Summary: Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOUBrubaker, Ed
Summary: "Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts. Tragic souls drawn to needles and pills have been her obsession ever since the death of her junkie mother. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it seems, she'll find another, more dangerous, kind of romance. From the award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips comes a pop and drug culture fueled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRUWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARCadow, Kenneth M.
Summary: Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CADSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It tells the story of Bobbie and Jude, a young drug-addicted couple who exist somewhere between homelessness on the streets of Chicago and the fantasy life they imagine for themselves. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ultimately forced to face the reality of their situation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANICole, Courtney
Summary: "Reminiscent of the beloved novels by Mary Kubica and Jodi Picoult comes a chilling portrayal of a son's addiction and its harrowing effects on both him and his mother from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole. There comes a time when offering your life for your child's doesn't work, when you realize that it'll never be enough. The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSummary: An alcoholic and 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiSumner, Jamie
Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Written by Aleister Crowley after years of personal study and experimentation with drugs, The diary of a drug fiend tells the story of young Peter Pendragon and his lover Louise Laleham and their adventures traveling through Europe in a cocaine and heroin haze"--Cover p. [4].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROSummary: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred. For a while, she found a safe haven in her marriage to bestselling crime novelist Stephen Ludlow--until his car skidded into Echo Bay. But Stephen's wasn't the only body pulled from the icy waters that night. When details about a mysterious violet-eyed blonde...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DAVBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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Summary: "Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUISummary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONKrilanovich, Grace
Summary: A band of hobo vampire junkies roam the Pacific Northwest of the 1990s as a girl with drug-induced ESP searches for her missing foster sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRILamott, Anne.
Summary: Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Now, Elizabeth is forced to confront the fact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAMWatts, Julia
Summary: "In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARCoben, Harlan
Summary: She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2019