drug abuse

Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.

This book describes different stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and analgesics and explores why people use drugs, the effects and risks of doing so, and where to find help for drug abuse.

Haunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious.

Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him.

Twins Liz and Kyle join their newly-discovered half-brother Will on a road trip back from their father's funeral in Florida to New York on a journey that becomes stranger and stranger, and yields the answers to many long-held mysteries.

After dealing with an alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, a school bully, and life on the wrong side of the tracks in Cleveland, Ohio, high school sophomore Martha Kowalski expects to be happy when she moves in with a rich family across town, but finds that the "rich life" has problems of its own.

Presents a collection of twenty-three controversial essays that debate issues associated with teen addictions; and focuses on topics including the effects of alcohol, nicotine, and brain altering drugs, genetic influences, and personal stories of drug use and recovery.

Seventeen-year-old Brendon embarks on a path-changing two day high on California acid, or "pure sunshine," during which time he begins to break away from his friends Will and Kevin.