drug abuse

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drug abuse

Club drugs

2008
Presents an overview of club drugs and their affect on society.

Suckerpunch

2008
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.

Prescription drugs

2009
Presents a concise overview of issues associated with prescription drugs; and contains primary source quotes and statistics on related topics, including their safety, costs, how widespread abuse is, and how to stop their abuse and misuse.

My brother's keeper

2006
Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone struggles to keep his family together after his father leaves; however, hiding his older brother Jake's drug habit from their mother is getting harder and harder.

True confessions of a Hollywood starlet

a novel
2005
Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small midwestern town to recuperate anonymously after an overdose and rehabilitation, recording her thoughts in a diary.

Taking sides

2006
A collection of nineteen controversial essays that debate issues including the legalization of certain drugs, drug prevention and treatment, club drugs, steroid use, and second-hand smoke.

Illegal drugs

America's anguish
2006
A compilation of facts and statistics on illegal drugs in the U.S., discussing the history of drug use, commonly abused drugs, trends in drug use, the justice system, drug trafficking, the war on drugs, treatment, AIDS and intravenous drug use, and legalization.

Singer of souls

2005
Douglas flees his life of petty crime and drug abuse in Minneapolis to Edinburgh, Scotland, where his Grandma McLaren hopes to offer him a fresh start, but as Douglas earns his living playing music, he learns that Edinburgh hides its own dangers, forcing him to choose between the allure of drugs and the promise of a new life.

Go ask Alice

2006
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

Candy

2006
Joe is a clean-cut English teen who falls for Candy, a troubled, addicted teen, and Joe risks everything to help her.

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