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Drug Codes (J Codes)-HCPCS Fast Finder(R) sheets are double-sided, laminated "cheat sheets" to speed coding for often-used supply codes. Each Fast Finder contains more than 300 HCPCS Level II codes with shortened descriptions based on actual frequencies for that specialty.Features and benefitso Most targeted code sets. Save time by referencing this list, which includes most of the codes needed for your specialty. o Easy to use by coders and clinicians. More than 300 codes organized alphabetically so it's easy to find the right service or supply. o Accurate. Fast Finders are created by clinical and record specialists, who make sure that the code sets are accurate, appropriate and comprehensive. o Instant portability. These two-sided sheets are sized to slip easily into your code book for convenient storage. o Low cost and efficient. Improve coding on the front end by putting Fast Finders in each exam room. o Durable. You can trust the content and lamination to better serve your needs. 

In World War II, the United States mounted a military effort of unprecedented magnitude and complexity. With more than 11 million soldiers to be armed, fed, clothed, and transported, logistics - including the design, procurement, distribution, and movements of supplies and the transportation of troops - became big business. General Brehon B. Somervell, a brilliant military-industrial manager, led the army's wartime logistical operation. Sometimes criticized as a big spender, he understood well the decisive role of superior material and mobility. As America's chief wartime logistician, he demanded ample supplies for the troops, at the right place at the right time. A graduate of West Point, Somervell served his country in both the military and civilian arenas. As head of the Works Progress Administration in New York City, he won recognition for his effective management; later, he helped prepare the nation for war by building training camps and munitions plants. At the height of his career, as head of the War Department Services of Supply - known later as the Army Service Forces - Somervell was responsible for the supply and administration of the army within the United States and the support of troops overseas. He also was the War Department's principal logistical advisor and troubleshooter. In these ways, Somervell played a vital role in the mobilization of forces and powerfully influenced the United States' conduct of the war. In this much-needed biography, Ohl illuminates the centrality of logistics in the Allied path to victory over the Axis powers and also shows how the interaction of military, political, and business leaders during the war helped to shape national policy. Ohl baseshis study on exhaustive research in the National Archives, on manuscript collections, and on oral histories and interviews. Supplying the Troops will appeal especially to those interested in military logistics and history, economic history, and the World War II era.

Chemotherapy Drugs -HCPCS Fast Finder(R) sheets are double-sided, laminated "cheat sheets" to speed coding for often-used supply codes. Each Fast Finder contains more than 300 HCPCS Level II codes with shortened descriptions based on actual frequencies for that specialty.  Features and benefitso Most targeted code sets. Save time by referencing this list, which includes most of the codes needed for your specialty. o Easy to use by coders and clinicians. More than 300 codes organized alphabetically so it's easy to find the right service or supply. o Accurate. Fast Finders are created by clinical and record specialists, who make sure that the code sets are accurate, appropriate and comprehensive. o Instant portability. These two-sided sheets are sized to slip easily into your code book for convenient storage. o Low cost and efficient. Improve coding on the front end by putting Fast Finders in each exam room. o Durable. You can trust the content and lamination to better serve your needs. 

Goode's Drugs in American Society 7/e is a well-respected, brief investigation of the full range of psychoactive drug use; from legal, medical and perscription use to criminal, recreational use and from casual use to addiction. Objective pro and con accounts on important issues like treatment, education, rehabilitation, and legalization give students a thorough understanding of the topics. The new seventh edition continues to provide the most balanced and up-to-date coverage in an accessible, engaging style.

The American Drug Index provides the identification, explanation, and correlation of thousands of pharmaceuticals in concise dictionary format with extensive cross-referencing. This comprehensive drug listing includes composition, strength, doseform, packaging, schedule, and usage for approximately 22, 000 brand and official USP generic drugs. Appendices include Cancer Chemotherapy Regimens, New Drugs, and Discontinued Drugs.

