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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
Author
Series
Strategic forum volume no. 194
Publisher
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The explosion of heroin and other opiate abuse has affected more than those in Hollywood. One hundred Americans die every day from overdose deaths. The documentary tells the story of those affected and why heroin use has such a devastating reach.
7) Zach's lie
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down.
10) DEA world
Author
Publisher
Dept. of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Public Affairs
Pub. Date
197u
Language
English
12) Blow
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of George Jung. This is an uncompromising look at the rise and fall of the man who became the largest importer of Colombia cocaine to the United States in the 1970's.
Publisher
Narcotics Anonymous World Services
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
This is the basic text of the Narcotics Anonymous fellowship. Just as with alcoholism, there is no 'cure' for narcotic addiction, but recovery is possible through a program adapted from the ""Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions"" of Alcoholics Anonymous. This book, written by addicts, for addicts, about addicts, sets forth the spiritual principles of Narcotics Anonymous that hundreds of thousands of addicts have used in recovery. Intended as a complete...
14) The white storm
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three lifelong friends working in the Hong Kong Police Department's Narcotics Bureau get caught up in a case with Southeast Asia's most powerful drug lord, but when the sting operation fails, they are forced to make a devastating decision; two can live, but one must die. Five years later, the two vow revenge for their fallen friend, but when they end up competing against each other for their own lives, will brotherhood be sacrificed again?
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As an adult book, Sam Quinones's Dreamland took the world by storm, winning the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and hitting at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. Now, adapted for the first time for a young adult audience, this compelling reporting explains the roots of the current opiate crisis. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the...
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