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      <title>Flowers of Darkness - A History of the Poppy</title>
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      <description>Flowers of Darkness is an unflinching, no-nonsense look at the opium trade - where it happens, how it is transported, and it's ultimate effects on the world community. With footage direct from the fields of Afghanistan to the streets of the ghetto, the reach and power of the poppy was as powerful in the early 1970's when this film was made, as it is now, with the comeback of the Taliban fueled by the bumper opium crop of 2007.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:20:46 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>History Channel - Illegal drugs and how they got that way - Opium, Morphine & Heroin</title>
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      <description>From The History Channel - The history of Opium, Morphine & Heroin.  You should watch this as it will begin your education on what you are fighting.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:24:55 -0400</pubDate>
      <media:description>From The History Channel - The history of Opium, Morphine & Heroin.  You should watch this as it will begin your education on what you are fighting.</media:description>
      
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      <title>Heroin: The Real Deal</title>
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      <description>Is it as addictive as they say it is? Find out the truth about heroin.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:44:11 -0400</pubDate>
      <media:description>Is it as addictive as they say it is? Find out the truth about heroin.</media:description>
      
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      <title>Behavioral Compulsions & Causes of Drug Addiction Video PSA</title>
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      <description>DRUG BEHAVIORAL COMPULSIONS: Discussion & Patient interviews describing compulsive behaviors and addiction. A fast paced, image rich video that examines the biological and environmental causes of addiction as well as the conflict between old brain cravings and new brain reasoning. Legal substances like alcohol, tobacco, and prescription medications are addressed along with illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. The video also explores compulsive eating disorders, obsessive sexual activity, and habitual gambling. Using illustrations from medical science along with real-world dialogue from individual users, Roots of Addiction demonstrates that any addiction is an inherited, learned, and practiced set of behaviors, which can be treated and prevented. Drug & Behavioral Compulsions: This video examines the biological and environmental reasons that people become addicted to substances such as legal drugs, e.g., alcohol, tobacco, and prescription medications; illegal drugs, e.g., cocaine, heroin, and marijuana; or behaviors such as eating disorders, compulsive sexual activity, and compulsive gambling. Through the use of animation, live action, and graphics, the conflict between old brain cravings and new brain reasoning, even down to the cellular level, is explored. The video shows that any addiction is an inherited, learned, and practiced set of behaviors which can be treated and prevented. The video also examines the relationships among addictions and related behaviors, including attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorders. Producer: AEGIS; Production Company: AEGIS; Keywords: drug addiction, substances abuse, alcoholism; Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs from www.archive.org.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 14:32:44 -0400</pubDate>
      <media:description>DRUG BEHAVIORAL COMPULSIONS: Discussion & Patient interviews describing compulsive behaviors and addiction. A fast paced, image rich video that examines the biological and environmental causes of addiction as well as the conflict between old brain cravings and new brain reasoning. Legal substances like alcohol, tobacco, and prescription medications are addressed along with illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. The video also explores compulsive eating disorders, obsessive sexual activity, and habitual gambling. Using illustrations from medical science along with real-world dialogue from individual users, Roots of Addiction demonstrates that any addiction is an inherited, learned, and practiced set of behaviors, which can be treated and prevented. Drug & Behavioral Compulsions: This video examines the biological and environmental reasons that people become addicted to substances such as legal drugs, e.g., alcohol, tobacco, and prescription medications; illegal drugs, e.g., cocaine, heroin, and marijuana; or behaviors such as eating disorders, compulsive sexual activity, and compulsive gambling. Through the use of animation, live action, and graphics, the conflict between old brain cravings and new brain reasoning, even down to the cellular level, is explored. The video shows that any addiction is an inherited, learned, and practiced set of behaviors which can be treated and prevented. The video also examines the relationships among addictions and related behaviors, including attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorders. Producer: AEGIS; Production Company: AEGIS; Keywords: drug addiction, substances abuse, alcoholism; Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs from www.archive.org.</media:description>
      
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      <title>Invisible - a documentary about heroin addiction</title>
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      <description>This is and awesome video and very helpful for exposing heroin addiction in the old Soviet Block countries.  This is only a trailer!
 
Trailer for "Invisible" a documentary by Konstantin Bojanov.

After the crumbling of the Soviet empire, heroin flooded the streets of many cities behind the former Iron Curtain. Heroin offered an alternative lifestyle largely unknown until then. In the late 1990s heroin addiction in Eastern Europe had reached epidemic proportions.

Invisible takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria and follows a group of six young people on a three year journey through the highs and lows, dreams and tribulations of living with heroin addiction. The story bypasses the social problems and dynamics associated with addiction and focuses on the existential views and philosophies of the participants. The film provides a platform for their ideas and concepts of the world surrounding them. The participants represent a group of "social outcasts", who remain largely invisible in society. They are members of a generation eager to discover and explore the new "commodities".

Invisible is unprecedented in the intimacy with which it portrays its subjects. The film presents perspectives influenced by euphoria as well as the sobering reality that follows, without passing judgments, trivializing, denigrating, or exploiting the subjects.

DVD available on Netflix and Amazone.com</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:03:45 -0400</pubDate>
      <media:description>This is and awesome video and very helpful for exposing heroin addiction in the old Soviet Block countries.  This is only a trailer!
 
Trailer for "Invisible" a documentary by Konstantin Bojanov.

