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61) Synchronic
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Julien and his wife move to Amsterdam to help look after their grandchild, the Chief of Police, who happens to be Julien's old girlfriend, seeks out his help in finding a young sex worker who has gone missing. As Baptise rapidly becomes embroiled in a case that peels back layers and layers of atrocity in the sex trade and drugs, nothing is as it first seems. For Julien Baptiste the beautiful streets, canals and houses of Amsterdam hide dark,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.
66) The new girl
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A transfer student and scholarship recipient, sophomore Lia Setiawan is angered when she discovers a cheating ring, but by the time she finds a dead body and shuts down the campus drug dealer, she fears she might be the biggest snake in the Draycott Academy nest of vipers.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating, transformative look at the therapeutic powers of psychedelic drugs, particularly in the treatment of PTSD, and the past fifty years of scientific, political, and legal controversy they have ignited, by award-winning journalist Tom Shroder"--
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
69) Life after you
Publisher
Freestyle
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Everything in Linda and Tito Lajterman's life was good. They had three healthy kids, successful jobs, and a community of neighbors and friends who they interacted with regularly. When they find their youngest son, Danny, dead in his bedroom from an apparent overdose, their entire world is turned upside-down. How did they not know he was using? Who was responsible for giving him the fentanyl-laced heroin? Did they fail as parents? These are the questions...
70) Tough justice
Author
Series
K-9 Special ops volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It should have been a routine investigation. Instead, DEA K-9 agent Adam "Deck" Decker watches in horror as one Denver hospital seems to be Ground Zero for overdoses of a new drug. Now Deck can only hope a certain icy, green-eyed ER doctor will help him and his canine partner track down the deadly source. Dr. Tori Sampson has her reasons for not trusting federal agents, especially ones working for the DEA. But the rash of overdoses including a heartbreaking...
Author
Series
Colección Argumentos volume 583
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
73) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her first mission brings her to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, Okoye, discovering the truth about a manipulative real-estate mogul, is torn between fulfilling her duty to Wakanda or listening to her own heart and standing up for the people of Brownsville.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly-but secret-cross-country wilderness...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret medical experiments of the 1950s and '60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's "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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series. When a popular high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it becomes clear that the opioid epidemic has spread even to the idyllic town of Paradise. It will be up to police chief Jesse Stone to unravel the supply chain and unmask the criminals behind...
78) Addiction
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"America is in the midst of the deadliest drug epidemic in US history. In 2017 alone, around 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, driven by a dramatic rise in the abuse of opioids like OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl. It's a slow-motion disaster that is destroying whole communities, with no end in sight. As our nation looks for answers, take an unflinching look at the epidemic through the eyes of those living through it. Along the way, join...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this provocative memoir. he recalls his journey of self-discovery. He examines...
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