TDAC is pleased to offer
a substantial video library
for the use of schools and
organizations. Our rules are
simple:
- You may borrow two
videos at a time
- Videos must be
returned within 2 weeks
TO REQUEST A VIDEO:
AVAILABLE VIDEOS
Jennifer’s Choice -
(S-1) - 30 minutes - Peer
acceptance and
self-inflicted pressures
from being "the principal’s
daughter" motivate a young
girl to turn to drugs. When
Jennifer denies her
addiction, her mother takes
immediate action to get her
to acknowledge the problem,
accept responsibility for
her actions, and make a
commitment to initiate
rehabilitation. (Suitable
for all ages)
Smoking: The
Choice is Yours - (S-3) - 11
minutes - This is an
animated color video about a
likeable young man named
Edgar who thinks that
learning to smoke will make
people respect him.
Effectively combining humor
with serious facts, the film
demonstrates how smoking
endangers people’s health,
and why a smoking habit does
not command the respect of
most people today. (Suitable
for all ages)
To Kill the Future
- (S-5) - 16 minutes -The
true story of two teenage
brothers who lost their
lives after they took a
drive with a friend who was
under the influence of
alcohol. Determined that
their son’s senseless deaths
not be forgotten, Marjorie &
Bob Stelloh fight for
tougher drunk driving laws
and penalties and encourage
closer parent/teen
communication. Viewers are
urged to remember that they
have the right to say, "NO"
to anyone too drunk to
drive. Award: American Film
Festival-(Suitable for all
ages)
Safety Belts: For
Dummies or People? - (S-6) -
7:44 minutes- This concerns
the importance of safety
belt use. The intent is to
present, in an
understandable & very
realistic way, the facts
about safety belts to school
audiences. (Suitable for all
ages)
The Game of your Life-
(S-6) -18 minutes - This
concerns the national
problem of drunk driving and
is intended for students in
late elementary and junior
high school. It imparts
candid information on this
important subject before
students reach driving age,
at a time when children can
understand the information
and are receptive to it. It
is the result of a joint
effort by General Motors and
the American Medical
Association. (Suitable for
late elementary and junior
high/middle school)
The Flintstone Kids-
A "Just Say No" Special -
(S-7) - 23 minutes - Peer
pressure is the # 1 reason
most kids start using drugs.
Many kids end up using drugs
or doing other things they
know they shouldn’t, not
because they want to, but
because they don’t know how
to stand up to peer
pressure. This video
represents an opportunity to
discuss peer pressure with
grade school students. It
will help prepare them for
their pre and early
adolescent years, when peer
pressure is most intense and
young people are most
vulnerable to the influence
of peers. It deals primarily
with marijuana. (Suitable
for elementary)
Magic Bill- (S-8)
- 7 minutes - Magic Bill, a
sweet talking drug dealer,
meets his match in "Hill
Street Blues" Bruce Weitz,
who counters Bill’s street
type with the facts about
the effects of the drugs he
pushes. A segment from the
nationally acclaimed
Chemical People telecasts,
this video is a fast-paced
catalyst for discussion.
"The video achieves its
purpose. All play their
roles well, the information
is accurate…the constant
message is clear: regardless
of all the hoopla, drugs and
alcohol are hazardous to
your health." Science Books
and Films (Suitable for
junior high / middle school)
Growing up in Smoke
- (S-9) - 15 minutes -
This startling program
focuses on the tactics used
in promoting cigarette
smoking to children and
illustrates various
manipulative promotional
techniques used by the
tobacco industry which
bombards young people with
signs, samples, t-shirts,
posters, print ads, & even
movie theater commercials.
"Bluntly prepared… will
heighten viewer awareness of
the subtle, alluring, &
alarming ways the tobacco
industry wins customers…"
Booklist. Awards: National
Council on Family Relations
& Columbus International
Film Festivals. (Suitable
for all ages)
Say NO! To Drugs -
(S-10) - 45 minutes. It is a
practical, easy-to-follow
approach for parents &
families who want to keep
their children off drugs.
