physiological effect

Amphetamines and stimulants are among the most popular, and consequently, most dangerous drugs today. With low prices and instant availability, these drugs have taken a strong hold with teens and young adults. This narrative is friendly and nonjudgmental while being explicit about the dangers and long-term consequences of using any of these drugs.

This book gives the straight facts about alcohol, addresses teenagers' concerns, and offers help for anyone affected by an alcohol problem.

Presents a series of articles on issues relating to alcohol abuse including underage drinking, how alcohol use affects society, and the treatment and prevention of alcohol-related problems.

Discusses addiction to cigarettes, how it is encouraged by advertising, the physiological damage it can cause, reasons to avoid starting, and ways to quit.

Photographs and text record Hiroshima as it appears now and tells the story of some of the survivors.

Explores physics, physiology, aerodynamics, and other technology as applied to various sports.

Describes how the bones, muscles, lungs, and other parts of the body work together when a person runs.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

A simple introduction to different drugs and how they affect the body and to the problem of drug abuse.