Addictions, Compulsions, and Alternative Highs

Duration: 16

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1981

Creator: Barr Films.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Explores a range of addictions and compulsions, including alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity and compulsive gambling in interviews with medical experts and former addicts. Shows how the highs we all seek can be achieved in positive, life-enhancing ways., Explores a range of addictions and compulsions, including alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity, and compulsive gambling, through interviews with medical experts and former addicts. Suggests why and how people become addicted by examining the human need for euphoria, which can lead to negative behavior patterns. Offers healthy, positive ways of "getting high".

Complete Record: Explores a range of addictions and compulsions, including alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity and compulsive gambling in interviews with medical experts and former addicts. Shows how the highs we all seek can be achieved in positive, life-enhancing ways., Explores a range of addictions and compulsions, including alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity, and compulsive gambling, through interviews with medical experts and former addicts. Suggests why and how people become addicted by examining the human need for euphoria, which can lead to negative behavior patterns. Offers healthy, positive ways of "getting high".NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.