Title: Alcohol and Other Drugs and At Risk Behavior
Concerning Aids and Teenage Pregnancy
Grade Level: 5-10
Format: VHS
Details: 1993, 23 min., Prince George's County Public Schools
Synopsis: Program #5 in a series of tapes aimed at helping young
people make the right choices and avoid the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and
other drugs. Deals with drugs and alcohol and sex. Specifically
speaks about aids, teen pregnancy, babies with fetal alcohol syndrome and
crack babies.
Title: Alcohol
and Sex: Prescription for Poor Decision-Making
Grade Level:
7-12
Format: VHS &
Teacher’s Resource Book
Details: 22 min.,
1998, Human Relations Media, Inc.
Synopsis: The goal
is to help teens understand the dangers of mixing alcohol and sex. While
most teens today are aware of the dangers of sexual activity, they are
unaware that alcohol drastically affects their decision-making skills.
(2006) Title:
Alcohol: True Stories
Grade Level: 6-12, Adult
Format: DVD
Details: 2002, Family Health productions, 20 min
Synopsis: Young people tell how alcohol affected their lives. In
compelling and honest interviews these teens offer insight into the reasons
young people drink, and encourage their peers to wait. Hosted by Matt Damon.
Includes discussion guide booklet "Words Can Work".
Title: Are You Up To Snuff?
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 12 min.
Synopsis: Six PSA's on smokeless tobacco. Topics include
facts for teachers regarding the history of smokeless tobacco and the
effects on oral and general health.
Title: Artificial Athletes: The Dangers of Steroids
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, teacher's resource guide
Details: 1999, 31 min., 61 pgs., Human Relations Media
Synopsis: It is important that teens realize the potential damage
that steroids will do to their bodies, today and in the future. This
video and resource guide show the risk involved with steroids and tries to
make teens realize that creating a superficially favorable body image with
drugs is just not worth it.
Title: Big Dipper
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 1986, 19 min., Oregon Research Institute
Synopsis: Topics include addiction, cancer, health risks and peer
pressure. It teaches refusal skills for dealing with peer pressure.
(2003)Title: Body Image
for Boys
Grade Level: 6-12, adult
Format: VHS, Teacher's Guide
Details: 2002, 18 min., Cambridge Educational
Synopsis: As the idealized male physique continues to be hyped in
movies, on TV, in magazines, and on billboards, a rapidly growing number of
men are becoming obsessed with appearance. This topical program explores
some of the issues facing young men today as they struggle to define
themselves amidst the flood of media-generated images of male physical
perfection, which include steroid abuse, eating disorders, exercise
addiction, and phony food supplements.
(2003)Title: Body Image:
Let's Get Real
Grade Level: 6-12, adult
Format: VHS
Details: 2000, 48 min., Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Synopsis: "Who you are is how you look." The media's
glorification of an arbitrary physical ideal has precipitated an identity
crisis for millions of today's teens, both male and female. This penetrating
program explores the unhealthy impact that the media, peer pressure, and
family opinions can have on adolescents' perceptions of their bodies.
Individual testimony on media stereotyping, eating disorders, self-esteem,
balanced nutrition, and sexuality provides a candid overview of the
relationship between body image and self-identity, while suggesting healthy
ways to improve self-image.
Title: Bottled Up (DeGrassi Junior High Series)
Grade Level: 5-9
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 1989, 30 min., Episode 20, Direct Cinema Limited
Synopsis: Program themes: alcoholism in the family,
confronting problems, smoking. When the Degrassi Junior High quiz team
goes to Kathleen's house to prepare for a match, they discover that
Kathleen's mother is an alcoholic. Scooter and Max try to change their
image when Arthur and Yick call them nerds.
Title: The Chews Blues - See Oral
Health
(2002) Title: Danger! Toxic Chemicals: An Inhalant Prevention Video
Grade Level: 6-8
Format: VHS; Teacher's Guide
Details: 14 minutes, 1999, Hazelden Foundation
Synopsis: An introduction to the truth about inhalants produced with energy and a cutting-edge visual style. Students will learn the straight facts about sniffing and huffing, and how those actions can cause permanent injury or even death.
Title: Dangerous Party Drugs
Grade Level: Adults
Format: VHS
Details: 2001, 32 min.
