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"Rebecca didn't know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other's ideal (and perhaps only) match. But twenty years later, Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the damage and secrets that ignited their love begin to consume their marriage. Paul is cheating on Rebecca, and his affair gets messy...
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"In 'Painkillers: Prescription Dependency', you will find out what pain really is--and what it isn't--as well as the history of pain. The book also provides up-to-date information about painkillers and how they are abused. Special attention is given to OxyContin, which has expanded addiction to new groups of people. Treatment methods are also covered--but the best route is never to become addicted!' --Cover, p. 4.
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"In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller...
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Heroin, opium, morphine, and codeine—the natural opioids. In Heroin and Other Opioids: Poppies' Perilous Children, you'll learn about these substances as well as newer derivatives, all of which can impact lives in serious and negative ways. Take a trip through the history of opium production and use, and its role in political history. Discover that opioids were popular patent medicines, the primary ingredients of such "medicines" as Mrs.
...5) Code red
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Mitch Rapp ; 22
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"Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...
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HBO Video
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[2004]
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English
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This unvarnished, highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
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Mason Crest, an imprint of National Highland, Inc
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[2017]
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English
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"Over the past decade, use of the illicit drug heroin has been rising steadily in the United States. Heroin overdose deaths have also spiked, increasing by more than 50 percent between 2007 and 2016, according to the most recently available data from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Heroin use was once relatively rare in the United States, but drug cartels from Latin America have been steadily shipping large quantities into the country. The demand...
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Mason Crest, an imprint of National Highland, Inc
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[2017]
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English
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"The availability of both opioid prescription medications and powerful illicit drugs like heroin and fentanyl has resulted in a deadly epidemic of drug abuse. Opioids and opiates are not confined to poor neighborhoods or inner cities; addicted victims are dying in communities throughout the United States. This easy-to-read, comprehensive guide uses recent statistics and up-to-date guidelines from government health and criminal justice agencies to...
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Paramount Home Video
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2000.
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"Cheech and Chong, a Chinese-Mexican comedy team, make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy. Their marijuana-laced humor keeps their spirts high and leads them to an outrageous finale at L.A.'s Roxy Theatre." --
16) Heavy liquid
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DC Comics/Vertigo
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[2001]
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English
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In the late 21st century, "S," a former narcotics agent turned private investigator and petty criminal, is addicted to heavy liquid, a hallucinatory drug that is being pursued for its various other properties by an unscrupulous art collector, a gang of ruthless gunmen, and the government.
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Ediciones B
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2016.
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Español
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Police officers Gabriel Dickinson, who has a drinking problem, and Marta Rodriguez-Johnson, who can no longer bear to use a gun, are assigned to investigate the sort of cold cases their department does not really want to solve.
18) Painkillers
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Mason Crest
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2024.
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English
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Provides detailed information on various types of painkillers and how they are abused, including many prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications.
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Norton
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[2002]
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Melding social, political, and cultural history, the auhor illustrates that intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant, and describes how for thousands of years human beings have taken substances to change their physical or emotionalemotuional state. He argues that drug use is a necessary part of human experience, recounting how many drugs that are controlled or prohibited nowadays were freely available until the early twentieth century.
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