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VHS137

Treatment 101
This is the second installment in a seven-part series of Webcasts that will discuss and illuminate key issues related to the 2001 Recovery Month observance. Families and friends of individuals with substance abuse problems suffer greatly. But the good news is that treatment is available and effective. This program will discuss the fundamentals of addiction treatment, look at effective treatment modalities, and present the latest national treatment initiatives. Length: 30 minutes.

VHS138

What Families Can Do To Prevent and Intervene With Alcohol and Drug Problems
This is the third installment in a seven-part series of Webcasts that will discuss and illuminate key issues related to the 2001 Recovery Month observance. How to prevent or intervene with an alcohol or drug problem are difficult concepts for many families to grasp. This session will discuss how families can get beyond their denial to stop a drug or alcohol problem before it starts or to intervene in a loved one's addiction. Length: 57 minutes.

VHS024

Videotape: Door To Recovery Video (Do not duplicate again per NIDA 6/19/97)

VHS040

Videotape: Adolescent Treatment Issues. NIDA Technology Transfer Series
Adolescent Treatment Issues stresses the importance of understanding the specific needs that accompany adolescent development as the key to success in treatment. This understanding begins with accurate assessment and continues with aftercare monitoring. The videotape examines the family's role in treating substance abuse problems among adolescents. Family therapy and other treatment programs are also presented. Clinicians are encouraged to broaden their perspectives in particular topical areas through the user's guide. Length: 25 minutes

VHS039

Videotape: NIDA Technology Transfer Series: Treatment Issues for Women.
Why is it important to identify, understand, and treat the special needs of drug-dependent women? Specific issues, methods, and techniques are presented to help viewers understand the multifaceted dimensions of treating women who use drugs. 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. The user's guide lists resources for clinicians. Length: 22 minutes

VHS038

Videotape: NIDA Technology Transfer Series: Assessment.
What is the assessment process, and why is it so important to understand? This videotape gives an overview of the assessment process and makes clinicians more comfortable conducting assessments and selecting diagnostic tools during their client's treatment. Adult and adolescent tools examined include the Addiction Severity Index; the Problem Oriented Screening Index; and the Personal Experience Inventory. The user's guide gives general information on assessment, as well as information on a host of specific tools. Length: 22 minutes

VHS037

Videotape: NIDA Technology Transfer Series: Relapse Prevention.
Relapse Prevention provides information on the phenomenon of relapse and its often-chronic appearance in the lives of substance abusers. The viewer's guide gives information on the components of relapse prevention. Length: 24 minutes

VHS036

Videotape: OSAP Teleconference: What Works in Communities

VHS035

Videotape: OSAP Teleconference: Part 2 What Works I

CR58

Treatment Works (VHS format)

VHS033

Videotape: McGruff Rock Video

VHS043

Videotape: Mass Media and Health Opportunities for Improving the Nation's Health

VHS022

Videotape: Drug Abuse: Meeting the Challenge

VHS021

Videotape: Drug Abuse and Aids

VHS020

Videotape: Hard Facts About Drugs: Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine and Crack. Speak Up and Speak Out: Learning To Say No to Drugs. Dare To Be Different: Resisting Drug Related Peer Pressure
With two sections, this video dramatizes the devastating effects that alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and crack have on a high school class during the 4 years leading to graduation. The first section, 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, the second section, focuses on the importance of goals and values in resisting pressures to use drugs. A viewer's guide is included. Length: 56 minutes (cc) Audience: Teenagers, grades 10-12

VHS019

Videotape: Straight at Ya
Kirk Cameron, star of the sitcom Growing Pains, talks with students about the pressures 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. Comes with a guide. Length: 44 minutes Audience: Teenagers, grades 7-9

VHS034

Videotape: OSAP Teleconference: Part 1 What Works I

VHS042

Videotape: The Physician Does Make a Difference: Recognizing the Faces of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
The Physician Does Make a Difference was intended for use by a physician educator with some background in substance abuse, or by presentation/training teams composed of a physician educator and a resource person with substance abuse experience. This videotape raises substance abuse awareness; motivates physicians to become involved in recognition and management of substance abuse problems in their patients; and encourages physicians to take an active role in educating their patients and their communities on substance abuse issues. A guide is also available. Length: 42 minutes Audience: Adult

VHS016

Videotape: Fast Forward Future: Drug Abuse Prevention Program for Elementary Schools
In this videotape, actor Richard Kiley, as a mentor, takes three elementary school students on a mysterious trip to the future with the Fast Forward machine. This ingenious contraption allows them to see what will happen if they use drugs and what will happen if they remain drug free. Length: 61 minutes Audience: Children, grades 4-6

VHS044

Videotape: America in Jeopardy: The Young Employee in the Workplace
America in Jeopardy contains interviews with recovering drug users. It warns viewers that taking drugs is a dead end, and mixing drugs with work is a very big mistake. The host explains how drugs affect the body and mind, and encourages viewers to get help for themselves if they have a substance abuse problem, or to talk to someone else if they think a coworker is having a problem with drugs. Trainer and participant manuals are available. Length: 20 minutes Available in Spanish also.