After the crumbling of the Soviet empire, heroin flooded the streets of many cities behind the former Iron Curtain. Heroin offered an alternative lifestyle largely unknown until then. In the late 1990s heroin addiction in Eastern Europe had reached epidemic proportions.

Invisible takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria and follows a group of six young people on a three year journey through the highs and lows, dreams and tribulations of living with heroin addiction. The story bypasses the social problems and dynamics associated with addiction and focuses on the existential views and philosophies of the participants. The film provides a platform for their ideas and concepts of the world surrounding them. The participants represent a group of "social outcasts", who remain largely invisible in society. They are members of a generation eager to discover and explore the new "commodities".

Invisible is unprecedented in the intimacy with which it portrays its subjects. The film presents perspectives influenced by euphoria as well as the sobering reality that follows, without passing judgments, trivializing, denigrating, or exploiting the subjects.

DVD available on Netflix and Amazone.com</media:description>
      
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      <title>Heroin Has Not Gone Away - Anti-Drug Educational Video - Part 1</title>
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      <description>Heroin Has Not Gone Away - Anti-Drug Educational Video - Part 1. Public Domain Video. Heroin: The Next Generation. Viewers will learn about the different types of heroin being peddled on the streets of America, how heroin affects the users and hear first person accounts about heroin use from former users. Find out how the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office broke a major heroin trafficking ring that was selling the drug to young people in the affluent suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. What goes around comes around -- and Heroin is back! But the face of yesterday's junkie is not the face of the junkie of today. More young people than ever before are shooting it, snorting it ? even smoking it. And they're getting more bang for their buck when buying their heroin on the streets today. One reason: The purity of this drug is the highest at the street level than it's ever been -- that means users don't have to use needles to inject the drug into their veins. The new ability to snort or smoke heroin is enticing more young people than ever before to give it a try. Back in the 60s and 70s, heroin users primarily injected the drug into their bloodstream. The next generation of heroin users do not have to use needles to get high on heroin. Smoking it or snorting it is more appealing to younger and first-time users by eliminating the fear of needles and syringe-associated diseases such as HIV, AIDS and hepatitis -- not to mention the stigma associated with the stereotypical "junkie" who "shoots up" the drug. Another reason heroin use is on the rise, according to James Hall, an epidemiologist for Up Front Drug Information Center in Miami, Florida is because prescription drug abuse is on the rise. "Young people who try prescription narcotic opiate drugs and like the effects of those drugs are turning to heroin because it packs a similar, yet more powerful punch than prescription narcotic opiates," Hall says. "That's why prescription drug abuse is becoming a stepping stone to first time heroin users." Program Objectives: This program discusses, among other things, the following: Learn about the different types of heroin being peddled on the streets of America. Learn how heroine affects the users. Hear first person accounts about heroin use from a former users. Explore heroin trafficking trends and methods of delivery of the drug into the U.S. Find out how the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office broke a major heroin trafficking ring that was selling the drug to young people in the affluent suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. Panelists: TBA. Sponsors: This program is sponsored the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT) with the technical support of the Satellite Education Network (SEN) at Ft. Lee, VA. Public domain video. 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:48:12 -0400</pubDate>
      <media:description>Heroin Has Not Gone Away - Anti-Drug Educational Video - Part 1. Public Domain Video. Heroin: The Next Generation. Viewers will learn about the different types of heroin being peddled on the streets of America, how heroin affects the users and hear first person accounts about heroin use from former users. Find out how the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office broke a major heroin trafficking ring that was selling the drug to young people in the affluent suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. What goes around comes around -- and Heroin is back! But the face of yesterday's junkie is not the face of the junkie of today. More young people than ever before are shooting it, snorting it ? even smoking it. And they're getting more bang for their buck when buying their heroin on the streets today. One reason: The purity of this drug is the highest at the street level than it's ever been -- that means users don't have to use needles to inject the drug into their veins. The new ability to snort or smoke heroin is enticing more young people than ever before to give it a try. Back in the 60s and 70s, heroin users primarily injected the drug into their bloodstream. The next generation of heroin users do not have to use needles to get high on heroin. Smoking it or snorting it is more appealing to younger and first-time users by eliminating the fear of needles and syringe-associated diseases such as HIV, AIDS and hepatitis -- not to mention the stigma associated with the stereotypical "junkie" who "shoots up" the drug. Another reason heroin use is on the rise, according to James Hall, an epidemiologist for Up Front Drug Information Center in Miami, Florida is because prescription drug abuse is on the rise. "Young people who try prescription narcotic opiate drugs and like the effects of those drugs are turning to heroin because it packs a similar, yet more powerful punch than prescription narcotic opiates," Hall says. "That's why prescription drug abuse is becoming a stepping stone to first time heroin users." Program Objectives: This program discusses, among other things, the following: Learn about the different types of heroin being peddled on the streets of America. Learn how heroine affects the users. Hear first person accounts about heroin use from a former users. Explore heroin trafficking trends and methods of delivery of the drug into the U.S. Find out how the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office broke a major heroin trafficking ring that was selling the drug to young people in the affluent suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. Panelists: TBA. Sponsors: This program is sponsored the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT) with the technical support of the Satellite Education Network (SEN) at Ft. Lee, VA. Public domain video. 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:45:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:44:14 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:42:51 -0400</pubDate>
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