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Chasing the Dragon: Heroin Addiction: Delbert Boone talks open and candidly with a group of recovering heroin addicts about the issues surrounding heroin use, how it affects them mentally, emotionally and physically. Speaking from personal experiences, Boone explains why people use heroin, and the places the drug takes them - like emergency rooms, hospitals, courtrooms, prison and the morgue.

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

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 Human Physiology :
Cocaine addicts are not aware of the serious damage that they are doing to their internal organs during addiction. The damage done is sometimes irreversible or fatal. This video demonstrates the various damages that cocaine does to the body. The damage is explained in detail by doctors in field. This video will increase the helping professionals awareness of this damage and it can be used a prevention aid.

Cocaine: The Power & The Story: Four twenty minute presentations designed to be used in treatment. Each tape contains segments showing a group of recovering cocaine addicts discussing their addictions and recovery along with lecture presentations by Nuckols.

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.


Heroin: A Video Documentary
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A documentary about the struggle with addiction. This video weaves the story of the addict, Greg Belosic, together with commentary by internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Ron Leifer. In this powerful documentary we see Greg struggle with addiction from the inside and gain insight from Dr. Leifer on methods to overcome addiction to face the pain of life from the outside. This video deals with the reality of addiction.

Heroin & Other Opiates
The paraphernalia of cocaine freebasing, plus the need to come down from cocaine highs has made heroin more acceptable among middle and upper class drug users. Dr. David Ohlms also discusses opiate derivatives and synthetic pain killing compounds like Darvon, Talwin and other prescription and non-prescription opiates.

Upside Down
DOCUMENTARY

A documentary about people living with addiction and fighting for recovery. This unique documentary follows one addict who recovers from heroin and cocaine addiction. The camera follows his journey through three distinct periods of his addiction, in jail, out of jail, and interacting with other addicts all struggling to live while overcoming addiction. This tape deals with the reality of addiction.

Heroin: DOCUMENTARY
A documentary about the struggle with addiction. This video weaves the story of the addict, Greg Belosic, together with commentary by internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Ron Leifer. In this powerful documentary we see Greg struggle with addiction from the inside and gain insight from Dr. Leifer on methods to overcome addiction to face the pain of life from the outside. This video deals with the reality of addiction.

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)

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.