VHS045

Videotape: Main Line

VHS046

Videotape: Straight Talk
This documentary profiles four ordinary real-life teenagers from inner-city neighborhoods-three who have chosen not to use alcohol and other drugs, and one who is a recovering alcoholic and drug user. Their real-life experiences demonstrate the value of setting goals, developing talents, and staying in school. A discussion and activity guide is included. Length: 30 minutes Audience: Middle school students

VHS047

Videotape: If You Change Your Mind
If You Change Your Mind was produced entirely by middle school students, for other school children. The video presents a unique perspective on drug use and its effects through the eyes of these children. In conjunction with the teacher's packet, (PHD621), this videotape is a teaching tool to help youth learn about the consequences of drug use. Length: 31 minutes Audience: Middle school students

VHS048

Videotape: Get High, Get Stupid, Get AIDS PSA

VHS049

Videotape: Remotely Science Documentary
Produced by eighth grade students, Remotely Science shows students that science is fun. It contains strong messages to discourage drug use while also encouraging interest in science, particularly among girls and minorities. Length: 22 minutes Audience: Elementary school students

VHS054

Videotape: Using the Addiction Severity Index to Assess Client Needs and Treatment Planning Part 1

VHS055

Videotape: Using the Addiction Severity Index to Assess Client Needs and Treatment Planning Part 2

VHS056

Videotape: Right Turns Only!
The video is divided into seven 20-minute segments that focus on a group of racially and ethnically diverse students who work together to produce a video about the causes and consequences of drug use. A viewer's guide is available. Audience: Young adolescents Length: 51 minutes (cc)

VHS057

Videotape: Drug Abuse and the Brain
Intended primarily for drug abuse counselors, this videotape provides a detailed look at the biological basis off drug addiction. Through animation and interviews with experts in the field, 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. A viewers guide is available. Length: 26 minutes

VHS058

Videotape: Dual Diagnosis
Experts believe that between one-third and one-half of all addicts suffer from serious psychiatric disorders. This videotape focuses on the problem of mental illness in drug-abusing and drug-addicted populations and examines various approaches useful for treating dually diagnosed clients. Comes with a viewer's guide. Length: 27 minutes

VHS059

Videotape: Methadone: Where We Are
This videotape examines the use and effectiveness of methadone as a treatment; the biological effects of methadone; the role of the counselor in treatment; and societal attitudes and stigmas regarding methadone treatment and methadone patients. Includes a viewer's guide. Length: 33 minutes

VHS041

Videotape: Think About it. Be Smart Don't Start!
Think About It combines material drawn from two existing videos: CSAP's Be Smart! Stay Smart! Don't Start! music video and Straight Up!, produced by KCET Television in Los Angeles. Material from both videotapes was edited and combined with newly created interactive segments in which young moderators provide opportunities for discussion of the important issues presented. This videotape concludes by prompting youth to consider how this information applies to their personal situations. Length: 13 minutes Audience: Middle school students

VHS003

Videotape: Getting Help: Employee Version
Getting Help highlights employee assistance programs (EAP's) and the benefits of these programs to employees and employers through comments by business, labor, and government leaders and EAP professionals; presentation of three model programs; and EAP client interviews. The employee version of Getting Help differs from the employer version by the addition of more employee assistance program client interviews and by fewer industry, labor, and government leader comments. A facilitator's guide is also available. Length: 23 minutes

VHS018

Videotape: Straight Up
Academy award-winning actor Lou Gossett, Jr., as Cosmo, takes a boy named Ben on a journey on the fate elevator in Straight Up. Ben's travels teach him valuable lessons about why drugs are harmful and how to refuse them. A viewer's guide is also available. Length: 90 minutes- six 15 minute episodes (cc) Audience: Children, grades 4-6

RP0865

VHS46 Straight Talk: Discussion and Activity Guide

RADKIT97

Race Against Drugs Instructional Kit with video, facilitator's guide, action book, button, lapel pin, and posters - send one per teacher, principal, etc.

