Addiction and Overdose: Confronting an American Crisis

Goldsmith, Connie

ISBN 10: 1512409537 / ISBN 13: 9781512409536

Verlag: Twenty-First Century Books â„¢, 2017

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Addiction and Overdose: Confronting an American Crisis
• Verlag: Twenty-First Century Books â ¢
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1512409537
• ISBN-13: 9781512409536
• Einband: library
• Zustand: Good

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Drug overdosing and death from prescription painkillers and heroin are at epidemic levels in the United States. How do people become addicted to opioids and other dangerous drugs, and why? Meet the experts who study the neurology of addiction. Hear stories of addicts in recovery, and of loved ones left behind by those who died from overdosing. Discover more about the social and economic costs of overdosing and learn about scientific research to decrease it. Learn about the connection between addiction and mental health disorders. Find out how to identify signs of addiction and overdose and what you can do to help someone get assistance.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Connie Goldsmith is a registered nurse with a bachelor of science degree in nursing and a master of public administration degree in health care. She has written numerous books for YA readers and nearly two hundred magazine articles. Her recent books include Kiyo Sato: From a WWII Japanese Internment Camp to a Life of Service(2020), a Junior Library Guild selection; Running on Empty: Sleeplessness in American Teens (2021); Understanding Coronaviruses: SARS, MERS, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021); and Bombs Over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster (2014), a Junior Library Guild selection, a Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, an Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California Distinguished Book, and an SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner. She lives in Sacramento, California. Visit her website at http: //www.conniegoldsmith.com/.