Summary Analysis Dopesick By Beth Macy Dealers Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America

• Author : Black Book
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 06 December 2018

Overall Summary of Dope Sick Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy is a journalistic, nonfiction work on the heroin epidemic that overtook Virginia in the 2000s through today. Through hours of research and scores of interviews, Macy explains the history of the epidemic from the time OxyContin arrived on the scene until it became the worst drug epidemic in modern American history. The novel works to advocate for better addiction treatment, as well

• Author : Kimberly Sue
• Publisher : University of California Press
• Release : 24 September 2019

Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates

• Author : Jason DeHart,Carla K. Meyer,Katie Walker
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 28 December 2021

Bringing together the voices of researchers and teachers, this volume addresses how teachers connect theory to practice in the middle school English Language Arts education setting and explores how to teach and engage with young adults in a way that treats them as ethical and thoughtful citizens. The book bridges the gap between educational theory and real-world implementation and covers a range of timely topics in middle level education through a focus on text choice, identity, and practice. Contributors acknowledge

• Author : Richard Farrell
• Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
• Release : 01 July 2009

"Blunt and honest. . .A stunning piece of work." --T.J. English "Deeply moving. . .What's Left of Us is a rush of blood to the head and heart, the kind only true art can deliver." --Andre Dubus "An amazing story not just of survival, but redemption." --Mary McGarry Morris Richie Farrell grew up in a working-class Irish neighborhood in Massachusetts. To overcome a birth defect, his father pushed him to become a star athlete, grooming him for Notre Dame. Sometimes, he

• Author : Philippe Bourgois,Philippe I. Bourgois,Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine Philippe Bourgois, Professsor,Jeffrey Schonberg
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 29 April 2009

Explores the world of homelessness and drug addiction in contemporary United States, discussing such themes as violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, social inequality, and power relations.

• Author : Jonathan R. Fennick, RN
• Publisher : PublishAmerica
• Release : 05 October 2010

I had the childhood dream of playing professional sports. I never thought I would end up being a Nurse, let alone one that was addicted to drugs. Of the 3.5 million Nurses in the United States, 10-15% divert narcotics and up to 20% are addicted to drugs. There is a definite problem of addiction in the Nursing Profession, as well as in society as a whole. The disease of addiction is one of epidemic proportion growing faster with each passing day. This

• Author : Christopher B.R. Smith
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 19 November 2015

Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction as a "pathology (out) of place" that is specific to the (late-)capitalist urban landscape, the second section – Dope/Sick – conducts a critique of the prevailing

• Author : Tanya Chris
• Publisher : TC Publishing
• Release : 25 September 2020

Joe doesn’t live on top of a mountain because he loves people. A late summer snowstorm is the perfect chance to send his customers down to lower altitude and enjoy a few days of solo strolls and fireside naps. Tanner’s not staying at a high-altitude hut to admire the scenery. He’s got a date to keep with the sort of person you don’t want to disappoint, a date that’ll result in him earning some much-needed

• Author : Tracey Phillips
• Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
• Release : 22 August 2017

This sixteen-year-old beauty wasn’t looking for any commitments until she unexpectedly ran into old acquaintances. It started off as a business arrangement, but it quickly spiraled into something more serious. Along with the relationship came demons of the past. She found herself torn between her love for money, drugs, and men. She learned that love wasn’t really all it was cracked up to be. This story tells of the scandals that take place in the lives of today’

• Author : Kia Jane Richmond
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 31 December 2018

This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness. • Offers extensive analysis of contemporary young adult fiction featuring youth with mental illness to help school and youth services librarians make informed collection development and readers' advisory decisions • Examines the symptoms and warning signs of mental illness in adolescents in addition to how various

• Author : Dawn Erin
• Publisher : Author House
• Release : 13 December 2011

The Iron Horse is a vivid and darkly comic tale about a girl growing up in gritty working-class New England. Horse-crazy Sunny Quinn spends her childhood toiling long hours in relentless pursuit of entry into the elite world of competitive Saddleseat Equitation. Her weight, her lack of money, her crushing shyness and her tyrannical stepfather all contribute to Sunny’s spectacular failure, with harrowing and far-reaching consequences. The story takes the reader on a wild ride through the depths of

• Author : Daniel LaChance,Paul Kaplan
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 31 May 2022

"Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised." Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some point. It is typically attached to a brand of reality crime TV that Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance call "crimesploitation": spectacles designed to entertain mass audiences by exhibiting "real" criminal behavior and its consequences. This book examines their enduring popularity in American culture. Analyzing the structure and content of several popular crimesploitation shows, including Cops, Dog:

• Author : Martine Leavitt
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Release : 04 September 2012

When sixteen-year-old Angel meets Call at the mall, he buys her meals and says he loves her, and he gives her some candy that makes her feel like she can fly. Pretty soon she's addicted to his candy, and she moves in with him. As a favor, he asks her to hook up with a couple of friends of his, and then a couple more. Now Angel is stuck working the streets at Hastings and Main, a notorious spot in

• Author : Karin Slaughter
• Publisher : Bantam
• Release : 21 October 2013

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter is acclaimed for her novels of heart-stopping suspense, edge-of-your-seat intrigue, and richly imagined characters. And when Slaughter created detective Will Trent she broke the mold. While displaying an uncanny knack for reading people, solving puzzles, and cracking cases at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Detective Trent navigates the varied relationships with the women in his life: vice cop Angie Polaski, supervisor Amanda Wagner, partner Faith Mitchell, and Dr. Sara Linton. This gripping eBook

• Author : Terri Blackstock
• Publisher : Zondervan
• Release : 18 May 2009

Survival has become a lifestyle, and technology is a thing of the past as the Branning family learns that the power outage is worldwide. Everyone is desperate. When two young thieves break into the Brannings’ home and clean out the food in their pantry, Jeff Branning tracks them to a filthy apartment and discovers a family of children living alone, stealing to stay alive. Where is their mother? The search for answers uncovers a trail of desperation and murder . . . and