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21) Trap
Author
Language
English
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Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she's finally escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son Tomas is taken, she's back to square one ... and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that's not all ... Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they'll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the advertising tactics of the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose how it uses, manipulates, and sometimes creates illness in the pursuit of profit. With the help of health professionals and media scholars, the film dissects some of the most striking pharmaceutical ads on televison, in the end revealing how the industry exploits people's emotions to promote the use of prescription...
24) Traitors
Author
Language
Arabic
Description
To keep her parents from being evicted and fund her Clash-inspired punk band, Malika takes a job smuggling drugs over the mountains. Her partner in the run is a world-weary veteran drug mule, who unexpectedly wins Malika's sympathy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This important program reviews the role of the nursing assistant in assisting residents with self-medication and addresses the most common routes of administration. This program is designed for assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
26) The obsession
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English
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After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance--but how can she convince him to let her go?
Author
Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This anthology is aimed at all those who are interested in the connection between consciousness, psychedelics, and the development of humankind. Bestselling author Graham Hancock has been writing and speaking about this to audience's worldwide, including a controversial TEDx talk on ayahuasca and DMT, which some call the god molecule. Graham Hancock leads the charge in this collection of the latest thinking on consciousness with a particular focus...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
In Washington/Peru: We Ain't Winning!, producer David Feingold and director Shari Robertson investigate the situation in Peru in the early 1990s - a case that, according to one U.S. congressman, "defies all description and solution." Internal conflict rages between the government and Shining Path communist guerillas, while the United States military attempts to eradicate coca production in the countryside.
30) Moth: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
"Young gay heroin addicts in Urbino, Italy have enough problems but when one of their group connects with a golden stranger who shares a mysterious affliction, a tale about everyday lives riddled with addiction turns into a brutally destrctive narrative about sex as a compulsion, coupled with sociopathological transformations."--cover.
31) Revived
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Having been brought back from the dead repeatedly by a top-secret government super drug called Revive, and forced to move so the public does not learn the truth, fifteen-year-old Daisy meets people worth living for and begins to question the heavy-handed government controls she has dealt with for eleven years.
32) Blinding light
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Technology can now control the spiritual experience. This is a journey through the high-tech aids for psychological growth that are changing our world, while exploring the safety, authenticity and ethics of this new world. We already rely on technology to manage our health, sleep, relationships, and finances, so it's no surprise that we're turning to technological aids for the spiritual journey. From apps that help us pray or meditate, to cybernauts...
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Language
English
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Description
"Psychedelics including psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, ayahuasca and peyote are poised to revolutionize mental health and alter the wellness industry forever. Once feared and misunderstood, psychedelics have emerged as one of the most promising therapies of the 21st century. Through cutting-edge research, substances such as MDMA and LSD are being recognized as powerful keys to healing and human improvement, offering solutions for mental health issues...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Obsessed scientist Chris Cooper invents Gleemonex, a happiness drug. Soon everybody is taking the little orange pill. But then Cooper discovers that early test subjects have slipped into comas. Can he stop the people's habit before it's too late?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A homeless man dies of an overdose in a popular Cairo neighborhood. He was once an ideal husband and represented security for his family. Then one day, everything changed. Upon his death his friends from the underworld drag the corpse around for a whole night of madness, drinking and hallucinating situations. Based on Jorge Amado novel.
37) Club drugs
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Series
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English
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When people accept drugs from strangers at clubs or parties, they have no idea what is really in those pills. This title explores how club drugs affect the body, the laws surrounding them, how they affect society, and the ways people can prevent abuse of these drugs.
Author
Publisher
Plympton
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In her heart-wrenching depiction of loss and its aftershocks, Stephanie Wittels Wachs transports us back to the day she found out her younger brother, the talented comedian and writer Harris Wittels, had died of an overdose at the age of thirty. "The grief takes up so much space," she writes, "that there's not much room for anything else." "The New Normal" is a moving exploration of the unexpected ways in which daily life must stop, and at the same...
39) Magical Death
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film is an exceptionally vivid portrayal of shamanic activity, as well as an exploration of the close connection between politics and shamanism in Yanomamo culture.
40) Antibiotics
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about the history of antibiotics, from how they were first invented to how they impact our lives today."--
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