Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

23 mins | Documentary | Jan. 23, 1956

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized

Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

23 mins | Documentary | Jan. 23, 1956

Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth
An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized
Producers
Original title Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth
Directors Gilbert Lasky
Writers Ronald Austin

Cast

Lowell Thomas

as Narrator

Ronald Trujillo

as The Boy

Jim Raymond

as The Teacher