Drugs Are Not the Problem

United States, 1978

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In themselves drugs are not a problem but their abuse is. The film shows young people using various drugs and the penultimate consequence of addiction. There is a clear, diagrammatic representation of how the human mind and nervous system work and how drugs affect them. Above all, the film repeatedly points out that the human mind is capable of the greatest powers.

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Credits

director

Dudley Wolford

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1978

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

320496

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Amphetamine drugs

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Drug abuse

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Drugs

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Drugs - Physiological effect

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Drugs - Side effects

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hallucinogenic drugs

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Marihuana

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Narcotics

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Nervous system

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Neurophysiology

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Opium habit

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychology

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Youth - Drug use

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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