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Crack, Cocaine, Heroin, Wine, Street Life, Prison, Murder, Survival.

Author : Samuel Arcelay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Crack, Cocaine, Heroin, Wine, Street Life, Prison, Murder, Survival. written by Samuel Arcelay and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crack Cocaine, is a series of poems / memoirs about addiction to crack, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, street life and prison. The journey begins at age 12 with dropping out of school and being committed and confined to a mental institution for one year. The NYS Psychiatric Institute, due to violent behavior. Yes, I am certified psychiatric. I escaped twice. It progresses into street life, marijuana, and alcohol. At age 13, I am introduced to heroin injections, alcohol, and theft. Eventually I become a heroin addict and criminal. On my 16th birthday I wake up in a cell on Rikers Island, the worst jail in NYC. At age 18, I am sentenced to 5 years in maximum security prison. I beat someone with a bat. Upon release from Sing Sing Prison, I return to street life, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. I meet Joey who introduced me to crack cocaine. I become a Crack Head, then homeless and sleep on the street for two years. I become degraded, experience violence, murder, and cocaine psychosis. I have been shot at, chased with knives, brutally beaten, while terrorized by a vicious dog. The guy that beat me up, Tito, he's dead. Shot 3 times in the chest with a 45. I piss on his grave. Fuck him. More than once, I overdosed, was found unconscious. I've been wakened in the night by a stray dog who sniffed me as I slept in garbage. "Fuck the world, I'm bullet proof" was my trademark. I have a Master's Degree in Deception, a PHD in Stealing, a Doctorate in seeing a Hurt Look on my mother's face. I lied I cheated I robbed I stole. I woke up in the morning with no drugs no money, never did I say, "Today I won't get high". I made money and drugs appear out of nowhere. If I had nothing to eat all day and was hungry, and made $20, I bought a bag of chips a quarter water, 50 Cents, total, and spent $19.50 on Crack, a loose Newport, a pint of Night Train wine. In 1986 as I slept on the streets of NYC, in my pocket, a 5 shot 38, a crack pipe, a pen, and paper. I wrote a book of poetry about crack, heroin murder and crime. I wrote poetry about the things I saw. It is titled, Crack Street Victim Lane. I have held on to it dearly. In this book is the cover of it, one of the yellow wrinkled pages in my illustrations. Crack Street Victim Lane, Sam on Crack, Crack Cocaine, is my collection of those poems, complimented by personal addiction memoirs and cartoons. A true story written in graphic content, explicit detail. Joey They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile, but being sneaky was his style. What a shame the way he died, inside my mind, I hear his cries. Because of crack, Joey told you lies owed people money, Joey died. This was murder, not a joke. They tortured him, they made him choke. They hit him with a bat as they held his back. Inside that place we both smoked crack. With cigarette butts, they burned him up. With a garbage bag they covered him up. He sat in that chair and he was afraid, $200 he did not pay. They hit him in the head with a baseball bat. Joey got killed because of crack. They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile, but being sneaky was his style. By Samuel Arcelay

Drugs Street Life Prison Murder

Author : The Samuel Arcelay Foundation
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Drugs Street Life Prison Murder written by The Samuel Arcelay Foundation and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986 as I slept on the streets of NYC, in my pocket, a 5 shot 38, its name "Bandit". Armed with a crack pipe, a pen, and paper, I wrote a book of poetry about crack, heroin murder and crime. I wrote poetry about the things I saw. It named it, "Crack Street Victim Lane". The poems were written during a drug addicted, homeless life, on the streets of NYC. The memoirs naturally appeared as I was publishing the poems. The result, a book, Drugs Street Life Prison Murder. This part of my life represents hell on earth its survival, and the birth of my journey into psychology, the power of my mind, neuroscience, and gratitude to God, for my ability to speak about it as the past. Surviving drug and alcohol addiction is not easy. I have had many near-death experiences and could easily have been in prison for life. The journey begins at age 12 with dropping out of school and being committed and confined to a mental institution for one year. The NYS Psychiatric Institute, due to violent behavior. I escaped twice. It progresses into street life, marijuana, and alcohol. At age 13, I am introduced to heroin injections, alcohol, and theft. From this I graduate to cocaine, street life and prison. Eventually I become a heroin addict and criminal. On my 16th birthday I wake up in a cell on Rikers Island, the worst jail in NYC. Later that year, still 16, I had my first drug overdose, more would follow. At age 18, I am sentenced to 5 years in maximum security prison. I beat someone with a bat. Upon release from Sing Sing Prison in 1982, I return to street life, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. I meet Joey, who introduced me to crack cocaine. Joey They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile, but being sneaky was his style. What a shame the way he died, inside my mind, I hear his cries. Because of crack, Joey told you lies owed people money, Joey died. This was murder, not a joke. They tortured him, they made him choke. By Samuel Arcelay I become a Crack Head, then homeless and sleep on the street for two years. I become degraded, experience violence, murder, and cocaine psychosis. I have been shot at, chased with knives, brutally beaten, while terrorized by a vicious dog. The guy that beat me up, Tito, he is dead. Shot 3 times in the chest with a 45. I piss on his grave. Fuck him. I have a master's degree in lying and stealing, a doctorate in deception and a PHD in seeing a hurt look on my mother's face. I have casually walked over dead bodies and nonchalantly walked away from shotguns and guns that were pointed in my face. Ready to die, I walked past 2 police officers who pointed their guns at me as I held a knife. They stepped to the side and let me pass. I guess they did not shoot because I was a kid. Drugs Street Life Prison Murder, is a memoir of a 25-year-old, homeless, crack head, dope fiend, alcoholic, x- con, thief, sneak, liar, cheat - who overcomes it all. On September 28, 1988 at 8:30 PM, I used drugs alcohol and nicotine for the last time. I did not use any medication or any drug treatment program. I used my mind. I remained in the same community with the same drug infested people places and things. At the time of this writing, 32 years later, I remain drug alcohol and nicotine free. I am 62 years old. In explicit detail, accompanied by poems, illustrations, and personal photographs I make this piece of my life public. Update: 1 year later I have published my second book "User Manual for Your Mind" an introduction to the human operating system. There is more to me than this true story of my unfortunate past life. Please check out the description page. Thank you. https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B09KNGFH19

