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42) Glass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
53) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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Health watch volume no. 100
Pub. Date
2016.
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Nationally and in Colorado, opioid use disorders have emerged as a significant public health concern. Starting in the 1990s, opioid prescriptions (or, pain medications such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and their combination with acetaminophen) began to rise nationwide. The dramatic increase in use has been associated with dependency, addiction, and other adverse health events including, but not limited to: heroin use disorders, spread of hepatitis...
56) Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
57) Limitless
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Thematic material involving a drug, violence including disturbing images, sexuality and language.
Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds...
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Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard but never be tired; age gracefully but always be beautiful; fix the family problems but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping, and the PTA-ing, while planning the Bar Mitzvah of her son, Teddy, and cheerfully tending to her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly...
59) Fallout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
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