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A compelling and troubling exploration of a generation raised on antidepressants, and a book that combines expansive interviews with substantive research-based reporting, Coming of Age on Zoloft is a vitally important and immediately engrossing study of one of America's most pressing and omnipresent issues: our growing reliance on prescription drugs. Katherine Sharpe, the former editor of Seed magazine's ScienceBlogs.com, addresses the questions that...
64) Men in Recovery
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Take it like a man." "Be competitive." Stereotypes about manhood seriously challenge men's recovery from addiction. Hosted by Craig Nakken, this program helps viewers redefine what it means to be a man. This empowering video features a men's group candidly discussing topics that may hold men back from progressing in recovery: rage, a fear of commitment, the tendency to isolate, and others.
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Alcohol use is so pervasive in our society that, sooner or later, every teen will face personal decisions about underage drinking. With a strength-based approach and an emphasis on making safe decisions, this program equips teens with important information about alcohol use, how it affects the brain, how it increases the likelihood of accidents and injuries, and how it can harm school performance, relationships, and health.
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This powerful video separates fact from fiction with regard to meth treatment. The unscripted words of men and women who have experienced meth addiction are achingly honest. Clinicians from the Matrix Institute, renowned for its research of stimulant abuse treatment, present clinical concepts in an easy-to-understand and engaging manner. For individuals and clinicians who have been told that recovery from meth is almost impossible, this film offers...
67) Pomegranate
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"Ranita Atwater is wrapping up her four-year sentence for opioid possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center, near Boston. With three years of sobriety, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children from her aunts who have been raising them. My name is Ranita, and I'm an addict, she has said again and again at [Narcotics Anonymous] meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? She is gaining her freedom, but...
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Can the exploding drug trade be stemmed in the face of a rising demand in the U.S. and Europe and political accommodations and economic realities in producer countries? This program studies the drug industry in Colombia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Burma, where UN crop substitution programs are thwarted by governments unwilling or unable to crack down on drug production and by drug lords who use incentives and coercion to increase drug crop yields....
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As crimes committed by youngsters become progressively more violent, the criminal justice system must decide whether harsh sentences given out to adult criminals, including capital punishment, should also apply to violent young offenders. This ABC News Nightline examines the issue through the eyes of young criminals, their families, and attorneys, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials. Herbert Hoelter of the National Criminal Justice Commission...
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If you thought you knew everything you needed to know about autism, think again. Prepare to have your preconceptions challenged by this intelligent, moving, and gripping exploration of the controversy surrounding Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), an intensive intervention used to treat autism. Parents who want ABA for their children passionately believe that it is the best way to teach a child new skills and to help them function in mainstream society,...
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Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary."The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young...
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"Former SEAL Blake Junger bought a remote cabin in Truly, Idaho, for the solitude to struggle with his demons--and win. But his neighbor, Natalie Cooper, who moved back to Truly after her now ex-husband took all their money and ran off with a twenty-year-old, is proving to be quite a distraction"--
76) Managing Money
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Managing Money encourages viewers to explore their relationship with money, change their thinking about it, and learn the benefits of budgeting. A budget shows how much is spent on necessities and the money that is left over to spend on other things. Fixed monthly expenses (necessities that are the same price each month) and flexible monthly expenses (groceries, clothing, entertainment, etc.) should be calculated frequently. Exercises help individuals...
77) Intervention
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Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment-and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen-Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.
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Alcohol addiction has a long-lasting effect on many individuals, as well as their families, friends, and supporters. Alcohol abuse is due to many interconnected factors; while it is not always easy to notice when the limit has been exceeded, it is especially difficult to admit it and seek help. In this compelling and hopeful video from Hazelden, teen alcoholics in recovery talk about why they started drinking, how alcohol took over their lives, what...
79) Again, Rachel
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"From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor, she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive running shoes. But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd...
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Bixby Alexander Tam goes by Bat, and life is pretty great, even though he is autistic. He takes care of Thor, the best baby skunk ever, and even his older sister, Janie, kind of likes Thor. Then Janie gets a part in the school play and has to practice after school, which means she can't watch Bat--which means big changes for Bat's life. He just has to adjust long enough to get to the night of Janie's play.