Desperate Lives

Desperate Lives is a 1982 CBS Schoolbreak Special made-for-TV film about drug use in a high school. The film has a very strong anti-drug message. The Cameron family seems, on the surface, to be the perfect family, but things are not as they seem. Their two teenage kids, Scott and Sandy, fall in with the wrong crowds at their high school, both eventually getting involved with drug experimentation. In a disturbing turn of events, Sandy, after ingesting angel dust made by her boyfriend in the school's chemistry lab, winds up suddenly jumping through a glass window of the school (purposely cutting her arms with the cut glass in the process) and is subsequently paralyzed from the fall. A caring councilor, Eileen Phillips, sees the problem...