Download or read book As I Walk Through the Valley of Meth written by Robert Newell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...As I Walk Through the Valley of Meth... chronicles drug related execution style murders, kidnappings, and other crimes that have steadily increased throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley in the middle of the Appalachian Region in spite of the all the efforts of the criminal justice system. The book is based on investigations conducted by state and local narcotic task forces, the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with other federal agencies, and travels through the beginning of drug enforcement in the 1960s and early 70s, and into 2021, the deadliest year ever recorded in West Virginia and the United States for the number of drug related deaths. For well over a half a century, our country has been engaged in a war against illegal and dangerous drugs. The number of Americans who have died far eclipses those lost in any war our country has engaged in. In 2018 alone, more Americans died from drug overdoses than during the entire Vietnam War. Since 1999, nearly 800,000 people in the United States have died easily surpassing the number of those who were killed during the Civil War (620,000), or World War II (407,000). ...As I Walk Through the Valley of Meth... chronicles the efforts to curtail drugs in one area of Appalachia in West Virginia. West Virginia has the highest rate of deaths in the country with 57.8 deaths per 100,000 population.
Download or read book After This written by Dr. Cliff Self and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Cliff Self and his wife, Darlene, did not choose their journey; they were thrust into it. After their son, Scott, came out to them as a gay man, Dr. Self and Darlene were propelled along a confusing path that caused them to question their understanding of God and the scripture and eventually to reach deep inside to find the grit and grace to experience miraculous changes. When Scott revealed his true self, the family’s world changed. The Selfs had to come to a new understanding of their relationships with one another and to their faith, framed by the conviction that the Bible is the word of God and the authority on how to live. Darlene struggled with shattered dreams, Dr. Self strove to understand the Christian teachings on homosexuality through scripture, and Scott battled with guilt, shame, and addiction until discovering the meaning of self-love and his path to wholeness as a gay man. In this candid and revealing account, all three family members offer inspiration for handling unexpected changes without fear, resolving conflicts between scripture and real life issues, and ultimately living with peace, joy, and purpose. After This is the moving narrative of one family’s journey through the healing process of change after their son came out as a gay man.
Download or read book Walking with Hope written by Paul Niles and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was in tears at this cross on top of this mountain in Riverside, California, and asking the Lord to give me back my mother and family. You see, I came from a broken home. We are all over the states. Then I saw flashes of light in the clouds like he heard my prayers. Then I found myself in the hospital after being shot seven times! Twice in the back of my head and once in the heart! It was a professional hit. Someone didn't like me very much. I thought I did something bad to end up in hell! My whole family was back together for a short time-my sister and her family, my brothers on both sides of my parents, my aunts and uncle, my stepfather, and most of all, my mother! Now, I say that's a miracle if ever I heard of one! The Father is here. He exists in every one of us. In this book, I will show you how to hear from him, the All Mighty! You just have to let things be. "Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, speaking words of wisdom, let it be!" I tried a lot of different lifestyles before I was awakened by the Lord after being shot seven times. I mean, I was running wild without a care in the world! Well, I'm finally on the right path he had led me on. It was all for a reason, and that reason is to prove that there is a Lord named Jesus Christ!
Download or read book Fire and Ice written by Boston Bornagain and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God did not stop writing stories at Revelation. This book is based in 98% truth, depicting the meth lifestyle and addiction in its rawest form. Follow one man's journey deep into the chasms of hell. From adolescence, Boston Bornagain was haunted by the demons of addiction. Get a bird's eye view into "the game," through the lens of a meth addicted cab driver in the drug underworld. Take a trip into the macabre meth counterculture where sex, drugs, and the supernatural reign. To meet God, some of us must first walk with the devil. This brutally honest series of events is based on a real-life spiritual awakening of a living man. Reader beware. This book is full of shocking sexual situations, illicit drug use, and Jesus. "Fire and Ice: The Meth Bible" is the authority on the "ice game." This story is proof that no matter how deep the lost venture into the pits of hades, God will come to redeem us. Only 2 percent of meth addicts get and stay clean for a lifetime. The alternative road leads to jails, institutions and death. This controversial book will give you a taste of it all. Buckle up passengers. The roads are covered in ice. This is a miracle story about how God helps his children conquer the "devil's drug." Boston Bornagain is a first-time author. He began writing this story the week he was released from Vernon State Hospital, The State of Texas' only maximum-security mental health facility for the criminally insane. Once inside the gates of Vernon State Hospital, many never see the free world again. Boston Bornagain, a real person, recovered addict, and born-` again Christian, truly tells a miraculous story in Fire & Ice: The Meth Bible. Buckle up, passengers. It's a wild ride that ends with that crazy faith and divine love that many spend a lifetime seeking.