The producers of the Good
Foundation Series have
combined interviews and
dramatic vignettes to create
this instructional tool to
help families fight the
problem of substance abuse
in America. This video
offers solid advice and
techniques one can use to
teach children the truth
about alcohol & other drugs.
(Suitable for parents &
teachers)
Kevin’s Story -
(S-11) - 19 minutes - The
most important peer-to-peer
video on teen-age drinking
and driving. Kevin Tunell,
age 18, was convicted on
manslaughter and drunk
driving for the death of an
18 year old girl. As an
alternative form of
punishment, he was sentenced
to speak about his accident
for one year to high school
students, parents, &
teachers. This is a video
about his speech. It is
personal and horrifying. It
is a message for teens
everywhere. (Suitable for
junior high/middle school-
senior high)
Designer Drugs -
(S-12) - 28 minutes - This
program, moderated by Phil
Donahue, consists of two
principal elements: factual
information provided by a
panel of experts and
provocative questions and
statements designed to spark
animated discussion. The
synthetic drugs manufactured
by unqualified and
unsupervised "chemists" are
a growing menace- and not
only to those who use their
products, for these home
labs are liable to explode
or contaminate the regional
water supply or air.
Specialists appearing on the
program include Dr. J.
William Langston,
neurologist at the Santa
Clara Medical Center, an
agent of the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency and "Dr.
Shock", an unreconstructed
designer druggist who
appears unmoved by the
program’s footage of
permanently brain-damaged
buyers of a "bad batch" of
drugs. The message of the
program- Ignorance is even
more abundant on the street
than drugs. (Suitable for
high school)
Eddie Was Here-(S-13)-
34 minutes- True life drama
of a teenager’s battle with
alcohol & other drugs. Eddie
was here and now he’s not.
Eddie didn’t have the
benefit of a video like
this… You have to wonder…
why would a youngster with
love, good looks, & talent
throw it away? Video is the
perfect trigger to help
young people examine
relationships, identify peer
pressure, recognize danger
signs, and see the
consequences of substance
abuse. (Suitable for high
school)
Sooper Puppy: Drink,
Drank, Drunk - (S-14) -
16 minutes- This features
puppet character, Baxter
Puppy, who while searching
for his favorite bone,
falls, under the influence
of a couple of neighborhood
"characters" who pressure
him into attending a party
where "spiked" punch is
served. The next day Baxter
feels awful! He turns to his
wise old Grandpaw for
enlightenment on the dangers
of alcohol use. It
illustrates the dangerous
effects of alcohol on the
body and mind and clarifies
the importance of saying,
"NO", to alcohol and of
staying away from those who
would encourage its use.
(Suitable for
Kindergarten-4th grades)
Sooper Puppy: Flying
High - (S-15) - 17
minutes - Baxter wants to
fly, but when he goes
looking for his flying cape,
he finds temptation instead.
The bumbling and mischievous
Grizzle and Stoops try to
convince him that he can
really fly "high" on drugs.
Through the story of
"Mortimer, The Flying
Turtle," Grandpaw teaches
Baxter and young viewers to
distinguish the difference
between real fun which
contributes to growth and
strength, and fake fun which
is an illusion manufactured
by drugs, and also to
appreciate that success in
life requires work and
imagination, not
medications. (Suitable for
K-4th grades)
Sooper Puppy: Puff of
Smoke - (S-16) - 17
minutes-This enlightening
program gives children the
information they will need
to say, "NO" to smoking.
Having mistaken Big John’s
cigarette smoke for a fire,
Baxter ruins the cigarettes
with water. When Baxter
attempts to replace the pack
for his friend, Grandpaw
questions his actions. As
Grandpaw relates the story
of a young puppy with a
weakness for cookies, Baxter
is taught an important
lesson in the dangers of
nicotine addiction. Young
viewers learn to understand
the physical and mental
effects of cigarette smoking
in a way they can easily
understand and cope with the
pressures of advertisers and
peers who attempt to make
smoking appear attractive.
