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Summary: "'Is addiction really a disease?' In this high-definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest neuroscientific research about addiction along the way. Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Institute for Addiction Study 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLE

Summary: Strives to break through the myths and explain what addiction really is, what causes it, and how to get the best available treatments.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 ADD

Satterfield, Jason M.

Summary: "Explore the methods of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and learn why it is successful and how it can be of value in your life." -- Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 COG

Summary: Documentary film about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Against a background of social stigma, addiction recovery advocates are organizing to end discrimination and move toward recovery-based solutions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANO

Summary: This four-part season follows Central Americans on an odyssey to the United States (and others heading back home after being deported), while also delving into the shadow industries that prey on them every step of the way. The series sheds light on the smugglers and traffickers who take advantage of the migrants' vulnerability, and law enforcement pursuing them at the border while providing a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRA

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Summary: In the United States, at least 91 people die every day from an opioid overdose. The ripples of these deaths linger in the memories of those who survive and those who they leave behind. The documentary takes viewers on an immersive journey that provides an intimate and meditative portrait of life, loss, and hope through the eyes of families confronting the opioid epidemic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: EPF Media 2021

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Summary: "Deaths due to drug related overdose in the United States are 115 people every day. Thousands of families are affected by the drug epidemic in this country, and it is a serious national crisis. The parents, siblings, friends, and loved ones left behind are faced with many unanswerable questions, made worse by the stigma associated with this kind of death. The truth is that addiction is a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 AMO

Summary: Frankie and Allie fight to make a difference against the heroin epidemic. The two recovering addicts spend their lives pulling needles out of the arms of active users. After that problem is solved, the addicts must be placed into the proper treatment facility. Sadly, the corrupt billion-dollar treatment industry has made it difficult and dangerous. They allowed the film crew all access for one...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AME

Duchovny, David.

Summary: Facing writer's block, the maturation of his teenage daughter, and the marriage of his ex-girlfriend, a novelist indulges in addictions to sex, drugs, and booze.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLI
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: A feature documentary film following six individuals deploying and grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often controversial solutions to the problem.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIP

Summary: From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalising his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HON

Summary: "America is in the midst of the deadliest drug epidemic in US history. In 2017 alone, around 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, driven by a dramatic rise in the abuse of opioids like OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl. It's a slow-motion disaster that is destroying whole communities, with no end in sight. As our nation looks for answers, take an unflinching look at the epidemic through the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ADD

Summary: "In the heart of downtown Seattle is the Union Gospel Mission - a homeless shelter catering to the addicted and the abused. For these men and women, hope is a novelty, self-esteem a luxury, and recovery a faraway ideal. But within the UGM is one man, an ex-Army Ranger, who believes in them. Believes in life. Believes in mountains. And he will attempt to use one of the most treacherous peaks in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEW

Summary: Adapted from Nicholas Meyer's work, this film imagines what might have happened had Dr. Watson convinced Sherlock Holmes to seek a cure for his cocaine addiction from Dr. Sigmund Freud. The adventure begins when Holmes and Freud team up to solve a kidnapping mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEV

Summary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VAR

Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: After many years of prescription medications failed her, a suicidal woman turns to the underground to overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine such as magic mushrooms and iboga. Adrianne's first dose of psilocybin mushrooms catapulted her into a world of healing where plant medicines are redefining our understanding of mental health and addiction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOS

Summary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAP

Summary: In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAC

Summary: Stevo and Bob are two friends fresh out of college who sport mohawks and blue hair, listen to hardcore music, and try to live up to their own anarchist ideals while figuring out what to do with their lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLC

Summary: Yoga instructor Peggy Cappy and neuromuscular therapist Lee Albert present effective exercise routines for relieving pain in the back, knees, hips, and head (including chronic migraine headaches).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 SUR

Summary: "In 2005 US JAG Attorney Yvonne Bradley was assigned to defend a man held at Guantanamo Bay in an unimaginable case."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE

Summary: "BIDDER 70 follows Tim DeChristopher, the University of Utah student, who foiled President Bush's last minute 2008, fraudulent oil and gas auction, bidding $1,800,000 to save 22,000 pristine acres surrounding Utah's National Parks. He had no intention to pay or drill. He paid for it with his future."--DVD sleeve.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gage & Gage Productions 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BID

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