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This section provides access to Videos for pre-adolescents and adolescents to adress the issue of alcohol use and abuse.
The Videos do not provide easy answers but rather a direct channel of comunication from youngsters to youngsters, using no filters and are designed to stimulate reflection more than prescribing behaviours
For these reasons Videos should used under the guidance of teachers and specialised school experts (e.g. psychologists, counsellors etc.), as part of educational activities aiming at setting off discussions among young girls and boys on the theme of alcohol use and abuse, its consequences, risks and effects.
Subtitles are available in English, Polish, French and Romanian
This first video tells the full story of Luna, following her struggle in facing the challenges of growing up and the progressive falling in the trap of alcohol use and abuse. Luna experiences all the difficulties of managing her emotions while falling in love, cultivating new relationships, suffering her first disappointments and dealing with events affecting her life. This new hard to handle emotional world is full of temptations in making use and abuse of alcohol. On her path she meets new people who provide help and other who, at the contrary, risk, intentionally or not to bring her off the right path.
The video enhance reflection and awareness also proposing two possible endings to the story.
Luna tells her story and her childhood, characterised by loneliness and an emptiness that she tries to fill with alcohol. Early use becomes soon abuse and this leads her to a first and dangerous alcoholic coma. This horrendous experience is the trigger for her desire for rebirth, that she pursues through renewed interaction with others, a more open comunication to friends and the experience of social volunteering.
In this video an anonymous witness tells how his 'alcoholic debut' happens as a result of a game among friends at home, as a symbol of the need for freedom, more fun and a wrong mean of the sense of belonging to the group. Then the episode of abuse and the fear and worry seen in the eyes of the parents in the hospital becomes the strongest motivation to change.
In this interview, the encounter with alcohol takes place in a disco, at the age of 14. The motivation is to gain courage with girls and to feel free. Then soon, drinking becomes an addiction, a real 'haunting ghost' difficult to escape from. The long path to exit from alcohol abuse starts and is pursued thanks to the opening in asking help to an uncle.