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Outlines Highlights for the American Drug Scene by Inciardi ISBN: 193171908x by McElrath 4th Edition Inciardi, Cram101 Textbook Reviews Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and

Release Date: June 16, 2009

The American Drug Index provides the identification, explanation, and correlation of thousands of pharmaceuticals in concise dictionary format with extensive cross-referencing. This comprehensive drug listing includes composition, strength, doseform, packaging, schedule, and usage for approximately 22, 000 brand and official USP generic drugs. Appendices include Cancer Chemotherapy Regimens, New Drugs, and Discontinued Drugs.

.In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the American government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I, however, the free market in drugs was but a dim memory, if that. Instead of dwelling on the familiar impracticality or unfairness of our drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws which place people under lifelong medical tutelage. The result is that most Americans today prefer a coercive and corrupt command drug economy to a free market in drugs.Throughout the book, Szasz stresses the consequences of the fateful transformation of the central aim of American drug prohibitions from protecting us from being fooled by misbranded drugs to protecting us from harming ourselves by self-medication--defined as drug abuse. And he reminds us that the choice between self-control and state coercion applies to all areas of our lives, drugs being but one of the theaters in which this perennial play may be staged. A free society, Szasz emphasizes, cannot endure if its citizens reject the values of self-discipline and personal responsibility and if the state treats adults as if they were naughty children. In a no-holds-barred examination of the implementation of the War on Drugs, Szasz shows that under the guise of protecting the vulnerable members of our society--especially children, blacks, and the sick--our government has persecuted and injured them. Leading politicians persuade parents to denounce their children, and encourage children to betray their parents and friends--behavior that subverts family loyalties and destroys basic human decency. And instead of protecting blacks and Hispanics from dangerous drugs, this holy war has allowed us to persecute them, not as racists but as therapists--working selflessly to bring about a drug-free America. Last but not least, to millions of sick Americans, the War on Drugs has meant being deprived of the medicines they want-- because the drugs are illegal, unapproved here though approved abroad, or require a prescription a physician may be afraid to provide. The bizarre upshot of our drug policy is that many Americans now believe they have a right to die, which they will do anyway, while few believe they have a right to drugs, even though that does not mean they have to take any. Often jolting, always stimulating, Our Right to Drugs is likely to have the same explosive effect on our ideas about drugs and drug laws as, more than thirty years ago, The Myth of Mental Illness had on our ideas about insanity and psychiatry.

Goode's Drugs in American Society 7/e is a well-respected, brief investigation of the full range of psychoactive drug use; from legal, medical and perscription use to criminal, recreational use and from casual use to addiction. Objective pro and con accounts on important issues like treatment, education, rehabilitation, and legalization give students a thorough understanding of the topics. The new seventh edition continues to provide the most balanced and up-to-date coverage in an accessible, engaging style.

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author K B Drug Stores by John S. Epstein Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Sydney J. Besthoff III, past president and owner of K amp;B Drug Stores and grandson of Sydney J. Besthoff (founder with Gustave Katz of Katz amp; Besthoff Drug Store), is a meticulous keeper of records. The photographs found in this book are from his personal collection, covering the 92-year life span of Katz amp; Besthoff and K amp;B Drug Sto

Drugs in American Society is a sociological introduction to the use of psychoactive substances in the United States that takes the focus of attention on drug use out of the lab and into the street. Throughout the book, personal accounts tell the stories of drug use and the impact that it has on the lives of users. The book also contrasts the image of drugs in society, particularly in the news media, and the reality of drug use itself.

In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system-where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness.Katherine Eban's hard-hitting exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where tireless investigators follow the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to America's health.With the conscience of a crusading reporter, Eban has crafted a riveting narrative that shows how, when we most need protection, we may be most at risk.

