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Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 22
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Opioid Crisis examines the reasons behind the opioid epidemic in the United States and its far-reaching effect on people's everyday lives. The brain science behind opioid addiction is also explored, and the book encourages readers to form their own opinions" --
3) Do no harm
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mother of a kindergartener, married to her police detective soulmate, Emma has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. When her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, she is determined to save him. Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the life-saving treatment Josh needs. When somebody ends up dead, a lethal game of cat and mouse ensues--with her own husband leading the chase. With her son's life hanging...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50 years, and over-the-counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us sleep, to keep us awake, to keep our noses from running, our backs from aching, and our minds from racing. Name a symptom, there's a pill to suppress it. Modern drugs can be miraculously life-saving, and many illnesses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the issue of drug abuse, examining why some people turn to drugs, the effects of this abuse, and what can be done to prevent it.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question--why...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts. Nearly a decade into...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From journalist and poet Melissa Bond, a gripping account of the author's addiction to benzodiazepines (a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) and the hidden dangers they pose. As Melissa mothers her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that teenagers and others were abusing its billion dollar "wonder" drug. But Justice Department officials balked a decade ago when it came to meting out justice, allowing an opioid...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the toll of opioid addiction in the U.S. on individuals, families, and communities through personal stories, including a couple who lost their son to prescription painkillers, and expert commentary.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, 'Brick' and 'Wax', used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang associates, they looted pharmacies and robbed dealers, stealing over one million doses of prescription narcotics and heroin with a street value of more than $100 million. 'Brick'...
16) Shopgirl
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy, divorced Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
17) Shopgirl
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English