Synopsis: "Party drugs" are nothing to play with.
Many of them are frighteningly lethal, while others can produce profound
brain or organ damage. Learn about the drugs that are most in vogue on
the club circuit and at "raves." Important information about
Ecstasy, 2C-B, Rohypnol, GHB, Ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms, and Fry is
provided in a straightforward, no-nonsense presentation. Understand
the dire consequences of experimenting with these illegal substances.
Title: Dusty the Dragon
Grade Level: K-3
Format: VHS
Details: 12 minutes, 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: An entertaining tobacco education program for
young children. Uses animation, live action, and rap music to keep students
interested while explaining the medical dangers and social costs of tobacco
use.
(2002) Title:
Ecstasy: The Facts
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS; Resource Guide
Details: 21 minutes, 2001, Human Relations Media
Synopsis: At the dawn of the 21st century, the use of Ecstasy among teens is beginning to be viewed as a national epidemic. This video and resource guide help teachers provide information that shows Ecstasy to be neurotoxic, to cause long lasting, even permanent damage to the neurons that release serotonin, and to have the ability to impair an individual's memory and cognitive performance.
(2007)
Title:
Falling
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: DVD
Details: 2007, Marissa Breton, Project AWARE Inc.,
21 Mins.
Synopsis: A powerful movie by Maine teens about the dangers of
prescription drug abuse. Set in modern day culture where prescription drugs
are everywhere, 16 year old Taylor finds it easy to fall into the trap of
abusing them. By the end of the movie, she finds herself at a crossroads.
Filmed and produced in Maine. Not recommended for children under 11.
Title: Going Smokeless
Grade Level: 6-12, adults
Format: VHS
Details: 1984, 24 min., CBS 60 minute and Hour Magazine
Synopsis: Two programs, 14 minute segments from 60 minutes and 10
minute segment from Hour Magazine. Discusses advertising strategies
and the health risks of smokeless tobacco, snuff, and Sean Marsee's illness
and death from use of smokeless tobacco.
Title: The Hazards of Drugged Driving
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS
Details: 15 minutes, 1986, Mazda/Meliar Multi Media
Synopsis: Focuses on specific issues that are relevant to
the serious hazards of intoxicated driving--particularly among teenage
drivers. Provides students with the information they need to respond
appropriately when confronted with a situation that involves drugs or a
drugged driver.
Title:
I Am Your Child
Grade Level: 1-12, adults
Format: VHS
Details: 2
min, American Cancer Society
Synopsis: Music
video for "I Am Your Child" featuring still life pictures. Message
is I am your child and I learn from you. Subtle message against smoking.
Title: I Live In An Alcoholic Family
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 36 minutes, 1988, Sunburst Communications
Synopsis: Three part program designed to define the
concepts of addiction and alcoholism as a disease, the three C's (children
of alcoholics do not cause, cannot control, cannot cure their parent's
drinking), and the healing process.
Title: The "Innocent"
Addictions - See Nutrition
Title: Keeping Out of Trouble,
Staying In Control - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title:
Monica & The Powerful Drug
Grade Level: K-5
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 17 min., 1991, Altschul
Group
Synopsis: This animated cartoon is
intended especially to educate young children about alcohol.
It is the story of Monica, a monkey, learning about alcohol and how it
affects her older brother.
Title:
Party
Grade Level:
9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 20 min, 1996,
University of Maine
Synopsis: This video helps to
make people aware of some of the potential problems associated with
drinking, especially in excess.
Title: Rex A. Canine- Part II
Grade Level: ages 10-14
Format: VHS
Details: 1994, 14 min., American Public Health Association
Synopsis: The cartoon dog holds a press conference to expose the
tobacco industry's marketing tactics and show the harmful effects of using
spit tobacco. It empowers students to become active in their
communities to help stop tobacco companies from advertising and sponsoring
events. A discussion guide is enclosed.
