Author: Lisa Carver Publisher: Snowbooks ISBN: 9781905005154 Category : Dover (N.H.) Languages : en Pages : 321
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'The 31-year-old married mother from Dover may well be the country's supreme cultural anthropologist: part literary provocateur, part social analyst. She's been called everything from this decade's ultimate underground Renaissance woman to America's horniest optimist. Hunter S. Thompson in a miniskirt.' Wired magazine
Author: Howard Marks Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0099542153 Category : Drug dealers Languages : en Pages : 578
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During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. Marks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford, but soon he was moving much larger quantities. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to fifty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Mr Nice is Howard Mark's extraordinary story.
Author: Ayelet Waldman Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0451494091 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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"In an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, Ayelet Waldman undertook a very private experiment, ingesting 10 micrograms of LSD every three days for a month. This is the story--by turns revealing, courageous, fascinating and funny--of her quietly psychedelic spring, her quest to understand one of our most feared drugs, and her search for a really good day"--
Author: Lianne Oelke Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544867858 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 435
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"Jane Sinner, a 17-year-old dropout, sets out to redefine herself through a series of schemes and stunts, including participating in a low-budget reality TV show at her local community college"--
Author: Mark A.R. Kleiman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199831386 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs? In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities survey the subject with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed series, What Everyone Needs to Know®. They begin, by defining "drugs," examining how they work in the brain, discussing the nature of addiction, and exploring the damage they do to users. The book moves on to policy, answering questions about legalization, the role of criminal prohibitions, and the relative legal tolerance for alcohol and tobacco. The authors then dissect the illicit trade, from street dealers to the flow of money to the effect of catching kingpins, and show the precise nature of the relationship between drugs and crime. They examine treatment, both its effectiveness and the role of public policy, and discuss the beneficial effects of some abusable substances. Finally they move outward to look at the role of drugs in our foreign policy, their relationship to terrorism, and the ugly politics that surround the issue. Crisp, clear, and comprehensive, this is a handy and up-to-date overview of one of the most pressing topics in today's world. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
Author: Vanessa Rogers Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1849053049 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 163
Book Description
A resource for professionals to use with vulnerable teens includes a series of activities for children ages 13-19 aimed at educating them about various drugs and encouraging them to make the correct choices. Original.
Author: James Wong Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007518528 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 21
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James Wong is back, putting his ethnobotanical expertise to use once again, with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies, showing you and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year.
Author: Lisa Carver Publisher: ISBN: 9781932360943 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
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Lisa "Suckdog" Carver has written widely on popular music, culture, and her own sex life. With Drugs Are Nice, she charts the birth of the movement she helped create, from the dizzying highs of European performance art tours to the genesis of the zine phenomenon. When her drug dealer father calmly told fifteen-year-old Lisa he'd murdered a man, she knew any chance of a normal life was off. Soon after, she found herself on stage at a Veteran's Hall punk show, caterwauling while hitting things and people. Suckdog - called "the most interesting band in the world" by England's Melody Maker - was born. Lisa Carver left the United States at the age of nineteen, becoming a teen publisher, a teen bride (to French musician Jean Louis Costes), and a teen prostitute. Hustler called Rollerderby "quite possibly the greatest zine ever," and the Utne Reader chose Lisa Carver as one of the "100 Visionaries Who Will Change Your Life." But when her baby was born in 1994 with a chromosomal deletion and his dad - industrial music maven and rumored Nazi Boyd Rice - became violent, Lisa realized the life that needed changing was her own. Drugs Are Nice is about the generation that wanted to break every rule, then vanished without a trace. No one has made the right film or written the definitive book about them. Until now.
Author: Michael C. Gerald Publisher: Union Square + ORM ISBN: 1402792328 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 882
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“A beautiful and well-researched historical guide to significant drugs” from the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prescription Drugs (Library Journal). Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs like alcohol, opium, and hemlock; the smallpox and the polio vaccines; homeopathic cures; and controversial medical treatments like ether, amphetamines, and Xanax—while shining a light on the scientists, doctors, and companies who brought them to us. “These true tales of discovery in The Drug Book by Michael C. Gerald might change the way you think about your medicine.” —The Healthy “An excellent starting point for student researchers and is very browsable for the general reader.” —Booklist
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