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1) Clockers
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Crack-dealers known as "Clockers" are at the bottom of the drug-dealing ladder, and they must commit murder to rise higher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
Series
Research publication volume no. 127
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Author
Series
Carl Houseman novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A police stakeout on a marijuana field in Iowa ends in a shootout, leaving one officer and one drug dealer dead. An autopsy reveals the dealer was not killed by a police bullet, so deputy sheriff Carl Houseman sets out to investigate a local drug lord.
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest, an imprint of National Highland, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The availability of both opioid prescription medications and powerful illicit drugs like heroin and fentanyl has resulted in a deadly epidemic of drug abuse. Opioids and opiates are not confined to poor neighborhoods or inner cities; addicted victims are dying in communities throughout the United States. This easy-to-read, comprehensive guide uses recent statistics and up-to-date guidelines from government health and criminal justice agencies to educate...
12) Zach's lie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down.
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest, an imprint of National Highland, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
How much do you know about the Dangers of Drug Abuse? The class of drugs known as opioids includes both illicit street drugs like heroin and fentanyl, as well as popular painkillers that are legally prescribed by doctors. All opioids can pose a threat to the users physical and mental health if abused. Drug abuse also has the potential to affect a persons life in many ways. This book provides the facts about the current opioid epidemic that is sweeping...
15) Code Red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues as Mitch Rapp faces off with Russia in this high-octane installment that is "ripped straight from next week's headlines" (The Real Book Spy).
Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor—especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor bound to answer.
The Syrian government has created a highly addictive new narcotic...
Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor—especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor bound to answer.
The Syrian government has created a highly addictive new narcotic...
17) Starsky & Hutch
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s Bay City, two undercover police detective, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey. They rely on their street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod. The two are on their first big case which involves a former college campus drug dealer who has gone on to become a white collar criminal dealing in a new...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior. Together, the first two editions of Buzzed have sold over 120,000 copies-and now the authors have revised and updated the book to include the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, and the date-rape drug...