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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Healing the Addicted Brain is a breakthrough work that focuses on treating drug and alcohol addiction as a biological disease based on the Recovery Science program that has helped thousands of patients defeat their addictions over the past 10 years. It combines the best behavioral addiction treatments with the latest scientific research into brain functions, providing tools and strategies designed to overcome the biological factors that cause addictive...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks.
3) Antibiotics
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Provides information on the history of antibiotics, from how they were first invented to how they impact our lives today.
5) The Inn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-Boston homicide detective Billy Robinson has retreated to a quiet life on the New England coast. Struggling to cope following the death of his beloved wife, he must now run the inn that Siobhan took care of so well. The inn's quirky residents help keep Billy on solid ground as he grieves, and the group soon become an unconventional family. But this small town is in the grips of a growing opioid epidemic, and when a young resident gets hooked into...
8) Glass
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
9) The new girl
Author
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.
Lia Setiawan is the new girl at school: she won a full ride to prestigious Draycott Academy on a track scholarship. She's determined to make it work, but feels out of place. But...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A silent epidemic in the United States is imperiling our health and threatens to bankrupt our health care system: over medication. Today, one-third of all adults take two or more prescription drugs, and half of all seniors take more than five daily. This book the first of its kind that tackles the epidemic overuse of prescription drugs. The first half of the book describes the dangers of taking too many drugs, including drug interactions, medication...
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting thrill ride of a novel from a captivating new series, 1989 confirms internationally bestselling author Val McDermid as one of crime fiction's true masters. It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid...
14) Black City
Author
Series
Black City chronicles volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ash, a sixteen-year-old twin-blood who sells his addictive venom, "Haze," to support his dying mother, and Natalie, the daughter of a diplomat, discover their mysterious--and forbidden--connection in the Black City, where humans and Darklings struggle to rebuild after a brutal war.
15) Homefront
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a former DEA agent moves to a small town to escape the dangers of his job, he is soon terrorized by a local meth druglord.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the leader of a militant communist insurgency in the Philippines escapes capture from the U.S. government with almost supernatural ease, it's up to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to catch him. Tracing the Filipino insurgent through his drug lord allies, Cabrillo learns his new adversary has his eye on an addictive chemical compound developed during World War II that can turn civilians into supersoldiers. And he's not the only one. An...
17) Born to darkness
Author
Series
Fighting destiny volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelle "Mac" Mackenzie, a super-human "Greater-Than" with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a "Greater-Than."
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fast-paced memoir that New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins called "Compelling. Scary. Totally real" gives readers a glimpse into the unbelievable reality of a young girl's 16 months in the notorious "tough love" program the ACLU called "a concentration camp for throwaway kids."
I never was a badass. Or a slut, a junkie, or a stoner, like they told me I was. I was just a kid looking for something good, something
...Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly...
20) Bullying
Author
Series
Publisher
Britannica Digital Learning
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Bullying offers support and practical advice about dealing with bullies and discusses how we can all help solve the bullying problem together.
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