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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research--as well as personal experience as a recovered addict--researcher and professor...
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jackie realizes sobriety is the ultimate cover for getting high, and now she's saving lives at work, taking care of her kids, and her boyfriend is loving the new her. She's got everyone fooled, but what does up must come down.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate call to abandon ineffective drug-war policies, reframe addiction as a public health issue, and end the Fentanyl crisis. The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; preventable overdoses are now responsible for more annual deaths than traffic accidents, suicide, or gun violence. Fentanyl--a potent, inexpensive, and easy-to-manufacture synthetic opioid--has thoroughly contaminated the drug supply, and while it frequently...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"He aquí una retorcida historia de amor. Nuestro prospecto de héroe ha de ganarse su papel en ella con las reglas que impuso desde niño. No hay para él asunto más serio que este juego, cuya materia prima son las cicatrices. Necesita vivir la vida al límite, hacer de cada día una película y saltar al vacío sin la ayuda de un doble. Los novelistas, piensa, son siempre lo que cuentan. Esta novela tiene que ver con el romance, la cárcel, las...
10) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
11) All's well
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"ALL'S WELL is about Miranda Fitch whose life is a waking nightmare after an accident ruins her acting career, and leaves her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers and alcohol. On the verge of losing her job as a college theater director, Miranda lives out her broken dreams through an upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, when the unimaginable happens. She suddenly recovers,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Inseparable siblings Con and Sofie have loved their mother throughout her struggle with addiction, but when she disappears without warning, the two must decide who they can trust and whether or not they can survive on their own.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin--the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin--to the veins of people across the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her grandfather, Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and crime, becomes trapped in a war, until her grandmother helps her escape to an island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
17) Roxy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Two siblings get caught up in a wager between two manufactured gods, Roxicodone and Adderall, in this new thriller inspired by the opioid crisis"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a dazzling and harrowing memoir from debut author Sam Lansky. The Gilded Razor is the true story of a double life. By the age of seventeen, Sam Lansky was an all-star student with Ivy League aspirations in his final year at an elite New York City prep school. But a nasty addiction to prescription pills spiraled rapidly out of control, compounded by a string of reckless affairs with older...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table-eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming...
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