Grades: 7-12
Length: 8/30 Minute
Rights: Annual Lease

1. Binge Drinking: The Facts.  The trend of binge drinking-the intentional consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol-shows no decline in schools and colleges across the country. The program examines the dangers of alcohol poisoning and describes the correct life-saving procedures to follow in order to save someone. Through interviews with physicians and emergency medical technicians as well as binge abusers the video and print material send a clear no use message to students.  SOL Correlations:  Health: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.4, 10.5.

2. Busted: What You Need To Know About Drugs & The Law.  In this hard-hitting documentary, teenagers learn firsthand the devastating consequences of illegal drug use, drug possession, and drug distribution. Students will learn many surprising legal facts from police officers, prosecutors, counselors, and, above all, from young people who have been caught on the wrong side of the law. Memorable footage of detention centers and sentencing hearings offer a real-life glimpse into the legal system that punishes drug offenders. Suited for all students, this video and accompanying Teacher's Resource Book sends a clear message: you can pay a heavy price for involvement in illegal drug use as well as underage drinking.

3. Club Drugs: The Real Deal.  While drug use among teenagers has leveled off in the last few years, a new and dangerous menace known as club drugs offers an even greater threat to today's teens. The names for these easy-to-come-by drugs include Ecstasy, GBH, methamphetamine, Rohypnol (the date rape drug) and many others. With false promises of "safe" highs, the drugs are packaged specifically to appeal to trend conscious teenagers. While they are often available at dance parties called "raves," club drug substances are now commonly available everywhere, on middle school and high school campuses, in small towns and big cities; basically wherever there are teens. The video provides teens with the latest up-to-date information on the dangers of these drugs (including death from overdose) as well as information on evaluating their choices at parties where adult supervision may be lacking. This program, like all HRM drug programs, gives students a strong "no-use" message.

4. How I Quit Smoking & Saved My Life.   Based on Community Intervention's nationally recognized TAP cessation program, which has been proven effective in reducing teenage smoking, this inspirational, fast paced drama follows Jenny, a typical teenager who's trying to quit smoking. Through Jenny's eyes we learn first hand just how hard it is for her and other teens to break their addiction to both nicotine and the smoking culture they unwittingly adopted. Sure to encourage lively debate in your classroom, this is not a video that turns smokers into villains; rather it offers them an encouraging message of hope when it comes to breaking the addiction chain around their necks. This video emphasizes: the short and long term effects of smoking, coping strategies to combat tobacco triggers, pitfalls to be expected during and after quitting.

5. Marijuana Exposed.  This video and print program reveals to students the unhealthy effects and very real dangers of marijuana use. Through plain language narration by teen hosts and interviews with young people, marijuana is exposed as an illegal drug that damages the body as well as the mind with the powerful chemical THC. By investigating real life accounts of the health, personal, legal and family consequences caused by marijuana use, the video reinforces the message that marijuana use is detrimental to a young person's social growth and personal development as well as their general health. The video dispels the myth, prevalent among many young people that marijuana is not harmful because it is "organic" and "natural."

6. Dying High: Teens In The ER.  This hard hitting, reality based video gives students a chance to see what goes on inside the nation's emergency rooms as doctors treat teens for some of the most common types of injuries among young people: drug overdoses, alcohol poisoning, car wreck traumas and more. Dying High offers a glimpse into the nightmarish reality of what can happen when young people take risks with their health, their safety and even their lives. New federal data indicates a 20% increase in drug - related ER visits for teens under the age of 17. Yet drug-related emergencies are only part of the bigger picture. This video presents a series of episodes which allow viewers to see common life-and-death ER moments. The goal of this high -powered video is to remind teens that risk - taking behaviors can often lead to serious injury and death.

7. Brain Scans: Alcohol & The Teenage Brain.  This video takes teenagers on a tour of several labs across the country including one at the University of California at San Diego where doctors are researching the effects of alcohol use in teenage brains. The young host of the show actually has a scan done on her own brain, and then has the chance to see how it compares with the brains of other teens who drink alcohol regularly. The ground breaking studies highlighted in the video dramatically connect long term brain damage to teenage drinking. Your students will see first hand how alcohol affects teenagers as young as fourteen and fifteen years old. They will also learn why alcohol seems to effect younger brains more profoundly than older ones both in short term and long term, impairing memory, coordination and motivation and causing addiction. Video delivers a strong caution to teens considering any use of alcohol.

8. Know The Score: The Dangers Of Performance Enhancing Drugs.   This video reveals the truth about many performance drugs such as steroids, creatine, Human Growth Hormone, diuretics, blood doping hormones and stimulants like ephedrine and amphetamines. Also included is an investigation of so-called "nutritional supplements" that claim to help users lose weight and gain muscle but in reality may set the stage for physical ailments like headaches, muscle weakness and irregular heartbeats. Speakers include young athletes who share their views on "competing clean" without chemical enhancements as well as expert sports medicine doctors who explain the adverse physical effects of misusing performance drugs. Viewers learn the specific dangers involved in abusing steroids, stimulants, diuretics and other drugs. Interviews with student athletes emphasize that using drugs to win at sports is the same as cheating. The message of this program is clear: sports competitions are meant to be fun, healthy and drug-free.

Block Feed

Tuesday     12/04/07     2:00 - 4:00 a.m. #1-4
Wednesday 12/05/07    2:15 - 3:45 a.m. #5-8