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	The Beforelife : Poems By Franz Wright ISBN: 0375411542
In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery. Wright negotiates the precarious transition from illness to health in a state of skeptical rapture, discovering along the way the exhilaration of love - both divine and human - and finding that even the most battered consciousness can be good company. Whether he is writing about his regret for the abortion of a child, describing the mechanics of slander ("I can just hear them / on the telephone and keening / all their kissy little knives"), or composing an ironic ode to himself ("To a Blossoming Nut Case"), Wright's poems are exquisitely precise. Charles Simic has characterized him as a poetic miniaturist, whose "secret ambition is to write an epic on the inside of a matchbook cover." Time and again, Wright turns on a dime in a few brief lines, exposing the dark comedy and poignancy of his heightened perception.

	The Book of Beth By Kent Klich, Cornell Capa (Contributor), Bengt Borjeson (Contributor) ISBN: 0893813702
The book of Beth is an exceptional story of a German junkie. By combining his intimate and disturbing photographs with police and hospital records, handwritten notes left behind by Beth, and other texts, author Ken Klich searches for a rationale - what could cause this intelligent child to end up as a prostitute and drug addict?

	The Corner A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood By David Simon, Edward Burns ISBN: 0767900316, 0767900308 (USA) ISBN: 0767900316 (UK)
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known and cautiously avoided by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family - two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned. View film details

	The Demon By Hubert Selby ISBN: 0714525995
Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr''s lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds the more desperate he becomes and eventually a life of petty crime leads to apocalyptic violence.'

	The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell By Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060900075 (USA) ISBN: 0006547311 (UK)
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in "The Doors of Perception" and its sequel "Heaven and Hell".

	The Heroin Users By Tam Stewart ISBN: 0044409745
The inside story of heroin users and their world which goes beyond tabloid headlines and TV shock stories and tells it how it 'really' is. Tam Stewart was part of the heroin scene in Liverpool for years. In this book she reveals with insight and honesty what kind of people really take heroin, why they do it and how it changes their lives.

	The Heroin Users Handbook By Francis Moraes, Ph.D. ISBN: 1559502169
From the Back Cover Heroin has traditionally been referred to as "The Hardest Drug". There were soft drugs, hard drugs, and the hardest drug—heroin. Even amongst heavy drug users, heroin was often a taboo. "Any drug is worth trying—except heroin." But over the last three decades, things have changed. The purity of street-level heroin has increased twenty fold (20 times), allowing users to snort and smoke it, whereas they were previously forced to inject. As a result, more people are experimenting with heroin than ever before. The larger number of heroin users has not translated into more knowledge about this drug, however. That is where the Heroin User's Handbook comes it. This book explains everything that a heroin user needs to know. It dispels the myths that surround heroin and replaces them with accurate and objective information.

	The Jones Men By Vern E. Smith ISBN: 0393317072 (USA) ISBN: 0862417112 (UK)
This streetwise novel chronicles the rise and fall of Lonnie Jack, a twenty-six-year-old Vietnam veteran and mid-level heroin dealer itching to knock the powerful Willis McDaniel off his perch as the number-one drug kingpin. It plunges the reader into the subculture of addicts, dealers, and corrupt cops as Lonnie Jack's bold and methodical challenge builds to a frightening climax.

	The Little Book of Heroin By Francis Moraes, Ph.D. ISBN: 0914171984
From the Back Cover The word heroin calls forth strong emotions especially fear. It is much like our fear of Satan - an active agent that entices the young and innocent with initial pleasures of the flesh, but once ensnared they face a life of slavery and misery - a living hell! Such extreme reactions exacerbate the problem. Recreational drug adventurers quickly dispel the myth, creating a huge credibility gap. "Everything they said was a lie. I can resist this, if I want to!" Once hooked, or heavily "chipping", also called "pre-addicted", the victim is no longer innocent and hides in shame, finding refuge with junkie outcasts, instead of seeking help. The Little Book of Heroin is a straight forward look at heroin and who junkies are really. It covers history and the evolution from opium to morphine to heroin; how heroin is procured on the 'street' and how it is chemically purified; ways heroin is used and diseases junkies get; methods of detox and the real danger of 'sudden death' and much more. The Little Book of Heroin replaces myths with solid information useful to the user for reducing harm; and to concerned family, friends and professionals who want to better understand.

