychological, emotional, social and financial. Dr. Ohlms explains how crack cocaine causes this at the physical and neurochemical level.
 

Cracking Up: Addiction to Crack Cocaine VIDEO
Part dramatization, part documentary, this engrossing study of crack cocaine makes a powerful statement on the drug’s highly addictive nature. The docudrama profiles "Daniel Preston," an upwardly mobile user of recreational drugs who gets high on crack as part of an experiment and finds he cannot shake his craving for it. Interspersed throughout this classic program, a drug counselor, a psychiatrist, and crack addicts talk about how it feels to get high on crack, behaviors and health problems related to crack addiction, why crack addiction is so hard to break, and crack’s role as a gateway drug. In addition, onscreen text gives information on the history of coca use, the extraction and processing of cocaine, cocaine smuggling and distribution, and the manufacture of crack. (59 minutes, color)

Crack Video   VIDEO
This up-to-date video takes a serious look at the growing problem among teens, examining the effects of cocaine, in particular its more concentrated form known as crack, and the symptoms of addiction. This in-depth look creates awareness among young people of the harms of this deadly substance.

Crank: Made in America VIDEO
The number one drug problem in rural America, methamphetamine, or "crank," is cheap, easy to make, and has the lowest recovery rate for addicts. By looking at a number of people in Iowa—even whole families—who are struggling with methamphetamine, this program lays bare the drug’s tragic results. Chilling computer graphics illustrate how the drug works on the brain. Dr. David Musto of Yale University discusses the history of "crank," and Asa Hutchinson, director of the Drug Enforcement Agency, explains its wildfire spread in rural areas. Contains offensive language. Some content may be objectionable. An HBO Production. (56 minutes, color)

Curriculum in a Box: Substance Abuse 2005 VIDEO
This compact, portable module is much more than a video series—it’s an all-inclusive drug education curriculum library. Packed with the latest on tobacco, alcohol, steroids, and other drugs, Curriculum in a Box: Substance Abuse 2005 is as teacher friendly as we could make it! We have designed all components to be easily customized according to your individual teaching needs. With a selection of more than 150 reproducible activity sheets for students in grades 7–12, including quizzes, self-evaluation forms, research assignments, role-play scenarios, a nationwide reference unit of alcohol- and drug-related health agencies, and dozens of handy drug fact sheets, this curriculum library provides maximum flexibility and years of classroom use.


Dangers of Club Drugs Folding Display  Folding Display
This eye-catching folding display provides crucial details about six of the most common club drugs: Ecstasy, GHB, Rohypnol, Ketamine, LSD and methamphetamine. These dangerous and illegal substances continue to rise in popularity among teens who may not be aware of their toxic properties. Special emphasis is given to the changes to brain chemistry that result from prolonged use of these mood-altering drugs

Dangers of Secondhand Smoke Folding Display  Folding Display
This colorful folding display makes it clear that secondhand smoke is a significant danger for anyone who comes in contact with it. Each year in the United States, more than 53,000 non-smokers die because of diseases caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. Perfect for classroom use, this eye-catching display reminds students that environmental tobacco smoke—whether it comes from cigarettes, pipes, cigars or bidis—contains so many harmful chemical compounds that the US Environmental Protection Agency has labeled secondhand smoke as a “Class A” carcinogen. Short-term damage from passive smoke is described, as well as the unique dangers for children who live in homes with parents who smoke. The “Anatomy of a Puff” section graphically identifies some of the 4,000 hazardous chemicals that are released into the air by a single burning cigarette. Includes the real story of a non-smoker diagnosed with lung cancer after years of working in a smoke-filled environment. Helpful tips are provided for avoiding exposure to someone else’s secondhand smoke. Made of high quality materials, the display measures 58” x 22” and can be exhibited on a tabletop or folded flat for easy transportation.

The Dark Night of Recovery:Conversations from the Bottom of the Bottle BOOK
This inspiring work shows readers what it feels like to hit the wall or hit bottom on a spiritual path, and gives them insight on how to move forward toward a better life. It
deals with the darkness and despair and the joy that seem to be inherent in the quest for enlightenment and self knowing.

Deadly Highs VIDEO
In the real world, saying no to drugs is a decision that has to be made every time the opportunity to get high comes up. But the stakes are also high. This program addresses the stark downside of drug abuse through the sobering experiences of three teens. Sarah’s resolve slowly crumbled, and in 7th grade she began a nightmare trip that left her, years later, still recovering from heroin addiction and facing eventual liver failure from hepatitis C. Jackson’s background predisposed him to instant addiction—first to Ritalin and, before entering rehab, just about anything he could snort. And Jennifer, who never tried drugs in her life, died when her boyfriend, high on huffing, crashed the car they were in. A Discovery Channel Production. (26 minutes, color)

Decide to be drug-free    VIDEO
Young kids will identify with Katie's desire to be a grown-up in the video. But Katie believes the magazines and movies that tell her drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco are part of being a glamorous adult. Katie needs to learn to make healthy decisions.

Denial Management Counseling Professional Guide : Advanced Clinical Skills for Motivating Substance Abusers to Recover BOOK
This book can help therapists succeed with clients who are locked into patterns of severe denial and treatment resistance. It will show you how to integrate this denial management system into your personal clinical style and treatment program.

