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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 dvd (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Description
For over 40 years, the War of Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals its...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that the United States shows unmistakable signs of a dying culture. Across the country Americans are suffering from chronic unemployment, declining wages, and a morbid despair that expresses itself through compulsive gambling, sadistic pornography, and a deadly opioid epidemic. Xenophobia...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xviii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A brutally honest memoir of talent, addiction, and recovery from one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time. As a shy nineteen-year-old, Dwight Gooden swept into New York, lifting a team of crazy characters to World Series greatness and giving a beleaguered city a reason to believe. Then he threw it all away. Now, with fresh and sober eyes, the Mets' beloved Dr. K shares the intimate details of his life and career, revealing all the extraordinary...
6) Chasing life
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Documentary on treatment options for those suffering from opioid addiction. Individuals who have escaped from the clutches of opioid addiction share their stories of recovery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 347 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Description
Author Harry Nelson has been on the front lines of behavioral health and medical advocacy for 2 decades. He is the leading healthcare legal expert in the country addressing the worsening problems in how we treat pain and addiction. His insights have earned the attention of lead policymakers and regulators at every federal agency touching the opioid crisis. He has been one of the few voices in the room with direct experience of where we are going wrong....
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 21 cm
Description
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...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Quinones was among the first to see the dangers of synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths-- at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent. He investigated these new...
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David M. Kennedy, a then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" during the crack epidemic of the 1990s, it cut youth homicide in the city by 2/3 and pointed the way toward a real solution. This book tells how:...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects of recreational drugs on the mind and body, a powerful argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from their being illegal, and a field guide to their use as part of a responsible and happy life. Dr. Carl Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs...
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