Washoe County Library System

An account of addiction, marketing, and the making of an epidemic looks at the campaign to market OxyContin, while a massive influx of black tar heroin took the country by storm. From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma, an explosive and shocking account of addiction and black tar heroin in the heartland of America. In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a...

Hasta hoy, lo peor de la "guerra antinarco" ha permanecido casi en el silencio o en el terreno del rumor: el grado real de brutalidad, la lâogica de los pactos, la crâonica de las masacres, la explicaciâon de los ataques... Mediante una investigaciâon documental profundâisima y un reporteo riguroso, Juan Alberto Cedillo ofrece una investigaciâon inaudita que trae luz sobre estos fenâomenos y aclara preguntas fundamentales de la lucha que desgarra,...

The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., an undercover informant for the FBI who was convicted and given a lifetime prison sentence for drug-trafficking.

The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico borderand how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy Josâe and Miguel Treviäno were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroadswith considerable help from the FBI and an enigmatic, all-American snitch. Josâe was a devoted family man who cut no corners...