Denial Management Counseling Workbook : Practical Exercises for Motivating Substance Abusers to Recover  BOOK
Denial is a normal and natural response for coping with painful and overwhelming problems. This workbook describes the twelve most common denial patterns and guides the reader through a series of exercises that help them identify and more effectively manage their own denial.

Designing, Implementing, and Managing Co-Occurring Treatment Services for Individuals with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Blueprints for Action  BOOK
Sequential or parallel treatments for co-occurring disorders are much less effective than a quality co-occurring treatment program. Most mental health and substance abuse professionals know how to provide an effective program for individuals with a substance use or mental health disorder, but few are aware of the issues involved in providing services for those with dual diagnosis.

Detox-Your 1st Days in Recovery
Dr. David Ohlms explains behaviors of people in withdrawal from alcohol and drugs.

Disease of Alcoholism – Adolescent Version
A different version of Disease of Alcoholism, made with teens in mind.


Don't Be A Loser: Gambling Recovery Video Series   BOOK
Your life is no longer predictable. What was "jokingly" a rut, now feels like a grave. You want to help but you don't have a clue where to start. Well now you do! We will provide you with over 2 hours of in-depth information on the attitudes, feelings & behaviors of compulsive gamblers. KNOWLEDGE IS STRENGTH! Get the upper hand on YOUR life TODAY.

Don't Drain Your Brain: How Alcohol Damages the Brain VIDEO
This powerful video uses lively animation and compelling images of the human brain to deliver the latest scientific findings about young people and alcohol. Viewers will learn that early alcohol use causes serious damage to the brain and significantly reduces many important brain functions that are necessary for young people to be successful in life. Young teen presenters review important brain structures and explain how vital they are to normal, healthy functioning—-including thinking, moving, speaking, hearing and smelling. Viewers get a chance see what actually happens inside the brain when alcohol is consumed, and witness how normal brain functioning is short-circuited by alcohol. Viewers will learn that the human brain continues to grow and develop until we are in our early twenties. For students who watch the video and participate in the Teacher’s Resource Book full of informative follow-up activities, the message will be clear: drinking alcohol can damage your brain and cause great harm to your future.

Double Bind : A Guide to Recovery and Relapse Prevention for the Chemically Dependent Sexual Abuse Survivor  BOOK

Drinking Apart: Families Under the Influence VIDEO
Every day at the renowned Ackerman Institute for the Family, teams of counselors are helping people with drug and alcohol addictions to save their relationships, their futures, and their very lives. Praised by the American Psychiatric Association, this award-winning program tracks the progress of a husband and wife, a mother and teenage daughter, and a young couple over a three-year period as they fight their way toward recovery. Candidly filmed at Ackerman and other facilities as well as in the subjects’ homes, this gripping documentary provides valuable insights into the devastating effects of substance abuse and the methods being used to assist in breaking addictions. "[Reality television] pales in comparison with the reality offered up by documentarian Ken Rosenberg in this new HBO special," says the Los Angeles Times; extensive footage of family counseling sessions is only one of the reasons why. An HBO production. (71 minutes, color)

Drinking Responsibly VIDEO
Alcohol, the most widely used psychoactive drug in the United States, contributes to approximately 100,000 deaths annually—fatalities that could very likely be prevented through education and treatment. This program is designed to promote a deeper understanding of the drinking problem in America, particularly among students on college campuses. The immediate and long-term behavioral and physiological effects of alcohol consumption are discussed as well, including blood alcohol concentration and alcohol absorption rates. (29 minutes, color)

Drugosaurs Curriculum Guide   BOOK
Provides a guide to developing an effective substance abuse prevention program for students of two maturity levels -- pre-adolescent and young adolescent. Includes expanded information on each drug and statistics that can be used selectively to support presentations. Contains full-group, small-group, and individual student activities for the classroom. Provides a list of web sites as additional resources for advice, ideas, and substance abuse prevention programs.

Drugs of the 90's: Impact on the Workplace  VIDEO

Drugs of Abuse Video Set   VIDEO
The Drugs of Abuse Video Set provides a detailed and straightforward overview of seven classes of commonly abused substances -- Cannabis, depressants, stimulants, narcotics, hallucinogens, inhalants and anabolic-androgenic steroids.

Drunk Driving: A Collision Course   VIDEO
The video tells the story of two sisters who convince their parents to let them go with two boys to a party. At the party the older sister sets a bad example for the younger sister by drinking, and also by not watching closely the condition of the boy who drove them.

Dual Disorders Recovery Counseling: Integrated Treatment for Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders BOOK
This book offers a model of recovery and relapse prevention for the chemically dependent sexual abuse survivor. It is designed to provide practical methods for addressing sex abuse issues without jeopardizing recovery from addiciton.

Dual Diagnosis Workbook : Recovery Strategies for Substance Use and Mental Health   BOOK
This recovery workbook will give you information about psychiatric disorders and alcohol or drug abuse. This condition is referred to as dual disorders. It also provides information about the recovery process and relapse prevention issues.

Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food Independent or Addictive Disorders?  BOOK
The CDC has reported that obesity is second only to tobacco as the leading cause of associative deaths in America. Can both be types of substance abuse?

Ecstasy   PAMPHLET
Even if the pills are what they purport to be, Ecstasy is a dangerous drug in its own right. The pamphlet details its hazards to body and brain, including high blood pressure, potentially fatal body temperature elevations, halucinations, depression, violent, paranoid behavior and permanent brain damage.

