Category: Drugs

By Jess Stearn

Structure: Scanned with OCR through the net Archive in 2010

Jess Stearn tells the stunning fact approximately medicinal drugs, marijuana and the "now" generation.

Who are the Seekers? The drug apostles - the fake prophets of marijuana, LSD and "speed" who let you know to "expand your conciousness" and blow your brain. They sacrafice sanity looking for the best excessive - whereas heigtening their possibilities of early extinction. "No father or mother or youngster can ignore." - Bureau of Narcotics and hazardous Drugs.

A startling record packed with bombshell truths on medicinal drugs and people who dare to exploit them.

By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

This ny instances bestseller in detail depicts city lifestyles in a gripping booklet that slips in the back of chilly information and sensationalism to bare the genuine sagas lurking at the back of the headlines of gangsta glamour.

In her outstanding bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers within the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the genuine sagas lurking in the back of the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug buyers, and street-corner society. targeting romances—Jessica’s dizzying infatuation with a highly profitable younger heroin broker, Boy George, and Coco’s past love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar—Random Family is the tale of adolescents attempting to outrun their destinies. Jessica and Boy George journey the wild experience among riches and damage, whereas Coco and Cesar stick in the direction of the road, all 4 stuck in a precarious dance among survival and loss of life. acquaintances get murdered; the DEA and FBI examine Boy George; Cesar turns into a fugitive; Jessica and Coco suffer homelessness, betrayal, the heartbreaking separation of felony, and, all through all of it, the insidious harm of poverty.

Charting the tumultuous cycle of the generations—as women develop into moms, boys develop into criminals, and wish struggles opposed to deprivation—LeBlanc slips in the back of the chilly facts and sensationalism and springs again with a riveting, haunting, and real tale.

By Julia Buxton

For almost a century, regimes worldwide have upheld a prohibitionist stance towards narcotics. the U.S. has led this international consensus, implementing acceptance of foreign narcotics conventions and legislation. immense assets are pumped into the “war on drugs.” yet in perform, prohibition has been an abject failure. Narcotics use maintains to upward thrust, whereas expertise and globalization have made a complete new variety of substances to be had to an enormous customer industry. the place wealth and insist exist, provide maintains to keep on with. Prohibition has criminalized social teams, impeded study into replacement drugs and affliction, promoted violence and gang conflict, and impacted negatively at the setting and finally has didn't stem intake and creation. the choice is a humane coverage framework that acknowledges the incentives to supply, site visitors and eat narcotics.

CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Intoxicating components in ancient viewpoint
2. The float to legislation and the assumption of Prohibition
3. From law to regulate
4. The Beginnings of foreign Drug regulate
5. The submit struggle overseas Drug keep an eye on Regime
6. Trends in Drug intake
7. Trends in Cultivation and construction
8. Accounting for Failure: the matter of Prohibition
9. Accounting for Failure
10. Institutions and coverage: The Political influence of gear and Drug keep watch over
11. HIV/AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use
12. overseas Drug keep watch over and HIV/AIDS
13. Cultivation and Drug creation: The Environmental expenses
14. Anti-Drug rules and the surroundings: The position of Chemical Fumigation
15. the recent Magic Bullet: Bio-Control suggestions
16. A be aware on Hemp

By Thomas Santella

Tracing the lengthy and sometimes risky tale of this historic drug, Opium interweaves strands of technology, historical past, and pop culture, revealing what opium is, the way it works, the way it is used, and the way it impacts the physique. From mechanical cultivators that extract the milky juice of the opium poppy, to the various felony opium-derived pharmaceutical items used all over the world, to the lethal results of heroin use, the various aspects of the Papaver somniferum spread. writer Thomas M. Santella additionally examines present teenage developments and attitudes towards the drug, besides the criminal ramifications of its use. full of full-color images, illustrations, fact-filled sidebars, a worthy thesaurus, and extra, Opium is a well-grounded creation to the strong drug that has either aided and humanity in view that prior to recorded background.

By Michael C. Gerald

By Dirk Hanson

--Winner of a 2010 self reliant writer ebook Award within the Health/Medicine/Nutrition Category.

--Winner of the 2012 collage on difficulties of Drug Dependence/NIDA Media Award

By Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the easiest chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking solid instances ever dedicated to the broadcast page.  It can also be the story of an extended weekend highway journey that has long past down within the annals of yankee popular culture as one of many strangest trips ever undertaken.

Now this cult vintage of gonzo journalism is an important movie from common, directed by way of Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

By Thomas M Santella

This sequence presents good information regarding medicinal drugs, emphasizing a historic & medical method of studying approximately medications, their use, and their impression at the consumer. This booklet explores the query of athletes utilizing physique enhancement medicinal drugs, anabolic steroids or over- the-counter vitamins, to attempt to spice up their functionality. Age 15+.

By Randi Mehling

"Methamphetamine" examines the bogus chemical compound that has been declared a drug epidemic in 2006. This insightful ebook covers the historical past, actual houses, and addictive nature of methamphetamine, and offers readers with strong information regarding the wellbeing and fitness results, developments and attitudes, and felony ramifications linked to using this damaging, hugely addictive substance. "Methamphetamine" is reinforced by means of full-color images and illustrations, charts and diagrams, and proposals for extra studying that make this publication a necessary resource for college students studying concerning the risks of this drug.