	The Little Book of Opium By Francis Moraes, Ph.D. ISBN: 1579510183
Despite how small this book is, it is jammed full with information. Almost any question you might have about opium or an opioid will be answered by this book. The Little Book of Opium contains information from a vast resource. There is quite simply no book like it. If you already have books on opium, like Opium for the Masses or Flowers in the Blood, this book will make a great addition—filling in most of the holes left by these books. On the other hand, if you have only one book on opium, it should be The Little Book of Opium. It covers all aspects of opium as the table of contents shows. In addition, the chapter on minor constituents is a real gem; it describes the effects of 23 of opium's alkaloids—this is in addition to the chapter on the five major constituents and chapters devoted to codeine and morphine. This information is simply not available in books written for a lay audience.

	The Room By Hubert Selby ISBN: 0714530387
Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time petty criminal surrenders himself to the sadistic fantasies of hatred, rage and the powerless lust for revenge that are trapped inside him. Selby's second novel, the sequel to Last Exit To Brooklyn, is a claustrophobic descent into a man locked away in a loveless society.

	Trainspotting By Irvine Welsh ISBN: 0393314804 (USA) ISBN: 0749336501 (UK)
Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect - essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. View film details

	Tulsa By Larry Clark ISBN: 0802137482
When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture of Oklahoma were acclaimed by critics for stripping bare the myth that Middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that rocked America in the 1960s. The raw, haunting images taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture progressively overwhelmed by self-destruction - and are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared. Originally published in a limited paperback version and republished in 1983 as a limited hardcover edition commissioned by the author, rare-book dealers sell copies of this book for more than a thousand dollars. Now in both hardcover and paperback editions from Grove Press, this seminal work of photographic art and social history is once again available to the general public.

	Writing on Drugs By Sadie Plant ISBN: 0374293341
Product Description from Amazon.Com A vast literature on drugs has assembled itself in the last two hundred years. It begins with the late eighteenth century's explorations of opium, wends its way through cannabis, coca, and cocaine, and later finds itself entangled with a wide variety of plant hallucinogens and synthetic drugs. "Like their writings and their writers, these substances could hardly be more diverse. Some of them are ancient, others very new. Some are synthesized in laboratories, and some grow wild. Some are widely used as medicines, a few are fatal in large doses, some have no toxicity at all. In the twentieth century, the vast majority of these substances find themselves controlled by some of the world's oldest international agreements and its most extensive national laws. But they do have their own common ground as well. Whether they are organic or synthetic, old or new, stimulating, narcotic, or hallucinogenic, all these drugs have some specific psychoactive effect: they all shift perceptions, affect moods, change behavior, and alter states of mind. And all of them have exerted an influence that extends far beyond their users ... When drugs change their users, they change everything." In this exhilarating literary exploration, Sadie Plant traces the history of drugs and drug use through the work of some of our most revered, and infamous, writers. Rather than exploring drug use as an avenue to spiritual transcendence, Plant focuses on the way that drugs themselves make precise, recognizable interventions in consciousness, in cultural life, in politics. She argues that the use, production, and trafficking of drugs--narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens--have shaped some of the era's most fundamental philosophies and provided much of its economic wealth. "The reasons for the laws and the motives for the wars, the nature of the pleasures and the trouble drugs can cause, the tangled webs of chemicals, the plants, the brains, machines: ambiguity surrounds them all. Drugs shape the laws and write the very rules they break, they scramble all the codes and raise the stakes of desire and necessity, euphoria and pain, normality, perversion, truth, and artifice again." Through examinations of post-Romantic writers on drugs, including Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on them all, Writing on Drugs exposes this most profound and pervasive influence on contemporary culture.