Ecstasy—Happiness in a Pill? A 48 Hours/MTV News Report VIDEO
In a cooperative project with MTV, this edition of 48 Hours takes a broad look at the drug ecstasy. Case studies involving a high school student, two college students, and a single mother of three serve as platforms for investigating ecstasy’s role as a gateway drug, the spread of potentially lethal copycat drugs and how the controversial group DanceSafe helps ecstasy abusers at raves to tell the difference, law enforcement’s crackdown on ecstasy dealers with raids and stiff sentencing, and ecstasy’s use as an aid in coping with emotional trauma. Produced by CBS NEWS. (44 minutes, color)

Ecstasy: Just How Dangerous Is It?   VIDEO
This video introduces viewers to the very real dangers of Ecstasy, an illegal substance whose popularity has exploded in recent years. Too many young people are misinformed about the dangers of this drug (also known as MDMA), which can produce euphoria along with dehydration, hyperthermia and death by overdose. As more young people begin to experiment with Ecstasy, it becomes more urgent than ever that teens hear the truth about this dangerous substance. Emergency room visits for complications arising from Ecstasy use have continued to rise alarmingly. Drug traffickers shrewdly package the tablets with “kid-friendly” logos that make the drug appear more harmless. Viewers of this timely video will learn everything they need to know to make the decision to stay away from Ecstasy. Teacher’s Resource Book includes a variety of student activities to continue your class discussion.

Ecstasy: The Facts   VIDEO
Using a fast-paced MTV documentary style, this video explores the skyrocketing use of the club drug known as      ecstasy. Viewers learn that ecstasy (also known as MDMA) first gained popularity at all-night teen dance parties    called raves. More recently, the drug has become widely available to middle school and high school students nationwide.

Everything You Need to Know about Substance Abuse in 22 Minutes   VIDEO
This production totally saturates viewers with one unrelenting message: If you use dangerous drugs like alcohol, marijuana and Ecstasy, you are risking your fututre and your life. The video bombards teens with plain facts that are indisputable: alcohol damages the growing adolescent brain, marijuana can cause head and neck cancers as well as lung cancer, methamphetamine is one of the most addictive substances on earth, one huff from an inhalant can result in sudden deathand much more. After watching this video, your students are sure to reevaluate their thoughts and behavior concerning substance abuse. Substances covered are tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, stimulants, club drugs and performance-enhancing drugs.

Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual & Relationship Recovery   BOOK
Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery is the first to take techniques used by thousands of recovering sex addicts and show readers, step by step, how to break free of problematic sexual behaviors and live a healthier, more fulfilling life. A task-centered, competency-based, effective approach to recovery from compulsive behaviors

Family First VIDEO
Terri Ohlms presents an effective demonstration of the basic dynamics of dysfunctional families and co-dependency

Focus On Ecstasy   PAMPHLET
8” x 14” pamphlet outlines the dangers of this popular drug that can cause depression, addiction, heart failure and death.

Food Addiction: Recovery & Relapse Prevention Workbook   BOOK
This workbook is for compulsive overeaters/food addicts and binge eaters. These terms describe people who use food to manage feelings and cope with life. Although the primary purpose of this workbook is to assist in the development of a relapse prevention plan and create a schedule of activities to assist that goal, a person must first develop an effective recovery plan.

Food Addiction: The Body Knows  BOOK
Here food addiction is defined, trigger foods are identified and consequences of food addiction are revealed. A lifetime eating plan demonstrating how to stick with a healthful food plan for the long term is also provided.

Gambling: Against the Odds VIDEO
Americans now gamble $60 billion annually, but only recently has compulsive gambling been recognized as an addiction as strong as alcohol or narcotics. In this program, five compulsive gamblers in recovery share their case histories, shedding light on the psychology and pathology of this powerful habit. Combined with these personal portraits, treatment options are discussed by leading experts, including Dr. Valerie Lorentz, a pioneer of behavioral therapy for gambling. A Discovery Channel Production. (49 minutes, color)

Gay and Sober : Directions for Counseling and Therapy    BOOK
This book, called a “landmark in the fields of alcoholism and homosexuality,” is enormously informative and well organized, with numerous practical and useful suggestions and guidelines on the treatment options available for gay people with alcohol problems.

Goin’ Home Parts 1 - 6 Video Set  VIDEO
Taking A Look At You – Addresses the connection between addiction and the circumstances of your life, how to command respect and looking at the truth. Empowering Yourself – Explores behaviors and how you can empower yourself using the qualities that addiction has provided you.

GHB: The Facts    VIDEO
This powerful documentary-style video alerts viewers to the very grave dangers of GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), a popular club drug with nicknames such as “Georgia Home Boy,” or “Grievous Bodily Harm.” GHB is an addictive sedative that is popular among teens who mistakenly assume that it is a safe drug, since it was once sold in stores as a food supplement. In fact, GHB was banned from legal sale in 1990, and in recent years has caused more overdoses and deaths than Ecstasy.

Good-bye Cocaine
Brother Earl talks about the incredible compulsion of cocaine addiction; especially how old playmates and playpens trigger relapse, even in those with the best intentions.

