British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

Results

11-20 of 22 results | Page 2 of 3
Sort results by
  1. Better Dead - Then and Now (2001)

    Subject
    Health Education; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 45 minutes), £12.00 (+VAT +p&p) hire £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

    The first part is an undramatised documentary which shows, without script or actors, the harrowing effects of drugs misuse. Young addicts tell of their experiences and sequences show them injecting drugs....

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  2. Making ‘Junk’ (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £19.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    A video-based teaching pack on Barry Purchese’s adaptation of ‘Junk’, the Melvin Burgess novel of teenage heroin addiction. Includes: interviews with Burgess, the production team and cast of...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  3. When the Brain Goes Wrong (1992)

    Director
    Roberta Cooks; Jonathan David
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 45 minutes), £199.00

    Seven portraits of individuals with brain dysfunctions, including schizophrenia, manic depression, epilepsy, stroke, head injury, headaches and addiction. In addition to personal stories, physicians discuss...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  4. Suckers (1990)

    Subject
    Health Education
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £12.00 (+VAT +p&p) hire £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

    David Bellamy describes how and why tobacco came to Europe, and explains the biochemical secrets behind its addictive appeal. H epresents some remarkable facts and figures about just how lethal it can be,...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  5. Solvent Abuse (1986 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. Slides.

    A teaching pacage that aims to provide information and strategies for coping with the behaviour solvent abuse produces.

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  6. Solvent Abuse: The Adolescent Epidemic? (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min.

    Re-Solv is the Society for the Prevention of Solvent and Volatile Substance Abuse. Two young people talk about what sniffing feels like and a policeman talks about his experiences as beat policeman on a...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  7. From the Horse’s Mouth (2 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min.

    Focusses on former addicts (both drug and alcohol) including Anthony Hopkins, Betty Ford and Barry Humphries. They tell of their experiences on the long road to recovery. Part 2 looks at the method of...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Record only Record only
  8. Junkies (3 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 70 min.

    An insight into heroin addicts and their families in three linked films. In part 1 four young addicts explain how and why they became addicts. Part 2 examines one of them in greater depth involving her...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  9. Heroin (1971 Film)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Former addicts speak of the physical and psychological effects of the use of heroin and describe the circumstances which led to their drift to and dependence on hard drug use. The second part of the film was...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  10. Half a Lifetime (1969 Film)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the heroin addict filmed in THE ADDICT ALONE some two-and-a-half years later. He is still on drugs in spite of a year in Borstal, and his condition is worse. The life of other addicts in London is...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
11-20 of 22 results | Page 2 of 3
Sort results by