Addiction 101: Delbert Boone delivers basic information about alcohol and drug addiction to a group of troubled teens with a history of drug use. During this video, teens share how peer acceptance and curiosity about drugs has caused trouble in their life in school and at home.

Addiction: A Biopsychosocial Model: Three Video Set
This new series is designed to present vital information to your patients about Addiction, Recovery, and Relapse. Each series is divided into three videos that are thirty-to-forty minutes long. Each presentation is produced in training blocks that are eight-to-twelve minutes in length. A counselor can pause the tape and facilitate a discussion of how that information applies to each person viewing the video.

Series I covers:
Part 1: Addiction: Mind-Altering Substances
Part 2: Addiction: Addictive Risk Factors
Part 3: Substance Abuse and Addiction


Addiction: A Biopsychosocial Model: Part 1: Mind Altering Substances : This series presents the most recent research on addiction as a brain disease that causes personality problems and social dysfunction.
The first presentation takes a hard look at alcohol and other drugs: the mind-altering substances that can activate abuse and addiction. After viewing this video, people will know what these substances are, how they work, and why they can be dangerous.

Addiction: A Biopsychosocial Model : Part 2: Addictive Risk Factors: This series presents the most recent research on addiction as a brain disease that causes personality problems and social dysfunction.
The second presentation explains the physical, psychological, and social risk factors that set people up for abuse and addiction. After viewing this video, people will know the risk factors that increase the likelihood of addiction. They will be able to recognize if they or someone they love is at high risk of addiction.

Addiction: A Biopsychosocial Model Part 3: Substance Abuse and Addiction
This series presents the most recent research on addiction as a brain disease that causes personality problems and social dysfunction.The third presentation in the Addiction series describes the symptoms of substance abuse and addiction. It shows how these symptoms can develop slowly and unnoticed in the lives of normal people. It explains how people can objectively evaluate their own alcohol and drug use. It shows how they can recognize and stop denial so they can see the truth and take action to break out of the addiction cycle.

Addiction Disease: Dr. David Ohlms explains the mounting evidence that all chemical addiction arises from the same neurochemical processes. He outlines the signs and symptoms of addiction, and the impact it has on the addict as well as their family. 

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.

Alcohol Abuse: Signs & Symptoms Hosted by David L. Ohlms, M.D., this award-training program will help companies in the transportation industry comply with DOT guidelines on alcohol.  Core material deals with the impact of alcohol on job skills, performance, and the impact on the human mind and body.  Ohlms also discusses the importance of proper documentation and effective intervention techniques

Alibi vs. Denial: Delbert Boones explores denial and discusses how many healthcare professionals often say that addicts are in “denial”.  According to Boone, if that were actually true, the addict would have no idea that their life is falling apart due to their drug use.  Addicts know they are in trouble and they fight desperately to give you reasons why.   If you listen closely you’ll discover that what we often label as “denial” is actually an alibi.  Boone explores the differences between alibis and denial and how understanding these differences can impact treatment outcomes. Boones gives proven techniques for overcoming denial.

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.

Aspects of Addiction: This video features hard-hitting interviews, which takes the viewer through the beginning stages of alcohol & drug use, the common journey of addictive behavior while using drugs and alcohol, and the final consequences of drug and alcohol abuse.  This video contains many strong messages of hope and recovery while focusing attention on the desire to make lifestyle adjustments, the need for a good support system, and the need to work a program.


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.

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.

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.


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.

Chemical Dependence: Do you wonder if you have a drug addiction or suffer from substance abuse? When is "one more drink" one too many? Is yours an alcoholic family? What is the difference between substance abuse and chemical dependence (addiction)? This self-help video describes how chemical dependence starts and how the substance abuse cycle continues

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.

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

Cocaine: The Power & The Story

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.

Darkness to Dawn : This video goes directly to the heart of the issues and complications of recovery caused by physical, sexual and emotional abuse of women. It helps break through denial in either a one-on-one or a group setting.

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.

Downside of Uppers: Dr. David Ohlms discusses the popularity of amphetamine drug use, primarily “ice” and crystal methamphetamine.  He discusses the increased use and popularity of MDMA (ecstasy) and many of the so-called “club drugs”, a drug popular at dance clubs and raves.  He details signs of use and the physical and psychological effects these stimulant drugs have on the user.

