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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin--the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer...
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Sam Quinones
Sam Quinones is a journalist, former LA Times reporter, author and storyteller. His new book of narrative nonfiction - DREAMLAND: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - was published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Press. It has received rave reviews from Salon.com,
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Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction

Steven Martin - Villard
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the worldrsquos oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery. A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure,...
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The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction

Pamela Peeke - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Food addiction is real. Our bodys built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do things that give us pleasure Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship--even the continued procreation of the human race--are driven by this system. Unfortunately, so is the urge...
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The Treatment of Opioid Dependence

Maxine L. Stitzer - The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The successor to Strain and Stitzer's Methadone Treatment for Opioid Dependence (Johns Hopkins, 1999), this expanded and updated volume reflects new developments in treatment protocols.Methadone is still the most widely used medication for the treatment of opioid dependence, and the authors...
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