compulsive behavior

Presents a realistic picture of addiction, the effects of addiction on people's lives, and how addiction can be overcome.

"Yasmina isn't like the other kids in her city. Maybe it's the big chef hat she wears. Or the fact that she stuffs her dad's lunchbox full of spring rolls instead of peanut butter and jelly. She might be an oddball, but no one can deny that Yasmina has a flair for food. All she needs to whip up a gourmet meal is a recipe from her cookbook and fresh vegetables from the community garden. But everything changes when the garden is bulldozed and replaced with a strange new crop of potatoes. Her neighbors can't get enough of these spuds! And after just one bite their behavior changes--they slobber, chase cats, and howl at the moon. What's the secret ingredient in these potatoes that has everyone acting like a bunch of crazed canines? Yasmina needs to find a cure, and fast!"--From the publisher's web site.

Told in two voices, Veronica and Sawyer become partners for their senior project and soon they are helping each other battle the ghosts that haunt them--her diagnosis causing blinding migranes and his adrenaline addiction.

Provides a trauma-informed explanation to addiction and argues that only through addressing trauma can one successfully achieve recovery. Author Judy Crane discusses the therapies she provides in her treatment facilities as a way for readers to self-evaluate. Includes client case studies and book and film resources.

Describes the roles of neurons, the brain's reward pathways, and tolerance in addiction; the susceptibility of the teenage brain to addiction; and the vulnerability of the teen brain to permanent damage from drug abuse; and includes fact sheets and student activities.

Discusses addiction including symptoms, treatments, and how to cope with it.

Contains twenty-six articles in which the authors debate issues related to addiction, discussing the extent of the problem, contributing factors, treatments, and government intervention.

Fourteen-year-old Daria does not see a problem with her excessive use of technology to keep in touch with friends from her old school, until her habit puts a life in danger.

When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.

Dr. James Incandenza, scientist turned filmmaker, creates a movie so entertaining viewers cannot quit watching and literally die laughing. After he commits suicide, his sons hustle to keep the film away from a revolutionary who hopes to destroy the Organization of North American Nations, a union of Canada and the United States.