drug abuse

Harm reduction is a philosophy that accepts the idea that drug use is inevitable and that making it safer is a more realistic approach to drug addiction. Examines issues with the concept of harm reduction and discusses if making risky behavior safer is the right solution.

Tom has long dreamed of getting out of Blackwater, Pennsylvania, and going to college somewhere warm and sunny, but when a plague of meth addiction sweeps through town in 2001, ruining the lives of friends, teachers, and parents, he finds it difficult to leave.

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

Examines the dangers of drug use, focusing on the drug crystal meth, with information on the physical problems it can cause, why it is so addictive, treatment options, and the dangers of addiction.

Provides information on the dangers of cocaine and crack cocaine, stimulant drugs that affect the central nervous system.

Examines the problems associated with LSD and other hallucinogens, long-term risks, and treatment for those addicted.

Journalist David Sheff tells the story of his son Nic's happy early childhood, the transformation wrought by Nic's addiction to methamphetamine, and his own obsession with Nic's well-being.

Offers teens an overview of the drug problem and encourages them to resist peer pressure and not take drugs, discussing the negative health affects of drug use and the legal and moral issues surrounding the nation's drug problem.

Fifteen-year-old best friends Sophie and Mia find their lives changing in ways they never could have imagined after Sophie convinces Mia they should try ecstasy.

After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.