Title: Right Turns Only! (Specify
which program)
Grade Level: 5-10
Format: VHS
Details: 1993, Prince
George’s County Public Schools, Maryland
Synopsis: 7 tapes designed to
help young people make the right choices and avoid the dangers of alcohol,
tobacco and other drugs.
| Title |
Synopsis |
| Group Belonging and Peer Pressure |
Deals
with positive and negative peer pressure. Interviews
with inmates and other kids about the effects of peer pressure. Specifically speaks about marijuana. |
| Responsibility
and Identity |
Deals with self-respect and
responsibility. Filmed at
hospital and courthouse to provide information on the medical and legal problems associated with
drug abuse. Specifically speaks about Crack and Cocaine. |
| Goals and the
Media’s Mixed Messages |
Deals with taking responsibility and control of your life.
Specifically speaks about alcohol and cigarettes and deceptive advertising. |
Strength of
Families & The Challenge of Alcoholism &
Other Drug Abuse |
Deals with families and how they can help or hurt you. Specifically
speaks about aids, drinking, and the effects of drug and alcohol abuse on family. |
| Alcohol &
Other Drugs & At Risk Behaviors Concerning Aids & Teenage Pregnancy |
Deals with drugs, alcohol and sex. Specifically speaks
about aids, teen pregnancy, babies with fetal alcohol syndrome and crack babies. |
| Problem Solving & How To Deal With Hard Times |
Deals with avoiding violence. Specifically speaks about drugs, violence, and inhalants. |
| Life Can Be Fun |
Deals with ways to have fun without doing drugs, reviews 7 steps to avoiding alcohol and drugs. Specifically speaks about over the counter medicines and steroids. |
Title: Say Goodbye to Joe Camel
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: VHS
Details: 1992, approx. 7 min., Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco
Synopsis: The video addresses the health risks of smoking and
addresses the influence of Joe Camel in the tobacco industry's advertising
campaigns.
Title: Saying No (to Smoking)
Grade Level: 2-4
Format: VHS
Details: 28 minutes, 1991, Live Wire Video Publications
Synopsis: Missy's best friend, Rhonda, pressures Missy to
smoke cigarettes. Missy agonizes over her options before finding there are
ways to firmly say no without fluffing Rhonda's feathers.
(2001)Title:
Smoking: Truth or Dare?
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 34 min., 1999, Aims Multimedia
Synopsis: Part of the Teen Files video series this video
graphically demonstrates to teens what smoking does to the body. It makes
clear that there is damage being done to their bodies now and the effects of
tobacco are not just down the road. Features appearances by Boyz II Men,
Judd Hirsch, Jeff Bagwell, Christy Turlington and Dona Shalala.
Title: Smokeless Tobacco
Grade Level: 9-12, adults
Format: VHS
Details: 8 min., At Your Service
Synopsis: Topics include the hazards and risks of smokeless
tobacco. A Maine oral surgeon and three Maine teenagers share their
experiences with smokeless tobacco use. The video was produced prior
to the development of current OSHA standards. Some material is
outdated.
Title: Smokeless Tobacco: A Spittin'
Image
Grade Level: 4-9
Format: VHS
Details: 1994, 14 min., Media Projects, Inc.
Synopsis: Portrays dangers of using smokeless tobacco. A
teenage narrator, former users and health professionals provide factual
information. Includes discussion guide.
Title: Smokeless Tobacco: Is Is
Worth The Risk?
Grade Level: 9-12, males
Format: VHS
Details: approx. 13 min., American Academy of Otolaryngology
Synopsis: The video focuses on oral cancer and its
diagnosis. The video highlights that smokeless tobacco is unsafe and
even among baseball players. The need for early diagnosis and
treatments of cancer are stressed.
Title: Smokeless Tobacco: The Whole
Truth
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: VHS
Details: 1986, 9 min., Sunburst Communications
Synopsis: Topics include snuff and chewing tobacco definitions and
dangers of each. It highlights that smokeless tobacco isn't a safe
alternative to cigarettes. The effects of smokeless tobacco usage
include dental problems, tissue alterations (leukoplakia), linage to cancer,
nausea and addiction caused by nicotine.
Title:
Stand Up For Yourself: Peer Pressure and Drugs
Grade Level: 5-9
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 16 min., 1987, SVC &
Churchill Media
Synopsis: Real-life situations and a
peer workshop group dramatize proven ways young people can say no to street
drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. Useful techniques provide social skills young
people need to say no and still keep their friends. Older teens in the
workshop model positive attitudes and offer motivation and encouragement.