Drugs of the 90's: Impact on the Workplace

Dual Diagnosis: Using clear examples and understandable language, Dr. Cardwell C. Nuckols delivers a comprehensive overview of behavior management and staff coordination necessary in dual or multiple disorder clients.  This four video series is a must for all psychiatric and alcohol drug treatment staff.

Ecstasy & Club Drugs According to Dr. Ohlms, Ecstasy (MDMA) is one of the fastest growing drugs of abuse especially among teens and young adults. Ecstasy is commonly referred to as one of the “club drugs” because it is often used at all-night clubs and at rave parties. Dr. Ohlms discusses the short and long term effects of using Ecstasy. While explaining the acute effects of Ecstasy on the brain, Dr. Ohlms explains how long-term use can change brain chemistry and behavior.

Evolution of Madness This is an eye-opening, two-part training video for the therapeutic staff working with today’s addicted population. Michael Johnson explains how the dynamics surrounding today’s addict are different from the addict of twenty years ago. He explains the evolution of addiction, with emphasis on the character, thought processes, value systems and objectives of today’s addict.

Ecstacy- The E Street Blues: An integral part of the “rave” and dance scene, Ecstasy use has doubled every year for the past 5 years, causing memory loss, depression and brain damage in users. A pulsating soundtrack and colorful graphics bring an immediacy to this powerful documentary on Ecstasy abuse

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

Goin’ Home Parts 1 - 6 Video Set
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.

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.

Hallucinogens & Designer Drugs Dr David Ohlms gives us a new look at LSD and other hallucinogens that have gained in popularity through the years.  He discusses what they are, and how they work on the users mind and body.   He details the short-term and long-term effects and dangers of using.  He also discusses  “designer drugs”.

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

Healthy vs. Normal Communication
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.

Heroin: A Video 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.

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.

High Cost of Low Livin’ Darryl Turpin examines the high cost of low livin’ by addressing not only the financial cost of addiction, but the loss of family, lack of education, no employment skills, emotional and spiritual bankruptcy and in some cases criminality. This thought provoking video will make the addict think about the price they have paid for their addiction and urge them to make positive changes in their life.

Hip Hop Generation Set

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.

Human Addiction: This fast moving video explores the relationship of all addictions and the dangers of cross addiction in recovering people; gambling, sex, relationships, food, smoking, caffeine, etc.

IMPACT: Driving Drunk, Driving High
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

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.

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.

Inhalant Abuse: Signs & Symptoms: A look at what inhalants are, how they work and their effects on the brain, other body systems and organs such as the liver and kidneys and an overview of their effects on behavior.

Kids, Chemicals and America : Delbert Boone gives an overview of adolescent drug use, with emphasis on peer pressure and peer acceptance. He discusses lifestyles and value systems and the problems associated with experimenting with drugs. Boone focuses on solutions for change and gives adolescents the tools to help make positive choices in their life.


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

Love Addiction : Is it real love? Do you feel like half a person without sex or a relationship? Are you afraid of abandonment? Do you feel you might die without your partner? Love addiction and Sex addiction is much more common than people usually think. This video describes the cycle of love addiction that is common in this type of relationship and compares healthy love to unhealthy love.

Manhood During this video, Darryl Turpin discusses the true meaning of attaining manhood with a group of men in recovery at Dismas Charities.  He begins by addressing the misconceptions and mixed messages young men often receive from their peers on the street, such as being a real man means money, jewelry, a nice car, partying, drinking and using drugs.  

March Towards Sobriety by Delbert Boone In this video, Boone literally details the March Towards Sobriety. He shows the view through illustrative examples the positive and negative areas many encounter when going into treatment.  He defines many of the enemies of sobriety, such as feelings of anxiousness, agitation, boredom, frustration, depression, and loneliness  Delbert also details these common enemies of sobriety and reinforces the message that "the only way to get acceptance is through compliance" He explains why "recovery is a process not an event."

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

Manhood
During this video, Darryl Turpin discusses the true meaning of attaining manhood with a group of men in recovery at Dismas Charities. He begins by addressing the misconceptions and mixed messages young men often receive from their peers on the street, such as being a real man means money, jewelry, a nice car, partying, drinking and using drugs.

