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82) Rx
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thyme Gilchrest is an honors student. Thyme Gilchrest is popular. Thyme Gilchrest is on student council. Thyme Gilchrest is a drug dealer. Like piecing together a logic puzzle, Thyme has organized a complex trading system that enables her to obtain the meds her friends need. They all come to her to diagnose their problems and provide the "cure" -- be it Prozac, Ritalin, Vicodin...She's therapist, doctor, and pharmacist all in one. She helps people....
Author
Series
Mirador volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni -- a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen -- and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador,...
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicinesand a primer on how to make that change happen.Globally, 10 million people die each year because they are unable to pay for medicines that would save them. The cost...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Presents an investigation into the current medical and scientific revolution in the field of psychedelic drugs, tracing the criminalization of such substances as LSD and psychedelic mushrooms and how they may treat difficult health challenges.
86) We die young
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder helps two boys get revenge on a drug lord in Washington, D.C.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Psychedelics including psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, ayahuasca and peyote are poised to revolutionize mental health and alter the wellness industry forever. Once feared and misunderstood, psychedelics have emerged as one of the most promising therapies of the 21st century. Through cutting-edge research, substances such as MDMA and LSD are being recognized as powerful keys to healing and human improvement, offering solutions for mental health issues...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly every medication possible; her husband...
90) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street client©·le hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood
A crew of savvy former...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Before she became a multifaceted warrior and the confident leader of the Dora Milaje, Okoye was adjusting to her new life and attempting to find her place in Wakanda’s royal guard. Initially excited to receive an assignment for her very first mission and trip outside Wakanda, Okoye discovers that her status as a Dora Milaje means nothing to New Yorkers. When she meets teenagers not much younger than herself struggling with the gentrification of...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer, the agencys “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace, including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos,...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the pharmaceutical industry's role in the epidemic of prescription drug addiction, focusing on the case of the filmmaker Chris Bell's brother Mike, a professional wrestler whose death was related to drugs he had been prescribed.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new and revolutionary segment of the American social fabric. Drawing upon his rich decades of writing experience, master storyteller Martin Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, Mezz...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: the LSD-slinging graffiti writers of Central Park, the Dead-loving AI scientists of Stanford, utopian Whole Earth homesteaders, black market chemists, government-wanted...
Author
Series
Wild adapter volume 2
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A year has passed since Makoto Kubota left Sanada and the Izumo Organization in a rain of blood, and took in his little "stray cat." Kubota and Tokito may be living together, but Tokito is still as wild as ever, and without memory of his past or the origins of his grotesquely strong right arm. Later, Kubota bumps into a young runaway, who gets a rare glimpse into the private lives of these two young men.
Author
Series
Wild adapter volume 3
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Hoping to pick up information on Wild Adapter and perhaps Tokio's forgotten past, Kubota and Tokito infiltrate a popular cult that preaches a return to a more animalistic level of humanity. But the yakuza are still hot on their tail, and there is a lot more to this new religion than just meditation and ritual chanting! And once you join up, the only way out may be a stretcher...
Author
Series
Wild adapter volume 5
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Pursued by rival yakuza factions and linked to the mysterious and dangerous drug, "Wild Adapter," the distant Kubota and prickly Tokito have formed a relationship where they trust no one but each other. But just how did the strange bond between a young man who cares for nothing but himself and a stray with a monstrous right hand come to pass in the first place? Finally, the missing year between volumes 1 and 2 is revealed, and we learn just what happened...
100) Snitch
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
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