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1) Fentanyl, Inc: how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic

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Westhoff, Ben

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2019

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English

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"A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. "A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements...

2) Fentanyl, Inc

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Westhoff, Ben

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Blackstone Publishing

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2020

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English

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A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. "A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements...

3) Braided

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Speigel, Robert

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Overwhelmed by the discovery of her mother's deception and the secrets of her ancestor's origins, a young Seattleite slips deeper into prescription opioid addiction. Braided tells the story of how she discovers her true purpose during a deadly fentanyl overdose. Mira's body lies lifeless in her designer recliner, an empty pill bottle on the floor beside her. Her frozen eyes are no longer able to see the Seattle city lights sparkling below, and her...

4) Heroin, opioid, and painkiller abuse

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Bryan, Bethany

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Overcoming addiction

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2019

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English

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1 of 1	North Branford/Smith Adult Nonfiction	362.29 Bryan

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Opioids include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids like fentanyl, and prescription pain relievers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine. Because some people can obtain prescriptions for prescription painkillers, it can be easily obtained and e

5) Fentanyl: The World's Deadliest Drug

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Casil, Amy Sterling

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National Highlights Inc

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2020

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English

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Fentanyl was developed as a drug that could relieve severe pain and assist doctors in performing complex surgeries. Due to its potent effects, fentanyl is often sold illegally as an ingredient in counterfeit opioid pills or mixed with heroin or cocaine. Because it is nearly impossible to gauge the strength of illegal fentanyl doses, tens of thousands of Americans have overdosed on the drug in recent years. This book provides information about the...

6) Opioids, Inc

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PBS

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[2020]

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English

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1 of 1	Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction DVD	DVD/362.29/OPI

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The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50-100 times stronger than heroin.

7) Poisoned Love

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Rother, Caitlin

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English

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Case seen on Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and 48 Hours Accident, Suicide...Or Murder? On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was leaving him. But, family and friends who knew of Greg's distaste for drugs weren't buying Kristin's story-particularly the idea that he would take his own life....

8) Looking at Kansas

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Helvey, Chris

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Wings ePress, Inc

Pub. Date:

2023

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English

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An aging Missouri sheriff must fight a fentanyl epidemic, his most dangerous enemy, and his own weaknesses.Pratt County Sheriff Davis Wells has more trouble than any lawman needs. His wife is battling cancer, their only son is missing, and his growing passion for a beautiful stranger is raging out of control. In the midst of this chaos, an outbreak of fentanyl overdoses suddenly sweeps across the county he has sworn to serve. Even worse--every single...

9) The hard sell: crime and punishment at an opioid startup

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Hughes, Evan, 1975-

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Doubleday

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English

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"The blistering inside story of a startup that made millions pushing opioids-until its cutthroat tactics were exposed and its executives put behind bars John Kapoor had amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he conceived of a new product. It wasthe 2000s, and opioids were big business. If Kapoor, an immigrant and the billionaire founder of Insys, could find a new way to administer the highly potent fentanyl, he could patent his invention...

10) Steel Town: Andy Blake Mystery

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Barnes, Richard Whitten

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Wings ePress, Inc

Pub. Date:

2023

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English

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Without warning, Detective Andy Blake's personal life seems to be spinning out of control. She already has enough on her plate dealing with the opioid crisis that has crippled her hometown of Sault Ste. Marie. Adding to that are her efforts to balance it all with an admitted infatuation with the charming Dr. Campbell who is on special assignment advising the health responders dealing with a new threat: a pure form of the drug fentanyl that has added...

11) Understanding Drug Use and Addiction

Author:

Marchant, Erica

Publisher:

National Highlights Inc

Pub. Date:

2020

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English

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Teens and young adults are hurting from addiction today more than any time before. Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction reaches out to teens with real-world examples and real-life explanations. This book discusses frankly and honestly what the disease of addiction does to a drug abuser's body and mind, and uses real scenarios to show teens how to avoid drugs. Opioids are psychoactive drugs derived from the opium poppy, such as heroin or morphine,...

12) Opioids, Inc

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PBS

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2020

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English

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The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud, this is an investigation of how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.

