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- Addiction: a Comprehensive View (streaming, Films on Demand) Made up of several concise segments, this program deals with a wide range of drugs, addiction issues, and case studies. Viewers will enter a chaotic Dallas ER, where the majority of injuries are drug- and alcohol-related, and meet a desperate middle-aged woman who finally turns in her heroin-addicted daughter to police.
- Meth in the City (streaming, Academic Video Online) Methamphetamine (better known as “meth”) is a drug that has traditionally been associated with rural areas in the United States. However, recent law enforcement initiatives restricting the sales of Sudafed®—which contains pseudoephedrine, a common ingredient used to make methamphetamine—have put small meth labs out of business. This restriction has unintentionally created an opportunity for Mexican cartels to send meth into urban areas of the U.S.
- The Meth Epidemic (dvd) FRONTLINE, in association with The Oregonian, investigates the ongoing meth problem in America: the devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities, and the state-by-state battles to make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug, a strategy that's led to significant improvement in Oregon.
- Chasing Heroin (streaming, Academic Video Online) Facing a heroin epidemic, America is experimenting with radical new approaches to the drug problem.
- NOVA: Addiction (streaming, Academic Video Online) NOVA: Addiction. Hear firsthand from individuals struggling with addiction and follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they investigate why addiction is not a moral failing, but a chronic, treatable medical condition. Easy access to drugs like heroin, fentanyl, and even prescription medications like OxyContin has fueled an epidemic of addiction - the deadliest in US history. Now, science is revealing how addiction affects the brain, and top experts are gathering evidence about how we should address our drug problem, from embracing evidence-based treatments, to rethinking public policies.
- Understanding the Opioid Epidemic (streaming, Academic Video Online) Understanding the Opioid Epidemic traces the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the devastating impact these drugs are having in virtually every part of America.
- Heroin's Promise (streaming, Academic Video Online) This documentary, produced by American Multimedia, is about heroin use in adolescents.
- Addicted teens. Molly / MDMA / ecstasy (streaming, Academic Video Online) Ecstasy, also called "Molly," is a stimulant (man-made) club drug often abbreviated as MDMA that has hallucinogenic properties. MDMA works by providing a rush of Serotonin and Norepinephrine, two neurotransmitters that signal feelings of pleasure and happiness. Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among teens today. It has become an embracive "marketing" term for drug dealers selling "Ecstasy-type" drugs that may, contain very little or no MDMA at all.
- Addicted teens. Drug addiction (streaming, Academic Video Online) One bad decision could take a teen 20 years to get out of. Addicts tell their stories of abuse, recovery & how they turned their lives around. Drugs do not make you a bad person, but they can destroy you. No one starts taking drugs with a fundamental desire to be a failure or throw away the best years of their life.
- Prescription For Addiction (streaming, Academic Video Online) December 10, 2007, - Prometa is touted as a new treatment for addictions, especially to meth, but some doctors say its claims are unverified, even though addicts and other doctors say it works. Scott Pelley reports.
- The Anonymous people (streaming, Kanopy) he Anonymous people is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma and mass participation in widely successful anonymous 12-step groups have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades.
- Reefer Madness (dvd) Included on Assasin of Youth/Reefer Madness/The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Schlock Hysteria: Vol. 10: Disc 2).
