drug addiction

On title page: The Consumers Union Report on narcotics, stimulants, depressants, inhalants, hallucinogens, and marijuana--including caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol.

A portrait of the novelist Ken Kesey and the West Coast "Merry Pranksters" during a several year pursuit of the LSD experience and development of psychedelia.

Dr. Michael Stein provides an account of the treatment, relapse, and long-term recovery of Lucy, a young woman who came to him for help in ridding herself of a prescription drug addiction, and provides insights into how doctors think about addiction, their decision-making process, and how addiction should be regarded and treated.

Provides information on drug dependence and treatment, discussing the onset and cost of addiction, the first steps of the recovery process, rehabilitation, and remaining drug free.

When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds the abandoned baby of a drug addict, he is accused of kidnapping, and his mother Barbara looks for help from her old lover, Kent Harlan.

Nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up with her grandparents. Her grandmother is a force of nature--willful, outspoken, wise, and fiercely protective. Her African American grandfather, an astronomer and professor, is a gentle man with a comforting presence. When her grandfather dies, Maya falls apart and turns to drugs, alcohol, and petty crime. Lost in a dangerous underworld she is rescued by her grandmother who helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile.

Jason Peter was an All-American and a member of three National Championship football teams at the University of Nebraska and an NFL first-round draft pick by the Carolina Panthers. He was also a heavy drug user, an alcoholic, and suicidal.

After 24 years of addiction, the author was on his last stint in rehab, when he was diagnosed as a hopeless case and told that it was possible his brain may never correctly heal as a result of his drug abuse. He was addicted to Oxycontin, Norco, Vicodin, Fentanyl, and Valium. But he persevered and began to live a life free from drugs.