A colorful engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of soldiers inventors & presidents based on extensive new research & encompassing the Revolution to the present day. A balanced wonderfully entertaining history of this most essential firearm & its place in American culture. 11x13 inches 512 pgs. George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. & Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized.Now in this first-of-its-kind book historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of soldiers inventors & presidents based on extensive new research & encompassing the Revolution to the present day American Rifle is a balanced wonderfully entertaining history of this most essential firearm & its place in American culture.In the eighteenth century American soldiers discovered that they no longer had to fight in Europe s time-honored way. With the evolution of the famed Kentucky Rifle-a weapon slow to load but devastatingly accurate in the hands of a master-a new era of warfare dawned heralding the birth of the American individualist in battle.In this spirited narrative Alexander Rose reveals the hidden connections between the rifle s development & our nation s history. We witness the high-stakes international competition to produce the most potent gunpowder . how the mysterious arts of metallurgy gunsmithing & mass production played vital roles in the creation of American economic supremacy . & the ways in which bitter infighting between rival arms makers shaped diplomacy & influenced the most momentous decisions in American history. & we learn why advances in rifle technology & ammunition triggered revolutions in military tactics how ballistics tests-frequently bizarre-were secretly conducted & which firearms determined the course of

An inspiring account of the people & events responsible for the successful preservation of one of America s favorite fish & of what has happened since. A tale replete with heroes--& some villains--as the struggle to save the striper migrated down the coast from Massachusetts to Maryland. 6x9 inches 288 pgs. When populations of striped bass began plummeting in the early 1980s author and fisherman Dick Russell was there to lead an Atlantic coast conservation campaign that resulted in one of the most remarkable wildlife comebacks in the history of fisheries. As any avid fisherman will tell you the striped bass has long been a favorite at the American dinner table; in fact we ve been feasting on the fish from the time of the Pilgrims. By 1980 that feasting had turned to overfishing by commercial fishing interests. Striper Wars is Dick Russell s inspiring account of the people and events responsible for the successful preservation of one of America s favorite fish and of what has happened since.Striper Wars is a tale replete with heroes--and some villains--as the struggle to save the striper migrated down the coast from Massachusetts to Maryland. Russell introduces us to a postman at arms against a burly trap-net fisherman a renowned state governor caving to special interests and a fishing-tackle maker fighting alongside marine biologists. And he describes how champions of this singular fish blocked power plants and New York s Westway Project that would otherwise compromise its habitat. Unfortunately those who cheered the triumphant ending to the campaign as the coastal states enacted measures that enabled the striped bass to make its comeback have found the peace transitory--there is now a new enemy emerging on the front.In recent years a chronic bacterial disease has struck more than seventy percent of the striped bass population in the primary spawning waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Malnutrition seems to be a significant factor bro

Release Date: August 17, 2009

In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system-where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness.Katherine Eban's hard-hitting exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where tireless investigators follow the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to America's health.With the conscience of a crusading reporter, Eban has crafted a riveting narrative that shows how, when we most need protection, we may be most at risk.

Release Date: December 07, 2005

Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco, chronicling a series of expensive and hypocritical follies that have benefited only two groups: professional anti-drug advocates and drug lords.The facts are alarming. More than twenty-five years ago, a presidential committee determined that marijuana is neither an addictive substance nor a "stepping stone" to harder drugs, but the embarrassing final report was shelved by a government already heavily invested in "the war against drugs". Many medical experts recommend simply prescribing drugs to addicts, and communities that have done this report a lower crime rate and reduced unemployment among drug users.In a riveting account of how we got to this impasse-- discriminatory policies, demonization of users, grandstanding among both lawmakers and lawbreakers -- conventional wisdom is turned on its head. Rather than a planned assault on the scourge of addiction, the drug war has happened almost by accident and has been continually exploited by political opportunists.A gripping account of the violence, corruption, and chaos characterizing the drug war since its inception, Mike Gray's incisive narrative launches a frontal attack on America's drug orthodoxy. His overview of the battlefield makes it clear that this urgent debate must begin now.

Drugs in American Society is a sociological introduction to the use of psychoactive substances in the United States that takes the focus of attention on drug use out of the lab and into the street. Throughout the book, personal accounts tell the stories of drug use and the impact that it has on the lives of users. The book also contrasts the image of drugs in society, particularly in the news media, and the reality of drug use itself.

“Lydia Lunch is an American icon.”—Austin American-Statesman “Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for over thirty years. Predictable only in her unpredictability, she has exploited every creative outlet at her disposal, from film to books, photography to poetry.” —SF Weekly No Wave founder Lydia Lunch’s first book, Paradoxia (Akashic Books, 2007), proved that her talent is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection. Lydia Lunch is a musician, writer, and photographer. She was the primary instigator of the No Wave movement, and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression.