They are also shown how
positive peer pressure can
be used to help friends quit
smoking. (Suitable for K-4th
grades)
Smokeless Tobacco:
The Sean Marsee Story -
(S-18) - 17 minutes - This
video is based on the
true-life story of Sean
Marsee, a 19 yr. Old from
Ada, Oklahoma, who
subsequently died from oral
cancer related to his use of
snuff. Sean’s story is meant
to awaken young people as
well as adults to the myths
and potential health dangers
of using smokeless tobacco.
Upon completion of the
story, interviews with and
oral cancer specialist, a
professional athlete and
three addicted snuff users
elucidate some of the hard
facts about smokeless
tobacco. ( Suitable for all
ages )
On The Edge -
(S-19) - 15 minutes - This
video is seen from the point
of view of the co-dependent
with an alcoholic parent. A
teenager, Bill (the
co-dependent) is confused
and worried about his mother
(Jane) who is, maybe, an
alcoholic. He goes through a
stage of denial of his
mother’s problem before
seeking counseling for
himself and eventually for
his mother. (Suitable for
young adults)
Cocaine Diary-(S-20)
- 23 minutes - A sensitive
dramatization of a troubled
teenager’s increasing
reliance on cocaine to
escape the pressures of
school and family.
Christopher’s cocaine habit
soon depletes his savings,
alters his personality, and
threatens his relationship
with his girlfriend. But a
surprising turn of events
motivates him to quit and
try to get his life back
together. (Suitable for
middle/junior-senior high)
Straight Talk About
Drug Abuse - (S-21) - 16
minutes - Drug abuse is
perhaps the most wide-spread
disease there is because it
has no respect for a
person’s ethnic origin,
income or education.
Compounding this is the fact
that young people in junior
high school and the 20-30
year age group are
demographically the fastest
rising drug users in the
U.S. (Suitable for
middle/junior-senior high)
Crack: The Big Lie
- (S-22) - 30 minutes - Help
students make one of the
most important decisions of
their lives- the decision to
say, "NO" to crack. Based on
actual drug treatment
transcripts, this video
discloses the alarming
availability and severe
addictiveness of crack. The
National Institute on Drug
Abuse and the American
Council for Drug Education
served as consultants for
this important film.
(Suitable for
middle/junior-senior high)
It Can’t Happen To Me
- (S-23) - 25 minutes -
Teen-age drinking is a major
problem among today’s youth.
The emergence of this video
represents an important step
in attempting to reverse
this trend. The video
portrays this problem as it
affects two high school
students. It follows them
through a time of crisis and
reveals the steps they take
to turn their lives around.
Starring Vincent Van Patten
and Lisa Gerritsen.
(Suitable for
middle/junior-senior high)
Drugs of Abuse-Signs
and Symptoms - (S-24) -
17 minutes - The signs and
symptoms of alcohol,
barbiturates,
non-barbiturate sedatives,
tranquilizers,
antihistamines,
amphetamines, cocaine,
caffeine, morphine, codeine,
heroine, opium, PCP, LSD,
peyote, and marijuana are
all discussed in great
detail. (Suitable for
middle/junior-senior high)
Substance Abuse:
Attention to Prevention
- (S-25) - 14 minutes -
Featuring Slim Goodbody.
Whalley & Associates
Presents.
Cartoon All-Stars to
the Rescue - (S-26) -
29.22 minutes - McVideo
produced by the McDonald’s
Corporation.
The Truth About
Inhalants - (S-27) -
Supervised viewing
recommended! (Best used for
parent groups.)- (Suitable
for 5th grades & above)
S-28- Not Available
S-29- Not Available
Alone in the Dark
- (S-30) - 27 minutes -
Deals with the consequences
of drunk driving. (1993
Preferred Risk Group)-
(Suitable for ages 14 and
above)
Drug Wars - One
Family’s Battle - (S-31) -
Have you ever heard? "I’m
only hurting myself"- Did
you believe it? This video
is from Crime Prevention
Resources out of Medford,
OR. (Suitable for ages 12
and above)
Drug Wars- Entering
Crank County- A
Comprehensive Exam. Of the
Growing Methamphetamine
Problem - (S-32) - This
video shows you the effects
of meth. Recommended more
for parents & other adults
interested in prevention.
(Not suitable for young
people)
