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1) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
2) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into addiction.
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...
4) Go ask Alice
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
5) Glass
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbor, Liliana Lombardo, after the engine of her car is interfered with, the inspector can little imagine where this innocuous event will lead. It soon transpires that the young woman -- beautiful, intelligent and rather vague about the whereabouts of her husband -- is being targeted by someone with a grudge against her. But is Liliana's growing interest in Montalbano simply a product of the detective's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating the lack of a building permit for Commissioner Brunetti's apartment, a young bureaucrat uncovers a frightening secret and promptly dies from an apparently accidental fall; investigating his death in turn, Brunetti is drawn into a world of drugs, loan-sharking, and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that the United States shows unmistakable signs of a dying culture. Across the country Americans are suffering from chronic unemployment, declining wages, and a morbid despair that expresses itself through compulsive gambling, sadistic pornography, and a deadly opioid epidemic. Xenophobia...
Author
Publisher
Snowball Publishing
Pub. Date
2012, c1971
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Anarchist Cookbook will shock, it will disturb, it will provoke. It places in historical perspective an era when "Turn on, Burn down, Blow up" are revolutionary slogans of the day. Says the author" "This book... is not written for the members of fringe political groups, such as the Weatherman, or The Minutemen. Those radical groups don't need this book. They already know everything that's in here. If the real people of America, the silent majority,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xviii, 270 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Murray Carpenter has been under the influence of a drug for nearly three decades. And he’s in good company, because chances are you’re hooked, too. Humans have used caffeine for thousands of years. A bitter white powder in its most essential form, a tablespoon of it would kill even the most habituated user. This addictive, largely unregulated substance is everywhere — in places you’d expect (like coffee and chocolate) and places...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xiv, 269 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from her divorce with Leland, who left her for another man, Suzanne Vale isn't sure that she's the best mom for her young daughter, Honey. The 3-year-old has been a mainstay in Suzanne's life, that and the prescription drugs she takes to control her bipolar disorder. When Suzanne goes off her medication, her life spins crazily out of control, she finds herself roaming the streets of Tijuana with Tony the tattoo artist on a quest for Oxycontin......
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking examination of addiction from a psychiatrist and public health doctor, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance use and abuse.Written with warmth, accessibility, and vast authority, The Addiction Solution is a practical guide through the world of drug use and abuse and addiction treatment. Here, Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, brings together scientific and clinical knowledge, policy...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects of recreational drugs on the mind and body, a powerful argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from their being illegal, and a field guide to their use as part of a responsible and happy life. Dr. Carl Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers...
16) Reefer madness
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
1938
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this first film to inform the public of the dangers of habitual marijuana use, Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, manage to entice local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer, where stoned ne'er-do-wells laugh fiendishly, dance, and play the piano. Jack invites the clean-cut couple Bill and Mary up to his den of sin. After one joint, Bill is hooked, and his life begins to plummet down the tubes. When...
17) Pieces of a girl
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about abuse, addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to beocme a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have...
18) Saint Iggy
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hrs. 28 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
19) Rachel's holiday
Author
Series
Walsh family volume 2
Publisher
W. Marrow
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
570 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fast lane is much too slow for twenty-seven-year-old Rachel Walsh, who is always the last one still standing whenever there's a party. And New York City is the perfect place for a young female to over-do...everything! But her love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room and alienate her best friend and her boyfriend. Soon the Walsh clan has come to hustle their daughter home to check her into the local version of the Betty Ford...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink. In Pain Killer, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter Barry Meier exposes the roots of the most pressing health epidemic of the twenty-first...
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