Download or read book Inside Dope written by Rufus Davis and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had an in-depth talk with someone who has been addicted to drugs? Listened to them talk about the utterly inescapable, irresistible need to use drugs no matter what the consequences? Heard the depravity and self-loathing they felt while committing acts of an immoral and often violent nature in pursuit of the drugs they can't resist. Inside Dope: Surviving Addiction is author Rufus J. Davis Jr.'s searingly honest look at the world of drug addiction. It weaves a myriad of subjects related to addiction, recovery, and life together while methodically walking you through the entire cycle of addiction and recovery. Inside Dope is the story of the struggles of one addict and the people he met during his labyrinthine journeys on the roller coaster of addiction. It reveals how the families and loved ones of those at various stages of addiction and recovery are also impacted, and Davis does not shrink from providing a crystal-clear picture of what can happen to the lives of those the addict loves the most. Yet ultimately, Inside Dope is an inspiring beacon of encouragement beckoning through the fog to offer hope, and a blueprint for recovery from the pernicious blight of addiction. Rufus J. Davis Jr. was born in 1948 on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, and currently resides on the east coast. He finished high school and attended college in Chicago before entering the US Air Force as a Titan II nuclear missile launch crew member for four years before being honorably discharged in 1973. He went on to sell life insurance and own a liquor store and nightclub and an auto repair business. He retired from his full-time job as a supervisor for a national passenger railroad in 2015.
Download or read book Inside Dope written by Richard W. Pound and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An IOC insider speaks out on creating a drug-free sports culture With doping charges leveled at athletes in baseball, cycling, and in the Olympics, cheating has, to many onlookers, become the norm in pro sports. With implications far beyond the sports arena, Inside Dope examines the genesis of doping in sports as well as in the world of doctors and trainers; drug testing and the battle to stay ahead of users; drug companies and big business; and the role of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as watchdog. Written by a former Olympian, an IOC official, and a passionate advocate of fair play in sports, this eye-opening book takes a candid look at testing standards and the future of doping and sports and the larger issue of how doping affects the public perception of athletes.
Download or read book Inside Dope on Football Coaching written by John R. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Dope written by Paul Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane Ricketts had planned to steer clear of drugs once he got out of the Thai jail, but it's tough turning down a dying man's last request - even if he's a hardened criminal with a fatal weakness for transvestites. So now Ricketts is looking for the lost treasure of the notorious Mr Asia syndicate: ten kilos of high-grade cocaine. When he finds a
Download or read book Inside Dopesters and Conspiracy Theories written by Adam Weishaupt and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 9/11 "conspiracy" is the ultimate McGuffin – it's nothing at all. Its hidden function, though, is very real: to undermine the basis of government – any government, government in principle – and to "reveal" all government as a lethal threat to the people, as an eternal conspiracy. The "Truthers" are anarcho-capitalist libertarians and supporters of Ayn Rand. They are engaged in a vast and frighteningly dangerous conspiracy to replace government with enormous corporations acting according to the "market", and outside any government control or restraint. In this nightmarish new world, people would be brainwashed drones "owned" by corporate leviathans. There would be no freedom, no hope and no escape. Wake up. See what's really going on. See past the smoke and mirrors. Ask yourself that ancient question – cui bono? Who will benefit most from the Truthers' new model of society? The answer is the same one it has always been: the Old World Order. This is a book by the Pythagorean Illuminati ... the Lizard Kings!
Download or read book Books and Bibliography written by John Edward Palmer Thomson and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised papers of a conference entitled "Remembering Don McKenzie" and held at the National Library of New Zealand, 12th to 14th July 2001.
Download or read book The Lonely Crowd written by David Riesman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most important books of the twentieth century."--Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, The Lonely Crowd opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett's new introduction illuminates the ways in which Riesman's analysis of a middle class obsessed with how others lived still resonates in the age of social media. "Indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand American society. After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live."--Todd Gitlin
Download or read book Inside Dope written by Paul Thomas and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dope The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade written by Benjamin T. Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent. He uncovers its origins and explains how this illicit business essentially built modern Mexico, affecting everything from agriculture to medicine to economics—and the country’s all-important relationship with the United States. Drawing on unprecedented archival research; leaked DEA, Mexican law enforcement, and cartel documents; and dozens of harrowing interviews, Smith tells a thrilling story brimming with vivid characters—from Ignacia “La Nacha” Jasso, “queen pin” of Ciudad Juárez, to Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the crusading physician who argued that marijuana was harmless and tried to decriminalize morphine, to Harry Anslinger, the Machiavellian founder of the American Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who drummed up racist drug panics to increase his budget. Smith also profiles everyday agricultural workers, whose stories reveal both the economic benefits and the human cost of the trade. The Dope contains many surprising conclusions about drug use and the failure of drug enforcement, all backed by new research and data. Smith explains the complicated dynamics that drive the current drug war violence, probes the U.S.-backed policies that have inflamed the carnage, and explores corruption on both sides of the border. A dark morality tale about the American hunger for intoxication and the necessities of human survival, The Dope is essential for understanding the violence in the drug war and how decades-old myths shape Mexico in the American imagination today.