Sam on Crack

Author : Samuel Arcelay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Sam on Crack written by Samuel Arcelay and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986 as I slept on the streets of NYC, in my pocket, a 5 shot 38, it's name "Bandit". Armed with a crack pipe, a pen, and paper, I wrote a book of poetry about crack, heroin murder and crime. I wrote poetry about the things I saw. It is titled, Crack Street Victim Lane. I have held on to it dearly. Sam on Crack 32 Years later, is my collection of those poems, complimented by personal addiction memoirs and cartoons and personal photographs. A true story of drug addiction, street life, prison, murder, pain and survival. It is written with graphic content, honesty, pain and explicit detail. The journey begins at age 12 with dropping out of school and being committed and confined to a mental institution for one year. The NYS Psychiatric Institute, due to violent behavior. Yes, I am certified psychiatric. I escaped twice. It progresses into street life, marijuana, and alcohol. At age 13, I am introduced to heroin injections, alcohol, and theft. From this I graduate to cocaine, street life and prison. Eventually I become a heroin addict and criminal. On my 16th birthday I wake up in a cell on Rikers Island, the worst jail in NYC. At age 18, I am sentenced to 5 years in maximum security prison. I beat someone with a bat. Upon release from Sing Sing Prison, I return to street life, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. I meet Joey who introduced me to crack cocaine. I become a Crack Head, then homeless and sleep on the street for two years. I become degraded, experience violence, murder, and cocaine psychosis. I have been shot at, chased with knives, brutally beaten, while terrorized by a vicious dog. The guy that beat me up, Tito, he's dead. Shot 3 times in the chest with a 45. I piss on his grave. Fuck him. More than once, I overdosed, was found unconscious. I have been wakened in the night by a stray dog who sniffed me as I slept in garbage. "Fuck the world, I'm bullet proof" was my trademark. I have a master's degree in deception, a PHD in stealing, a doctorate in seeing a hurt Look on my mother's face. I lied I cheated I robbed I stole. I woke up in the morning with no drugs no money, never did I say, "today I won't get high". I made money and drugs appear out of nowhere. If I had nothing to eat all day and was hungry, and made $20, I bought a bag of chips, a quarter water, 50 cents total, and spent $19.50 on Crack, a loose Newport, a pint of Night Train wine. At the time of this writing I am 62 years old and remain drug alcohol and nicotine free 32 years. I am a published writer and business owner and I have written another book about neuroscience, psychology, quantum physics and the subconscious mind. It's title, User Manual for Your Mind. Joey They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile, but being sneaky was his style. What a shame the way he died, inside my mind, I hear his cries. Because of crack, Joey told you lies owed people money, Joey died. This was murder, not a joke. They tortured him, they made him choke. By Samuel Arcelay

