Educational Videos

Below you will find a number of educational videos about recovery. All the videos can be found on Youtube. Thank you!

Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia University, offers a provocative, evidence-based view of addiction and discusses how it should impact drug policy. Video can be found on TEDMED/YouTube

NASW-NYC 48th Addiction Institute Dr. Kenneth Hardy Keynote. Video can be found on YouTube.

Coun 608: Psychological Aspects of Substance Abuse An overview of the influences that affect substance use in the African American community by Shabria Cladwell. Video can be found on YouTube.

The following is an interview with Dr. Sislena Ledbetter, Associate Vice President of Student Development at the University of the District of Columbia your host for A Health Mind. The purposes of this television series is to educate and informed our community about mental health; from public policy and environmental factors to the various disorders that affect healthy minds. Video can be found on UDC-TV/ YouTube.

US President Barack Obama recalls his fatherless childhood as he launches a programme to improve the lives of minority boys in deprived and dangerous inner cities. President Barack Obama on Thursday launched a very personal appeal to help improve opportunities for boys from minority groups who, he said, resembled him as a youth and faced statistical challenges that their white peers did not.

Dr. Andrea Barthwell explains step by step why marijuana is not healthy and does not qualify as medicine under FDA standards. Video can be found on YouTube.