Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful

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February 25th, 2011 by admin

Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful

Addiction is a very complex and abstract concept for people to understand, especially young people. We specialize in education through the use of the media arts. We take the words, "Cunning, Baffling and Powerful" and personify them. In a short movie, young people can see how predatory addiction really is. We add a brief overview of "neuroadaptation" the actual change in the brain that addiction causes. It's now a chronic disease that must be managed, it's not going away. We also show red flags

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Dorothy HALLA-POE writes:
February 25th, 20115:50 pmat

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

Powerful!, January 18, 2009

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Dorothy HALLA-POE (Chaska, MN) –

This review is from: Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful (DVD)

This DVD production is a great personification of the words “Cunning, Baffling, Powerful” which anyone in an alcohol recovery support program is familiar with. This “personification” gives a good visual picture of the thoughts, feelings and imaginings many addicted individuals experience. It gives personality to addiction, and it’s not a pretty personality. As one member of our AA group said, “it’s strange to think that there is something inside me that wants to kill me”. But, that’s the nature of addiction. Awareness, support, and living a 12-step program is a good and necessary approach for this chronic condition.

Not to mention, this is a very well done DVD.

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Larry J. Ruich "Lawrence J. Ruich" writes:
February 25th, 20116:28 pmat

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Connecting the Abstract to the Real, January 18, 2009

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Larry J. Ruich “Lawrence J. Ruich” (Indiana University, Bloomington) –

This review is from: Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful (DVD)

Lawrence J. Ruich
Doctoral Candidate
Special Education
Indiana University Bloomington

The utilization of a visual medium as an education tool lends itself to innumerable explorations. One of these explorations presents itself in the DVD, Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful. Taproot, Inc.’s founding members, Linda Flanders and, Dorothy Halla-Poe have upended the standard training module by using students as actors, allowing them to explore the everyday risks that youth encounter and face. As educators, we constantly ask and probe, “How do we instruct students to connect the abstract to the real?” The answer may lie in such a film as, Addiction, which successfully constructs a concrete portrayal of the elusive term, addiction, and its dependent offspring: cunning, baffling, and powerful. Addiction, defined as a dual character within the film, allows the viewer to witness the struggle of dependency in physical terms.

As educators, we must acknowledge that our children have grown within the digital age. The alternative styles to an education are limitless and it is paramount to provide understanding through associative visual learning and active experience. The members of Taproot, Inc. are laying the foundation for these opportunities and many others within the field of education.

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Anonymous writes:
February 25th, 20117:15 pmat

Creative, Intriguing, Realistic, July 9, 2010

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Jean-Marie Mitchell –

This review is from: Addiction: Cunning, Baffling and Powerful (DVD)

This video captures your attention and holds your interest while teaching you important information about addiction. I think young people will relate to the struggle of the main character, and by depicting abstract qualities as personified (by the same person, no less) the video really captures the nature of the internal struggles of addiction. It gets the point across in a way that will be remembered because it is quite unique. The video does a great job of teaching without “preaching”, and by keeping the message short and simple, it is effective, as well. This would be a great tool to use with youth and young adults, as well with as any population who needs to understand addiction as a chronic disease. I love the idea of a script that can be used with students, because the activity of making a video centered around this topic lends itself to endless variations, and keeps participants engaged in the process of learning at many different levels. The opportunity for students to examine the ways that these “characters” act in their own lives is a natural parallel activity that can be developed. I love this concept and would like to see a whole series like this.

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