VHS005

Videotape: Drug Testing: Employee Version
Drug Testing describes the options available for designing a drug testing component as part of a comprehensive drug-free workplace program. Demonstrations of specimen collection and laboratory analysis procedures are presented, giving special attention to the needs of both employer and employee in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of test results. A facilitator's guide is available. Length: 22 minutes

VHS004G

Videoguide: Getting Help: Employer Version

VHS006

Videotape: Drug Testing: Employer Version
This videotape describes the options available for designing a drug testing component as part of a comprehensive drug-free workplace program. Demonstrations of specimen collection and laboratory analysis procedures are presented, giving special attention to the needs of both employer and employee in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of test results. Comes with facilitator's guide. Length: 22 minutes

VHS003G

Videoguide: Getting Help: Employee Version

VHS006G

Videoguide: Drug Testing: Employer Version

VHS002G

Videoguide: Drugs at Work: Employer Version

VHS002

Videotape: Drugs at Work: Employer Version
This videotape presents information about the nature and scope of substance abuse problems in the workplace and about the Federal Government's initiative to prevent and reduce the problem. Drugs at Work stresses the importance of the four components of an effective workplace program: education, an employee assistance program, supervisor training, and drug testing. A facilitator's guide is included. Length: 23 minutes

VHS001G

Videoguide: Drugs at Work: Employee Version

VHS001

Videotape: Drugs at Work: Employee Version
The employee version of Drugs at Work differs from the employer version only by the addition of comments by the employees of a private corportaion, offering their perception of an employee assistance program policy and program. A facilitator's guide is available. Length: 23 minutes

PE01

The Performance Edge Video

HBOKIT

HBO Community Action Kit with video of synopsis of the three Faces of Addiction programs.
Designed by Home Box Office and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this community action package helps communities address substance abuse problems. The package includes a videocassette composite of Faces of Addiction, the three-part HBO special on substance abuse; a brochure; 2 posters; a viewing guide; a newsletter; and a media handbook.

VHS004

Videotape: Getting Help: Employer Version
Getting Help highlights employee assistance programs (EAP's) and the benefits of these programs to employees and employers through comments by business, labor, and government leaders and EAP professionals; presentation of three model programs; and EAP client interviews. The employer version of the video describes the elements of a successful EAP program regardless of the number of employees or the nature of the work. A facilitator's guide is included. Length: 24 minutes

VHS103

Videotape: 27th and Prospect: One Year in the Fight Against Drugs (3rd program in the HBO Faces of Addiction series)
This documentary presents the year-long struggle of a Kansas City community's fight against drugs. It consists of personal interviews of people who have lost family members to drugs and drug-related violence, statistics, and the neighborhood residents' efforts to get drugs, and the problems it brings, out of their community. Length: 52 minutes

VHS062

Videotape: Prevention Story: Programs That Make a Difference
The task of developing sound communications/prevention materials can be overwhelming. Often the job is approached without the needed planning and strategy development. The Prevention Story highlights the first three stages of health communications process planning and strategy selection, tips on selecting channels and materials, and methods for developing and pretesting messages. This fast-paced videotape uses engaging graphics, colorful footage, and interviews to help program planners understand how to develop messages and materials to integrate communications into their overall prevention efforts. Positive examples of successful communications projects that were funded or supported by CSAP are featured. Length: 18 minutes

VHS015

Videotape: Lookin' Good
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. The video is based on actual events involving substance abuse. Comes with a guide. Length: 58 minutes Audience: Teenagers, grades 7-9

VHS014

Videotape: Private Victories
These four video dramas emphasize that young people can achieve private victories by caring about themselves to reject drugs. Private Victories shows how deciding to avoid drugs can influence friends to do the same. A guide is also available. Length: 116 minutes-four 29 minute episodes. (cc) Audience: Teenagers, grades 10-12

VHS013

Videotape: Downfall: Drugs and Sports
Downfall 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. A guide is available. Length: 30 minutes Audience: Teenagers, grades 7-12

VHS012

Videotape: Be Smart! Don't Start! Music Video, Pub

VHS005G

Videoguide: Drug Testing: Employee Version

VHS104

Videotape: Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part I. HHS Secretary's Initiative: New Goals, New Resources. Teleconference on October 22, 1997
From the October 22, 1997 teleconference, this video is the first SAMHSA/CSAP broadcast to help "kick off" the HHS Secretary's Youth Substance Abuse Initiative. A live panel of experts from States and communities discuss the latest in the science and practice of youth substance abuse prevention. Model programs that use collaborative, public-private partnerships for prevention are highlighted. Length: 117 minutes

VHS017

Videotape: Drug Avengers: Drug Education Adventure for Grades 1-6
In this videotape, 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. Comes with a guide. Length: 73 minutes Audience: Children, grades 1-6

VHS102

Videotape: Public Service Announcements from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (includes total of 32 PSA's, 27 video and 5 audio)

VHS101

Videotape: Walls that Speak (in English and Spanish, 29 min.)
This video documents a mural painting project in Santa Cruz County, CA, that used ethnic cultural expression as a substance abuse prevention strategy. This activity brought more than 300 Hispanic/Latino youth and adults together to create three murals that counter negative pro-drug and alcohol messages. The Community Partnership Mural Project illustrates key strategies that can be implemented into substance abuse prevention efforts. These include (1) community involvement and the empowerment of young people, (2) fostering pro-social bonding between young people and their community, (3) utilizing mass media and marketing strategies to convey a positive pro-community message, and (4) mobilizing strengths of traditional cultures through ethnic-speciffic images, languages, and ideas. A video guide, included on the inside cover of the tape case, provides a step-by-step process for groups interested in replicating the Prevention Mural Series in their own communities. Length: 15 minutes Available in English and Spanish.

