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.
Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the histor...
In the East End of London, crowds gather to watch Jewish millionaire Bernhard Baron unveil an import...
It's Christmas Eve, and Synnøve is searching for her drug-addicted daughter Michelle in an almost de...
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
Educational film for parents to discuss LSD with their children.
Educational film about the dangers of drug use and abuse in high school. Framed around the death of ...
An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addicti...
Swedish documentary from the Gothenburg area about young drug abusers.
“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lo...
Addiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only the lives of the afflicted, but also those aroun...
Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...
A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...
Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordi...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the ...