Marijuana by Delbert Boone According to recent national surveys on drug trends, marijuana use by 12-17 year olds is on the rise. And these young people do not perceive the real harm in using marijuana. Delbert Boone discusses the hazards of marijuana use, and addresses the misperceptions most adolescents have about marijuana.  He explains how marijuana impairs judgment and skills, and can impair the users ability to concentrate, solve problems, learn and retain new information.  Video tapped at Chateaugay Correctional Facility in up-state New York.

Marijuana in The New Millennium In a newly released video by Dr. David Ohlms, he addresses why marijuana continues to be popular among both teens and adults. Ohlms says "for the most part, beliefs about the dangers associated with the use of these drugs---which have been harbingers of change in the past---remained fairly stable in 1999." In this video, he discusses many of the common physical effects, signs and symptoms of drug use, its side effects, and newly discovered physiological issues that face drug users.

Marijuana: One More Toke: Chronic Marijuana use leads users to awful consequences • Testimonials from teens, now in recovery, attest to the loss of family relationship, setbacks in education & “growing up” & decline into criminal activity they have suffered because of their addictions and drug use

Marijuana: Paying the Price: Chronic Marijuana use leads users to awful consequences • Testimonials from teens, now in recovery, attest to the loss of family relationship, setbacks in education & “growing up” & decline into criminal activity they have suffered because of their addictions and drug use

The Meth Effect: Dr. David Ohlms answers often asked questions about the dangers of Methamphetamine, known by the street terms: speed, crystal, crack , ice and meth. He addresses the powerful addictive nature of the drug, explaining how it stimulates the central nervous system, giving the user a “rush”, before crashing them into a violence-prone depression as the effect of the drug wears off.

Meth Nation 2 Part Set
The Grip of Addiction explains why meth is so addictive and has such a high potential for abuse, and can alter the users personality. It also helps the viewer understand meth’s effects on the central nervous system. Viewers will understand why prolonged use of meth causes “dopamine depletion” and destroys the users ability to feel pleasure, which often leads to bingeing for days without sleep followed by severe depression, paranoia, belligerence, aggression, and finally collapse from exhaustion, only to awaken days later to begin the cycle again.

Meth Nation: Health & Family Effects
Health & Family Effects will help the viewer understand how meth use causes a variety of health problems including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and irreversible stroke producing damage to small blood vessels in the brain. He also addresses the toxic effects of meth use on the liver and kidneys, as well as effects on the immune system. Stephen Sutherland, reveals why meth users often exhibit psychotic behavior that include auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances, delusions, and paranoia, which often result in homicidal or suicidal thoughts. He addresses how meth distorts the user’s thoughts and perceptions which puts people around them in danger. Dr. Raymond Dennany examines the mouths of chronic meth users and shows viewers a common health problem caused by smoking or snorting meth called “meth mouth”.


Michael Johnson's 12-Step Videos
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. Keywords: Substance Abuse, Treatment, Alcohol, Drug Rehabilitation Video, Substance Abuse Video, Drug Addiction Video, Addiction Recovery Program, Substance Abuse Recovery

Models of Addiction
Reverend Steve Little explains the different types and stages of addiction. This video helps break through denial. Length: 28 minutes.

Motivation and Change: The key to success in addictions therapy is getting the client to admit a problem and then change the behavior that is often the root of the addiction problem. These videos instruct social workers and treatment professionals how to meet this challenge, illustrating the theory and practice of client motivation, and ways to deal with resistance.

Negotiating the Minefield: This video focuses on the need to develop a healthy program of recovery that includes a support system consisting of family, community, and self-help after treatment. Recovering addicts talk about how they built their networks of healthy friends. Treatment and employee assistance professionals discuss how they can help patients make the transition. Nuckols lectures to recovering addicts on the need to depend on an outside force to allow the recovery process to begin

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

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

Over the Counter Drugs and the Recovering Person: This video looks at what kinds of over-the-counter drug medications are safe for the recovering person to use, what kinds are unsafe, and how patients taking Anabuse are affected by OTC medications. This video looks at several cold medications, mouthwashes, and others and asks recovering addicts to think twice before purchasing OTC’s. Excellent incorporation of other aspects of recovery programs. Combines recovery principles with information about the drugs.


