Legal drugs can be just as deadly as illegal drugs.
The film is a comprehensive examination of an increasingly troublesome national trend. Today more than 6,000,000 Americans abuse prescription drugs and the sales of prescription painkillers have tripled since 1996. Roughly 6%of the nations 12th graders have used prescription narcotic painkillers, sedatives, or stimulants recreationally in the past year. The film is interview-based and speaks to how a prescription drug addiction can affect families and the individual user who risks heart and liver damage, stroke, seizures, depression, and sometimes even death.
This film teach your viewers that, if abused, prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicine can be just as deadly as illegal drugs. Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem. Not only can prescription drugs can be as deadly as illegal drugs, and often, easier to get.
Unfortunately, because these drugs are prescribed by a doctor, many people don't realize just how deadly they can be. In Rx To Die For, addiction treatment experts will teach how these drugs can destroy your body and brain, and victims who have experienced the devastating affects first hand will tell their stories.
If you know someone who doesn't know the dangers of prescription drug abuse, show them Rx To Die For. It could be one of the most important programs they'll ever see.
This film teaches many lessons. The following are some themes you can emphasize when showing Drug Wars - Rx To Die For:
- Young kids, teenage kids, are having prescription drug heart attacks, strokes, sometimes fatal ones, inside the schools, for no apparent reason.
- School health classes are not cautioning kids against the use of prescription drugs.
- Kids think prescription drugs aren't harmful because they are "medicine." They are DEA approved, prescribed by a doctor and over-the-counter medications can be bought legally, so people consider painkillers safe.
- Prescription drugs are easily available, not only from dealers, but from friends, in the family medicine cabinet or by "doctor-hopping."
- "Everyday people" are abusing them. These are people you would least suspect of having a prescription addiction, housewives, professional people, educators, people in health care, etc.
- Teens are 18 times more likely to die from an overdose of over-the-counter medications that from an overdose of an illegal drug such as heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine.
- It isn't' easy to tell when a person has taken a painkiller but there are physical and emotional signs to watch for.
- Teenagers don't realize that taking prescription drugs a few times at a party, could lead to a lifelong problem with an addiction or worse.
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DRUG WARS - Rx to Die for is designed to be used by anyone who has the task of disseminating information about drug abuse. Some of you will be able to develop a discussion outline by simply watching the video. The links below contain a discussion guide for the audience and a complete guide for an instructor or group leader to enhance the presentation of this powerful story.
This film could be an excellent addition to any treatment, or counseling group.
- Can be used in schools, civic groups and community organizations
- Show ti to church youth groups
- This could be used at therapy groups
- Show it at seminars and workshops
- Show it at community or neighborhood watch meetings
- Show it at PTA meetings
- Broadcast it on local, community or cable television Broadcast rights sold separately
- This powerful documentary can be shown as a stand alone presentation or as part of a wider scope presentation.
- It is suitable for loaning out.
Order Product 2110 - $299 - Includes public performance rights.
Includes Spanish Audio Track
Why We Made this Film:
We created this film on the harmful effects of prescription drug use because we wanted to raise awareness of the growing misuse of prescription drugs, especially among school children, teenagers and young adults. "Pharming" is the name given to prescription drug use- the use of any prescription drug or over-the-counter medication for nonmedical or recreational purposes.
Reviews:
Drug Wars – Rx to Die For
Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem. Prescription drugs can be just as deadly as illegal drugs, and often, easier to get. Unfortunately, because these drugs are prescribed by a doctor, many people don’t realize just how deadly they can be. In Rx To Die For, addiction treatment experts will teach how these drugs can destroy your body and brain, and victims who have experienced the devastating affects first hand will tell their stories. If you know someone who doesn’t know the dangers of prescription drug abuse, show them Rx To Die For. It could be one of the most important programs they’ll ever see.
Idaho RADAR Network Center