Group Members Guide to Brief Strategic Group Therapy:Making Group Therapy Work for You   BOOK
"This is a powerful tool for teaching group members how to be effective group members. The guide is about sixty pages long and written at the sixth-grade level. It explains the group rules and responsibilities and the basic skills group members will need to get the most out of their group therapy experience.

Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations   BOOK
A powerful book that describes proven strategies for defeating alcohol and drug addiction through the use of psychotherapy.

Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message  BOOK
Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message is NOT a self-help book. Instead, it’s a rare opportunity to sit in on a virtual therapy group and take part in a virtual Twelve Step meeting. The book’s unique perspective lets you compare and contrast the experience of participating in a psychotherapy group and a Twelve Step group, including an examination of the Twelve Steps and The Twelve Traditions.

Group Therapy Tool Kit  BOOK
Group Therapy Tool Kit is a small and inexpensive set out handouts that summarizes the key information presented in the Group Members Guide. This is ideal for programs on a tight budget. It is also a great aid for teaching clients and staff about the basic group therapy procedures.

Hallucinogens    VIDEO
Many users graduate from hallucinogens to Ecstasy, heroin, or cocaine use, The truth about hallucinogens is that a single use can send a user into a bad trip that could leave him/her terrified, haunted, even injured. Completely unpredictably, a user may experience the drug's effects again in a flashback. Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, an ongoing, permanent condition. HPPD sufferers have visual and emotional disturbances for life

Handbook of Addictive Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment    BOOK
The Handbook of Addictive Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment is a comprehensive, state-of-the art resource, featuring valuable contributions from a multidisciplinary team of leading experts in addictions studies. This unique compendium first defines addiction and examines its comorbidity with other problems.

Hands & Minds
Dr. David Ohlms explains the impact of alcohol and drugs on hand eye coordination and concentration.

Healthy vs. Normal Communication  VIDEO
Our response to fear determines how we react in relationships. Fear’s effects on brain function is forcing changes in how we think about intimacy and conflict. Common misconceptions are contrasted with effective methods for managing emotions and self disclosure. A model of differentiated intimacy is explored.

The Hijacked Brain  VIDEO
Aided by powerful new diagnostic tools, scientists are making dramatic discoveries about how addiction affects the brain. In this program, Moyers goes into the laboratory to follow researchers engaged in charting an "image of desire" in the brain. We actually see images of a cocaine user’s brain as the drug takes effect, and a doctor explains how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease. Moyers observes a genetic researcher as he monitors a variety of factors that may determine who is likely to develop alcoholism. (57 minutes, color)

Hip Hop Generation Set  VIDEO

HIV/AIDS 101  VIDEO
This new video with Kim Bouldin-Jones, a nationally recognized authority on AIDS prevention, contains the most current information about HIV and AIDS. It addresses why this virus is different, how it is transmitted, and how to protect against what is now called an "everybody" disease. It explains how HIV is detected and treated, and the clinical parameters for distinguishing HIV-positive status and AIDS. The primary focus of this video is the universality of the disease, with practical steps for reducing the risk of transmission, beginning with the change in nomenclature from "safe" sex to the current, more accurate "safer" sex.

Heroin: The Real Deal Video  VIDEO
This fact-filled videotape takes a look at heroin and how its use destroys people’s lives. The video opens with interviews of the family and band members of deceased rock star Brad Nowell, from the band Sublime. Interviews with prevention experts, a DEA agent and finally the parents of young people who have died under heroin’s tight grip give heart wrenching accounts to the dangers of heroin.

Heroin: The Road of Addiction  VIDEO
Heroin finds its way into all walks of life, from rural towns to big cities. Join teen video makers as they reveal lives bound to constant cycles of recovery and addiction, jail and death. Different scenarios bring the viewer in contact with addicts and their families and friends. Although each situation differs, a recurring message resonates: snorting or shooting heroin breeds hopelessness. An unsettling sense of bereavement overshadows this compelling program as realization dawns that lost time and lives can never be reclaimed, but after viewing Heroin’s devastating aftermath the viewer is strongly compelled never to try heroin.

Hip Hop Generation Set  VIDEO

HIV/AIDS 101
This new video with Kim Bouldin-Jones, a nationally recognized authority on AIDS prevention, contains the most current information about HIV and AIDS. It addresses why this virus is different, how it is transmitted, and how to protect against what is now called an "everybody" disease. It explains how HIV is detected and treated, and the clinical parameters for distinguishing HIV-positive status and AIDS. The primary focus of this video is the universality of the disease, with practical steps for reducing the risk of transmission, beginning with the change in nomenclature from "safe" sex to the current, more accurate "safer" sex.

How to Start Relapse Prevention Support Groups   BOOK
This booklet explains how to develop a self-help support group that focuses on recovery and relapse prevention while working cooperatively with Twelve Step programs and other self-help groups. It includes everything needed to get a group started. The most commonly asked questions about relapse prevention are answered.

How To Tell If A Kid Is On Drugs And What To Do About It: An Update    VIDEO
They learn the different types of drugs and paraphernalia, the physical effects and dangers of each, and suggestions for confronting a child. Parents learn the right and wrong ways to deal with a child who has been caught abusing illegal substances. They learn to control their tempers so that the problem can be solved in a rational manner. Throughout the film, suggestions are given on treatment options and ways to prevent drug use before it begins.

