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This book discusses OxyContin, a semisynthetic opioid containing thebaine from poppies and synthetic chemicals and designed to slowly release oxycodone over twelve hours, and describes reactions of the body when OxyContin is abused and the treatments required to recover from this addiction.
5) Dope sick
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Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
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Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his brother, mostly because Will, who is five years older, has never looked down on him. When Will was knocked out cold during a football game, resulting in a brain injury, everything changed. Sixteen months later their family is still living under the weight of the incident that left Will with a facial tic, depression, and an anger he cannot always control, culminating in their parents' divorce. And Will is...
7) Marijuana
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This book discusses marijuana, the most commonly abused illegal drug in the United States, and explains that it is a drug that has a high potential for abuse and addiction.
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Over the past decade, the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by professional and amateur athletes at elite levels has made headlines in newspapers across the countryand beyond. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines What Are the Origins of the Performance-Enhancing Drugs Controversy?; Do Performance-Enhancing Drugs Put Ones Health at Risk?; Do Performance-Enhancing...