Download or read book Violence In The Valley written by Robert D Newell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence in the Valley is a book of short stories about unusual murders and other crimes investigated in the mid-Ohio Valley by the Parkersburg Police Department Detective Bureau, West Virginia State Police, and other agencies along the peaceful Ohio River from Wheeling to Huntington, West Virginia. The stories are about the early days of the detective bureau through the nineteen nineties and beyond involving cases of kidnapping, murder, organized crime, mob hits, decapitation murders, drug wars, and other crimes with an unusaul twist in many instances. They include the largest single family homicide in U.S. history, a mass shooting by a sniper, and contract murders involving drugs and revenge. A description of the crime rate in each decade gives an overview of the major cases that follow in detail.
Download or read book Still Room for Hope written by Alisa Kaplan and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These were boys we knew, boys we trusted. 'They wouldn't do that to you,' she insisted. I wanted to believe her. But I couldn't..." On July 6, 2002, sixteen-year-old Alisa Kaplan woke, sick and disoriented, in the passenger seat of her car. She'd been at a party the night before, but there was a big blank hole where her own memories of the night should have been. So what happened at that party? Why couldn't she remember anything about the night before? As the appalling, terrifying details of that night began to surface, it ignited a media frenzy and a storm of controversy with Alisa trapped at the center: A straight-laced, straight-A student, sexually assaulted by three male friends-all caught on videotape. Her fight for justice pitted her against some of Southern California's most powerful families, and made her the target of a devastating smear campaign. Despite the evidence, the corruption and humiliation of her first trial resulted in a hung jury, and sent her spiraling into the oblivion of meth addiction. But on the threshold of her last chance and darkest moment, Alisa discovered: There was still room for hope. Now she recounts her gripping story of transforming from victim to survivor: How she got a second chance, broke her silence, and found faith and grace in God on her way to rebuilding a stronger, meaningful life. Courageous and heartbreaking, Alisa's hope-filled account demonstrates that redemption is always possible, and forgiveness can transform anyone.
Download or read book Mind Over Meth written by Debra Hedgcorth and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meth is spreading across this nation and infecting our society like no other drug in its time. Families are caught in a cyclical curse that will destroy generation upon generation. Children are subjected to the chemical side affects as well as seeing their parents decompose before their very eyes. Mind Over Meth is the true story of one family's struggle to live in the dark world of meth, and their victory over its clutches. The message of freedom is articulated to speak to any person and any situation, not just those addicted to this horrific drug. We must get the right perspective and usher in a new generation of advocates to destroy the fear...with love.
Download or read book Gangland written by Jared Savage and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs 'The best true-crime book of the year by a long stretch.' - Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'A series of rip-snorting yarns about gangs, drugs, fancy cars, wads of cash, violence, and guns - Aotearoa New Zealand style.' - Simon Bridges New Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and now the most dangerous drug lords in the world - the Mexican cartels. In Gangland, award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage shines a light into New Zealand's rising underworld of organised crime and violent gangs. The brutal execution of a husband-and-wife; the undercover cop who infiltrated a casino VIP lounge; the midnight fishing trip which led to the country's biggest cocaine bust; the gangster who shot his best friend in a motorcycle shop: these stories go behind the headlines and open the door to an invisible world - a world where millions of dollars are made, life is cheap, and allegiances change like the flick of a switch.