“Lydia Lunch is an American icon.”—Austin American-Statesman“Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for over thirty years. Predictable only in her unpredictability, she has exploited every creative outlet at her disposal, from film to books, photography to poetry.” —SF WeeklyNo Wave founder Lydia Lunch’s first book, Paradoxia (Akashic Books, 2007), proved that her talent is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection.Lydia Lunch is a musician, writer, and photographer. She was the primary instigator of the No Wave movement, and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression.

Dominic Valerio is finding out real quick he's in trouble. Retired from the illegal drug trade for over 6 years, he has become a victim of a failed economy and minimal education. Everything he worked so hard for is about to dissolve to nothing. Although his wife Juliana harshly objects, Dominic is determined to start his drug business again. He finds when he returns from retirement, the drug game has changed, and he soon finds out he is going down some unchartered territory. Dominic, who was always a coke and pot dealer, finds out that meth is now the drug of choice. A one-time use gets Dominic highly addicted, and his life spirals downward fast. Regardless of how Juliana feels, Dominic goes through with the plan with tragic results. Caught between love and the will to live a clean life, Juliana struggles to survive as their lives crumble. Joseph Bovenzi is a graduate of the University of Phoenix in Arizona. He has an associate's degree in IT networking and information systems, and he is earning his bachelor's degree in IT security. He resides in Rio Rancho, NM with his beautiful wife and two children. He is a lover of life and enjoys the smallest things of this great world. He stops to smell the roses and treasures every minute God gives him. He gives all the glory to the Lord Jesus Christ for all the accomplishments in his life, and he is grateful for all the awesome things that God allows him to do.

Most Americans would be surprised to learn that large quantities of beer were brought over on the Puritan ships and that the hallowed Puritans were fond of drink. How many today realize that hemp was once one of our most lucrative cash cropsencouraged by President John Adams and promoted by the Agriculture department? Or that cocaine, opium and heroin had several waves of popularity in this century and the last? Drugs and alcohol have been with us from the start. So have attempts to control or eliminate their use. In the first anthology of its kind, renowned drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the Unites States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates. In the section on alcohol we hear the Reverend Lyman Beecher, prominent radical abolitionist and father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, thundering against the evils of alcoholin 1826. We read medical documents that show how the first stirrings of concern about about what is now termed fetal-alcohol syndrome in 1910 turned public opinion against drinking and helped move the country toward Prohibition. The sections on illegal drugs contain surprises as well. With accessible, jargon-free introductions this anthology puts drug and alcohol use at the center of American culture. At this critical point in the "war on drugs" if we do not appreciate our drug and alcohol history we may become captive to the powerful emotions that lead to draconian repression, exaggeration, or apathy and silence.

When counterfeit prescription medicine started turning up in the nation's supply and threatening some of the sickest and weakest patients, Katherine Eban went in search of the story. What she found was an unlikely and irresistible group of heroes-five aging South Florida investigators who dubbed themselves the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and held their meetings at Hooters. Working around the clock on cases no one else wanted to tackle, they followed the trail of stolen and contaminated medicine in a takedown eventually dubbed Operation Stone Cold. This riveting page-turner takes us along with the Horsemen as they wade into "more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel" (Salon) to ultimately uncover $33 million in bad medicine and make more than sixty arrests.Thanks in part to the attention Dangerous Doses received in hardcover, the media, politicians, and drug companies are starting to address the problems it uncovered. This new paperback edition includes a chapter with the latest update on these developments.

