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.

In August 1969, Charles Manson's followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspir...

Three women in a re-entry house experience the reality of reintegration and attempt to acclimate to ...

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...

Focuses on the state of the Quebec health system in the early 1970s. This film reveals the harsh rea...

Every day, at Lapeyronie hospital in Montpellier, France, a psychologist and a psychiatrist treat pe...

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

In 1973, eleven year old Miguelito was discovered singing in the San Juan airport by the legendary N...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
A movie about the education for nurse told from Bente's perspective. She starts at the preschool at ...

This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story ...

Long-haired, barefoot people. Free love! Veganism! Experiments with drugs... The sixties, right? Not...

He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record break...

Satan in the Suburbs tells the shocking story of a grisly ritualistic murder in the quiet bedroom co...

Alcohol: No substance in the world seems so familiar to us and is so incredibly diverse in its effec...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, wi...

This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original su...