How To Tell If A Kid Is On Drugs And What To Do About It: An Update     PAMPHLET
The How To Tell If A Kid Is On Drugs And What To Do About It: An Update Pamphlet provides parents a brief overview of the more common drugs of abuse – Marijuana, Tobacco, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Depressants, Hallucinogens and Inhalants. It lists general behaviors and physical changes that suggest that a child may be using these drugs.

IMPACT: Driving Drunk, Driving High  VIDEO
This award winning video clearly illustrates the impact driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs have on society. It addresses the effects of alcohol and prescription drugs on judgment and motor skills, and the consequences of driving under the influence. Through open and candid interviews, victims talk about how a drunk driver made the choice to drive, and how that choice has impacted their life. You will meet Megan, a beautiful four-year-old girl, who lost her life to a drunk driver. Steve Hanusa, an addiction specialist brings over 27 years experience to the making of this must see video

Inhalants VIDEO
This program presents a summary of this class of drugs and then details its constituent parts: solvents and aerosols, nitrites, and nitrous oxide. A doctor of pharmacology, an addiction specialist, police officers, a historian, recovering addicts, and others delve into the history and biological effects of these drugs. Together, they share case studies and personal experiences to address the use, abuse, and hazards of inhalants, including brain, liver, and kidney damage, as well as sudden sniffing death syndrome. One 20-minute video.

In The Know - Alcohol   VIDEO
Teenage readers learn that alcohol's advertising-driven image of sophistication and fun are belied by its appalling reality -- that it kills more people than all illegal drugs combined, addicts one in seven of its users, and is a factor in half of all murders, suicides, accidental deaths and crimes.

In The Know - Cocaine   BOOK
Teaches teenagers that the high imparted by cocaine and crack is a shortlived fantasy and its reality can be a lifetime nightmare The statistics cited include the 75% addiction rate among cocaine users, the inability of an equal percentage of coke addicts to break their addiction, and the more than 4,500 people who die from their addictions each year -- NOT counting those who are murdered in the course of using or selling cocaine.

In The Know Drug Prevention Starter Kit    PAMPHLET
Choose 15 topics for your starter kit!
Drug Prevention programs begin with the making the information readily available for the public. The In The Know Drug Prevention Starter Kit gives students and young adults a place to turn when they are looking for information on drugs, reasons to avoid and how to say no.

In the Know - Driving Under the Influence  PAMPHLET
Driving under the influence is the act of operating a vehicle after consuming alcohol, smoking marijuana or abusing any other drug. The pamphlet draws awareness to the dangers involved in operating a vehicle while drinking or using marijuana and encourages students to practice what they learned.

In The Know - Hallucinogens     PAMPHLET
Readers are warned that hallucinogens have powerful and completely unpredictable effects on the mind, leaving them vulnerable to extreme mood swings, unpredictable flashbacks months after use, and, at the worst, schizophrenia and suicide.

In The Know - Marijuana    PAMPHLET
Marijuana: Stone Cold Stupid sets forth the very extensive list of serious ill effects associated with the drug, including permanent damage to thinking and reasoning ability, chronic bronchitis and frequent respiratory infections and a complete detachment from previous interests and goals called "amotivational syndrome."

In The Know - Prescription Drug Abuse   PAMPHLET
Students are given the facts enabling them to draw important conclusions on the right and wrong uses of prescription drugs. They are shown the side effects of each drug category along with street names and other information, which creates an awareness of the dangers correlating with prescription drug abuse.

In The Know: Tobacco, Marijuana and Alcohol  VIDEO
This video is narrated by four young adults on three of the most harmful drugs. Medical experts underscore the frightening facts about the damage these drugs cause to the body. In addition, the unpleasant social consequences of smoking and drinking -- bad breath, stained teeth, vomiting, loss of motivation -- are made painfully clear. Facts such as what chemicals are in each drug, how they affect the users body, and other important essentials are shown throughout.

In the Know Zone-GHB, Rohypnol, and Ketamine PAMPHLET
A survey of the three most common "date rape drugs" -- the veterinary anesthetic ketamine, a banned human anesthetic, Rohypnol, and the outlawed depressant GHB.

Inhalants: Are You Out Of Your Mind?  VIDEO
This video teaches young students what happens when any poisonous chemicals are sniffed and the permanent effects that toxic poisonous fumes have on the body. It gives very young drug abusers the information they need to stay far away from inhalants and other drugs commonly abused by middle school students. They are given facts and other information about this drug, how it is used and the effects it has on the body, including death. This video helps prevent use before it ever starts keeping students safe even when parents and/or guardians are not there to watch them.

Inhalants The Tricky Drug  VIDEO
Inhalant abuse has become an especially frightening part of America’s drug problem, with inhalant abusers emerging as the youngest group of drug abusers in the country. This thought-provoking film explains in simple language the harmful effects of breathing poisonous substances. Young viewers experience the dramatic story of one boy’s downfall while experimenting with inhalants, and learn to resist peer pressure and say NO to inhalants.

Inhalants: Something Deadly In The Air   PAMPHLET
Young readers are warned that the sniffing or "huffing" of fumes from houehold products, aerosols, solvents and other common chemicals is a practice so potentially dangerous that users have died on their first experiment with it.

Introduction to Affect Regulation & Addiction
Early life experiences and attachment problems set the stage for addictive and compulsive behavior. Affect regulation theory helps explain what causes our deep resistance to changing self-defeating behavior. How survival mechanisms continue to affect us and what can be done about them is discussed in this video lecture.