An Illustrated History of the Military Fascism that has Engineered and Profited from this Tragedy Of Dan Russell's previous book "Drug War, " on which this book is based: "An important, strenuously argued contribution to the case against our nation's scandalous narcotics policies and laws. Particularly valuable are the the encyclopaedic historical and anthropological perspectives which the author brings to bear on our cultural crisis. His scathing review of today's unjust confiscation and sentencing statutes is balanced by encouraging and badly-needed statistics about the successes of alternatives, such as the Dutch decriminalization program." Peter Dale Scott, English Department, University of California, Berkeley, author of Cocaine Politics, Deep Politics, Crime & Cover-Up, Coming To Jakarta, etc. "Dan Russell's book is on par with Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. This historical account needs to be in every educational institution, beginning with high school, to tell the other side of the story of our loss of earth-based ecstasy. This book brilliantly shows how our healing relationship with plant allies came to be replaced with the prevailing political agenda of drug propaganda. I recommend this great book, which I personally couldn't put down as it engages like a historical / political novel, for all schools of free thinkers. It is the central text in our homeschool for my teenagers this year!" Jeannine Parvati Baker, author of Hygieia:A Woman's Herbal; Conscious Conception:Elemental Journey Through the Labyrinth of Sexuality; Prenatal Yoga & Natural Birth: "Dan Russell is a paradigm shifter of the first order. This is a book that gives the world a whole new way to understand the cosmology of drugs, intelligence, shamanism, spirituality, assassination and war. If I had to pick five books to keep as the best understanding of the insanity, profit motive, Wall Street-driving, prison-industry-sustaining, intelligence-agency-protected system this would be one of them. An absolute must read for anyone coming from a legal, law enforcement or academic background. More than 1300 footnotes leave no stone unturned and a new dimension opened. Anyone who wants to understand the real issues raised by drugs and the drug war cannot afford to bypass this seminal work." Michael C. Ruppert, former LAPD narcotics investigator; anti-CIA activist; publisher/editor - coauthor of Confronting Collapse and Crossing the Rubicon "Wow! I have learned so much and enjoyed this read tremendously. Your book was a watershed event for me. It helped me 'see the world whole' and understand the drug business and the war on drugs in an important new way. We are all pressed for time, but reading your book was the ultimate time saver for me. There is nothing more powerful than understanding the chaos when you are in it....Your book is a monumental achievement....for goodness sakes this needs to get out asap. Excellent is excellent!" Catherine Austin Fitts, Federal Housing Commissioner, 1989-90; President, Solari, Inc.; www.solari.com "Dan Russell goes to the heart of the so-called 'drug-problem', really a 'prohibition-problem': extra-curricular drug- and gun-running by numerous governments, with that of the United States at the head of the list, its cynical and duplicitous 'war on drugs' notwithstanding - nought but a racist war on the poor and disenfranchised, both nationally and internationally, and withal a 'war on the drug competition'; nor ought we to forget who invented modern money laundering shell-games, nor who profits the most from them. I urge you to read Dan Russell's shocking exposé - may it serve as a much-needed wake-up call!" Jonathan Ott, author/co-author of Pharmacophilia Or The Natural Paradises, Pharmacotheon, Persephone's Quest, The Road To Eleusis, Hallucinogenic Plants of North America, The Age of Entheogens, etc.

A single reference book that chronicles the U.S. knife bayonet from those used on the M1892 Krag rifle to the M16. 235 line drawings; 8.5x11 inches 115 pgs. All copies signed by Scott Duff. The cry Fix Bayonets! has caused a rush of adrenaline for 350 years. Early muzzle-loading flintlock muskets were fired from one to several times as opposing lines of infantry closed. Then after firing his last possible shot the socket-bayonet-mounted musket became a short pike; at that instant infantry combat regressed several centuries.The development of magazine-fed rapid-firing rifles in the late 19th century diminished the importance of the bayonet charge. It became not quite a thing of the past though nearly so. Yet the knife-type bayonet was still deemed a useful combination of weapon and tool.No military rifle is truly complete without its matching bayonet and scabbard. Combining bayonet and rifle not only enhances the appearance of the ensemble but also more closely represents its use by the infantryman.Until now no single reference book has chronicled U.S. military knife bayonets of the 20 century. Gary Cunningham a bayonet historian and collector since 1960 has written this book as a culmination of his studies and his acquisitions. In the author s words A guide for collectors including notes on makers markings finishes variations scabbards and production data. Covered are bayonets from the Model of 1892 used on the Krag rifle to the current issue M9 for the M16.The layout and text is user-friendly to beginning and advanced collectors alike. Bayonets and scabbards are addressed in the orider that tehy were adopted. The computer-generated line drawings are of outstanding clarity. A detailed Specifications Box is included on each model to guide the reader through the variations. Softcover

