Classic Drug & Alcohol Abuse Films on DVD!

Title

Description

Duration

Picture from DVD

Drug Addiction (1951)

Classic "slippery slope" narrative of post-World War II stoned slackerdom

21:20

Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb (1969)

Interesting anti-drug film criticizing drug use as an inhibitor of necessary social change.

18:28

Narcotics: Pit of Despair (Part I & 2) (1967)

Dark vision of drug use and its effect on American youth.

28:48

What About Drinking? (1954)

Open-ended discussion on teenage drinking

11:19

Social Seminar: Changing (1971)

Puts the drug question in perspective as it relates to adults and the total society. Demonstrates quality of life as its impact on a young family in a society of conflicting standards and values.

27:49

Subject: Narcotics (1951)

This film presents drug addiction not simply as a crime but as a deep seated social problem. With dramatized sequences of addicts in shooting galleries and excellent footage of pre-renewal downtown Los Angeles, a neighborhood now lost.

21:01

Alcohol Trigger Films for Junior High: The Party, The Mother, The Ride (1979)

Three short dramatic, open-ended situations designed to provoke discussion about Alcohol for a ride.

8:57

[Opium Destruction, San Francisco 1914] (1914)

Government agents burn confiscated opium near unfinished San Francisco City Hall, and destroy other confiscated Chinese drugs.

2:14

Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness (1972)

Traces the history of opium and how it has led to the present day usage of heroin. Examines the methods and procedures of organized crime in transporting the drug to the United States and its toll on the streets of America

22:11