VHS010

Videotape: Partnership For a Drug-Free America Television PSA's

VHS009

Videotape: Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

VHS008

Videotape: President Bush's Message to School Child

VHS007

Videotape: Finding the Solution
Drug use in the workplace is portrayed as a community wide problem. Finding the Solutions emphasizes the need to deliver accurate and credible information to the workforce, promote workplace peer involvement, and build community partnerships. The video explores alternative approaches, such as stress reduction and attitudinal behavior change, as tools for achieving personal wellness, as well as reducing drug use in the workplace. Finding the Solutions comes with a facilitator's guide. Length: 19 minutes

VHS105

Videotape: Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part III. Building Healthy Communities: Partnerships and Collaborations
This video from a March 10, 1998 teleconference focuses on partnerships and comprehensive prevention strategies for States and communities. Part III emphasizes the vital roles that parents, schools, businesses, law enforcement, and juvenile justice partnerships, faith communities, local anti-drug coalitions, and State and local governments play in preventing youth substance abuse. Length: 115 minutes

VHS112

Videotape: Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part II, Building Healthy Youth: Strategies and Services
Part II of this series helps to identify useful tools and models for helping to keep youth away from alcohol and drugs. The video promotes the use of science-based prevention programs for youth and provides specific examples of effective programs for youth. A panel of experts discusses the strategies they have used. Length: 112 Minutes

VHS060

Videotape: NCADI at Work
What goes on behind the doors of SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)? This videotape shows the faces and services of the Federal Government's national clearinghouse for information about substance abuse. NCADI at Work is ideal for use in conferences and workshops to alert anyone who is interested in prevention to this national resource for materials, statistics, reference checking, and other information services. Length: 13 minutes

VHS094

Videotape: Gathering the Circle
This videotape spotlights nine prevention programs designed specifically for Native American and Alaska Native populations. The prevention strategies focus on the role of elders, rediscovery of traditional ways, self-determination, and the role of tribal communities. Gathering the Circle is the CSAP Native American and Alaska Native Grantee Conference, a forum that encourages prevention professionals to share ideas for addressing substance abuse among Native peoples. Length: 24 minutes

VHS095

Videotape: My Wings Grow Powerful: DARE To Be You
The DARE To Be You preschool parent education program and curriculum are profiled in this videotape. DARE To Be You targets parents and caregivers of children ages 2-5, from various cultural backgrounds. The program's four key factors are discussed: a nurturing environment, building on the positive, personal discovery and role modeling and the four building blocks of the curriculum-Decisionmaking, Assertiveness, Responsibility, and Esteem. Length: 21 minutes

VHS096

Videotape: Nasau BOCES: Project Support
Nassau BOCES introduces Project Support, a 5-year program intended to determine whether mentoring intervention can reduce the dropout and substance abuse rates of Long Island middle school students. The intervention pairs teachers with students, in an attempt to give the child a "friend" sho can steer the student in the right direction. In the 5 years that the program has run, both students and mentors have learned a great deal and the program has helped students stay away from drugs and remain on the road to a promising future. Length: 35 minutes

VHS097

Videotape: Opening Doors: Techniques for Talking with Southeast Asian Clients about Alcohol and Other Drug Issues
Opening Doors demonstrates assessment and early intervention methods for human service providers who work with Southeast Asian clients. The providers are encouraged to become more active in the early indentification, referral, and intervention of substance abuse problems. This video also explores the unique aspects of substance abuse problems within Southeast Asian communities. Two interviews are conducted in Vietnamese, and two in Khmer (with English subtitles). Question and answer sessions and teaching points follow each interview. Length: 60 minutes

VHS098

Videotape: Saying Goodnight to the Sun
This culturally specific videotape profiles the Rural Providers Conference, a gathering geared toward substance abuse prevention and intervention strategies for the Alaska Natives population. Viewers are shown conference activities that stress the importance of "creative power" enabling the Alaskan Native community to clarify their vision to live alcohol and drug free lives, commit to carry forth the vision, and develop values that are consistent with their commitment and vision. Length: 30 minutes

