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Flowers in the blood : the story of opium / by Latimer, Dean.(CARDINAL)159368; Goldberg, Jeff.(CARDINAL)159326;
Bibliography: pages 291-295.
Subjects: Opium abuse;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Opium : a history / by Booth, Martin.(CARDINAL)714480;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.Originally published: London : Pocket Books, 1997. "A Thomas Dunne book.
Subjects: Opium abuse; Opium trade;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Opium : reality's dark dream / by Dormandy, Thomas.(CARDINAL)652232;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-348) and index.
Subjects: Opium abuse; Opium trade; Opium;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Opium : a portrait of the heavenly demon / by Hodgson, Barbara,1955-(CARDINAL)387092;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-147) and index.
Subjects: Opium abuse; Opium trade; Opium;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Opium : how an ancient flower shaped and poisoned our world / by Halpern, John,author.; Blistein, David,author.(CARDINAL)402919;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2017, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it-- few understand how it came to be. Opium tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artifacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an epidemic of addiction. Throughout, Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein reveal the fascinating role that opium has played in building our modern world, from trade networks to medical protocols to drug enforcement policies. Most importantly, they disentangle how crucial misjudgments, patterns of greed, and racial stereotypes served to transform one of nature's most effective painkillers into a source of unspeakable pain-and how, using the insights of history, state-of-the-art science, and a compassionate approach to the illness of addiction, we can overcome today's overdose epidemic. This urgent and masterfully woven narrative tells an epic story of how one beautiful flower became the fascination of leaders, tycoons, and nations through the centuries and in their hands exposed the fragility of our civilization.
Subjects: Opium; Opium abuse; Opium trade; Opium poppy;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Opium's orphans : the 200-year history of the war on drugs / by Caquet, P. E.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-393) and index."Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal, and marijuana is slated for legalization, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board."--
Subjects: Drug abuse; Drug abuse; Opium abuse;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Romancing opiates : pharmacological lies and the addiction bureaucracy / by Dalrymple, Theodore.(CARDINAL)686007;
Lies! lies! lies! -- The literature of exaggeration and self-dramatisation -- The show must go on -- Appendix : A short anthology of nonsense.
Subjects: Medicine in literature.; Opium abuse;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Painkillers, heroin, and the road to sanity : real solutions for long-term recovery from opiate addiction / by Gammill, Joani,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184).
Subjects: Opium abuse.; Medication abuse.; Heroin abuse.; Drug abuse; Drug addicts;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Heroin / by McGinnis, Mindy,author.(CARDINAL)402958;
"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill--Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control."--Amazon.900LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Fiction.; Catchers (Baseball); Opium abuse.; Teenage girls.; Teenagers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Opium and the romantic imagination. by Hayter, Alethea.(CARDINAL)711841;
Subjects: Literature, Modern; Opium abuse.; Romanticism.; Drug abuse.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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