Title: The Steroid Trap: Turning
Winners Into Losers
Grade Level: 7-adult
Format: VHS
Details: Video 1-22 minutes, Video 2-15 minutes, 1190,
Guidance Associates
Synopsis: Explores who uses steroids and why, how steroids
work, and proven as well as suggested adverse effects of taking the drugs.
Title: Strength of Families & The Challenges of
Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse (Right Turns Only!)
Grade Level: 5-10
Format: VHS
Details: 1993, 21 min., Prince George's County Public Schools
Synopsis: Program #4 in a series of tapes aimed at helping young
people make the right choices and avoid the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, and
other drugs. Deals with families and how they can help or hurt
you. Specifically speaks about aids, drinking, effects of drug and
alcohol abuse on family.
(2001)Title:
Tobacco X-Files Revisited
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS
Details: 30 min., 2000, HRM Human Relations Media, Discovery Films
Synopsis: This "conspiracy" video paints an ugly picture of the truth about tobacco use. As a sleuthful pair of undercover agents expose a sleazy tobacco executive paid to lie about what the giant industry until now has done so well to hide, students see the other side of the hype and glamour designed to target teenagers. Mixing gross effects with poignant testimonials from
recovering teenage nicotine addicts, as well as regretful head and neck cancer victims, the outrageous truths about tobacco use are vividly discussed for student prevention.
Title: Truth About Drinking (Teen Files)
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 1998, 30 min., Multimedia
Synopsis: Winner 1999 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming.
For many teens, it is considered "cool" to drink as much as they
can in social situations. Few think about the consequences. In
this program, teens who are current drinkers experience the potential
consequences of alcohol use from every perspective, including: how
drinking impairs a person's coordination, vision, and reaction time; how the
brain and other vital organs suffer lasting damage; how a drunk person
really drives; and how drinking can lead to spending months in a
rehabilitation center. Features appearances by Tyra Banks, Kevin Sorbo,
and Evander Holyfield.
(2002) Title: Truth
About Drugs (Teen Files)
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, Discussion Guide
Details: 30 min., 2000, AIMS Multimedia
Synopsis: This extremely powerful and graphic video takes viewers through an in-depth look at the dangers of drugs. A group of teens get a first-hand look at the dangers of drug addiction by visiting a jail, a clinic for rape counseling, a convalescent home, a morgue, a neonatal unit, and a treatment center.
(2004)Title: Without Warning:
The Dangers of Alcohol Poisoning and Binge Drinking
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS with 41 pg. guide
Details: 1996, 17 min., Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID), Human
Relations Media
Synopsis: Surviving family members tell three stories about the
deadly effects of alcohol overdose on young adults. Includes teacher’s
resource book and student handouts.
Title: Young Dusty the Dragon
Grade Level: 2-4
Format: VHS
Details: 1995, 12 min., FamilyCare Communications, Inc.; ITDA Inc.
Synopsis: A cartoon character, Dusty the Dragon, years to roar
with other dragons. His heart and the Lung Sisters influence his
decision to avoid fatty foods, cigarettes and spit tobacco. Calypso
music plays in the background.
Title: Youth and Elders Against
Tobacco Use
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: VHS
Details: 113 min., 1994, Center for Disease Control and
Prevention
Synopsis: The National Town Meeting via Satellite, March
1994 discussing key findings from the Surgeon General's Report
"Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People,' and the strategies for
making a difference. Timed segments to allow for select viewing on topics
such as "School-based Prevention programs", "Youth Access
Prevention Programs" and a video segment on the "Tobacco
Industry's Influence on Youth."
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Title: Adolescent Marijuana Abusers
and Their Families
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 362.8 Ad72
Format: Book
Details: 1981, Herbert Hendin, National Institute on Drug
Abuse
Synopsis: Contains an overview of the lives of adolescent
marijuana abusers, case studies, psychological contrasts of abusers and
their siblings and a summary of the findings.
Title: Alcohol and Tobacco
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8 R376
Format: Book
Details: 1988, Globe Book Company, Inc.
Synopsis: Designed to help young people understand how
alcohol, tobacco and caffeine affect the body.
