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1) The cartel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "The Power of the Dog" finds a drug lord's prison transfer to Mexico upsetting a precarious balance of peace and forcing a DEA agent to come out of retirement to stop the ensuing violence.
Author
Language
English
Description
"After a family tragedy nearly destroyed Mallory Ingram, she's fighting to get her life on track. When her sister and brother-in-law open their home to her, Mallory is certain that moving across the country will allow her to focus on a hopeful future. That future looks even more promising when her enrollment at a local university connects her with the charming Darien Thomas. However, when illegal drugs turn up in her sister's house, the first person...
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.
4) Urge
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends take a lavish weekend getaway to an island where a mysterious club owner introduces them to Urge, a new designer drug that allows them to live out their wildest fantasies. What starts out as a fun night of partying, soon takes a sinister turn when their primal impulses become uncontrollable.
6) The facts about drug use: coping with drugs and alcohol in your family, at work, in your community
Author
Publisher
Consumer Reports Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery, author Keith Veronese examines fifteen different molecules and their unlikely discovery -or in many cases, their second discovery - en route to becoming invaluable medications"--
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
2013 motion picture release.
Language
English
Description
When a street drug turns junkies into an army of giant, mutant flesh-eaters, no hope is left-but one man remains. Hunter's got nothing left but a beat-up Camaro, a trunk full of guns and booze, and a vendetta. He crashes into a small group of survivors, led by an ax-wielding priest named Jesus. They're searching for the Promised Land-but does it even exist? They better pray for a miracle, because the zombies are hot on their heels.
Author
Series
Firekeeper's Daughter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
11) Selling sickness: how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
12) Black City
Author
Series
Black City chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2013
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.
13) The unmiracle
Publisher
Keep the Faith Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A town struggles to put itself back together after the drug overdose of the most popular girl in school in this faith-oriented ensemble piece of interweaving storylines exploring the values of Christian faith.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness.
16) The inn
Author
Language
English
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...
17) Bluescreen
Author
Series
Mirador volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni--a smart device implanted right in a person's head...it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen--a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
Author
Series
Shandra Covington mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reporter Shandra Covington becomes the "beloved" next target of a serial killer walking the streets of Salt Lake City. If she's to save herself, she must discover who is responsible for the recent deaths of several young women--all thought to be overdose victims.
Author
Series
Black City chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a fresh start after his rebirth as Phoenix, Ash Fisher receives a threatening visit from Purian Rose, who threatens to kill his fianc�ee unless he legally relegates Darklings to a brutal concentration camp.
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