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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
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960L
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English
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"More than 130 people a day in the U.S. die from opioid overdoses. Addiction to legal and illegal opioids has been declared a national crisis. The U.S. spends about $78.5 billion a year on treatment, criminal prosecution, and health care related to the crisis. What caused this massive problem? Can the crisis be slowed or reversed? Students will get practical tips on how to help someone suffering from an addiction or experiencing an overdose, and learn...
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English
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"A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions. The opioid epidemic has been described as 'one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.' But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked...
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Criterion collection volume 1210
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Intertwined are the mission of PAIN, an advocacy group focused on the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis, with Nan Goldin's journey through New York City's underground arts scene, addiction, and activism. Goldin's photographs and reflections on memory and trauma underscore her solidarity with marginalized communities, making for a powerful narrative of art, activism, and survival.
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Report / 114th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 114-540
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Report / 114th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 114-541
Pub. Date
[2016]-
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English
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Report / 114th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 114-539
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Language
English
Description
In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts. Nearly a decade into...
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Rept. / 116th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 116-584
Pub. Date
[2020]-
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English
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Report / 116th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 116-319
Rept. / 116th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 116-319
Rept. / 116th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 116-319
Pub. Date
2019-
Language
English
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Report / 116th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 116-194
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Report / 117th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 117-181
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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English
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A bioethicist's memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal exposes the American health care system's failures at managing the use of opioids for pain relief and reveals the lack of resources and structures to handle the nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction.
"A bioethicist's harrowing memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal--and a clarion call to challenge the status quo of healthcare and of medicine itself--[this book] reveals the lack of crucial...
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Report / 116th Congress 2d session Senate volume 116-328
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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