Las Animas - Bent County Library District

"It's 1997, and 14-year-old Juliet has it pretty good. But over the course of the next two years, she rapidly begins to unravel, finding herself in a downward trajectory of mental illness and self-destruction."--

"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact,...

Dr. Stanton Peele explains that-despite what parents have been told-it's normal for most kids to try alcohol and drugs. The large majority will not become addicts or ruin their lives-they are armed with real-life motivators to keep them addiction-free. In simple, clear terms, Addiction-Proof Your Child shows parents how to instill these qualities by teaching children to take pride in achievement and other bedrock values, learning how to be calm questioners...

Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin?and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police,...

I never was a badass. Or a slut, a junkie, or a stoner, like they told me I was. I was just a kid looking for something good, something that felt like love. I was a wannabe in a Levi's jean jacket. Anybody could see that. Except my mother. And the staff at Straight. I was thirteen when I ran away from my abusive home. After a month in a shelter for kids--the best month of my childhood--my mother heard about Princess Di and First Lady Nancy Reagan's...

Presents a collection of interviews with music, film, and sports celebrities who discuss their experiences of addiction to drugs and alcohol, and the treatment plans and therapies that successfully helped them to recover.

"With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam."--Amazon.com.

Discusses the use of drugs by teenagers, and, in particular, the consequences of combining drugs and driving.

"In this book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine - meth - from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture." "Meth is the latest "epidemic" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like cocaine and heroin, its roots are medicinal. It was first synthesized in the late nineteenth century and applied in the treatment of a wide range of ailments. By the 1940s meth...

Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school, and excessive drinking is common at most colleges. But the good news is that a child who gets to age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol or prescription drugs is virtually certain never to do so...All parents dream of a healthy, productive, and fulfilling future for their children; Califano shows which specific actions work and what parents...