Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes of actual cases in the emergency room and adjoining physician's offices of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Viewers observe emergency treatment of patients in the major classes of drugs commonly abused, opiates, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. The film demonstrates to health professionals that successful management of drug overdoses can save most lives and avert additional organic and psychiatric complications.
On the night of October 30, 1993, River Phoenix is set to play with his band at the Viper Room on Su...
Italian-born Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso, played for European royalty and made her Ameri...
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...
Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulf...
“Novanta Giorni” to make a life-changing choice. Two opposing worlds brought into dialogue in this d...
Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapid...
Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.
A variety of patients are brought in by ambulance 24 hours everyday. In Japan, ambulance as a part ...
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The COVID crisis triggered a real war against the virus. Civilian or military, medical, paramedical ...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Elvis and Priscilla are one of the most famous celebrity couples of all time. But the story that lie...
The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction thro...
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...
As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portr...
Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1...
Alcoholics Anonymous is a community of men and women who share their experience, hope and support wi...
Plotless and wordless, beautifully edited shots of young (often naked or semi-naked) people in vario...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...