Download or read book Biker Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime written by Thomas Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biker Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime, Second Edition, describes and analyzes a rapidly expanding global problem: criminal acts committed by motorcycle gangs. Thomas Barker, one of the world’s top experts on outlaw biker gangs, offers fascinating details about the Bandidos, the Vagos, the Mongols, and other "one percenters" (criminal biker gangs, as opposed to the vast majority of motorcycle enthusiasts). He combines this data with a strengthened conceptual framework that makes sense of this complicated picture. U.S.-based motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels have proliferated, especially in Canada and Europe, to the point where these gangs have more members in other countries than in the United States. Increasingly more often in recent years their crimes are not limited to rumbles or drug use—these gangs challenge the dominance of organized crime, leading to violent conflicts between the rivals. Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada are particularly hard-hit by this rising violence. One of Barker’s unique contributions is his Criminal Organization Continuum, building on the groundbreaking network approach to organized crime proposed by Klaus von Lampe. Introduced in the first edition, Barker elaborates his continuum tool and makes it more multi-dimensional to help refine the definition of adult criminal gangs. The product of years of research, this book lays the groundwork for further study by offering students, police, and researchers the most thorough account available of outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Download or read book Tweak written by Nic Sheff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ‘It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.’ Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father’s parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- ‘Difficult to read and impossible to put down.’Chicago Tribune 'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' Armistead Maupin
Download or read book A History of St Joseph County Indiana written by Timothy Edward Howard and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tweaked written by Patrick Moore and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's twenty-year stint as crystal meth addict, from his lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, an alcoholic artist, to his wild acid trips and experiences navigating through the dark underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers, and other unforgettable characters. Original.
Download or read book Meth a Memoir written by Wayne Huffman and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meth: a Memoir is both raw and disturbing. Written from within the confines of prison walls, the author gives an unflinching look at a life surrounded by drugs and drug use. It is a no holds barred, no feelings spared story that drags you, kicking and screaming, through the inner realms of the meth world. As an addict and meth cook, the author knows that there are aspects to the meth lifestyle that can only be understood by experiencing it for yourself. To help you understand this sub-culture, and those who call that world home, the author will take you into the meth world as no one else has ever done before. Everyone in America is affected by meth in one way or another. That simple fact makes this book a MUST READ.
Download or read book Special and chosen sermons of D M Luther collected out of his writings Englished by W G ace B L written by Martin Luther and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Otherworld and Beyond Series III written by J R Freeman and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the deeply inquisitive and gripping continuation of THE OTHERWORLD AND BEYOND books, Series III: Making Contact centers on a seeker of truth as he embarks on a quest to determine which world is real - the physical or spiritual. Feeling that something is just not right in his life, the seeker sets out on an arduous path, experiencing tremendous hardship in order to prove that the true world is the spiritual one, and the physical world is purgatory. The seeker is led to a clue that was hidden in the fabric of time. He is transported back and forth through the past, present, and future to prevent catastrophic events. What is the mysterious black smoke which appears again and again during his journey? Will he be able to make sense of a world that exists on multiple levels, and effect positive change? About the Author: J.R. Freeman grew up in a small town on the outskirts of Sulphur, Louisiana called Mossville, and currently lives in Beaumont, Texas. He is a retired disabled veteran of the United States Air Force and the CEO of Peg Leg Jack Bobaecue Incorporated. Inspired by the wish to share the spiritual knowledge he gained from a Near Death Experience, Mr.Freeman's previous works are THE OTHERWORLD AND BEYOND: Series I, A New Beginning and THE OTHERWORLD AND BEYOND: Series II, The Inner Self. He is presently writing the next book, THE OTHERWORLD AND BEYOND: Series IV, I See Visions. http: //SBPRA.com/JRFreema
Download or read book Methodist Reviews Index 1818 1985 Periodical articles a subject index including an author editor index and a Scripture index written by Elmer J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes : Methodist review, Methodist quarterly review, United Brethren review, Religion in life, and Quarterly review.
Download or read book Minutes Taken at the Several Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America written by Methodist Episcopal Church and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