VHS099

Videotape: Addicted - First HBO Program in the series "Faces of Addiction"
Addicted presents firsthand accounts of how chemical addictions have devastated many lives, and in some cases, cause irreversible outcomes. The videotape consists of interviews with recovering addicts throughout the country, detailing what their previous drug-related habits were, how drugs disrupted their lives, and the respective interventions that occurred to help address their situations. This videotape contains adult language. Please preview before showing to young audiences. Length: 59 minutes

VHS106

Videotape: Teens Taking Action Introduction explaining the Synar inspection process
This video is intended to be used to train teen inspectors on how to conduct tobacco sale compliance checks. The materials were developed as resources for State and local agencies who are responsible for monitoring sales to minors, as mandated by the Synar Regulation. In addition, Federal agencies, local tobacco enforcement officials, and researchers may find these materials useful in preparing staff for tobacco outlet inspections. The trainer's manual outlines a sample training day and discusses issues such as safety and data recording.

VHS107

Videotape: Teens Taking Action! A Guide to Conducting Tobacco Compliance Checks. Consummated version
This video is intended to be used to train teen inspectors on how to conduct tobacco sale compliance checks. The materials were developed as resources for State and local agencies who are responsible for monitoring sales to minors, as mandated by the Synar Regulation. In addition, Federal agencies, local tobacco enforcement officials, and researchers may find these materials useful in preparing staff for tobacco outlet inspections. The trainer's manual outlines a sample training day and discusses issues such as safety and data recording.

VHS108

Videotape: Teens Taking Action! A Guide to Conducting Tobacco Compliance Checks. Unconsummated version
This video is intended to be used to train teen inspectors on how to conduct tobacco sale compliance checks. The materials were developed as resources for State and local agencies who are responsible for monitoring sales to minors, as mandated by the Synar Regulation. In addition, Federal agencies, local tobacco enforcement officials, and researchers may find these materials useful in preparing staff for tobacco outlet inspections. The trainer's manual outlines a sample training day and discusses issues such as safety and data recording.

GPVHS

Dominique Dawes video Girl Power! PSA's in VHS format

VHS109

Videotape: The Great Disconnect
This video uses computer-generated graphics to show the dramatic changes in brain function in drug abusers and addicts. Bridging the Great Disconnect compares what we think we know about drug addiction and what science actually tells us. The video comes with a viewer's guide, which provides further information. Length: 10 Minutes

VHS110

Videotape: Educate: Creating Inhalant Abuse Awareness Together
Did you know that 1 out of 5 adolescents has used inhalants? Educate offers personal accounts from parents whose children have been affected by inhalant abuse. Teenagers also relay their experiences with "huffing." The video examines the consequences of sniffing inhalants, the reasons children huff, and what to do if you know someone who uses. Length: 14 Minutes Audience: Parents

VHS092

Videotape: Lifelines: To Healthy Babies
Lifelines presents the dramatized stories of three low-income women of different ethnic backgrounds who were faced with choices to make about cigarettes, alcohol, and other drug use during pregnancy. The video emphasizes making positive lifestyle choices during pregnancy and urges women to seek help if they have an alcohol or drug problem. Audience: Pregnant adolescents and women Length: 16 minutes

VHS118

Videotape: Parenting is Prevention, Part 2 Building Healthy Families
This video explains the influence parents can have on their children and the decisions they make. In the video, children discuss their experiences with alcohol and drugs and their concerns. Parents are given recommendations for improving communication between parents and youth and providing clear, strong prevention messages.

VHS136

The Road to Recovery
This is the first installment in a seven-part series of Webcasts that will discuss and illuminate key issues related to the 2001 Recovery Month observance (September 2001). The program includes on-camera appearances from Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) director, Dr. H. Westley Clark, and Recovery Month partners from around the country. Length: 28 minutes

VHS100

Sacred Trust: Protect Your Baby Against Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Sacred Trust adresses Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) among Native American and Alaska Native women and promotes an alcohol-free lifestyle during pregnancy. Individuals from various nations are shown giving no-use messages: the mother of a child born with FAS, a parent and foster parent of FAS/FAE children who discuss the children's physical and behavioral problems, a tribal elder who discusses the cultural belief that women possess a sacred trust as life givers, and a health educator who offers strategies to help women avoid drinking. Native American men are encouraged by one of their own to support a woman's decision not to drink alcohol during her pregnancy. Length: 14 minutes

VHS122

Videotape: Environmental Prevention Strategies Putting Theory into Practice
This videotape and accompanying 116 page guide are intended to raise the general level of knowledge about environmental prevention strategies in youth drug abuse prevention. Included in the facilitator's guide are copies of graphics used in the tape, resources for further research and discussion, four in-depth papers discussing environmental prevention strategies, and a diskette containing electronic copies of the resources and two of the papers.

