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      By Madievsky, Ruth  Plante, Moniqua
       2023., 08:00:15, HighBridge Audio Edition: Unabridged.    Click to access digital title.     Summary Note: On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions-nothing unusual for two sisters bound in an incredibly toxic relationship. Our unnamed narrator has always been under the spell of the alluring and rebellious Debbie and, despite her own hesitations, she has always said yes to nights like these. That is, until Debbie disappears. Falling deeper into the life she cultivated with her sister, our narrator gets a job as an emergency room secretary where she steals pills to sell on the side. Cue Sasha, a Jewish refugee from the former Soviet Union who arrives at the hospital claiming to be a psychic tasked with acting as the narrator's spiritual guide. The nature of this relationship evolves and blurs, a kaleidoscope of friendship, sex, mysticism, and ambiguous power dynamics. With prose pulsing like a neon sign, All-Night Pharmacy is an intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be. As she attempts sobriety and sexual embodiment, she must decide whether to search for her estranged sister, or allow her to remain a relic of the past.
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      By Messum, J. Kent
       c2013., Adult, Penguin Group (Canada) Call No: Fic Mes    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Six strangers wake up on a remote island in the Florida Keys with no memory of their arrival. They soon discover their sole common bond: all are heroin addicts from the slums of Miami. As their excruciating withdrawal begins, the six face their captors across open water. The four shadowy figures on the yacht are dangerous predators who know that their victims' need never falters - and that the creatures that swim beneath the waves have equally rapacious appetites. So begins a dangerous game. The six must make an impossible choice - swim to the next island, where a cache of the purest heroin awaits, or die trying. Alliances form among them that may seal their fate - or extend it. As the fight to survive intensifies, the astonishing motivations of the men onboard the boat emerge, raising the stakes to towering heights. An adventure that pin-points the distance between fragility and strength, Bait pulls the reader in deep.
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      By Sheff, David  OverDrive, Inc
       2009., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
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      By Hopkins, Ellen
       2004., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Fic Hop   Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.--Publisher.
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      By Macy, Beth
       2019., Adult Call No: 362.9 M113d    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Rating: ratingratingratingratingrating (1 Ratings) Summary Note: Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question--why her only son died--and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus.
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      -- Secret history of the Sackler dynasty.
      By Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
       2021., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: 338.7 K26e    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis"-- Provided by publisher.
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      By Mina, Denise
       2011., McArthur & Company Publishing Limited Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: Garnethill series   Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was sitting in her office in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. A month later Ann's mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames. No one, except for Maureen and her best mate, Leslie, seems to care about what has happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent. But solving Ann's murder comes as light relief for Maureen. Her father is back in Glasgow, living in an area overlooking her bedroom window; Leslie is sloping about like a nervous spy; and then there's Angus - Maureen's old therapist - who's twice as bright as she is and making her play a dangerous game with the police. In the long tradition of Scots in trouble, Maureen runs away to London. Looking for answers to the mystery surrounding Ann's death, she becomes embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. Alone and vulnerable in a strange city, Maureen starts to piece together Ann's final days. But time is not on her side, and Maureen needs twelve more hours, just twelve, to put things right, and she doesn't care what it costs...
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      By Broadfoot, Neil
       2014., Saraband Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: A grisly suicide in the heart of tourist Edinburgh piques the curiosity of local journalist Doug McGregor, who§s always had a good nose for a story. When his police colleague and occasional drinking partner DS Susie Drummond reveals that the victim is connected to a prominent Scottish politician, Doug finds himself unravelling a story of secrets, drug abuse, violence, murder... and the ultimate taboo. Action-packed from the very start, and with enough twists and turns to shock and surprise even the most hard-bitten crime fan, Falling Fast§ is the first of a trilogy. It marks the arrival of a new crime-writing talent who is bound to appeal to aficionados of Scottish crime greats such as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid.
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      By Stenson, Peter
       c2013., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: Fic Ste   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he's no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations. But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. The funny thing is, Chase's life was over long before the apocalypse got here, his existence already reduced to a stinking basement apartment and a filthy mattress and an endless grind of buying and selling and using. He's lied and cheated and stolen and broken his parents' hearts a thousand times. And he threw away his only shot at sobriety a long time ago, when he chose the embrace of the drug over the woman he still loves. And if your life's already shattered beyond any normal hopes of redemption... well, maybe the end of the world is an opportunity. Maybe it's a last chance for Chase to hit restart and become the man he once dreamed of being. Soon he's fighting to reconnect with his lost love and dreaming of becoming her hero among civilization's ruins. But is salvation just another pipe dream? Propelled by a blistering first-person voice and featuring a powerfully compelling antihero, Fiend is at once a riveting portrait of addiction, a pitch-black love story, and a meditation on hope, redemption, and delusion - not to mention one hell of a zombie novel."--Publisher.
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      By Leon, Donna
       2008, c2000., Adult, Penguin Books Call No: MYS Fic Leo    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Commissario Brunetti   Volume: 9Summary Note: "Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the construction of Brunetti's apartment years before. What bgan as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is later found dead after a mysterious fall from the scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that will take him into the unfamiliar and dangerous areas of drug abuse and loan-sharking, and will reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venace to have friends in high places." --Back cover.
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      -- Huff and stitch.
      By Cardinal, Cliff, 1985-
       2017., Adult, Playwrights Canada Press Call No: IND 812.6 C267h    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In Stitch, Kylie Grandview is a single mom struggling to make a living as a pornstar while dreaming of being on the big screen. She's painfully aware that she is among the many nameless faces on the internet, the ones that blip across cyberspace, and her yeast infection, Itchia, is there to remind at every turn. But when Kylie is offered the chance at a big break, a series of twisted events lead her down a destructive path, revealing a face no one will forget. In Huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father's abusive whims and their mother's recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by the Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him to his mother's shadow."--Provided by publisher.
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      By Taylor-Johnson, Aaron, 1990-  Thornton, Billy Bob  Young, Odessa, 1990-  Ribisi, Giovanni, 1974-  Hunnam, Charlie, 1980-
       2020., 113, Momentum Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Million L    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: An alcoholic and a drug addict, 23-year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy. As James endures the white-knuckle journey of mending his broken body, he heals his broken soul by connecting with other kindred spirits who also yearn and fight for a better life. A Million Little Pieces is the latest film from acclaimed director Sam Taylor-Johnson and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson in a tour de force performance. Based on the bestselling book by James Frey with a screenplay by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor­Johnson, the film also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Charlie Hunnam, and Odessa Young.
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      By Carr, David, 1956-2015
       2008., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Call No: Bio C311n    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In one sense, my story is a common one, a white boy misdemeanant who lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding and a support group that will go unnamed. But if the whole truth is told, it does not end there. "The book will be fundamentally different than a tell-all, or more commonly, tell-most. It will be a rigorously clear-eyed reported memoir in which the process of discovery will be part of the narrative motor...For instance, my brother asked if I was going to give him credit for bailing me out after I was arrested for possession of pot as an 18-yr.-old in a Wisconsin state park. I had not even remembered the incident. "You remember the story you can live with, not the one that happened."
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      By Sharma, Jade
       2016., Adult, Coffee House Press Call No: Fic Sha    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Dark, raw, and very funny, [this book] introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she has to make some choices. Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful and imperfect and alive in a world that doesn't really care what happens to her is rendered with dead-eyed clarity and unnerving charm. This book takes every tired trope about addiction and recovery, "likeable" characters, and redemption narratives, and blows them to pieces"--Amazon.com.