Title: Alcohol: The Real Story
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 St87a
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Tells you the facts about alcohol. Many
young people to no really make a choice about drinking alcohol, they let
others tell them what to do. This book provides information to help
you make your own decision. Also order " Saying No to
Alcohol" and "Serena's Secret".
Title: Christy's Chance
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 D492c
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Christy has been offered marijuana, what choice
does she make. "It's Your Choice" series allows you to make
a decision and then follow the results in the story. Also order "
Saying No to Marijuana" and "Marijuana: The Real Story".
Title: Danny's Dilemma
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 D492d
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Danny has been offered a cigarette, what choice
does he make. "It's Your Choice" series allows you to make a
decision and then follow the results in the story. Also order "
Saying No to Tobacco" and "Tobacco: The Real Story".
Title: Drugs: A Factual Account
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 613.8
D944d
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Dorothy E Dusek and Daniel A. Girdano
Synopsis: Each chapter begins with a self-test concerning
areas of drug perspectives, physical effects of drug use and specific drugs
and their threat to well being.
Title: Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Book
Details: 1970, Kenneth L. Jones, Louis Shainberg, Curtis Byer
Synopsis: Up-to-date information about the physiochemical effect
of drugs, alcohol and tobacco on the central nervous system, use and abuse,
dependence, social complication, treatment and cures.
Title: Drugs: Uses and Abuses
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8 Sco85d
Format: Book
Details: 1988, Globe Book Company, Inc.
Synopsis: Designed to help young people understand what
drugs are and how they affect the body. Includes over the counter medicines
and inhalants.
Title: Good-Bye to All That
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 394.1 L584g
Format: Book
Details: 1970 Harris Lewine
Synopsis: Historical pictures and ads add to the impact of
this book of tobacco through the ages.
(2003)Title: Healthy Maine
2010: Longer and Healthier Lives (See New Resources, Community
Health Education)
(2003)Title: Healthy Maine
2010: Opportunities for All (See New Resources, Community Health
Education)
(2004)Title: Inhalant
Prevention Resource Guide (Virginia Department of Education)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 362.29 B9175in
Format: Book
Details: 83 pgs., January, 2001, Virginia Department of Education,
Isabel Burk, M.S., C.H.E.S.
Synopsis: The guide is designed for adult use with information, a prevention framework, sample lessons, materials, and resources. It can be augmented with other curricula and activities and can be integrated into different subjects areas. Teachers and counselors can use the lessons and materials with classes and small groups. The materials and concepts are also adaptable for special needs students.
Title: Marijuana: The Real Story
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 St87m
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Tells you the facts about marijuana. Many
young people to no really make a choice about using marijuana, they let
others tell them what to do. This book provides information to help
you make your own decision. Also order " Saying No to
Marijuana" and "Christy's Chance".
(2002) Title: Measurements in Prevention: A manual on selecting and using instruments to evaluate prevention programs
Grade Level: Adults
Call Number: HERC 613.8 K961m
Format: Book
Details: 1993, Karol L. Kumpfer, James G. Ross, Gail H. Shur;
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Synopsis: A manual to help the reader select instruments to evaluate substance abuse prevention programs.
(2005)Title:
National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Local Coordinator's Kit
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 362.29 S740tw
Format: Binder of materials
Details: 2004, National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
Synopsis: Kit for use by anyone developing, promoting and implementing a
local inhalants and poisons awareness program. Kit includes information on
how to get started, planning an event, suggested activities, and working
with the media. Also included are folders of materials in English and
Spanish (but not French…) designed to be copied and used to promote and
educate.
Title: Needs Assessment Workbook for Prevention Planning
Grade Level: Adult
Format: Book
Details: 190 pgs., 1981, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
Synopsis: Much of the necessary planning for prevention
services should begin with a valid needs assessment, and the purpose of this
workbook is to identify and describe the key steps and procedures that those
involved in conducting needs assessment should consider.
Title: Preparing For The Drug (Free)
Years: a family activity book
Grade Level: 4-8, parents
Call Number: HERC 613.8 P919
Format: Book
Details: 1988, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
Synopsis: A family activity book that helps parents of
children in grades 4-8 to reduce the risk that their children will develop
alcohol or other drug problems.