Just How Dangerous are...Inhalants    BOOK
Learn the warning signs of inhalant abuse, the short and long-term effects, how to help an inhalant user and what to do if someone tries to get you to 'sniff' or 'huff'. These topics along with how to spot a potential inhalant product are all discussed in the pamphlet.

KIDSDOM: An Alcohol Prevention Curriculum   CD-ROM
Welcome to Kidsdom, a unique and comprehensive curriculum on alcohol use. This resource provides a complete alcohol prevention curriculum with components for teachers, parents and children. While children are still young, it is important to make them aware of how alcohol affects the body, the brain, and the emotions. Research shows that teaching children about alcohol when they are young may help them make safer choices in the future.

Know When to Say No
During this fast paced video, Guy Wheeler discusses the trickery of not knowing how or when to say no. He discusses the hooks that “so-called friends” or family members use to manipulate, trick and con you into using drugs or getting involved in criminal activity. He provides the viewer with tools to help them work through these issues and emphasizes that you must learn to take control of your life or you will continue to go back to treatment, jail or die because you do not know how to say no.


Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, 2nd Ed.    BOOK
Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, Second Edition, is designed to meet the training needs of new and experienced addiction counselors by presenting in a practical, user-friendly format the basic and cutting-edge research on addiction counseling as well as the latest trends in the self-help/grassroots movement.

Learning to Live Again: A Guide for Recovery from Chemical Dependency  BOOK
learning to Live Again has taken a complex disease process and presented it in a simple format that is a pleasure to read. This very popular and useful book includes all forms of chemical dependency. It can be used individually by recovering people or as a basis for patient education programs to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the disease and recovery process.

"Legal" but Deadly: Abusing Prescription Drugs VIDEO
Prescription drugs like OxyContin, Ritalin, Vicodin, Xanax and codeine based cough syrup are making headlines around the nation as teens continue to abuse these “legal” drugs by crushing the pills and snorting or injecting the powder or drinking the liquid.

Lesbians and Gay Men: Chemical Dependency Treatment     BOOK
All who work with gay persons with alcoholism problems read this book!

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places   VIDEO
Meg Haycraft discusses the pitfalls of romance in early recovery.

Lowering the Risk  BOOK
The choice to pursue a course of sobriety is the beginning of recovery, but the abstinence is not the recovery,only the beginning. It is essential for every recovering per-son to recognize the relationship between stress, post acute withdrawal, and relapse.

Making of a Hangover VIDEO
Filmed under the watchful eyes of a team of researchers, this program scientifically tracks the physical and psychological changes in seven volunteers—three men and four women, ranging in age from 21 to 34—as they drink with their friends in a bar. Vital information is provided on alcohol’s impact on the body, the worthlessness of inebriation remedies such as cold showers and coffee, the very present danger of alcohol poisoning, and genetic inputs for alcohol addiction. In addition, outstanding 3-D computer graphics illustrate alcohol’s effects on the brain, stomach, heart, liver, and genitals. A police sobriety test is demonstrated. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)

Managing: The Fear of Aids  VIDEO
Scenarios show the right and wrong way to manage the fear of AIDS in the workplace.

Marijuana Papers: Research Update VIDEO
This program reveals the latest scientific research about how marijuana changes the adolescent brain, impairs the brain’s ability to perform complex tasks, lowers the body’s immune system and can become powerfully addictive. Using a format similar to popular TV detective shows such as CSI, several real teens travel across the country in search of answers to important questions like: Is it true marijuana’s not addictive? And how can something “natural” like marijuana be harmful? Along the way they meet Dr. Susan Tapert from the University Of California in San Diego, a research scientist using MRI’s to track brain function in teens who’ve experimented with marijuana. She shows them how new studies have scientifically linked loss of memory function to teenage marijuana use. The teenage sleuths also speak to Dr. Michael Roth a researcher dealing with marijuana’s harmful effect on the immune system. Dr. Roth gives them a first hand demonstration in his laboratory which graphically shows how the active ingredient in marijuana actually inhibits the body’s normal healing process. The teens also speak to drug counselors who introduce them to other real teens whose lives have been forever damaged by the drugs devastating effect on an individual’s potential to do well in school and to function normally as an adult.

Marijuana: Vacancy - The Life of a Pot Smoker   VIDEO
The video’s teen narrators acknowledge that there is still some lingering scientific debate over whether marijuana is truly addictive. But they point out that it shares several characteristics with other substances known to be addictive, including withdrawal symptoms in the absence of the drug, and a tolerance necessitating use of greater amounts to obtain the same effect.

Methamphetmines: Fools Rush In   PAMPHLET
Methamphetamine is the bathtub gin of the drug age -- a viciously addictive and poisonous concoction manufactured in unsanitary labs by uncarinbg and incompetent crinminals. This pamphlet describes the way this powerful and unpredictable psychomotor stimulant affects the user's brain and body, immediately and in the long term.

Methamphetamines: The Hard Facts   VIDEO
In this hard-hitting program, students will learn what methamphetamines are, how they are illegally produced in underground “labs” by drug dealers, and how addictive and deadly they are to those who experiment with the

Michael Johnson's 12-Step Videos  VIDEO
The 12 Steps of Recovery have been the foundation of sobriety since the 1930s. During this video series, Michael Johnson uses humor and candid information to help your client understand and work through the 12 Steps.This video series is an excellent tool to help build acceptance and understanding of the nature of addiction. Johnson also offers strategies for living a life of recovery. 11-video series.