Overcoming Early Life Trauma - Creating a Second Chance
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.

Pathway to Change Michael Johnson illustrates how most addicts think other people or things are the cause of their emotions and feelings.  He explains how these emotions and feelings usually lead to negative behaviors that eventually cause problems and lead to negative consequences. He explains the “pathway to change” by taking the viewer through a series of examples and analogies as he provides strategies that clearly illustrate how to limit or eliminate many of the negative consequences so they can begin to have a healthy, realistic perception about people and events in their life. Includes facilitator guide.

Performance: The impact of alcohol/drug use on athletic skills and development is explained by Dr. David Ohlms. A must video for sports programs.

Post Acute Withdrawal 
Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW) is caused by the long-term aftereffects of chronic alcohol and drug poisoning on the brain. Many recovering people suffer from PAW and don''t know it. In this fast-paced presentation, recovering people discuss how they came to understand and identify the symptoms of PAW in their own recovery. Aided by these personal experiences Terry Gorski and Jan Black summarize the most recent research on the causes and symptoms of PAW. This presentation is powerful and informative. It needs to be seen by all chemically dependent people, their families, and the professionals who treat them. This presentation is appropriate for use in patient and family treatment programs.

Prescription Drug Addiction 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 Trap Update During this video. Dr. David Ohlms discusses the hidden dangers of prescription drug abuse. He also discusses the pitfalls for people in recovery when taking many prescription and over-the-counter drugs.  He offers common sense solutions to help avoid relapse when a person in recovery is faced with the need to take mood-altering drugs in connection with surgery and dental procedures.

Process of Recovery Michael Johnson takes the viewer through the process of self-discovery as they enter into and continue a life of recovery. He leads the viewer through the process of reflecting on their life, and the consequences of their behavior. He discusses how alcohol, drugs and criminal behavior can lead them to jail, death, or insanity. Johnson explains why "recovery and abstinence from alcohol, drugs, and criminal activity must be a permanent commitment." He discusses some of the changes that take place during the process of recovery and addresses getting back time, lack of determination, feeling bored, lost and abandoned. Family issues are also addressed, as well as how many addicts new in recovery use recovery as a bargaining chip with family members to make deals and promises.

Psychology of Addiction: According to Delbert Boone, addiction is an equal opportunity illness that can destroy its victims. He explains how understanding addiction is the key to recovery. Boone tells inmates at Albion Correctional Facility, “as you feed addiction it grows. As it grows it dictates all terms of your life, and it never goes away.” He talks about the thousands of people who die from addiction each year, and how prisons are overflowing from drug related crimes. He tells them, “you are not in prison because you are bad people, you are here because you made bad choices while using alcohol and other drugs.”


Recovery: A Family Affair Featuring Rosetta Oliver, this video focuses on family issues related to addiction, recovery and returning to the community after treatment. Ms. Oliver takes the audience through several stages of recovery. Discussions are focused on the behaviors and expectations of the alcoholic or addict and their family prior to and after release from treatment and/or incarceration. She explores the first danger area. . . the homecoming celebration!   Areas addressed in this video include:   clarifying the terms relapse and recovery; identifying stressors that often frustrate families when an active addict settles down to abstinence; building support systems, positive relationships and healthy boundaries.

Recovery: A Developmental Model 3 Video Set
This three-tape series presents the most recent research on what people do to successfully recover from addiction.This series is designed to guide viewers through a process that allows them to understand the recovery process, build a foundation for successful recovery, and create a quality recovery that will support sober and responsible living in all stages of life development. It is produced in training blocks that are eight-to-twelve minute in length. A counselor can pause the tape and facilitate a discussion of how that information applies to each person viewing the video.

Part 1: The Recovery Process
Part 2: Building a Foundation for Recovery
Part 3: Creating Quality Recovery

Recovery: A Developmental Model Part 1: The Recovery Process
Part 1 of the series gives an overview of what happens when people successfully recover. It reviews the six major goals of addiction recovery and presents the stages of the developmental model. It is designed to guide viewers through a process that allows them to understand the recovery process, build a foundation for successful recovery, and create a quality recovery that will support sober and responsible living in all stages of life development.