Title: Saying No to Alcohol
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 Ab195sa
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Provides teachers with a structured sequence of
classroom activities to help young people resist peer pressure and say no to
alcohol when used in conjunction with the following titles: " Serena's
Secret" and "Alcohol: The Real Story", which must be ordered
separately.
Title: Saying No to Marijuana
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 Ab195sm
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Provides teachers with a structured sequence of
classroom activities to help young people resist peer pressure and say no to
marijuana when used in conjunction with the following titles: "
Christy's Chance" and "Marijuana: The Real Story", which must
be ordered separately.
Title: Saying No to Tobacco
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 Ab195st
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Provides teachers with a structured sequence of
classroom activities to help young people resist peer pressure and say no to
tobacco when used in conjunction with the following titles: " Danny's
Dilemma" and "Tobacco: The Real Story", which must be ordered
separately.
Title: Secret Everyone Knows
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8 B76s
Format: Book
Details: 1981, Cathleen Brooks
Synopsis: Self-help guide for those where alcohol is a
problem in the home.
Title: Serena's Secret
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 D492s
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Serena has been offered another beer, what choice
does she make. "It's Your Choice" series allows you to make
a decision and then follow the results in the story. Also order "
Saying No to Alcohol" and "Alcohol: The Real Story".
(2001)Title: Starving to Win:
Athletes and Eating Disorders (The Teen Health Library of Eating Disorder
Prevention)
Grade Level: 6-12
Call Number: HERC 616.85 ob1s
Format: Book
Details: 64 pgs., 1998, Eileen O'Brien, The Rosen Publishing
Group, Inc.
Synopsis: Deals with the pressure placed on athletes to gain or
lose weight, as well as the perils of drugs and crash diets.
(2001)Title:
Substance Abuse Prevention Activities
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8 T612s
Format: Book
Details: 137 pgs., 1993, Patricia Rizzo Toner, Center for Applied
Research in Education
Synopsis: Provides 90 ready to use activities on subjects such as
the use and abuse of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, including
prescription and nonprescription drugs, peer pressure situations and
decision-making, and where to seek help.
Title: Taking Charge of Your Smoking
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 613.8 N174t
Format: Book
Details: 1981, Joyce D. Nash
Synopsis: A quit smoking approach using major shifts in
life management and views.
Title: Tobacco: The Real Story
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 362.2 St87t
Format: Book
Details: 1987, Network Publications
Synopsis: Tells you the facts about smoking and chewing
tobacco. Many young people to no really make a choice about using
tobacco, they let others tell them what to do. This book provides
information to help you make your own decision. Also order "
Saying No to Tobacco" and "Danny's Dilemma".
Title: Understanding Anabolic
Steroids
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8
Un2
Format: Book
Details: 1989, San Diego County Office of Education
Synopsis: A teaching unit for secondary schools.
Title: Using Skills to Make Tough
Choices About Alcohol and Other Drugs
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: Student book and teacher's guide
Details: 1984, Gilda Gussin and Anne Buxbaum, Management
Sciences for Health
Synopsis: Focuses on activities that allow for practicing
decision making strategies. Includes review of factual alcohol and other
drug information.
Title: You and Me Tobacco Free:
children's activities in tobacco awareness
Grade Level: K-3
Call Number: HERC 613.8 Sch225y
Format: Book
Details: 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: Includes children's activities in tobacco
awareness that offer ideas for hands-on lessons. Easily integrated into an
already existing curriculum.
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Title: Interactive
Nights Out!
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: Computer Program
Details: 2002, Virtual Experience Interactive Learning Software
(VEILS), CD-ROM
Synopsis: Not a DVD, rather an interactive CD-ROM. Students are
placed in a virtual situation, and then are required to make decisions as
the scenario progresses. Scenarios designed for user to make decisions about
sex, relationships, beer, marijuana, and more. Provides the benefits of
experimental learning in the safety of the classroom- replaces "teaching by
telling" with "learning by doing".
Title: Alcohol and Other Drugs
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: 3 1/2" diskettes, guide
Details: IBM software, 1991, Learning Multi-Systems
Synopsis: BARN interactive program that will help students gain information about the emotional and physical effects of alcohol and other drugs, understand factors that influence alcohol and other drug use, learn why alcohol and other drug use should be avoided, know about local resources that deal with alcohol and other drug related problems.