Models of Addiction  VIDEO
Reverend Steve Little explains the different types and stages of addiction. This video helps break through denial.

Motivating Chemically Dependent Adolescents to Recover  AUDIO
this presentation addresses the frustrations many counselors, teachers, and parents experience when trying to enlist the adolescent''s cooperation in treatment. Bell shares a treatment model that involves providing pretreatment programming before enrolling adolescents into early recovery programs.

Narcotics VIDEO
This program presents a profile of narcotics as a class of drugs and then spotlights opium, codeine, morphine, and heroin. Expert commentary is provided by a pharmacist, a nurse, police officers, addiction counselors, a historian, recovering addicts, and others. Together, they discuss the history and biological effects of narcotics, scrutinizing their use, abuse, and hazards through case studies and personal experience.

New Club Drugs: Designed for Death     VIDEO
In the last few years, Ecstasy, GHB and other club drugs have not only inundated the club and party scenes, but have spread quickly to high schools and junior high schools throughout the United States.

The Next Generation  VIDEO
Experts are increasingly focusing on prevention efforts based on community and family. This documentary looks at two of those efforts. One works with parents addicted to heroin by teaching them how to repair the damage to family wrought by drug abuse, and in spite of it, how to raise strong, resilient children. In a second program, vigilant counselors in Dade County schools watch for kids at risk of becoming drug addicts, and offer immediate counseling for those who are already involved with drugs. Nicotine addiction is addressed by a program that provides classes designed to prevent students from smoking, and another that helps them stop if they’ve already begun to smoke. School officials, counselors, and students are interviewed. (57 minutes, color)

Nicotine Addiction VIDEO
Describes how nicotine addiction develops, both emotionally and physiologically.
 

Nicotine: Just Say Know  VIDEO
In this video, high school students teach middle school students about the hidden dangers of nicotine addiction. They will see that habitual nicotine use is not a casual, harmless “habit”, but a serious addiction with deadly consequences.

Normal Adolescent Development   BOOK
Normal Adolescent Development will cover a detailed explanation of the biopsychosocial and cognitive development of adolesence. Age Appropriate development and normal behavior will be explained.

Organ Trail   VIDEO
Sheriff Ben Better has been after the AOD (Alcohol and Other Drugs) Gang for years. This gang, also known as the Body Bandits, has finally overpowered him. Through the bloodstream the gang is following the Organ Trail, robbing the sheriff of his abilities and making him sick. But fear not, the sheriff has help from Deputy Red and the White Blood Cell Posse! As members of this posse, students help Deputy Red keep the sheriff’s body working the way it should. The 12 Body Bandits are all well-known troublemakers: Cole Kaine (cocaine), Al Keyhall (alcohol), Mary Wanda (Marijuana), Nicca Tine (nicotine), Sam Fettamine (amphetamines), Crystal Meth (crystal meth), Rex Tussy (Ecstasy), Sy Kodelic (psychedelics), Harry Owen (heroin), Mark Oddic (narcotics), N. Hal Lentz (inhalants), and Stew Royd (steroids). These desperados each have bad effects on the body and need to be stopped in their tracks!


Orientation for the Medical Staff II  VIDEO
Dr. David Ohlms emphasizes the psychological and genetic aspects of addiction disease, common behaviors, techniques of intervention, successful case management and more.


Overcoming Early Life Trauma - Creating a Second Chance  VIDEO
Dr. Cardwell C. Nuckols addresses why early childhood neglect or abuse is a consistent finding in criminal justice offenders and chronic relapsing alcoholics and addicts.

OxyContin: Abusers Beware    Pamphlet
Like its chemical cousins morphine and heroin, OxyContin is a powerful pain reliever, bringing relief to patients with severe post surgical or cancer pain. Also like those other products derived from the opium poppy, it is profoundly addictive, and the withdrawal symptoms are as agonizing as the pain the drug is intended to control.

Party Drugs   VIDEO
Young people assume that the drug is harmless fun, just as they assumed about cocaine some years ago. Ecstasy users risk death by dehydration, heart failure, or brain swelling. "In the Know: Party Drugs" explains all of these risks to viewers who may believe the hype that Ecstasy is

Party Smart: Avoiding Party Meltdown  VIDEO
This hard-hitting video profiles real kids and real parties that have spiraled out-of-control to teach viewers how to prevent party disasters. Whether it’s throwing a party or attending one, excitement, anticipation, peer pressure and poor planning can often get in the way of a teenager’s ability to make safe, smart decisions. Viewers listen and learn from teens, parents, prom promoters and law enforcement personnel

Party Smart: Avoiding Party Meltdowns  VIDEO
This hard-hitting video profiles real kids and real parties that have spiraled out-of-control to teach viewers how to prevent party disasters. Whether it’s throwing a party or attending one, excitement, anticipation, peer pressure and poor planning can often get in the way of a teenager’s ability to make safe, smart decisions. Viewers listen and learn from teens, parents, prom promoters and law enforcement personnel. The lethal combination of unsupervised parties, alcohol, drugs, and in some cases, weapons, too often results in serious injury, property damage, arrests, and lawsuits. The second half of the program teaches SMART strategies to help teens plan safe celebrations. A SMART strategy is detailed:

PCP and Ketamine VIDEO
This program describes PCP and the veterinary anesthetic ketamine. A police officer, an addiction specialist, an addiction counselor, a veterinarian, and recovering users review the history and biological effects of PCP and ketamine, employing case studies and personal experience to assess their use, abuse, and hazards—including false feelings of invincibility, flashbacks, and even psychosis. One 17-minute video.

