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Pill city : how two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire / by Deutsch, Kevin,author.(CARDINAL)341976;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).Part I: The rising plague -- An Uber of drug dealing -- Getting paid -- The United States of addiction -- The purge -- Playing from behind -- Boulevards of pain -- Sinners -- Part II: Jimmy's world -- Supercartel -- Brother's keeper -- Expansion -- Part III: The fallen -- They changed the game -- Freelancers -- The MASH unit -- Generation pill -- The interrupters -- Going dark -- A deadly migration -- Part IV: Taking stock -- Murdertown, USA -- Sky's the limit -- Civs -- Making a stand -- Part V: New beginnings -- Clean money -- Starting fresh -- Loose ends -- Brave folks -- Trapped -- Best city in the world -- Afterword: A Marshall Plan for addiction."An award-winning crime reporter describes how two high school honor-roll students used gang connections to loot pharmacies and sell narcotics through delivery drivers using location-based technology and even formed an alliance with the Mexican drug cartel headed by El Chapo,"--NoveList.
Subjects: Case studies.; Drug traffic; Drug dealers; Medication abuse; Drug control;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Known dead : a novel / by Harstad, Donald.(CARDINAL)643143;
Known Dead begins with the murder of a state narcotics agent killed on Houseman's Nation County turf while staking out a marijuana patch. Blasts of gunfire from a band of mysterious shooters take out the agent and one local smalltime dealer. Then, while various federal and state agencies wrestle for control of the case, two more Nation County cops are shot down at the farm of a local extremist with links to a large militant group.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Police; Drug abuse and crime; Houseman, Carl (Fictitious character); Police.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Recent developments in Colombian narcotics control : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, May 24, 1984. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Foreign Affairs.(CARDINAL)142229;
Subjects: Drug control; Drug abuse and crime;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Vicodin, OxyContin, and other pain relievers / by Breguet, Amy.(CARDINAL)476207;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-106) and index.Pain, pain, go away -- Opioids: medical uses today -- Vicodin -- Oxycontin -- Other prescription opioids -- Misuse and addiction -- Getting help.Modern medicine provides more help than ever before for people suffering from severe or chronic pain. In recent years, the marketing, prescription, and use of opioid painkillers has skyrocketed. While providing much-needed relief to millions of people, these narcotics have also become the most problematic prescription medications in the country. They are found at the center of historical numbers of addiction and abuse cases, medical emergencies, and crime waves. Vicodin, OxyContin, and Other Pain Relievers gives readers the inside story on this newly notorious class of drugs and offers suggestions to help people affected by abuse of these drugs.
Subjects: Oxycodone.; Narcotics.; Opioids.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Intensive care crisis / by Kirst, Karen,author.(CARDINAL)597909;
"Reported missing narcotics lands nuse Audrey Harris and her patients in the crosshairs of a ruthless thief. But when marine sergeant Julian Tan is one of the patients in danger, the criminals unwittingly provide her with a strong-- and handsome-- protector. On the run, Julian and Audrey must stop a crime boss ... or become the next to fall"--Cover [page 4.]
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Christian fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Nurses; Marines; Drug traffic; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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American drug war [videorecording] : The last white hope / by Booth, Kevin,director.; Ostrow and Company.; Sacred Cow Productions.; SCP Enterprises.;
Tommy Chong, Freeway Ricky Ross, sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mike Ruppert, general Barry McCaffrey, Celerino Castillo III, judge James Gray, T. Rodgers, Joe Rogan, Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Jello Biafra, Robert Steele, gov. Gary Johnson, sergeant Lou Daigle, Tom Rhodes, Joe Pietri, Jeff Blackburn, Mack Lindsay, Todd McCormick, Dr. Claudia Jensen, Dr. Robert Melamede, Dr. Charles Grob, Sherm, Cynthia McKinney.This documentary follows director Kevin Booth as he investigates the world of illegal drugs, from street-corner dealers to high level kingpins, from narcotics officers to powerful judges. Approaching his subject matter with a skeptical eye, Booth questions the effectiveness of the drug war, and the motives of those who continue to fuel it from all ends. Through research and investigation, Booth asserts that there might well be just as much greed, crime, and corruption on either side of the narcotics battle, as the drug war is steeped in issues of race and class.Not rated.Winner "Best Documentary" at four Consecutive Festivals.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Drugs; Drug abuse and crime; Judicial corruption; Police corruption; Corruption;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Drugstore cowboy / by Fogle, James.(CARDINAL)781904;
This rich and compelling story of four traveling junkies who lives revolve around looting drugstores was made into the movie voted best film of 1989 by the National Society of Film critics and is published here for the first time. Fogle's story of four marauding drug addicts who travel through the Pacific Northwest looting narcotics from drugstore pharmacies was the basis for the movie of the same name. Led by a husband and wife team, they are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband finally realizes he must give up drugs and his wife to survive.
Subjects: Fiction.; Drug abuse and crime; Drug addicts; Thieves;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The untouchables. [videorecording] / by Fernández, Abel,1930-2016.; Georgiade, Nicholas,1933-; London, Steve,1929-2014.; Picerni, Paul,1922-2011.; Stack, Robert,1919-2003.(CARDINAL)818682; Winchell, Walter,1897-1972.(CARDINAL)154068; CBS DVD (Firm)(CARDINAL)544739; LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)DLC(CARDINAL)843554; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)287167; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
Narrator: Walter Winchell.Robert Stack, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade, Abel Fernández, Steve London.A realistic look at the violence that shook America's past, this gritty series pays tribute to stoic gangbuster Eliot Ness and his incorruptible treasury agents as they battle organized crime. In this volume, with narcotics the new vice and a major racketeering bill passed in Washington, D.C., Ness and his men are given more power, even in cities other than Chicago.Not rated.DVD; region 1; NTSC; full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., digitally remastered.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Gangster television programs.; Television crime shows.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Ness, Eliot; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Gangsters; Nineteen thirties; Organized crime;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Six against crime : Treasury agencies in action / by Neal, Harry Edward,1906-1993.(CARDINAL)149318;
Bibliography: page 185.True accounts of the six law enforcement agencies of the Treasury Department in action against counterfeiting, forgery, narcotics, sabotage, smuggling, illegal distilling of whiskey, and illegal traffic in firearms.
Subjects: United States. Department of the Treasury.; United States. Department of the Treasury; Law enforcement; Law enforcement; Secret service; Secret service;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Zulu / by Férey, Caryl.(CARDINAL)540610; Curtis, Howard,1949-(CARDINAL)355970;
Ali Neuman, the chief of the Cape Town police crime unit, investigates the murder of Nicole Wiese, found in the city's botanical gardens, and the trail soon leads him to a brutal narcotics gang with links to a former official.Winner of the French Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel, 2008.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Murder; Drug traffic; Drug dealers; Police.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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