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1) Rabbit hole
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So...
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English
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Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
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English
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One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting...
4) Bone on bone
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Bone on Bone, the next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series, sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines — but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip.
How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 6 hours) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Jackie realizes sobriety is the ultimate cover for getting high, and now she's saving lives at work, taking care of her kids, and her boyfriend is loving the new her. She's got everyone fooled, but what goes up must come down.
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English
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"Maren Walker dreams of finding her own little door. The doors have appeared to the people in her mountain town for as long as anyone can remember, though no one knows where they lead. Maren's mother was the last to go through, leaving nine-year-old Maren behind. Now living with her grandmother, Maren deals prescription medication to pay their bills and nurture her dream of becoming a nurse. When she faces the possibility of escaping her struggles...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Zara Mahoney was enjoying newlywed bliss until her life is upended by her estranged sister, Eve, and Zara must take custody of her children. Eve's struggles lead her to Tiff Bradley, who's determined to help despite the past hurts the relationship triggers. Can these women find the hope they-and those they love-desperately need?"--
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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America, 2036. Powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs ex-cop Nick Bottom's services, and, in particular, his memories. As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura's son, Bottom's flashbacks hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career. But as Nick delves deeper, the harder it becomes to trust those around him. And when he uncovers a connection to his wife's death, it is not only Hiroshi Nakamura who wants...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers at a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, retired judge Abel Campbell, hosted by their still-hale mother Hattie. But when the youngest sibling -- with a history of addiction, grand ideas, and misdemeanors -- passes out in his devil's food cake, the family takes up the unfinished business of Billy's sobriety. With sure-handed storytelling, Janet Peery...
12) Roxy
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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Isaac and Ivy Ramsey are the victims of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall). The wager: a contest to see who can bring their mark to a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. Drawn by what the drugs offer, tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful are Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy's orbit by a bad fall; Ivy, his sister, whose increasing...
14) Morphine
Author
Series
New Directions pearl volume 1266
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
55 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research -- as well as personal experience as a recovered addict ... Grisel has reached a fundamental conclusion: for the addict,...
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Erin's charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas, asks her to bail him out of rehab-- again-- she knows she needs to cut him off. Only days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin's world falls apart. A friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping "séance." But...
19) This boy
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and "wins" at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe -- oh god, please -- he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out,...
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