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Download or read book Safire s Political Dictionary written by William Safire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
Download or read book Sgt Pepper and the Beatles written by Olivier Julien and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave rise to 'hopes of progress in pop music' (The Times, 29 May 1967). Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles commemorates the fortieth anniversary of this masterpiece of British psychedelia by addressing issues that will help put the record in perspective.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sports History written by Robert Edelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting", nor are they "war by other means." To be sure sports have generated animosity throughout human history, but they also require rules to which the participants agree to abide before the contest. Among other things, those rules are supposed to limit violence, even death. More than anything else, sports have been a significant part of a historical "civilizing process." They are the opposite of war. As the historical profession has taken its cultural turn over the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to subject once seen as marginal. As researchers have come to understand the centrality of the human body in human history, they have come to study this most corporeal of human activities. Taking early cues from physical educators and kinesiologists, historians have been exploring sports in all their forms in order to help us answer the most fundamental questions to which scholars have devoted their lives. We have now seen a veritable explosion excellent work on this subject, just as sports have assumed an even greater share of a globalizing world's cultural, political and economic space. Practiced by millions and watched by billions, sports provide an enormous share of content on the Internet. This volume combines the efforts of sports historians with essays by historians whose careers have been devoted to more traditional topics. We want to show how sports have evolved from ancient societies to the world we inhabit today. Our goal is to introduce those from outside this sub-field to this burgeoning body of scholarship. At the same time, we hope here to show those who may want to study sport with rigor and nuance how to embark on a rewarding journey and tackle profound matters that have affected and will affect all of humankind.
Download or read book The Hippies and American Values written by Timothy A. Miller and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” Timothy Leary advised young people in the 1960s. And many did, creating a counterculture built on drugs, rock music, sexual liberation, and communal living. The hippies preached free love, promoted flower power, and cautioned against trusting anyone over thirty. Eschewing money, materialism, and politics, they repudiated the mainstream values of the times. Along the way, these counterculturists created a lasting legacy and inspired long-lasting social changes. The Hippies and American Values uses an innovative approach to exploring the tenets of the counterculture movement. Rather than relying on interviews conducted years after the fact, Timothy Miller uses “underground” newspapers published at the time to provide a full and in-depth exploration. This reliance on primary sources brings an immediacy and vibrancy rarely seen in other studies of the period. Miller focuses primarily on the cultural revolutionaries rather than on the political radicals of the New Left. It examines the hippies’ ethics of dope, sex, rock, community, and cultural opposition and surveys their effects on current American values. Filled with illustrations from alternative publications, along with posters, cartoons, and photographs, The Hippies and American Values provides a graphic look at America in the 1960s. This second edition features a new introduction and a thoroughly updated, well-documented text. Highly readable and engaging, this volume brings deep insight to the counterculture movement and the ways it changed America. The first edition became a widely used course-adoption favorite, and scholars and students of the 1960s will welcome the second edition of this thought-provoking book.
Download or read book Investigate Steroids and Performance Drugs written by Sara L. Latta and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many young people are tempted to take steroids because they believe they will become better athletes or be more attractive. This book explains why this is a dangerous belief. Author Sara L. Latta discusses steroids and performance-enhancing drugs, explaining their history, effect on the body, reasons for use, laws that control their use, and their use by amateur and professional athletes.
Download or read book Organisational Methods and Political Principles written by Joseph Hansen and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cosmic Jest The Joke s On Us written by Mark Romel and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salman Rushdie wrote, "DC: Washington is being taken over by DC: Comics." The world is increasingly understood as a comic story, involving superheroes and supervillains. Confusingly, they are often one and the same. Donald Trump is the superhero for conservatives and the supervillain for liberals. Heroes and villains are now shapeshifters. They no longer reflect a common narrative. Their heroism or villainy depends on where you stand in the culture wars. Next time you go to watch a superhero movie, imagine what it would be like if the superhero kept "flickering" into his opposite – the supervillain. Would you be able to follow the story? Whom would you be rooting for? Wouldn't the plot be all over the place? You wouldn't understand anyone's motivation. The story would be pure chaos. Welcome to the Cosmic Jest. Read this book if you don't want the joke to be on you.
