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Broken : six short novels / by Winslow, Don,1953-author.;
In six intense novellas connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption, the number one international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. He creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters, and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the night on the American criminal highway. With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action, and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Short stories.; Novellas.; Drug traffic; Crime; Criminals; Police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The addiction solution : treating our dependence on opioids and other drugs / by Sederer, Lloyd I.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Drug abuse; Opioid abuse; Substance abuse;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Good morning, destroyer of men's souls : a memoir of women, addiction, and love / by Aron, Nina Renata,author.;
"A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love. "The disease he has is addiction," Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. "The disease I have is loving him." Their love affair is dramatic, urgent, overwhelming-an intoxicating antidote to the long, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together, K starts using again, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens, she stays, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction, Nina can't help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K, has she failed him? Writing in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls is a blazing, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity, enabling, and love"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Aron, Nina Renata.; Drug addicts; Drug addicts; Man-woman relationships.; Codependency.;
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The mind and the moon : my brother's story, the science of our brains, and the search for our psyches / by Bergner, Daniel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.'The Mind and the Moon' is an important - and intimate - interrogation of how we treat mental illness and understand ourselves. This is a book of thought-provoking reframings, delving into the science - and spirit - of our psyches. It is about vulnerability and personal dignity, the terrifying choices confronted by families and patients, and the prospect of alternatives.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Bergner, Daniel; Mental illness; Psychotropic drugs.;
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American cartel : inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry / by Higham, Scott,author.; Horwitz, Sari,author.;
"AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the worst man-made drug epidemic in American history. It is the story of underdogs prevailing over corporate greed and political cowardice, persevering in the face of predicted failure, and how they found some semblance of justice for the families of the dead with the most complex civil litigation in American history. The lawyers and investigators discovered hundreds of thousands of confidential corporate emails and memos during courtroom combat with legions of white-shoe law firms defending the opioid industry. One breathtaking disclosure after another-from emails that mocked addicts to invoices chronicling the rise of pill mills--showed the indifference of big business to the epidemic's toll. Its narrative approach echoes work such as A Civil Action and The Insider, moving dramatically between corporate boardrooms, courthouses, lobbying firms, DEA field offices and Capitol Hill while capturing the human toll of the epidemic on America's streets. AMERICAN CARTEL is the story of those who were on the front lines of the fight to stop the human carnage. Along the way, they suffer a string of defeats, some of their careers destroyed by the very same government officials who swore to uphold the law, before they finally prevail over some of the most powerful corporate and political influences in the nation"--
Subjects: United States. Drug Enforcement Administration.; Drug control; Opioid abuse; Pharmaceutical industry;
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Archenemy [videorecording] / by Brooks, Skylan,actor.; Griggs, Zolee,actor.; Howerton, Glenn,1976-actor.; Manganiello, Joe,film producer,actor.; Manganiello, Nick,film producer.; Mortimer, Adam Egypt,film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Noah, Daniel,1972-film producer.; Scheer, Paul,1976-actor.; Seimetz, Amy,actor.; Sherman, Kim,film producer.; Whalen, Lisa(Lisa Wolk),1981-film producer.; Wood, Elijah,1981-film producer.; 3:59 (Firm),production company.; Almost Never Films,production company.; Head Gear Films,production company.; Image Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Legion M.,production company.; Metrol Technology,production company.; SpectreVision (Firm),production company.; Voltage Pictures,production company.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Director of photography, Halyna Hutchins ; editor, Lana Wolverton ; music, Umberto.Joe Manganiello, Skylan Brooks, Zolee Griggs, Paul Scheer, Amy Seimetz, Glenn Howerton.Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Superhero films.; Drug dealers; Heroes; Teenagers;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The encyclopedia of addictions and addictive behaviors / by Gwinnell, Esther.; Adamec, Christine A.,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-320) and index.
Subjects: Substance abuse; Drug abuse; Compulsive behavior;
© c2006., Facts On File,
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Trippy : the peril and promise of medicinal psychedelics / by Londoño, Ernesto,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering compound. The ayahuasca trips provided Londoño an instant reprieve from his depression and became the genesis of his personal transformation that anchors this sweeping journalistic exploration of the booming field of medicinal psychedelics. Londoño introduces readers to a dazzling array of psychedelic enthusiasts who are upending our understanding of trauma and healing. They include Indigenous elders who regard psychedelics as portals to the spirit world; religious leaders who use mind-bending substances as sacraments; war veterans suffering from PTSD who credit psychedelics with changing their lives; and clinicians trying to resurrect a promising field of medicine hastily abandoned in the 1970s as the United States declared a War on Drugs. Londoño's riveting personal narrative pulls the reader through a deeply researched and brilliantly reported account of a game-changing industry on the rise. Trippy is the definitive book of psychedelics and mental health today and Londoño's in-depth and nuanced look at this shifting landscape will be pivotal in guiding policymakers and readers as they make sense of the perils, limitations and promise of turning to psychedelics in the pursuit of healing"--
Subjects: Ayahuasca; Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.; Hallucinogenic drugs.; Hallucinogenic plants;
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The infiltrator [videorecording] / by Aubrey, Juliet,1969-actor.; Cranston, Bryan,1956-actor.; Dukakis, Olympia,actor.; Furman, Brad,film director.; Furman, Ellen Brown,screenwriter.; Kruger, Diane,1976-actor.; Leguizamo, John,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Mazur, Robert.Infiltrator.; Broad Green Pictures (Firm),publisher.; Mongrel Media.;
Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Olympia Dukakis, Juliet Aubrey.A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for strong violence, language throughout, some sexual content and drug material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Escobar, Pablo; Medellín Cartel; Cocaine industry; Drug control; Drug dealers; Money laundering;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strung out : one last hit and other lies that nearly killed me : a memoir / by Khar, Erin,author.;
In this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people in America currently battling with this addiction. Growing up in LA, Erin Khar hid behind a picture-perfect childhood filled with excellent grades, a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmother's expired painkillers, Khar started using heroin when she was thirteen. The drug allowed her to escape from pressures to be perfect and suppress all the heavy feelings she couldn't understand. This fiercely honest memoir explores how heroin shaped every aspect of her life for the next fifteen years and details the various lies she told herself, and others, about her drug use. With enormous heart and wisdom, she shows how the shame and stigma surrounding addiction, which fuels denial and deceit, is so often what keeps addicts from getting help. There is no one path to recovery, and for Khar, it was in motherhood that she found the inner strength and self-forgiveness to quit heroin and fight for her life. Strung Out is a life-affirming story of resilience while also a gripping investigation into the psychology of addiction and why people turn to opioids in the first place.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Khar, Erin.; Drug addicts; Drug abuse; Heroin abuse.;
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