Up close and personal interviews with Navajo methamphetamine addicts and recovering addicts allow the viewer to see and hear the painful stories these people have to tell about their addiction to the drug.
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A half-hour drama depicting a young native man caught between the fast-paced world of the city streets, and his culture and family. Returning home to a rural Indian reserve after some time in prison and on the streets, Mike is persuaded by his wife to...
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.looks at the suicide issue amongst First Nations from a historical and cultural perspective and presents positive examples of native-run programs. We see aboriginal groups who incorporate traditional teachings and cultural values, raise suicide awareness
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A Mother's Choice examines the root causes of F.A.S. from the perspective of aboriginal mothers. The video focuses on a FAS support group whose members provide strong messages about consuming drugs or alcohol while pregnant.
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Four teenagers explore the consequences of mixing alcohol and boating. The film is based on a real incident and subsequent rescue effort. The video includes interviews with family members of a person lost in the accident.
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A 28 minute documentary about the far-reaching and emotionally devastating effects of residential and boarding schools on native Indians in Canada. Few people today know about the widespread sexual and physical abuse which native people in both the U.S...
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A touching visual presentation based around Inuit cultural and traditional beliefs. Todays social patterns and problems are presented in the context which is heedful of the difficult history of Nunavik.
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Once in prison, many Aboriginal inmates are introduced to the Native Brotherhood. It is within the Brotherhood that many begin their journey on the Red Road. The good road. The road to healing.
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Childhood Lost examines the experiences of four individuals who were sent to residential schools when they were very young. While their stories represent different generations panning over fifty years, they share a common sense of loneliness, despair...
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Abuse, neglect, poverty, crime, racism all issues many Canadian First Nations and M tis youth face each day. Circle of Voices is a pilot theater project that attempts to look at one of the causes of these issues - the residential school experience.
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Drug abuse, violence and prison. These themes are articulated in a series of stories from the life of Marcel Commandas, stories which are centered on loss and a desire to assert his native identity.
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Gritty and tragic life stories of cocaine and crack addicts - youth as well as long-time users - are interwoven with information from experts on the physiological and psychological effects of this deadly stimulant...
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The number one drug problem in rural America, methamphetamine, or crank, is cheap, easy to make, and has the lowest recovery rate for addicts.
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Seeks a common language of experience that might help bring together native survivors and non-survivors, professionals and other caregivers, who share the same vision- the eradication of sexual abuse, in all its forms, from our society.
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Provides a general introduction to issues relating to family and domestic violence services in Indian communities throughout California. Discusses historical relationships between tribes and law enforcement, personal experiences, and potential solutions.
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This is the story of Anna, a teenager suffering in silence, living in a home wrecked by domestic violence. Anna's mother, Mary, is being abused by Bobby, a controlling and volatile new husband.
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MDMA, or Ecstasy, has become increasingly popular among young people, who are attracted to its low cost, easy availability, and its reputation as a fun-enhancing, mind-expanding, harmless way of having a good time.
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Focusing on Native American populations, this program profiles an eight-year-old Apache boy who was born with FAS, showing how alcohol ingested by the mother crosses the placenta and enters the bloodstream of the fetus and describing common birth defects.
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- Diagnostic overview with 20 questions that determine if someone is a compulsive gambler.
- An honest, up-front explanation about the illness of gambling enslavement, guidelines of help and outline for recovery.
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You will learn how men and women differ in the roles they play as gamblers and that compulsive gambling is a diagnosable, treatable disease that can be overcome.
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Gambling debts create guilt in the gambler and resentment in the spouse and children. A system to calculate gambling losses and a formula for repayment is established. Forgiveness for self and from family demand a sincere effort to make restitution.
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A 3-part self-help series for gamblers featuring licensed gambling therapist John Kestell M.S. of Montana Addictions Recovery Center. Sold as a set or by individual topics: The Family, Restitution, & Recovery.
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...tells the story of Charlie Lone Wolf, a troubled urban Navajo and Lakota youth whose journey from Denver to the home of his sheepherder uncle on the Navajo reservation launches him on a voyage of discovery.
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Compared to the national average, some American Indians have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at rates 2 to 33 times higher. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, NOFAS, is working to end the 100% preventable tragedy of alcohol-related birth defects.
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...as the heroin supply in the United States increases and its prices drop, it's time to educate a new generation of potential users as to heroin's unparalleled addictive power.
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...presents a summary of this class of drugs and then details its constituent parts; solvents and aerosols, nitrites, and nitrous oxide.
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Cheap, accessible, powerful, and tragically misunderstood is a description that neatly sums up the class of drugs known as inhalants. This program offers the straight dope on how the vapors of easily obtained substances...
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Your students will see the very real dangers of inhalants as they comprehend that something so common can be so deadly. Without being a how-to video, this program shows that inhalants are not even considered to be drugs. They are poisons.
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...about small boat safety in rural Alaska touches on issues such as alcohol use, weather, and personal flotation devices. The fictional story about a family traveling upriver to a fish camp illustrates how a tragedy could have been prevented.
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...about a young native Indian girl from a small community on Vancouver Island and the events which led up to her becoming infected with the HIV AIDS virus.
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