First Aid: Drug Emergency

Duration: 16

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Churchill Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Discusses the harmful effects of combining drugs and alcohol and demonstrates the actions to take in two principal kinds of drug emergencies. Uses dramatizations and diagrams to illustrate the artificial respiration technique to use when an overdose victim stops breathing. Presents how to handle a psychological emergency created by an adverse reaction to a hallucinogenic drug., Demonstrates what to do in cases of drug overdose when a victim stops breathing. Emphasizes the basics of first aid and shows how to handle a psychological emergency caused by an adverse reaction to drugs.

Complete Record: Discusses the harmful effects of combining drugs and alcohol and demonstrates the actions to take in two principal kinds of drug emergencies. Uses dramatizations and diagrams to illustrate the artificial respiration technique to use when an overdose victim stops breathing. Presents how to handle a psychological emergency created by an adverse reaction to a hallucinogenic drug., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.