Explains to children the importance of taking medicine in the right amounts only from a trusted adult, like a parent or doctor. Describes the difference between over-the-counter and prescription drugs and medicinal and non-medicinal drugs. Discusses the harmful effects of cigarettes and alcohol.

Readers are given helpful information about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, including narcotics, hallucinogens, and prescription medications in this informative nonfiction reader. Through detailed images, diagrams, Spanish-translated informational text, an index, a glossary of terms, and a list of websites that provide additional information, readers are given the tools and information they need to educate themselves about addiction, drug abuse,...

"This book offers answers to essential questions about prescription drugs that are accessible to high school students, undergraduate students, general readers, and individuals interested in this important topic"--

Written in the psychedelic era, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out is Timothy Leary at his best, beckoning with humor and irreverence, a vision of individual empowerment, personal responsibility, and spiritual awakening. Includes: Start Your Own Religion o Education as an Addictive Process; Soul Session; Buddha as Drop-Out Mad Virgin of Psychedelia God's Secret Agent; Homage to Huxley; The Awe-Ful See-Er; The Molecular Revolution; MIT is TIM Backwards;...

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything...

The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."