Recovery: A Developmental Model Part 2: Building a Foundation for Recovery
Part 2 reviews the first three stages of the recovery process. During the Transition Stage people recognize they are addicted and become willing to recover. During the Stabilization Stage people stop using alcohol and other drugs and recover from withdrawal. They develop a structured recovery program. During the Early Recovery Stage people identify and change their addictive ways of thinking, their addictive ways of managing feelings, emotions, and addictive behaviors.

Recovery: A Developmental Model : Part 3: Creating Quality Recovery
Part 3 reviews the last three stages of the recovery process. During the Middle Recovery Stage people repair the lifestyle damage done by addiction. They then build a new and more effective lifestyle. During the Late Recovery Stage people identify the self-limiting beliefs that make them miserable in sobriety. They also learn to identify and grow beyond mistaken childhood beliefs. During the Maintenance Stage people learn how to maintain their sobriety and avoid relapse. They learn how to responsibly cope with ongoing changes in their lives in a sober and responsible way.

Recovery and Relapse - 4  part video cassette set

Relapse with David Ohlms : In this video Dr. David Ohlms, explains how relapse begins when the addict loses conscious contact with the memory of the pain of their addiction. Ohlms details the signs of relapse: overconfidence, resentments, and cross drug-dependency.

Relapse by Terrence Gorski   3 Video/DVD Set
In this dynamic three-tape video series, Terry Gorski explains basic information about how to prevent and manage the problem of relapse. Relapse is a common problem that threatens the recovery of nearly two-thirds of all addicted people who attempt to stop using alcohol and other drugs. This powerful video series explains in clear and easy-to-understand language the basic principles of relapse prevention, the common warning signs that lead from stable recovery to relapse, and how to establish a relapse prevention and relapse management plan.

Relapse - Part 1: Basic Principles
In this tape, Terry Gorski reviews eight basic principles of relapse prevention. These principles provide a basic understanding of the problem of relapse and the general steps that are necessary to manage it should it occur. This video is designed to be used with recovering patients and to orient clinical staff to the basic principles of relapse prevention and management. Each tape is approxaimtley 30-40 minutes in length and is broken down into 8 - 12 minute segments. The tape can be stopped at the end of each segment

Relapse - Part 2: Relapse Warning Signs
This videotape describes the basic progression of relapse warning signs that lead from stable recovery back to addicted use. In the early 1970s, Mr. Gorski discovered these warning signs through in-depth interviews with 117 relapse-prone addicts. Since that time, these basic warning signs have been organized into categories and clarified in ways that make them a powerful tool for relapse.

Relapse: Part 3: Managing Relapse Warning Signs
Terry Gorski explains how to review the relapse warning sign list and how to select and personalize warning signs that are of personal importance. He then shows how to map out common situations in which these warning signs occur and to manage these situations in new, more effective ways.

Resistance and Recovery: Delbert Boone outlines how addiction affects the addict’s life socially, psychologically, spiritually and physically while creating a barrier for resistance to treatment. He explains why the longer an addict uses, the more resistant he becomes to recovery. He details effective exercises for overcoming resistance.

The Road to Recovery Women and Alcohol: This video observes a group of women who have turned their lives away from drugs and alcohol, as they discuss alcoholism, drug abuse, and recovery. Several of the women explain how consuming large quantities of alcohol during their pregnancies led to complications such as premature births and seizures suffered by their newborns. This video effectively enforces that sobriety can and will bring out strength hidden inside.

The Rules of Recovery Delbert Boone outlines the "rules of recovery" emphasizing the importance of getting dry so that you can begin to realize what addiction has taken away from your life and you can start to focus your attention on your physical and safety needs. He emphasizes that getting dry is an event and sobriety is a process. He discusses that process and how there is no magic in recovery, that all a person needs to do is learn to comply, because sobriety is about complying and learning to follow the laws, rules and regulations of life. He also addresses the importance of focusing on making today just a little bit better than yesterday.

Set-Up For Relapse In this new video, Michael Johnson addresses the relapse dynamics of the addicted offender. He explains the role of family and peer relationships in association with relapse. How boredom and a lack of activities can serve as a set-up. He will explain how many in recovery have looked at sobriety as a "temporary" experience, only to be engaged in while incarcerated, or on probation and parole. This open, in your face presentation also addresses numerous other pitfalls associated with relapse.

