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261) My Last Hit
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English
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His drug addiction began in Fayetteville, NC in the early 1990s. For 15 years he battled his addiction, landing him homeless on the streets and in and out of several different penitentiary systems. But he eventually overcame his demons and June 18th, 2018, marked the 11-year clean date for the author and publisher.
Seven years since his release and Divine has not looked back. On the verge of opening a Zitro Publications office in Fayetteville, NC...
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English
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The green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth-century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3.3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all contributed...
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English
Description
A poignantly funny account of renowned writer and humorist Neal Pollack's years as a marijuana addict.
Beginning innocently enough in his 20s, Neal Pollack discovers that pot makes everything-food, music, sex-better. Getting married, having a kid, and enjoying professional success do nothing to dampen Pollack's enthusiasm for getting high. As cannabis grows stronger and more widely available, the expansion and acceptance of marijuana Big Business...
264) Unstoppable
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Dean Cage is a former Special Ops agent. Now he is a marked man who becomes the victim of mistaken identity. Injected with a powerful hallucinogenic drug that is supposed to force him to tell secrets he doesn't have to give, Cage races against time to clear his name and find an antidote that will save his life. Unfortunately, the only thing that can save him is some thing he doesn't want to trust: his own mind.
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Language
English
Description
Weed inspires her. Acid shows her another dimension. Ecstasy releases her. Nitrous fills her with bliss. Cocaine makes her fabulous. Mushrooms make everything magical. Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the "high" in high school.
A '90s time capsule buried inside a coming-of-age memoir set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's rave scene, Raver Girl chronicles...
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English
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"Aside from her rock star looks, Catra Corbett is a standout in the running world on her accomplishments alone. Catra is the first American woman to run over one hundred miles or more on more than one hundred occasions and the first to run one hundred and two hundred miles in the Ohlone Wilderness, and she holds the fastest known double time for the 425-miles long John Muir Trail, completing it in twelve days, four hours, and fifty-seven minutes....
268) Catch .44
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Three hit women are sent to rural Louisiana to intercept a big money dope deal. But when they get to the near-empty roadside cafe, bullets blast apart what was supposed to be a simple transaction. It could be a huge, bloody misunderstanding but it also might be a deadly double-cross.
269) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After her husband is released from prison, Emily begins suffering from terrifying anxiety and turns to psychiatrist Dr. Banks for help. But when Banks prescribes an experimental drug for her, the side effects have chilling and deadly consequences.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain....
271) Shottas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This is an unapologetic raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "shotta" (Jamaican term for gangster) way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom to the glittering top of a criminal enterprise in a Miami filled with fast cars and gorgeous women. The two men remain fiercely bound by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control...
272) 10,000 saints
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1980s, a teenage boy leaves Vermont to live with his father in New York City's East Village.
273) Be here now
Author
Publisher
Hanuman Foundation
Pub. Date
[1978].
Language
English
Description
Ram Dass's 1971 bestseller presented the wisdom traditions of Asia in an accessible, illustrated format, introducing Eastern religion to an entire generation of young Americans.
274) Urge
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A group of friends take a lavish weekend getaway to an island where a mysterious club owner introduces them to Urge, a new designer drug that allows them to live out their wildest fantasies. What starts out as a fun night of partying, soon takes a sinister turn when their primal impulses become uncontrollable.
275) Bright young things
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
During the 1930's, the world of the British uppercrust society is one of nightclubs, dancing, jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an endless series of parties and pleasure seeking - including motorcars, jazz bands, gossip journalism, drugs, gramophones ... Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living begins to take its toll and one by one they begin to crash and burn in the search for newer and faster sensations.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments--in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals. But after...
277) Falsa liebre
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La oscuridad del puerto lo envuelve todo. Pachi y Vinicio se adentran en la playa, van camino a una fiesta improvisada; andan buscando con qué entumir el cuerpo, con qué acabar de borrarse. El verano ha sido largo y el día, mucho peor. No muy lejos de ahí, Zahir fantasea con su próximo viaje a la capital o al norte de México, fuera del alcance de la tía que le exige dinero, lo aplaca a golpes y que había orillado a su hermano pequeño, Andrik,...
278) King of New York
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Freed from prison, Frank White challenges his fellow drug lords in bloody battles for a piece of the action. The police declare war on him, and Frank puts out a contract on the cops.
279) Control
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2005, ©2004.
Language
English
Description
Lee Ray Oliver, a violent sociopath, is granted a second chance at life when Dr. Copeland, a pioneering scientist, offers him an experimental behavioral drug that promises to suppress his violent nature. When Lee Ray's newfound life begins, he is continually haunted by his murderous past. Searching for redemption, he falls in love with Teresa, his beautiful yet cautious co-worker. Life begins to take on new meaning until the experimental drug starts...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace-including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos,...
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