(2001)Title:
BARN (Body Awareness Resource Network) Multimedia Series 1
Grade Level: 6-9
Format: 4 cds, 1 guide & 1 student portfolio
Details: Macintosh/Windows,1998, Learning Multi-Systems
Synopsis: Developed to provide adolescents with the information and decision-making skills needed to maintain positive lifestyles. For those already engaged in risky behavior, presents non-judgmental behavioral change strategies.
CD titles in series 1: Alcohol and other drugs 1 ; Smoking ; Stress management; Body management.
(2001)Title:
BARN (Body Awareness Resource Network) Multimedia Series 2
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: 4 cds, 1 guide & 1 student portfolio
Details: Macintosh/Windows, 2000, Learning Multi-Systems
Synopsis: Developed to provide adolescents with the information and decision-making skills needed to maintain positive lifestyles. For those already engaged in risky behavior, presents non-judgmental behavioral change strategies.
CD titles in series 2: Alcohol & other dugs 2; HIV/AIDS; Human sexuality 1; Human sexuality 2.
Title: Smoking
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: 3 1/2" diskettes, guide
Details: IBM software,
1991, Learning Multi-Systems
Synopsis: BARN interactive program that can help students clarify their own feelings and beliefs about smoking, gain information on the effects of smoking, learn tips on how to quit smoking, learn how to take a supportive role in helping a smoker who wants to quit, learn strategies for saying NO to smoking.
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Title: Comprehensive School Health
Education: Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies (4th edition)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 613 M471c 2005
Format Book (Activity Based)
Details: 2005, Linda Meeks, Philip Heit, Randy Page, Meeks-Heit Publishing Company,
1050 pgs.
Synopsis: 4th edition.
In addition to a wealth of interactive lessons,
this book addresses health education curriculum development issues and
provides information of new teaching strategies.
Title: Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally
Awesome Teaching Strategies (2nd Edition)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 613 M471c 1996
Format Book (Activity Based)
Details: 835 pgs., 2nd Edition, 1996, Linda Meeks,
Philip Heit, Randy Page, Meeks-Heit Publishing Company
Synopsis: In addition to a wealth of interactive lessons,
this book addresses health education curriculum development issues and
provides information of new teaching strategies.
Title: Drug Education
Curriculum
Grade Level: K-2, 4-5
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1981, The University of the State of New
York/State Department of Education
Synopsis: The focus of this curriculum is prevention of
substance misuse and abuse through combined cognitive and affective
activities.
Title: Education About Drugs
Grade Level: k-12
Format: Book
Details: 1971, James F. Redmond
Synopsis: A positive approach to teaching the nature,
effect and medical use of drugs and problems associated with misuse and
abuse of each substance. This guide includes an interdisciplinary program
containing content outline, objectives, activities and resource materials
arranged according to levels- k - 3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12.
Title: Entering
Adulthood: Examining Drugs and Risks
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8
G349e
Format: Book
Details: 242 pgs., 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: This unit provides in depth coverage of the full
range of drugs, including tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, narcotics
and hallucinogens. This unit involves high school students in
activities that enhance decision making, problem solving and coping skills
and help them develop effective personal strategies for resisting drug use.
Title: Globe Health Program - See
Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Health Education Teaching
Ideas - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Here We Go ... Watch Me Grow -
See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: How
to Survive Teaching Health - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Integrating
Smokeless Tobacco Into Teenage Health Teaching Modules
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 1990, Education Development Center, Inc.
Synopsis: Includes activities designed to show students the
negative health outcomes of using smokeless tobacco and practice
decision-making skills through role playing.
Title: Into Adolescence:
Avoiding Drugs
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 613.8 Ev15a & HERC 613.8 Ev15a
workbook
Format: Book, Student Workbook
Details: 160 pgs., 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: This unit is designed to help educate students
about drugs so they can make informed decisions about drug use.
Includes discussion of over the counter and prescription drugs as well as
tobacco, alcohol and marijuana.
Title: Into Adolescence:
Living Without Tobacco
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC 613.8 Sch225i & HERC 613.8 Sch225i
workbook
Format: Book
Details: 110 pgs., 1990, Network Publications
Synopsis: This unit is designed to inform students about
the harmful effects of tobacco in all its common forms.
