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1) Heroine
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends... fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For over 40 years, the War on 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, it 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...
3) Limitless
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall Street power broker who wants everything Eddie has, and more....
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
176 pages
Description
In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies wrongly assured medical professionals that their opioid pain relievers were not addictive, leading to overprescribing and misuse of these drugs. It was not long before opioid addiction had reached epidemic status, with devastating consequences to society. In 2022, pharmaceutical companies and wholesalers settled massive lawsuits, vowing to fund treatment programs but failing to take responsibility for the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvi, 414 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"Just as Anthony Bourdain did for the world of food, in Dopeworld, writer Niko Vorobyov travels the globe to find out more about the war on drugs and how it affects global politics and our day-to-day lives. Dopeworld is a bold and intoxicating journey into the world of drugs. From the cocaine farms in South America to the streets of Manila, this book traces the emergence of psychoactive substances and our intimate relationship with them. With unparalleled...
Author
Formats
Description
"Ryan Hampton is a young man who has made addiction and recovery reform his life's mission. Through the wildly successful non-profit organization Facing Addiction, Hampton has been rocketed to the center of America?s rising recovery movement?quickly emerging as the de facto leader of the national conversation on addiction. He understands firsthand how easy it is to develop a dependency on opioids, and how destructive it can quickly become. Now, he...
10) Idol dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Volume 1: "At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chances at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could turn back time to when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15."--Amazon.com.
11) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
12) Taurus
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rising but troubled musician spends his days and nights searching endlessly for the inspiration to record his next song. His assistant wants to save him, his collaborators want him in the studio, and his dealer and his ex push him deeper into the void.
13) Ciao Manhattan
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The slow but sure decline of a young woman who was once a protegee of Andy Warhol.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
15) Hurly burly
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eddie, a casting director, and his friends engage in the wild life of partying, late night sex, and self-obsession. When the fast life comes to a crashing halt, Eddie has to rediscover his soul.
17) Crisis
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new non-addictive painkiller to market....
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 316 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. But American Overdose exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industry's coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers--resulting in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. McGreal tells the story, in terms both broad and intimate, of people hit by a catastrophe they never saw coming."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 184 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Citing formidable recovery rates for people addicted to prescription opiates or heroin, a guide inspired by the experiences of addicts in long-term recovery outlines treatment approaches based on new understandings about opiate addiction.
20) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Description
Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister plots and giant talking bugs.
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