San Antonio College Library

This dark and atmospheric program reveals the experiences of ice addiction - told directly by three recovering addicts. Each shares how they started using ice, how it made them feel, how it affected their lives and those around them, and why they decided to get clean. It concludes with each person reading a letter they have written to their 15-year-old selves.

This engaging and candid program provides an overview of three classifications of drugs. Statistics on teen use of illicit drugs are followed by a closer investigation of cannabis, ecstasy, and methamphetamine (ice). The appearance, characteristics, street names, and long and short term effects of each drug are discussed. An ideal resource for improving drug awareness and understanding the risks of illegal drug use.

Melding social, political, and cultural history, the auhor illustrates that intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant, and describes how for thousands of years human beings have taken substances to change their physical or emotionalemotuional state. He argues that drug use is a necessary part of human experience, recounting how many drugs that are controlled or prohibited nowadays were freely available until the early twentieth century.

"Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid crisis, and the rising costs of pharmaceuticals have sharpened the public's awareness of drugs and their regulation. Government, industry, and the medical profession, however, have a mixed record when it comes to framing policies and generating knowledge to address drug use and misuse. In Strange Trips Lucas...

This book provides a perspective on the regulation of drug use by examining and critiquing drug policies in the United States and internationally in terms of their scope, goals and effectiveness. It discusses the physiological, psychological, and behavioural effects of legal and illicit drugs ; the patterns and correlates of use ; and theories of the causes of drug use.

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities...

At the center of the narrative is fifteen-year-old DeAndre McCullough. DeAndre's parents, Gary and Fran, were once poised, against all odds, to pull themselves up and out of West Baltimore. But when they themselves stumble and then succumb to the corner's temptations, DeAndre's future hangs in the balance. Smart and streetwise, he is both drawn to and wary of the drug trade that flourishes beyond his rowhouse steps. Can he rise above his parents'...