Pharm country
By: ABC News
Contributors: ABC News; ABC News Productions; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Films Media Group
Series: Young addicts: drugs, alcohol, and America's future; CHD 640 (NU course); PSY 655 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 21
ISBN-13: 9781421354415; 9781421354477
Subjects: Youth; Drug use; Drug abuse
Other titles: Nightline (Television program); Easy highs and high risks.
Description: (Distributor) The snack bowl at a "Pharm party" includes a mix of prescription drugs -- from Adderall to Oxycontin to Xanax -- and most of them come directly from the household medicine cabinet. This ABC News program examines a disturbing and rapidly growing trend in teenage drug abuse: getting high on legal drugs, often obtained through parents' prescriptions or from questionable sources over the Internet. Presenting studies showing a rapid spike in pharmaceutical abuse among students as young as eighth-graders, the program visits a Houston substance-abuse treatment center where recovering teenage addicts and their parents share their eye-opening experiences.
Notes: Also available as streaming video.

Originally broadcast on Nightline, March 9 & 14, 2006.

Host, Terry Moran.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Pharm country, March 9, 2006; title: Easy highs and high risks, March 14, 2006.