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Central to working with long-term addicts is the recognition that battling an addiction is anything but easy. Also, depression, denial, and a lack of percieved options to a life of addiction are all intensified by the threat of HIV infection and illness. Anger comes out in all sorts of ways, such as avoiding the responsibility to inform a possible sexual or neddle partner that one is HIV positive. Feelings which are difficult to express and difficult to hear are represented in this video.

Participants in Habits and Choices are currently or formerly homeless people and represent the hard core of users. They are primarily people of color and their responses to these questions reflect their experiences of living in the inner-city:

• How did you become an addict?
• What is the relationship between addiction and HIV infection?
• How did you decide to take the test for HIV?
• How did you respond to the results?
• How are you managing to live with HIV?

In following the daily lives of these people, the video presents much of the basic information about HIV/AIDS and discusses various ways addicts may successfully struggle with their habits and live with HIV.

Color, 29 minutes, VHS

Price : $150.00