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	Revised edition of Confessions of an Opium-eater Describes the author's addiction to opium, the consciousness altering properties of the drug, its pleasures and its pains. Author: Thomas De Quincey, Barry Milligan Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 9780140439014 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $13.31
	Injecting Illicit Drugs Injecting drug use is of major concern to both Western and developing nations, causing extensive associated harm at both individual and public health levels. This book provides readers with authoritative and practical information on injecting drug use and the health consequences of this behaviour. It includes topical issues such as needle fixation, transitions to and from injecting, and illicit drug use in prison settings. It documents the relationship between injecting practice and infectious diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C. It explores harm reduction approaches such as safer injecting and supervised injecting rooms. It reflects international perspectives from expert contributors. Author: Andrew McBride & Karin Arnold Richard Pates Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9781405113601 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $84.95 Our Price: $75.61
	Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid? Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs. She was shocked when they were suspended from school for smoking cannabis but this was just the start of a terrible, unimaginable journey - culminating in the knock on the door in the early hours by the police. They gave her the devastating news that her son Nick had killed himself in despair at his heroin addiction.Since his death, Elizabeth has campaigned tirelessly to make parents aware of the pain and suffering caused to families by drug addiction and her surviving twin, Simon, now drug-free, has contributed his own thoughts to this inspiring and moving book. Author: Elizabeth Burton-Phillips Publisher: Piatkus Books ISBN: 9780749951726 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.99 Our Price: $22.24
	Buzzed Covers discoveries about drugs, including information on the energy drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, and the date-rape drug GHB. This handbook gives information on some of the most often used and abused drugs, from alcohol, caffeine and nicotine to heroin, Ecstasy and methamphetamine. Author: Scott Swartzwelder & Wilkie Wilson Cynthia Kuhn Publisher: WW Norton & Co ISBN: 9780393329858 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88
	Permanent Midnight An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circumstances of their lives.-Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn [Stahl] is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso.-Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker Original, appalling, indelible picture of a man trying to swim and drown at the same time. Stahl has nerve, heart, a language of his own and a ghastly, riotous humor.-Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life Permanent Midnight is one of the most harrowing and toughest accounts ever written in this century about what it means to be a junkie in America, making Burroughs look dated and Kerouac appear as the nose-thumbing adolescent he was.-Booklist A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted readers as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs. Jerry Stahl was born in Pittsburgh. He is author of the novels Perv: A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked and I, Fatty, the paperback edition of which will appear in 2005. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Author: Jerry Stahl Publisher: Process ISBN: 9780976082200 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88
	Addiction and Opiates A study about addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. It proposes and elaborates a general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate an addict's characteristic craving for drugs. Author: Alfred R. Lindesmith Publisher: Transaction Publishers ISBN: 9780202362236 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $73.95 Our Price: $65.82
	The Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse Drug abuse is a longstanding and painful problem that can lead to devastating effects for users, addicts, and their families and friends. Studies show that a large percentage of junior high and high school students have been exposed to, or have experimented with, illegal drugs. The most commonly abused drugs are alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine, but as trends change, new drugs become more and more popular. Abuse of methamphetamines and prescription drugs is currently on the rise, and though anti-drug messages are distributed widely, young people continue to try drugs for the first time every day.With approximately 200 entries, The Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse covers the full range of illegal and legal drugs and how they impact society. Taking a global perspective, this new title looks at the worldwide drug trade and the effects of drug abuse in countries and cultures around the world, as well as in the United States. This comprehensive reference examines various types of drugs and how they function, risks, causes and consequences of abuse, social issues, psychiatric issues, means of prevention, law enforcement efforts, and drugs in special social groups. Appendixes provide statistics, directories of helpful groups and organizations, and resources for further research.Topics include: accidental overdose deaths barbiturates club drugs drug dependence gangs and drugs narcotics opiates pregnancy and substance abuse prescription drug abuse treatment and, violence. Author: Esther Gwinnell & Christine A. Adamec Publisher: Facts on File Inc ISBN: 9780816063307 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $166.95 Our Price: $148.59
