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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
x, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic of the 1980s as it sweeps the American heartland--a moving, very human account of one community's attempt to battle its way to a brighter future. Crystal meth is widely considered the world's most dangerous drug, but especially so in the small towns of the American heartland. Journalist Reding tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns, has been left...
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Formats
Description
"Journalist Owen takes readers on a trip into the world(s) of methamphetamines, from the cook houses in rural and small-town Missouri to latter-day suppliers in Mexico to users across America. In this highly personal travelog of meth making, selling, using, and abusing, Owens shows how a little-known drug first popular with bikers and truckers became a national scourge. In doing so, he debunks many myths about meth addiction and supposed meth-induced...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
326 p. : 22 cm.
Description
"From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the perspective...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jazz musician Danny Parker's wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. The heartbroken trumpet player is on the skids, lost in the lifestyle of Los Angeles' derelict tweakers. Or is he? In Danny's world nothing - most of all Danny - is what it seems.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In season four, Walt and Skyler try to use gambling to explain how Walt has made all of his money; Skyler tries to launder money through a car wash; Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview; and much more.
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (385 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It all ends with a bang! In the final episodes of Breaking Bad, Walter White and Jesses Pinkman each tries to get a clear of the wreckage they left behind in the meth world, DEA agent Hank Schrader's obsessive pursuit of "Heisenberg" gains steam, leading up to a shattering finale that will leave no one in Walt's world unscathed.
8) Drug war
Publisher
Beijing Hairun Pictures Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD video (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence. Timmy Choi just got caught making tons. Now he's in the custody of Captain Zhang, and has one chance to avoid execution - turn informant and help the cops bring down the powerful cartel he's been cooking for. Over the next 72 sleepless hours, the sting spins out of control, the line between duty and recklessness is blurred, and it becomes unclear who actually has the upper...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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