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1) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenager whose life is dominated by her drug problems recounts in her diary her experiences from her indoctrination into the world of drugs to three weeks before her death.
2) Drug abuse
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues surrounding drug abuse by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This book examines the use of prescription drugs which can be obtained legally and can be found in medicine cabinets in young adults' own homes. Because of this, there is a perception that they are not as dangerous as other types of drugs. Readers discover in great detail, that abuse of prescriptions can have hazardous--sometimes even deadly--consequences.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic — devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers.
Journeying through lives and communities...
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers.
Journeying through lives and communities...
7) Why stop now
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After deciding to take his mother to rehab, a man tries to find a way to get drugs for her so that she can be admitted to the program.
8) Drug abuse
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues surrounding teenage drug abuse. Presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance.
10) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling tale of addiction—the first in the Crank trilogy—from master poet Ellen Hopkins.
Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
After,
life
was great,
At
least
for a little while.
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble....
Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
After,
life
was great,
At
least
for a little while.
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble....
11) Flashback
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Along with most of the population, ex-detective Nick Bottom becomes addicted to flashback, a drug that allows users to re-live the best moments of their lives, and must find a way to function after being hired to investigate a murder.
12) Flight
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An airline pilot saves a plane from crashing but an investigation afterwards reveals his substance abuse problem.
13) Strange lies
Author
Series
Strange truth volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo in what may have been an accident, while a mystery man was handing out drugs.
14) Towering
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil"-- Provided by publisher.
15) The seventh wish
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Charlie finally gets the hang of communicating with a magical wishing fish, a family crisis with her older sister brings reality into sharp focus, and Charlie quickly learns that life's toughest challenges cannot be fixed by a simple wish.
18) Next to heaven
Author
Publisher
Authors Equity
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
New Bethlehem, Connecticut. Picture-perfect lawns, manicured hedges, multi-million dollar homes. But beneath the designer yoga gear and country club memberships lies a darker reality. In this world of excess, Devon and Belle have it all. But they want something more. Something dangerous. Something that makes them feel alive. Their solution? A party--a meticulously curated gathering of New Bethlehem's elite, from a desperate ex-NFL quarterback to a...
19) Glass
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
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