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A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
4) The Inn
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Language
English
Description
The seclusion of the Inn at Gloucester suits former Boston police detective, Bill Robinson. Robinson runs the Inn and doesn't ask any questions, until Mitchell Cline arrives bringing drugs and violence to the peaceful inn.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
"An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and...
7) Six of crows
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price-- and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...
8) Autonomous
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic...
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English
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"This is the Moneyball of the pharma world, the story of one drug company's quest to transform the pharmaceutical industry and a deeply revealing look into a world where breakneck capitalism meets life-saving medicine. The $325 billion-a-year pharmaceutical business is America's most challenging and one of its most profitable. It is tougher in just about every way than any other enterprise: from the towering biological risks inherent in its mission...
10) Relative justice
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English
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"A powerful legal drama novel that explores what happens when in-laws with vastly divergent backgrounds end up practicing law together and find themselves in the midst of a complicated lawsuit against a huge drug manufacturer"--
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English
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"How did Burton Ritchie and DEA Special Agent Claude Cosey wind up in federal prison, convicted as drug kingpins, after being indicted years later in three states and taken to trial three times? The answer lies in the weirdest chapter of the War on Drugs, a synthetic saga that's unfolding to this day. It all stems from a little-known Reagan-era law called the Analogue Act. The 1986 law bans substances that are "substantially similar" to controlled...
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Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
"We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain....
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English
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Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
16) Phoenix
Author
Series
Black City volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Ash must choose between saving the Darklings or saving Natalie"--
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers...
19) No way out
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Series
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Bluford High freshman Harold Davis is trapped. Medical bills for his sick grandmother are piling up, and a social worker wants to put him in a foster home. Desperate for money, he reluctantly agrees to work for Londell James, a neighborhood drug dealer. Will Harold escape the violence that surrounds him?
20) Five feet apart
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella and Will both suffer from cystic fibrosis. Being together means they could pass an infection. Stella is waiting for a lung transplant; Will is on a clinical drug trial. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. Staying six feet apart doesn't feel like safety, it feels like punishment. Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too? -- adapted from jacket
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