drug abuse

Fourteen-year-old Will Carter's summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up.

Todd, a quarterback and popular senior, asks Jinx and Jackson to investigate a haunting at his family's tavern, where glasses move on their own and voices whisper horrible things each time Todd and his brother are fighting.

Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone struggles to keep his family together after his father leaves; however, hiding his older brother Jake's drug habit from their mother is getting harder and harder.

A teenager from Harlem struggles to save his girlfriend from herself when she develops a drug problem while he is away at a Connecticut prep school.

Describes, in simple terms, the harmful psychological and physical effects of drug usage and outlines reasons for not using drugs.

"Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Navarro never asked to be anyone's hero. If you're a hero, your sister isn't supposed to hate you. And you're definitely not supposed to get hooked on Gramma's painkillers. Even so, Charlotte's sister Mia looks at her likes she's some sort of hero. As Charlotte starts taking pills more and more, she has to question how it could hurt herself and others, even Mia. Is it a harmless habit or a dangerous addiction?"--Back cover.

Harm reduction is a philosophy that accepts the idea that drug use is inevitable and that making it safer is a more realistic approach to drug addiction. Examines issues with the concept of harm reduction and discusses if making risky behavior safer is the right solution.

Tom has long dreamed of getting out of Blackwater, Pennsylvania, and going to college somewhere warm and sunny, but when a plague of meth addiction sweeps through town in 2001, ruining the lives of friends, teachers, and parents, he finds it difficult to leave.

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

Examines the dangers of drug use, focusing on the drug crystal meth, with information on the physical problems it can cause, why it is so addictive, treatment options, and the dangers of addiction.