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"In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls. With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational...
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According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 7.7 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 20 admit to consuming alcohol. However, overall rates of past month consumption, binge drinking, and heavy alcohol use have declined significantly between 2006 and 2015. This compelling resource offers a comprehensive and balanced discussion of teen alcohol consumption. The book takes a critical look at the many reasons teens...
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Alcohol is the leading cause of preventable birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States. Fetal alcohol syndrome is the most severe of these abnormalities, and it is caused by heavy drinking during pregnancy. While addiction may be one of the factors, there are several factors as to why a woman would drink while pregnant, but there is no measured amount of alcohol that is deemed safe during pregnancy. This volume explores the...
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"Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family...
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Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic--one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything. Now Lena isn't looking forward to tomorrow. Not...
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Aster
Pub. Date
2017.
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272 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point' in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us. 64% of Brits want to drink less... Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish whirligig of Drink, Make horrible decisions, Hangover, Repeat. She had her fair share of 'drunk tank' jail cells and topless-in-a-hot-tub misadventures. But this book goes beyond the binges and blackouts to deep-dive into uncharted...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This playlist discusses the different stages of using a specialist Drug and alcohol assessment tool, and the implications of having a mental illness and co-current drug and/or alcohol addiction.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 40 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Alcohol, prescribed drugs and women - the myth, the stigma, the reality through the stories of four fascinating women. Nearly one half of the estimated ten million alcoholics in the country are women, yet their special problems are totally ignored. Concealed by families, protected by friends and physicians, these women are kept invisible. They themselves are often The Last to Know. This extraordinary film speaks directly to these women by sensitively...
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Greenhaven Press
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2009.
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1 online resource (104 pages) : color illustrations
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English
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Access is provided to Deerfield Public Library cardholders through Gale eResources. Click the link to access full-text information about this topic from the news, magazines, academic journals, primary sources and trustworthy websites. May also include videos, images and audio.
Essays explore the use and abuse of alcohol by teenagers, discussing the prevalence of binge drinking, the legal issue of the drinking age, and the effectiveness of various...
11) Moral compass
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"At an elite private school in Massachusetts, a wide circle of lives will be forever changed by a devastating series of events in Danielle Steel's riveting new novel. Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just...
12) Over the fence
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Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 2
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English
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Alabama, 1937. Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton's ticket out of poverty, prison time, and plain bad luck. Now they've moved on--to a bigger, richer pool of clientele--right in their own respectable new middle-class backyard. And their growing friendship with seemingly-perfect couple Joyce and Odell Watson is proving golden in more ways than one. As Milton soon learns, Odell is hiding an outside family and dubious business dealings. It's...
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (118 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map.
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English
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Access is provided to Deerfield Public Library cardholders through Gale eResources. Click the link to access full-text information about this topic from the news, magazines, academic journals, primary sources and trustworthy websites. May also include videos, images and audio.
Explores the use and abuse of alcohol by teenagers, discussing the prevalence of binge drinking, the legal issue of the drinking age, and the effectiveness of various preventative...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Looks at the cultural factors contributing to a rise in alcoholism among today's women and compares today's practices to those of earlier generations while noting the current ineffectiveness of AA and other mainstream treatments.
15) Dust spells
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Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters--Lavinia and Mattie--run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the handsome drifter who works as a hired hand at the boarding house....
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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2 online resources (2 video files, 132 min.)
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English
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Filmmaker Denice Ann Evans draws heavily on the voices of students in this powerful and timely exploration of hookup culture on college campuses. Supplementing student testimony with analysis from experts and health professionals, the film's main concern is whether hookup culture is offering young people a new and potentially liberating set of sexual rules, or whether it's simply reinforcing traditional gender roles and blurring the line between consent...
17) Another round
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Danish
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Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
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English
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"Mommy Wine Culture is a symptom of a larger issue: the mental load of motherhood and a systemic lack of support for moms. Mixing research, cultural references, interviews, and the author's sobriety story, this book reveals what's really plaguing mothers and offers tangible tips for evaluating your relationship to alcohol and lightening your load"--
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
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First edition.
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ix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A look at how alcohol and other intoxicants helped spark the rise of the first large-scale societies by enhancing creativity, alleviating stress and building trust among conflicting tribes to allow them to cooperate with each other.
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First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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119 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In 1919, the United States ratified an amendment to the Constitution that outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. As a hard-fought dream for a better world became federal law, society soon began facing an onslaught of new problems: clever bootleggers, corrupt enforcers, crowded prisons, and violent gangsters. Walk through the hidden hallway of a Jazz Age speakeasy to uncover the moral panic over alcohol and excess that we continue...
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