VHS121

Videotape: Parenting is Prevention Part IV of IV Building Health Communities September 8, 1999
This video explores the role of parents in creating safer environments for prevention to benefit all young people. By joining together with other parents and concerned community members, parents can influence the norms, values, regulations, and policies that support healthy lives. This program features experts who work in community environments (e.g., workplace-, school-, recreation-, and faith-based programs), as well as parent activists who have banded together to build healthier and safer communities. Target audiences include community coalitions, teachers, substance abuse prevention providers, school prevention coordinators, administrators, psychologists and social workers, youth services workers, the faith community, parent organizations and networks, employee support personnel, and officials at the Federal, State, and local levels.

VHS120

Videotape: Parenting is Prevention Part III of IV Building on the Past for a Health Future. July 21, 1999
Provides a unique look at how families and prevention have evolved since World War II. This retrospective will examine the lessons we have learned and provide a broader, more informed perspective on prevention. The information presented will help guide us toward healthier families and more effective prevention in the new millennium. This broadcast features experts with many years of prevention experience who will share creative ideas about the future of prevention. Target audiences include prevention practitioners, educators, community coalitions, parent resource organizations and networks, and officials at the Federal, State, and local levels.

DD110

Videotape: Treatment Solutions - NIDA Video (long version 19mins)
Treatment Solutions describes the latest developments in drug abuse treatment research. The video explains that drug addiction is a treatable disease when state-of-the-art approaches are taken. The video comes with a viewer's guide, which discusses the nature of addiction, medications for treatment, and changing an addicted person's behavior.

VHS119

Videotape: Race Against Drugs Promotional Tape

DD111

Videotape: Treatment Solutions- NIDA Video (short version 10mins)
Treatment Solutions describes the latest developments in drug abuse treatment research. The video explains that drug addiction is a treatable disease when state-of-the-art approaches are taken. The video comes with a viewer's guide, which discusses the nature of addiction, medications for treatment, and changing an addicted person's behavior.

VHS117

Videotape: Parenting is Prevention, Part 1 Building Healthy Families
No one influences children more than their parents or caregivers. This video stresses the importance of parental involvement in their children's lives for preventing alcohol and drug use. Part I of this series outlines some of the factors for preventing youth substance use and then describes some of the key parenting practices that can have a preventive effect.

VHS116

Videotape: Keeping your Kids Alcohol and Drugs Free, What can Parents Do.

VHS115

Videotape: Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part VI, Media and Culture: Empowering Youth for Prevention
Youth are often influenced by the powerful messages found on television programs, and in movies, advertising, and music. These messages often relate to substance abuse and other risky behaviors; however, media can also convey positive, healthy messages. This video presents an overview of some of the research done on the effects of media on youth. Length: 120 minutes

VHS114

Videotape: Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part V, Social Problems & Substance Abuse: Organizing for Effective Solutions
Research has shown that violence, AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, youth crime, and substance abuse are interrelated. This video explores these issues and looks at the strategies some communities have used to prevent social problems. Length: 120 minutes

VHS113

Videotape: Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part IV, Parents: The First Line of Defense in Prevention
In this videotaped teleconference, key scientific findings to help parents prevent substance abuse in their chidren are discussed. The video examines various risk and protective factors, including parental substance abuse, family management practices, and family bonding. Part IV also stresses the importance of parent-child communication and suggests ways for parents to encourage discussion of substance abuse with their children. Length: 116 minutes

VHS091

Videotape: Understanding A Need...Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention for People with Disabilities (includes Presenter's Guide and Handout)
Understanding a Need provides an initial glimpse into alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention and disability. The presenter's guide that accompanies the video discusses the risk factors, points for discussion and ideas for brainstorming, prevention strategies, and additional resources for more information. Length: 15 minutes (cc)

VHS125

Keeping Kids Drug Free, Effective Prevention Programs

VHS078

Videotape: Prevention Works! An Overview
This video is a six-minute overview of VHS77. This documentary videotape illustrates what substance abuse prevention is, what makes it most effective, and how it is being put to work by organizations nationwide.

VHS063

Videotape: CSAP Communication Grantee's: Breaking New Ground
This videotape features the products developed by CSAP grantees under the CSAP Communications Cooperative Agreement Awards. Each of the grantees used health communications strategies and techniques to develop culturally appropriate substance abuse prevention materials for specific audiences. CSAP Communications Grantees shows how these ground-breaking and award-winning products are being applied, for example, with parents, Hispanic youth, Zuni and Cheyenne Indians, Cambodian refugees, youth in high-risk environments in rural areas, African-American youth, and inner-city youth. Some of the products featured include a nationally televised PBS program for parents, a videotape series with discussion guides, posters, local television shows, and public service announcements. Length: 34 Minutes