13) Heroin: Devastating our Communities

Author:

George, Tim

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National Highlights Inc

Pub. Date:

2020

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English

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In the United States today more than 50,000 people die of drug overdoses each year. Many overdose deaths are caused by heroin, a potent opioid drug that is highly addictive and can cause serious long-term health problems. Heroin was once considered a "hard" drug that was only used by the most desperate junkies. Over the past decade, however, heroin has become more readily available in American communities, and it is destroying the hopes and lives...

14) Treatments for Opioid Addiction

Author:

Casil, Amy Sterling

Publisher:

National Highlights Inc

Pub. Date:

2020

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English

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Until the 1960s, when methadone was introduced to help heroin addicts overcome the painful symptoms of drug withdrawal, treatment for opioid addiction mainly involved quitting "cold turkey." Advances in the understanding of how opioids affect the central nervous system and body have led to more effective treatments that often combine medication with behavioral therapy and family support to promote long-lasting healing and recovery. There is hope for...

15) Three Strikes, You're Dead

Author:

Koepsell, Len

Publisher:

Page Publishing, Inc

Pub. Date:

2022

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English

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Three Strikes, You're Dead is a tale ripped from today's headlines. The novel reveals a world where baseball, a pillar of American culture, is threatened by sinister forces. As a plethora of fentanyl overdose sweeps the nation, cases involving high school and college baseball players arouse the attention of Richard Moreland, a seasoned DEA agent now stationed in Seattle. Unsanctioned by his higher-ups, Moreland masterminds an ad hoc mission to...

16) Painkillers

Author:

Casil, Amy Sterling

Publisher:

National Highlights Inc

Pub. Date:

2020

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English

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The use, and misuse, of opioid painkillers has become a full-blown epidemic in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and other public health experts. Each year about 3.3 million people misuse prescription painkillers. Drug overdoses have become the leading cause of accidental death, killing tens of thousands of Americans each year. Since the opioid epidemic began in the mid-1990s, the estimated cost of addiction treatment,...

17) The Silent Killer

Author:

McClary, Sherlene

Publisher:

Christian Faith Publishing, Inc

Pub. Date:

2017

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English

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The sad faces of abuse and addiction in poor and deprived communities and spread to affluent and insulated suburbs are exposed. The epidemic has invaded rural and farming communities and our school systems, where the drug pushers and victims are the very students; abuse affecting seniors and minorities at some facilities were also exposed as well as illicit prescribing, which resulted in arrests, and convictions were given full coverage. War on drugs,...

18) God Bless America: Save the American Republic

Author:

Jackson, Andrew

Publisher:

Fulton Books, Inc

Pub. Date:

2023

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English

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Why would anyone in the sunset of life attempt not one but two published books? In two words, strong motivation. Free My Son was published in 2020, the title reveals the first very strong motivation! The second, God Bless America, reveals one of the similar motivations. The title could have the subtitle Save the American Republic! This old author encourages young and old alike with motivation to tell your story and just give it a go, as our UK friends...

19) Killing Pain

Author:

Hayward, Robert

Publisher:

Covenant Books, Inc

Pub. Date:

2022

Language:

English

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In 1996, the FDA approved and endorsed Perdue Pharmaceutical's new drug, "Oxycontin" as a non-addictive pain reliever. Since 1996, the CDC reported 841,000 drug overdose deaths nationwide. In the 12 months ending in April of 2021, over 103,000 Americans died from a drug overdose. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention tells us that Americans 50 years old and younger are more likely to die of a drug overdose than any other cause. Do you ever...

20) The China Doll Conspiracy: Little Miss Dangerous

Author:

Peters, Alan

Publisher:

Newman Springs Publishing, Inc

Pub. Date:

2022

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English

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Alex, an intelligent but somewhat naive graduate chemist/educator, pursues a relationship with Chinese women (a special one). To his surprise, each China doll seems to be interested in sex very quickly. But sex with any of them is a lure to a fairly quick death by acquiring a deadly strain of syphilis which only affects Caucasian men. Each doll encountered is a carrier of this contagious and deadly disease passed on only through intercourse. The backup...

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