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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
In fascinating detail, 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.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (194 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Man with the golden arm: An ex-convict recovering from heroin addiction returns to the Chicago slums and struggles to become a musician. Suddenly: A band of paid killers takes over a house in a small town, with a mission to assassinate the arriving President of the United States.
6) High art
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A once-famous photographer's career becomes interesting when she meets a beautiful young assistant editor for a prestigious photography magazine.
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.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection Do the Windows Open?, is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd friendship between the narrator -- a photographer in her late forties -- and a precocious raconteur, identified only as The Boy, whom she has known since his...
10) Malamor
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Con la Sierra Nevada como encenario, Lisa (Cristina Umaña), quien es una adolescente, se encuentra ahora en el dilema de estar enamorada del novio de su madre, quien es adicto a la heroína."--Container.
Fifteen-year-old Lisa, once a teenager with normal interests, now a troubled girl in love with her mother's heroin-addict lover, searches desperately and violently for understanding and for vibrant color in a world too bland for her.
11) Trainspotting
Series
Criterion collection volume 1204
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir"--
13) Cost
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
420 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
THE LUMINOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM "ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" (JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST)
When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's son Jack has spiraled into heroin addiction.
In...
14) Candy
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
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