VHS064

Videotape: Everybody's Business: Drug Free Schools and Communities

VHS065

Videotape: Poor Jennifer. She's Always Losing Her Hat
Growing up in a family in which a parent suffers from alcoholism can be difficult. This videotape explores the need to help children break the cycle of shame and silence. It is also about recovery and hope. Produced by the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA), Poor Jennifer is designed to educate adults about the issues faced by children of alcoholics, and to encourage them to respond appropriately to their special needs. Adults in community meetings, teachers and other school staff in in-service settings, and other concerned professionals who work with children and adolescents will find the video especially useful. A viewer's guide is included. Length: 34 minutes

VHS066

Videotape: Coming Together on Prevention
Coming Together presents three prevention models based on NIDA-sponsored research. "Reconnecting Youth" is a school-based program aimed at high-risk high school students. "Strengthening Families" provides parenting skills to substance-abusing parents and drug resistance skills to their children. "Project STAR" is a multifaceted community-based prevention program that uses schools, parents, media, community, and public policy to prevent drug abuse among youth. Length: 27 minutes

VHS067

Videotape: Main Line Spanish Language Version

VHS068

Videotape: America in Jeopardy- Spanish Version
This fast-moving videotape contains interviews with recovering drug users. It warns viewers that taking drugs is a dead end, and mixing drugs with work is a very big mistake. The host explains how drugs affect the body and mind, and encourages viewers to get help for themselves if they have a substance abuse problem or to talk to someone else if they think a co-worker is having a problem with drugs. Trainer and participant manuals are available.

VHS069

Videotape: Florida's Challenge: A Guide to Educating Substance-Exposed Children
Substance-exposed children may need help to function in a traditional school classroom. Florida's Challenge addresses the medical aspects, home and community environment, school and classroom environment, and behaviors and interventions. This videotape comes with a participant's manual. Length: 17 minutes (cc)

VHS070

Videotape: Brainstorm: The Truth About Your Brain on Drugs

VHS071

Videotape: Risk and Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected by Substance Abuse
In recent years teachers have reported an incresing number of children who display troubling behaviors and learning problems that they suspect may be related to the effects of substance abuse-either prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs or the consequences of living in families and communities where substance abuse is common. These materials (a 30-minute videotape, a teacher's guide, and a research review) draw upon research and service demonstration programs to identify specific techniques and interventions that can help teachers effectively work with these children. Specific techniques described include: creating a nurturing classroom; encouraging cooperative play; minimizing distractions and facilitating transitions; helping children manage their behavior; conducting ongoing assessment; and building strong links with families. Length: 30 minutes

VHS072

Videotape: Drug Abuse Treatment in Prison: A New Way Out
Drug Abuse Treatment in Prison describes two prison-based drug abuse treatment programs-one Therapeutic Community and one Drug Education model. It focuses on the effects on inmates and prison personnel and stresses the importance on continuity of care from prison to community. Length: 23 minutes

VHS073

Videotape: LAAM: Another Treatment Option for Opiate Addiction
Levo-alpha-acetylmethadol (LAAM) can be used to meet the opiate treatment needs of individual clients from the provider and patient perspective, as shown in this video. It also compares and contrasts LAAM with methadone. A viewer's guide is available. Length: 15 minutes

VHS074

Videotape: Drug Abuse and HIV: Reaching Those at Risk
This video shows how three intervention models educate out-of-treatment injection drug users about AIDS, the behaviors that transmit the disease, and strategies that reduce the risk of contracting AIDS. Indigenous leader community outreach is the primary focus. Length: 17 minutes

VHS075

Videotape: Mothers and Babies: Perinatal Drug Exposure

VHS093

Videotape: Prevention Story: Programs That Make a Difference, Part II
The Prevention Story Part II picks up where Part I left off, by highlighting the next three stages of the health communications process to design prevention messages and materials. The stages covered in this videotape include: implementing the program, evaluating the program, and using feedback to refine the program. Examples of successful commuications projects funded or supported by CSAP are featured. Length: 16 minutes

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Videotape: Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by Alcohol and Other Drugs, Part 2
This videotape is a teleconference focus on ensuring that substance-exposed children get the same opportunities to succeed as other children. Panels of experts-educators, administrators, doctors, and social workers- in Florida, Oregon, Illinois, and Washington, DC, discuss ways to discover the uniqueness of substance-exposed children and unlock their potential. Nation's Challenge also discusses the responsibilities of the schools, school districts, and teachers. Length: 65 minutes

VHS090

Videotape: Prevention Works!: A Case Study of Alternative Programs
An alternative program, "Rope Not Dope," has provided some inner-city girls with an alternative to using drugs. The program trains girls in the skill of Double Dutch jump rope. A team featured in the video has won the national championship. One girl on the team holds the record for the fastest jumps. As a result of her experiences with the program, she graduated high school at the age of 16 and is attending college. This video examines the important factors found in programs that succeed in giving young people an alternative to drug abuse. Length: 7 minutes Audience: Community service groups and educators for grades 5 through 12.

