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.
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Chasing The Lion is the story of Lionel Sanders' ascent from drug abuse and mental illness to one of...
CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haigh...
Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.
The 60s equivalent of Reefer Madness and all those other 30s drug exploitation flicks. Apparently, d...
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infa...
Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulf...
Every day in the United States, law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels—inc...
Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncerta...
Ibogaine is a plant extract that stops drug addiction. In this documentary, a 34-year-old heroin add...
Four young Americans who've each suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury emerge from their comas at a New ...
Portrait of Charles Manson. Contains various interviews with J.R. Bruun, Boyd Rice, Nikolas Schreck ...
Em is an escort girl and a heroin addict. From New York to Los Angeles via Pittsburgh, Em’s daily li...
Hi, My Name is Dicky is a sports documentary about hockey player Richard Clune, and his struggle wit...
Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, an...
The Business of Recovery examines the untold billions that are being made off of families in crisis....
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
Alexandra Jackonetti recounts the building of a children's playground of macrame in Bolinas, Calif.,...