Paul Steinbroner

Based on the many interviews with clients from the expanding film catalog, the onset of the crack epidemic, and the multicultural needs of patients, William Cohen and Darryl Inaba wrote the textbook Uppers, Downers, All Arounders (ISBN 978-0-926544-30-7), originally published by CNS Productions in 1989 and now in its 8th edition.[2][3]

Uppers, Downers, All Arounders is Dr. Inaba's and William Cohen's way of explaining the physiological and pharmacological responses that the body has to psychoactive drugs, those chemicals that can pass through the blood brain barrier and produce a mental effect in the central nervous system. Thus, uppers stimulate, downers depress, and psychedelic drugs have a variety of effects on the neurotransmitters.

Called from Darkness is a multi-part series of documentaries on overcoming addiction through community and connection, produced and directed by Paul Steinbroner (TouchPoint Productions). All of these films examine how overcoming addiction includes a spiritual experience as noted by Carl Jung.

• Home Boy Joy Ride is a 30-minute documentary on Fr. Greg Boyle and his work in founding Homeboy Industries which is the largest gang-intervention program in the United States;

• Soul Sanctuary: Beit T'Shuvah is a synagogue, kibbutz, and treatment center where people find a life and purpose thanks to the efforts of founders Harriet Rosetto and Rabbi Mark Merkowitz;

• Stand Down: Too many traumatized veterans end up on the street after a life of serving their country. Issues of mental health, substance and abuse and homelessness rob them of a future, but Veterans Village of San Diego, California (VVSD) provides a hand up, not a hand out. Their annual "Stand Down" event provides a template for delivering services to veterans and has provided an event that has been duplicated by over 300 cities.

• Journeys on the Red Road refers to the way in which Native Americans come into connection and community through ceremonial rituals. Produced in the Pacific Northwest with Salish tribes, this is an homage to the strength and determination of indigenous people to overcome historical trauma, racism, and substance abuse by committing to work with a canoe family on their annual Canoe Journey event.

• JustUs is the story of how a community besieged by heroin and methamphetamine exposure looks to their Spanish-Catholic and Pueblo culture to find the vestiges of ceremony and spirituality to ward off a massive overdose epidemic which threatens to destroy a unique group of people that inhabit Northern New Mexico. The film includes Richard Rohr, OFM of the Center for Action and Contemplation(CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.