The Politics of Addiction  VIDEO
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 at Arizona’s struggle to find an alternative to established drug-related policies. Proposition 200 proposed a reassessment of the status of nonviolent drug addicts now serving time, and emphasized treatment over incarceration. The movement was supported by an alliance from across the political spectrum. On the Washington scene, members of Congress, doctors, and policy activists have joined in a movement with recovering people that is pushing for new public policy. (57 minutes, color)

Portrait of Addiction  VIDEO
In this program nine men and women—all recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction—tell their stories. The recovering addicts run the gamut: a former narcotics agent, now recovering from a cocaine habit; a mother of three who is a marketing specialist; a former addict and founder of Stand-Up Harlem, a community of HIV-positive addicts and recovering addicts; a journalist and former addict who actually served as the researcher for Moyers on the series. This candid testimony from people who have been there leaves no doubt that addiction can happen to anyone and so can recovery. (57 minutes, color)

Prescription Drug Addiction  VIDEO
This video outlines the behavioral signs and symptoms of prescription drug abuse and addiction, including tolerance, withdrawal and rebound. Dr. Ohlms details common forms of prescription drug abuse, including cross drug dependency. He discusses the pitfalls for people in recovery taking prescription and many over-the-counter medications. He offers prevention suggestions for people in recovery who face using mood altering prescription drugs in conjunction with surgery and other illness management.

Prescription for Trouble VIDEO
Taking medicine is engrained in American culture. Is it any surprise then that adolescents are abusing prescription and over-the-counter drugs in record numbers? In this program, recovering teenage addicts come clean about which medications they abused, when and why they started, and how their addictions severely damaged their lives, while frontline experts from schools and the medical community—a substance abuse counselor, a child psychologist, and an adolescent psychiatrist, to name three—fill in the blanks about the effects of America’s medicine mindset. A Discovery Channel Production. (26 minutes, color)

Prescription Drugs     VIDEO
The video's message is that a prescribed drug is only safe when taken by an ill person and only exactly as the doctor recommends.The primary prescription drugs of abuse include the usual suspects, amphetamines, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines, and opioid painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin.

The Price of Ecstasy  VIDEO
In New York City, London, and Miami, club drugs such as ecstasy are as common as beer. This balanced program takes a nonjudgmental look at the pleasures and dangers of party drugs through the eyes of abusers and the medical practitioners and social workers who engage with them. Footage of consenting abusers taking and tripping on ecstasy, ketamine, and GHB gives an objective view of club drug highs, while interviews with doctors, researchers, and addiction counselors outline possible ramifications of substance abuse, including date rape, addiction, and death. Also, a plea for research into clinical applications for ecstasy is made. Contains nudity and mature themes. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)

Problem-Solving Group Therapy  BOOK
This book will show you how to run problem-solving group therapy sessions. It focuses on practical techniques rather than theory.

Preventing Adolescent Relapse BOOK
This pamphlet is written for adolescents who are recovering from alcohol or drug use to help them recognize physical, emotional, and behavioral warning signs of the relapse process. Using the GORSKI-CENAPS Model, Tammy Bell identifies the unique relapse warning signs of adolescents.

Preventing Drug Abuse VIDEO
Recent statistics from the DEA indicate that approximately one in ten children of ages 12 through 17 is currently using illicit drugs. This program investigates the ever-growing demand in the United States for illegal drugs, with a special focus on heroin, crack cocaine, and other substances currently in vogue. The reasons abusers give for turning to drugs are considered, as well as the relative effectiveness of current prevention and intervention efforts. (29 minutes, color)

Psychedelics and Hallucinogens VIDEO
In this program, a pharmacist, an addiction counselor, a police officer, a historian, a pastor, and recovering users provide background on psychedelics and hallucinogens as a class of drugs, and study the history and biological effects of mescaline, psilocybin, LSD, and the designer drug MDMA. Utilizing case studies and personal experience, they explore the uses, abuses, and hazards of these drugs, which can include vivid flashbacks and critical serotonin depletion. One 29-minute video.

Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists   BOOK
Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists explores a range of issues and dilemmas in psychopharmocology practice that emerge especially for social workers, counselors, and psychologists because of their unique roles and perspectives.

Recovery Wars: The Attack of the Relapse Man   BOOK
This comic book is a powerful tool for teaching adolescents how to identify and manage relapse warning signs. It has also proven to be very effective in teaching criminal offenders.

Relapse Prevention Counseling for African Americans :  A Culturally Specific Model    BOOK
This book adapts the CENAPS Model of Recovery and Relapse to the specific cultural needs of African Americans. There are a number of obstacles faced by African Americans that are not experienced by members of the majority culture who seek recovery.

Relapse Prevention Counseling Workbook   BOOK
This workbook presents seven powerful clinical processes that quickly identify and manage high-risk situations causing relapse. Special emphasis is placed on management of irrational thoughts, unmanageable feelings, self-de