Class Sessions
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Student Presentations
Lucy Liu
QuickTime video: High bandwidth
Jennifer's Story
A teen's personal narrative, this video project describe's a family's experience with a father in alcohol treatment.
QuickTime video: High bandwidth | 56K
Educating Medical Practitioners to Respond to Children of Alcoholics
PowerPoint presentation. Victoria K. Potterton, May 2002
Download PowerPoint file (.zip 28Kb)
Prescription Drugs: Abuse and Addiction
PowerPoint presentation. Amanda Burrows, May 2002
Download PowerPoint file (.zip 114 Kb)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
PowerPoint presentation. Nitara D. Carswell, May 2003
Download PowerPoint file (.zip 2.2 Mb)
Faculty/Guest Presentations
See also our Online Video Library.
Predisposing Factors in Addiction
Don West
Download file: Microsoft Word Document
Substance Abuse and the Vulnerable Brain (Class session)
Alan I. Green, M.D.
PowerPoint Presentation: Download PowerPoint file
Reflections on Alcohol and Tobacco from an Insider's Point of View (Class session)
C. Everett Koop, MD
Professor of Community and Family Medicine; former U.S. Surgeon General
Senior Scholar of The Koop Institute at Dartmouth;
QuickTime video: High bandwidth | 56K
Drinking and College Students: Perspectives from a Health Correspondent and Dartmouth Trustee (Class session)
Susan Dentzer, Dartmouth Class of '77
Dartmouth Trustee
Correspondent, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"
QuickTime video: High bandwidth | 56K
Alcohol use as portrayed in Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying (Class session)
William Cook, PhD
Professor of English
QuickTime video: High bandwidth | 56K
Discussion of Euripides' The Bacchae (Class session)
John M. Kopper, PhD
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
QuickTime video: High bandwidth | 56K
Moscow to the End of the Line: Alcohol use in Russia as represented by Erofeev (Class session)
John M. Kopper, PhD
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
QuickTime video: High bandwidth
Preventing Underage and High-Risk Drinking in the College Context (Class session)
William DeJong, PhD
Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery and Education
QuickTime video: High bandwidth
Vodka: The Elixir of Life...and Death (Russia)
Ellis Rolett, MD
Dartmouth Medical School
Download PowerPoint file (as a .pdf file)
Charting the Cycle of Sedation and Agitation Resulting from Alcohol Consumption (Class session)
Stuart Gitlow, MD
Member of American Society of Addiction Medicine
Author of Substance Use Disorders: A Practical Guide
QuickTime video: High bandwidth | Low speed
Drugs and the Brain (Class session, Spring 2003)
Robert Leaton, PhD
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Download PowerPoint file (.zip 10 MB) | Download Outline