Title: Life
Management Skills - See Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Protecting
Oneself and Others: Smoking, Drinking and Drugs
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8 P946
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 147 pgs., 1982, Education Development Center, Inc.
Synopsis: This module is designed to alert students to the
health consequences of smoking, drinking and drugs and to prepare them to
make responsible decisions about the use or non use of these substances.
(2001)Title:
Substance Abuse Prevention Activities
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613.8 T612s
Format: Book
Details: 137 pgs., 1993, Patricia Rizzo Toner, Center for Applied Research in Education
Synopsis: Provides 90 ready to use activities on subjects such as the use and abuse of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, including prescription and nonprescription drugs, peer pressure situations and decision-making, and where to seek help.
Title: Substance Abuse
Prevention Activities for Elementary Children
Grade Level: K-6
Call Number: HERC 613.8 G319s
Format: Book
Details: 1986, Prentice Hall
Synopsis: Fifty-eight lessons and classroom activities are
organized for easy, effective use in five grade-level sections (Grades K-1,
2-3, 4, 5, 6). The lessons address children's developmental needs at that
level and introduce facts about the effects of drug misuse. Lessons include
letters to solicit parent support, and a separate chapter on stress and how
to reduce its effects through relaxation, exercise, recreation and
expressing feelings.
(2004)Title: Understanding
Alcohol: Investigations into Biology and Behavior (NIH Curriculum
Supplement Series)
Grade Level: 7-8
Call Number: HERC 632.2 N213un
Format: Curriculum
Details: 207 pgs., 2003, NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism (NIAAA), BSCS, SAIC, and Edge Interactive
Synopsis: This curriculum supplement, from the NIH Curriculum
Supplement Series, brings cutting-edge medical science and basic research
discoveries from the laboratories of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
into classrooms. This was designed to complement existing life science
curricula at both the state and local levels and to be consistent with
National Science Education Standards. The structure of this module enables
teachers to effectively facilitate learning and stimulate student interest
by applying scientific concepts to real-life scenarios.
Title: Understanding Health - See
Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: When I'm Grown - See
Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
(2004)Title: Without Warning:
The Dangers of Alcohol Poisoning and Binge Drinking
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS with 41 pg. guide
Details: 1996, 17 min., Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID), Human
Relations Media
Synopsis: Surviving family members tell three stories about the
deadly effects of alcohol overdose on young adults. Includes teacher’s
resource book and student handouts.
(2003)Title: Youth
Voices
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 30 min., 2000, Maine Public Television
Synopsis: Throughout this past school year, Maine PBS producers
have worked with young people from across Maine as they have proactively
addressed alcohol use in their communities. We are proud to share stories of
these groups and to help demonstrate the positive impact the young people of
our state are having on all of us. Support for this program has been
provided by the Maine Office of Substance Abuse of the Maine Department of
Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services in
cooperation with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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TEACHING KITS:
Title: I Don't/I Won't
Chew Tobacco
Grade Level: K-3
Format: Kit with 26 slides
Details: 1989, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Synopsis: Designed to assist teaching about the use of
smokeless tobacco and its effects. The slides are to be used as an
adjunctive tool to the kit.
Title: Starting Early: An Alcohol
Education and Traffic Safety Program for Elementary School
Grade Level: K-6
Call Number: HERC 613.8 St28
Format: Teaching kit
Details: 7 teachers guides, 2 filmstrips, 2 cassettes, 1
story book, 1 game board, 1982, AAA Foundation
Synopsis: Seven guides designed to meet the instructional
needs of children in grades kindergarten to sixth on the subject of alcohol
and its impact on traffic safety and young people.
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POSTERS:
(2003)Title:
Drugs and the Body -- It Isn't Pretty
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: Poster
Details: 2002, 32" x 21", two-sided
Synopsis: This poster is a graphic tour of a body affected by
various drugs of abuse, which include nicotine, heroin, cocaine, marijuana,
inhalants, methamphetamine, and steroids. You can use this poster as part of
the larger drug education program "Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and
Your Body," a series of articles from Scholastic and the scientists at
the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). You can also use it as a
stand-alone teaching unit. In addition to the annotated body for your
classroom wall, you will find six skill sheets on the back. The poster
measures 32" x 21" and is two-sided.
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