Crack Cocaine

Author : Samuel Arcelay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Crack Cocaine written by Samuel Arcelay and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crack Cocaine, is a series of poems / memoirs about addiction to crack, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, street life and prison. The journey begins at age 12 with dropping out of school and being committed and confined to a mental institution for one year. The NYS Psychiatric Institute, due to violent behavior. Yes, I am certified psychiatric. I escaped twice. It progresses into street life, marijuana, and alcohol. At age 13, I am introduced to heroin injections, alcohol, and theft. Eventually I become a heroin addict and criminal. On my 16th birthday I wake up in a cell on Rikers Island, the worst jail in NYC. At age 18, I am sentenced to 5 years in maximum security prison. I beat someone with a bat. Upon release from Sing Sing Prison, I return to street life, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. I meet Joey who introduced me to crack cocaine. I become a Crack Head, then homeless and sleep on the street for two years. I become degraded, experience violence, murder, and cocaine psychosis. I have been shot at, chased with knives, brutally beaten, while terrorized by a vicious dog. The guy that beat me up, Tito, he's dead. Shot 3 times in the chest with a 45. I piss on his grave. Fuck him. More than once, I overdosed, was found unconscious. I've been wakened in the night by a stray dog who sniffed me as I slept in garbage. "Fuck the world, I'm bullet proof" was my trademark. I have a Master's Degree in Deception, a PHD in Stealing, a Doctorate in seeing a Hurt Look on my mother's face. I lied I cheated I robbed I stole. I woke up in the morning with no drugs no money, never did I say, "Today I won't get high". I made money and drugs appear out of nowhere. If I had nothing to eat all day and was hungry, and made $20, I bought a bag of chips a quarter water, 50 Cents, total, and spent $19.50 on Crack, a loose Newport, a pint of Night Train wine. In 1986 as I slept on the streets of NYC, in my pocket, a 5 shot 38, a crack pipe, a pen, and paper. I wrote a book of poetry about crack, heroin murder and crime. I wrote poetry about the things I saw. It is titled, Crack Street Victim Lane. I have held on to it dearly. In this book is the cover of it, one of the yellow wrinkled pages in my illustrations. Crack Street Victim Lane, Sam on Crack, Crack Cocaine, is my collection of those poems, complimented by personal addiction memoirs and cartoons. A true story written in graphic content, explicit detail. Joey They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile. But being sneaky was his style. What a shame, the way he died, inside my mind, I hear his cries. Because of crack, Joey told you lies, owed people money, Joey died. This was murder not a joke. They tortured him, they made him choke. By Samuel Arcelay

Crack Street Victim Lane

Author : Samuel Arcelay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Crack Street Victim Lane written by Samuel Arcelay and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crack Street Victim Lane, is a series of poems / memoirs about addiction to crack, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, street life and prison. The journey begins at age 12 with dropping out of school and being committed and confined to a mental institution for one year. The NYS Psychiatric Institute, due to violent behavior. Yes, I am certified psychiatric. I escaped twice. It progresses into street life, marijuana, and alcohol. At age 13, I am introduced to heroin injections, alcohol, and theft. Eventually I become a heroin addict and criminal. On my 16th birthday I wake up in a cell on Rikers Island, the worst jail in NYC. At age 18, I am sentenced to 5 years in maximum security prison. I beat someone with a bat. Upon release from Sing Sing Prison, I return to street life, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. I meet Joey who introduced me to crack cocaine. I become a Crack Head, then homeless and sleep on the street for two years. I become degraded, experience violence, murder, and cocaine psychosis. I have been shot at, chased with knives, brutally beaten, while terrorized by a vicious dog. The guy that beat me up, Tito, he's dead. Shot 3 times in the chest with a 45. I piss on his grave. Fuck him. More than once, I overdosed, was found unconscious. I've been wakened in the night by a stray dog who sniffed me as I slept in garbage. "Fuck the world, I'm bullet proof" was my trademark. I have a Master's Degree in Deception, a PHD in Stealing, a Doctorate in seeing a Hurt Look on my mother's face. I lied I cheated I robbed I stole. I woke up in the morning with no drugs no money, never did I say, "Today I won't get high". I made money and drugs appear out of nowhere. If I had nothing to eat all day and was hungry, and made $20, I bought a bag of chips a quarter water, 50 Cents, total, and spent $19.50 on Crack, a loose Newport, a pint of Night Train wine. In 1986 as I slept on the streets of NYC, in my pocket, a 5 shot 38, a crack pipe, a pen, and paper. I wrote a book of poetry about crack, heroin murder and crime. I wrote poetry about the things I saw. It is titled, Crack Street Victim Lane. I have held on to it dearly. In this book is the cover of it, one of the yellow wrinkled pages in my illustrations. Crack Street Victim Lane, Sam on Crack, Crack Cocaine, is my collection of those poems, complimented by personal addiction memoirs and cartoons. A true story written in graphic content, explicit detail. Joey They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile, but being sneaky was his style. What a shame the way he died, inside my mind, I hear his cries. Because of crack, Joey told you lies owed people money, Joey died. This was murder, not a joke. They tortured him, they made him choke. They hit him with a bat as they held his back. Inside that place we both smoked crack. With cigarette butts, they burned him up. With a garbage bag they covered him up. He sat in that chair and he was afraid, $200 he did not pay. They hit him in the head with a baseball bat. Joey got killed because of crack. They found his body in a garbage bag. He played a game, it was not tag. Joey always had a smile, but being sneaky was his style. By Samuel Arcelay