	On Speed Uppers, Crank, Bennies, Dexies, Greenies, Black Beauties, Purple Hearts, Crystal, Ice, and, of course, Speed. Whatever their street names at the moment, amphetamines have been an insistent force in American life since they were marketed as the original antidepressants in the 1930s. On Speed tells the remarkable story of their rise, their fall, and their surprising resurgence. Along the way, it discusses the influence of pharmaceutical marketing on medicine, the evolving scientific understanding of how the human brain works, the role of drugs in maintaining the social order, and the centrality of pills in American life. Above all, however, this is a highly readable biography of a very popular drug. And it is a riveting story.Incorporating extensive new research, On Speed describes the ups and downs (fittingly, there are mostly ups) in the history of amphetamines, and their remarkable pervasiveness. For example, at the same time that amphetamines were becoming part of the diet of many GIs in World War II, an amphetamine-abusing counterculture began to flourish among civilians. In the 1950s, psychiatrists and family doctors alike prescribed amphetamines for a wide variety of ailments, from mental disorders to obesity to emotional distress. By the late 1960s, speed had become a fixture in everyday life: up to ten percent of Americans were thought to be using amphetamines at least occasionally.Although their use was regulated in the 1970s, it didn't take long for amphetamines to make a major comeback, with the discovery of Attention Deficit Disorder and the role that one drug in the amphetamine family - Ritalin - could play in treating it. Today's most popular diet-assistance drugs differ little from the diet pills of years gone by, still speed at their core. And some of our most popular recreational drugs - including the supposedly mellow drug, Ecstasy - are also amphetamines. Whether we want to admit it or not, writes Rasmussen, we're still a nation on speed. Author: Nicolas Rasmussen Publisher: New York University Press ISBN: 9780814776018 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $59.95 Our Price: $53.36
	Tao of Sobriety:Helping You to RE "The Tao of Sobriety" shows how to apply eastern philosophy to enhance recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. With a few simple mental exercises, readers can learn how to quiet "The Committee," those nasty mental voices that undermine serenity and self-esteem. With leaders of the recovery movement enthusiastically endorsing this uniquely helpful book, "The Tao of Sobriety" is an invaluable addition to the recovery bookshelf. Author: GREGSON Publisher: Saint Martin's Press ISBN: 9780312242503 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $25.95 Our Price: $23.10
	The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure The Alcoholism And Addiction Cure contains the incredible three-step holistic programme to total recovery that is the basis of the miraculous success of Passages Treatment Centre. On this revolutionary CD, you will learn: The three steps to permanent sobriety how to create a personalised, holistic treatment programme to completely cure your dependency the four causes of dependency how your thoughts, emotions and beliefs are key factors in your recovery and how to stimulate your body's self-healing potential to be forever free of dependency. Freedom from dependency starts with understanding that alcohol and drugs are not the problems, says Chris Prentiss, author and cofounder of Passages. They are merely the substances you are using to help yourself cope with your real problems, anything from hypoglycaemia or a sluggish thyroid to brain-wave pattern imbalances or deep emotional pain. Once your underlying problems are discovered and cured, your need for drugs and alcohol will disappear - along with your craving. Prentiss should know. His son, Pax, was addicted to heroin, cocaine and alcohol for ten years. They sought help everywhere, but Pax relapsed again and again. In desperation, they finally created their own holistic, hand-tailored programme that was a complete break from all other programmes and that combined several effective therapies. It saved Pax's life. Together, father and son founded Passages to help others find their own freedom. A visionary and an innovator, Chris Prentiss brings new hope to people everywhere who are dependent on drugs and alcohol. Author: Chris Prentiss Publisher: Power Press ISBN: 9780943015514 Format: Audio Book - CD List Price: $63.95 Our Price: $56.92
	Living Sober An extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but does offer us sound advice about how to stay sober. Basic, essential information from Alcoholics Anonymous. As the book states, Anyone can get sober. . .the trick is to live sober. Author: Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc ISBN: 9780916856045 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $20.95 Our Price: $18.65
	Dangerous Drugs In a world where the drug abuse scene is more confusing and dangerous than ever, the 2nd edition of Dangerous Drugs: An Easy to Use Reference for Parents and Professionals is the answer. Now with color photos of drugs and paraphernalia, Dangerous Drugs is a concise, comprehensive, clear, and handy reference that answers your questions at a glance, with: - Up-to-date information on drugs of abuse - Demographics of users. - Explanations of how a drug is used where it's found and how it affects the mind and body - The names and forms under which drugs are sold - Their addictive, lethal, and overdose potential - Signs of drug abuse and where/how to seek help, and more. Written in clear language, Dangerous Drugs provides straightforward, authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-the-minute information. It covers the full range of drugs of abuse, whether illegal (marijuana, heroin, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamine, etc.) or legal (alcohol, prescription, tobacco, or Internet-marketed, herbal remedies). Dangerous Drugs is written for professionals and non-professionals alike, and is a book that no one concerned about drug use can afford to be without. Author: Carol Falkowski Publisher: Hazelden Information & Educational Services ISBN: 9781568389813 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88