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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich" (Washington Post).
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers...
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Alcohol, prescribed drugs and women - the myth, the stigma, the reality through the stories of four fascinating women. Nearly one half of the estimated ten million alcoholics in the country are women, yet their special problems are totally ignored. Concealed by families, protected by friends and physicians, these women are kept invisible. They themselves are often The Last to Know. This extraordinary film speaks directly to these women by sensitively...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A look inside the La Modelo prison in Bogota. Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombia officials the prison in reality is controlled more by the prisoners than the guards. With 5000 prisoners for 2400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to the prison. The prison is awash in violence, and drugs. Last year, 162 prisoners were killed there. The prison is controlled by three criminal groups: members of the guerrilla movement, paramilitary...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This program presents us with a realistic look at some of the issues facing today's teenager - pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and alcohol/substance abuse. Insights from recognised authorities in the field of adolescent development, and from teenagers themselves, give the viewer meaningful and constructive suggestions on how to meet these challenges.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
During adolescence, physical changes deeply affect an individual's self-concept. This impact is intensified when maturation is early or late. We discuss nutritional disorders, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, drug/alcohol use, and other related issues within the context of physical change.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow...
Author
Formats
Description
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...
8) Twelve
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When you're this filthy rich, it's hard to get clean. White Mike is a young drug dealer straddling the mean streets of Harlem and the party palaces of upper Manhattan. Mike's double life comes crashing down when a highly addictive new drug called 'twelve' hits the streets, unleashing a shocking wave of passion and violence.
9) Go ask Alice
Pub. Date
c1971
Description
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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...
11) Wasted
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
[Screener copy.]
Description
Samantha is a straight A student with a dark secret. Owen is rebelling and is consumed with hard-core drugs. Chris wants to help his friends as they struggle to overcome their demons, but soon he finds himself spiraling downward on his own path of self distruction. Based on true life events, WASTED is an edgy look into the harsh reality of teens battling an addiction that feeds on fear and loneliness.
12) The son: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This semi-autobiographical follow-up picks up where her debut "Escape from "Special"" leaves off: nonconformist Melissa is now in high school, coping with an anxiety-induced drug habit and an anorexic best friend. Even when the situation is not life or death, Melissa must negotiate the everyday problems that young adults face.
16) Up in smoke
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Description
Two free-spirited bums, traveling in a van made of pot, experience sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Description
"Provides consumer health information for teens about drug use, abuse, and addiction, including facts about illegal drugs and the abuse of legally available substances found in over-the-counter medications; describes drug-related health risks and treatment for addiction. Includes index, resource information and online access." -- Provided by publisher.
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