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309459575
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Drugs Make You Un-Smarter

Author : Savanna Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615595412
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Drugs Make You Un-Smarter written by Savanna Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when a parent, a grandparent, your brother, cousins and an uncle are doing drugs? You are also expected to do drugs, right? Fifteen-year-old Savanna Peterson went beyond the expectations of others and took a stand against drugs, even when her older brother had parties while her mom was at work, the cops were watching her house, and her dad spent most of her life in prison for drug-related crimes.

TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Updated 2019)

Author : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1794755136
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Updated 2019) written by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivation is key to substance use behavior change. Counselors can support clients' movement toward positive changes in their substance use by identifying and enhancing motivation that already exists. Motivational approaches are based on the principles of person-centered counseling. Counselors' use of empathy, not authority and power, is key to enhancing clients' motivation to change. Clients are experts in their own recovery from SUDs. Counselors should engage them in collaborative partnerships. Ambivalence about change is normal. Resistance to change is an expression of ambivalence about change, not a client trait or characteristic. Confrontational approaches increase client resistance and discord in the counseling relationship. Motivational approaches explore ambivalence in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way.

Hell Is a Very Small Place

Author : Jean Casella
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620971380
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Hell Is a Very Small Place written by Jean Casella and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews

New York Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Pennsylvania Crime Commission

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788145622
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania Crime Commission written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild Bunch

Author : Donny Smallwood Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647138707
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bunch written by Donny Smallwood Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about Donny Smallwood, a local drug dealer who became the King of his neighborhood, in more ways than one. Selling drugs and giving back to his community he grew up in. A bad for the greater good. As he does bad to do good for the people. He becomes a champion of the people in his community.

Organized Crime in Pennsylvania

Author : Darrell J. Steffensmeier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime in Pennsylvania written by Darrell J. Steffensmeier and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Relieving Pain in America

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030921484X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Relieving Pain in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enlist the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in examining pain as a public health problem. In this report, the IOM offers a blueprint for action in transforming prevention, care, education, and research, with the goal of providing relief for people with pain in America. To reach the vast multitude of people with various types of pain, the nation must adopt a population-level prevention and management strategy. The IOM recommends that HHS develop a comprehensive plan with specific goals, actions, and timeframes. Better data are needed to help shape efforts, especially on the groups of people currently underdiagnosed and undertreated, and the IOM encourages federal and state agencies and private organizations to accelerate the collection of data on pain incidence, prevalence, and treatments. Because pain varies from patient to patient, healthcare providers should increasingly aim at tailoring pain care to each person's experience, and self-management of pain should be promoted. In addition, because there are major gaps in knowledge about pain across health care and society alike, the IOM recommends that federal agencies and other stakeholders redesign education programs to bridge these gaps. Pain is a major driver for visits to physicians, a major reason for taking medications, a major cause of disability, and a key factor in quality of life and productivity. Given the burden of pain in human lives, dollars, and social consequences, relieving pain should be a national priority.

Good Girls on Bad Drugs

Author : Mark Mathew Braunstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963566348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Good Girls on Bad Drugs written by Mark Mathew Braunstein and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Girls on Bad Drugs portrays the shattered lives of girls next door who became crack, coke, opioid, and heroin addicts, and who in their hustle for drugs became streetwalkers and internet escorts. In jailhouse journals and interviews, they confess with candor and courage to their sex work and drug crimes amid two Connecticut mega-casinos and the three nearby small cities. Doomed by their addictions, most girls never recover, while others die young from AIDS, OD, or murder. Here a spotlight is shined upon 22 lives. One chapter, one life. And sometimes one death.

Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "look at the embattled inhabitants of three representative troubled communities: East New York; North Philadelphia; and the Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn, New York."--Page 2 of cover.

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Author : Dr. Carl L. Hart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981660
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Drug Use for Grown-Ups written by Dr. Carl L. Hart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a researcher and professor, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use--not drugs themselves--have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes. But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis. From inside the massively well-funded research arm of the American war on drugs, he saw how the facts did not support the ideology. The truth was dismissed and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and Black and brown bodies behind bars. Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: the propaganda war, Dr. Hart argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the only subject of any discussion about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: when used responsibly, drugs can enrich and enhance our lives. We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step.