Addicted teens. Legal highs / produced and edited, Brian Stewart.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Stewart, Brian (Film producer), producer.

Gorden, Vanessa, narrator.

TMW Media Group, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug addiction.

Teenagers--Drug use.

Teenagers.

Medication abuse.

Drugs of abuse.

Genre:

Educational films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Venice, CA : TMW Media, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Legal highs are man-made substances/chemicals and strong stimulants that have similar effects to illegal drugs like cocaine, cannabis or ecstasy. They are sometimes called club drugs or new psychoactive substances (NPS) and provide physical, emotional and hallucinogenic effects and are marketed as a legal high. They range from plants, to synthetic drugs, to medicines you can buy from a pharmacy. What makes them similar is that they are all legal, but that does not mean they are safe. There is often not enough research about these drugs to know their potency or the adverse effects from human consumption. You cannot really be sure of what is in them or the effect they could have on you. Many legal highs have been directly linked to poisoning, seizures, severe trauma and in some cases death. So what is a teens motivation to try these drugs? This program attempts to find out but asking teens the question, what are legal highs?

Participant:

Narration, Vanessa Gorden.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 09, 2018).

OCLC:

1022761442