VHS089

Videotape: Learning the Ropes of Competitive Double Dutch: The American Double Dutch League
Learning the Ropes introduces the fast-paced sport of competitive Double Dutch jump roping. The videotape follows the journey of a young girl (Xiamara) and Stan's Pepper Steppers as they battle to become the best of the American Double Dutch League. The story aims to exalt Double Dutch as a competitive sport and a means of keeping children off the streets and away from drugs. Length: 20 minutes Audience: Junior high school students

VHS088

Videotape: Prevention Works! - Workplace version

VHS087

Videotape: And Down Will Come Baby (cc)
Over 375,000 newborn babies have been exposed to drugs in utero. The film promotes zero tolerance for alcohol, tobacco, and drugs for all pregnant women. And Down Will Come Baby… promotes an awareness of the problem among teenagers who are at risk for both unplanned pregnancy and substance abuse. The video concludes with a reflection from adolescents on what parenting is all about, how it begins in the womb, and the responsibilities of the mother and father. There is an accompanying teacher's guide to encourage discussion of the film. Length: 16 minutes Audience: High school students

VHS086

Videotape: Olympic Spirit: Building Resiliency in Youth
This video is designed to provide teachers of K-12 with a creative and engaging approach to supplementing classroom drug and violence prevention lessons. Themes for this project are drawn from the Olympic Games, as well as the Paralympic Games and Special Olympics World Games. Olympic Spirit centers around the Olympic ideals of cooperation and teamwork, citizenship, fair play, and goal setting. A teacher's guide is included. Length: 16 minutes Audience: K-12 school students

VHS076

Videotape: Teaching Children Affected by Substance Abuse

VHS084

Videotape: Stop the Sale: Prevent the Addiction Video and Guide

VHS077

Videotape: Prevention Works! How To Make it Work In Your Community
This documentary videotape illustrates what substance abuse prevention is, what makes it most effective, and how it is being put to work by organizations nationwide. Length: 42 minutes

VHS083A

Videotape: Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by Alcohol and Other Drugs, Part 1
This videotape is a teleconference foucus on ensuring that substance-exposed children get the same opportunities to succeed as other children. Panels of experts-educators, administrators, doctors, and social workers-in Florida, Oregon, Illinois, and Washington, DC, discuss ways to discover the uniqueness of substance-exposed children and unlock their potential. Nation's Challenge also discusses the responsibilities of the schools, school districts, and teachers. Length: 52 minutes

VHS082

Videotape: Marijuana: What Can a Parent Do?
Specifically designed for parents, educators, and drug abuse prevention leaders, this videotape presents science-based facts to educate families and the community about the resurgence in marijuana use among youth. Through the experience of real parents and teens, Marijuana: What Can Parents Do? stresses the importance of opening a dialogue between parents and children and encourages parents to communicate a strong prevention message to their children. Length: 14 minutes

VHS081

Videotape: Everybody's Business 2: Building Bridges
Building Bridges is a low-cost staff development package that offers proven strategies for implementing risk-focused prevention in schools and communities. The videos outline current research into the prevention of health and behavior problems among young people, then supplies positive workable strategies to implement peer helper, service learning, and adult mentor opportunities. A facilitator's guide, participant's manual, and resource guide are included with the videotapes. Session titles are: Session One: Bridges to Belonging Session Two: Bridges to Health Behaviors Session Three: Bridges to the Community Session Four: Bridges to Learning Length: more than 4.5 hours total, on 4 tapes. Audience: Adults and teachers who work with youth grades 5-12.

VHS080

Videotape: Classroom Connections: Making a Difference
Middle school educators will find Classroom Connections helpful in building resilience skills in students. The video gives a brief overview of children of alcoholics and the concept of resilience, and then provides five exercises: "How much do you know about alcohol and alcoholism," "Express yourself," "Amoeba tag," "What are they really saying," and "Asking for help." Length: 24 Minutes

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Videotape: Changing Channels, Alcohol Prevention Packet for Grades 6,7,8
In this videotape, five teenagers are pressured to go to a party to drink. An unusual television experience helps them rethink their own assumptions and attitudes about alcohol. As they "channel surf", they see key parts of several stories (a teen drama, game show, police story, and others) with different messages about alcohol. Length: 23 minutes

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Videotape: El NCADI En accion: recursos preventivos para la comunided hispana
What goes on behind the doors of SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)? This videotape shows the faces and services of the Federal Government's national clearinghouse for information about substance abuse. NCADI at Work is ideal for use in conferences and workshops to alert anyone who is interested in prevention to this national resource for materials, statistics, reference checking, and other information services. Spanish Version

VHS085

Videotape: Everybody's Business 2: Facilitator's Guide