Sex, Drugs & HIV Kim Bouldin-Jones explains how substance abuse often causes a person to make unhealthy decisions and choices such as sharing needles, trading sex for drugs or involving yourself in unsafe, unprotected sex increasing exposure to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. She also addresses how substance abuse compromises and weakens your immune system and attacks vital organs in the body. She explains the importance of making healthy choices and discusses factors that can reduce your levels of risk.

Sobriety Straight Up: Filmed at the Gateway Free & Clean Program in St. Louis with a group of recovering addicts, Delbert Boone addresses addiction, recovery and sobriety. He emphasizes that an important part of recovery and sobriety is to recognize and understand that not everything that has happened in their life is bad. He explains how most addicts have developed some very positive qualities such as creativity, consistency, diligence, determination and being able to deal with adversity. He illustrates how addicts engage these qualities while actively pursuing their drug of choice, and outlines how these same positive qualities can be used during recovery to help them stay straight and maintain healthy sobriety. Sobriety: Straight Up will assist clinicians in identifying positive personal attributes and cognitively isolate the positive and negative behavior patterns in their clients to help motivate them towards seeking to remain sober.

Spirituality In this video, Wheeler addresses the controversy surrounding spirituality, and the misconceptions people entering recovery have about spirituality. He makes a clear distinction between religion and spirituality, defining spirituality as a force greater than the individual and a very powerful tool capable of impacting and restoring ones life. He also explains how spirituality provides hope, a value system, love, self respect, forgiveness of yourself and others and peace beyond all understanding.

Steer Clear DWI During this informative video, Dr. David Ohlms explains how and why even small amounts of alcohol can impair driving skills. Dr. Ohlms also addresses the effects of stimulate drugs on a driver’s judgment.

Surviving the Absent Father During this fast paced two-part video, Wheeler makes it a point to recognize that even when a father is in the home, he can still be emotionally and physically absent.
Surviving the Absent Father addresses substance abuse and emphasizes that an important part of recovery is learning to recognize and confront the feelings of anger, resentment and frustration towards the father who abandoned you during childhood. In talking about the “absent father”, Wheeler discusses how the family structure is disrupted and how children seek love and attention from others, often seeking street attention by joining street gangs, and how girls often get involved in different relationships seeking a father figure.

Teens, Tobacco, & Drugs: Taking Positive A.C.T.I.O.N.: Discusses some of the problems of tobacco and drugs with an A.C.T.I.O.N. Team, a group of teenagers who have joined together to be positive role models for other students • The team discusses: • How to deal with peer pressure from adults as well as from other teens • Positive ways to handle stress • Grades 6-12 * Closed Captioned

When I Was Nine: The Silent Victims of Sexual Abuse Many female inmates were the victims of child abuse, and have found themselves caught in a downward spiral of violence and addiction. Dwight Bradford addresses childhood sexual abuse and victimization, opening the door for discussion that will lead to making healthy choices for a life without the use of drugs to dull the pain of the past. Filmed at Albion Correctional Facility in New York, it features open, honest and candid interviews with women who have suffered the pain of childhood abuse.

Women In Transition: The On-Going Challenge Produced by Carolyn LeCroy, this video features four women, two African-American and two Caucasian share their struggles with incarceration and release. They address feelings associated with rejection and being labeled “ex-offender”. All have been released from prison and are living drug-free, successful lives, with the exception of Sandra who has returned to prison. This video gives straightforward advice about “doing time” and what to do after release. Viewers are encouraged to take advantage of opportunities while in prison and the importance of getting involved in programs that will help improve self-esteem and change behavior.

Workplace Alcohol Drug Training Dr. David Ohlms presents employee education and training on the physical and psychological hazards of alcohol and other popular drugs of abuse. He outlines the signs and symptoms of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, amphetamine, PCP and opiate use and abuse.

Workplace Drug Abuse: Training for Supervisors/Managers  David Ohlms, M.D. gives an explanation of the impact of popular drugs of abuse such as; cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines, PCP and opiates. An agent with the D.E.A. explains common methods of concealment, dealing and behaviors associated with drug use. An attorney explains the legal methods of documentation and intervention. Drug paraphernalia and drugs themselves are shown and identified.

Two oustanding documanetaries dealing with the realities of living with addiction and fighting for recovery  by Wildcat Media

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.