The eMedia Guitar for Dummies CD-ROM makes learning quick and easy with over 80 step-by-step lessons (approximately one-half of the eMedia Guitar Method curriculum). Songs and exercises are accompanied by full-motion videos, live recorded audio and variable-speed MIDI tracks. The easy-to-follow lessons range from basics, like stringing the guitar, to playing chords and strumming techniques. Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you with video demonstrations of techniques. Also includes our Automatic Tuner, Metronome, Chord Dictionary and Recorder. The excellent teaching and valuable accessories offer exceptional value and will have you playing songs in no time! eMedia Guitar For Dummies features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable! Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as: Bob Dylan ( Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door ) Rolling Stones/The Doors ( Little Red Rooster ) The Steve Miller Band ( Rock N’ Me ) Rod Stewart/Tom Waits ( Downtown Train ) The Grateful Dead ( Uncle John’s Band ) Also included are popular songs, including Scarborough Fair , La Bamba , Midnight Special and many others.   Over 80 Step-by-Step Lessons Arranged in seven chapters, the lessons cover the basics from holding, stringing, and tuning the guitar to playing chords and culminating in an introduction to rock riffs, power chords and strumming styles. Lessons include a variety of exercises and songs. There are over 40 high quality videos that are now viewable at full-screen size! On-screen teacher Kevin Garry, Ph.D., provides clear and friendly instruction. New Resizable User Interface! We’ve made the content window size adjustable, and it even maximizes to your fill your monitor so our guitar lessons are the easiest to read and follow! Animated Fretboard (with six different skins!) Displays fingering positions as the music plays. It allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a guitar fretboard as you hear the music. Music tracking highlights the notes being played on the screen, making it simple to follow along. Includes option for both right- and left-handed views. Fretboard skins are designed in the style of Rickenbacker, Strat, Gretsch, ’59 Les Paul and more!   Over 40 High Quality Videos Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 40 videos with demonstrations of techniques – now larger, with enhanced quality and viewable at full-screen size! Audio Tracking Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar. Variable-Speed MIDI Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the animated fretboard shows song fingering as the music plays. Learn at the pace best suited to your skill level! Automatic Tuner Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge al

When counterfeit prescription medicine started turning up in the nation's supply and threatening some of the sickest and weakest patients, Katherine Eban went in search of the story. What she found was an unlikely and irresistible group of heroes-five aging South Florida investigators who dubbed themselves the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and held their meetings at Hooters. Working around the clock on cases no one else wanted to tackle, they followed the trail of stolen and contaminated medicine in a takedown eventually dubbed Operation Stone Cold. This riveting page-turner takes us along with the Horsemen as they wade into "more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel" (Salon) to ultimately uncover $33 million in bad medicine and make more than sixty arrests. Thanks in part to the attention Dangerous Doses received in hardcover, the media, politicians, and drug companies are starting to address the problems it uncovered. This new paperback edition includes a chapter with the latest update on these developments.

Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco, chronicling a series of expensive and hypocritical follies that have benefited only two groups: professional anti-drug advocates and drug lords.The facts are alarming. More than twenty-five years ago, a presidential committee determined that marijuana is neither an addictive substance nor a "stepping stone" to harder drugs, but the embarrassing final report was shelved by a government already heavily invested in "the war against drugs". Many medical experts recommend simply prescribing drugs to addicts, and communities that have done this report a lower crime rate and reduced unemployment among drug users.In a riveting account of how we got to this impasse-- discriminatory policies, demonization of users, grandstanding among both lawmakers and lawbreakers -- conventional wisdom is turned on its head. Rather than a planned assault on the scourge of addiction, the drug war has happened almost by accident and has been continually exploited by political opportunists.A gripping account of the violence, corruption, and chaos characterizing the drug war since its inception, Mike Gray's incisive narrative launches a frontal attack on America's drug orthodoxy. His overview of the battlefield makes it clear that this urgent debate must begin now.