Yes, I Took My Meds

Yes, I Took My Meds
Author: Ahiddibah Tsinnie
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578681191

Yes, I Took My Meds is a raw, intimate dive into finding peace amongst the chaos. Dive into Ahiddibah's world of family, culture, and motherhood while navigating her way through the ins and outs of bipolar disorder. Written with the perfect balance of humor and humility, Ahiddibah's story is told truthfully and without restraint. It is one of courage and learning from mistakes. You will likely see bits of yourself in her story.

Off My Meds

Off My Meds
Author: Leslie Taha
Publisher: Silverstone Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0974071021

Here is what some very famous people had to say about, “Off My Meds”. SETH MACFARLANE - “Timeless Humor” JEFF FOXWORTHY - "If you don't laugh at this....you might not have a sense of humor!" BILLY CRYSTAL, - “"Very funny. In the tradition of Gahan Wilson!" JACK BLACK - "Funny as Hell " CHARLES SCHULZ, (Creator of “Peanuts”) - “Leslie Taha has finally made clear for me a few opinions which I have been afraid to voice myself for a long time. Finally, he has drawn for us the truth about, “The Three Bears,” “Red Ridinghood.” “Frankenstein,” courtrooms, “Humpty Dumpty,” and a few doctors and lawyers.” LOUIE ANDERSON - "Loved it. Dark, disturbing, and funny" DICK DEBARTOLO, (Writer for “Mad Magazine”) - “I laughed so much, I thought I was reading my own work! Then I realized it was SOMEONE ELSE who had written such funny stuff, and I confined my joy to broad smiling. TOM REEDER, ( Writer / producer for “Cheers” “Night Court”, and “Frasier”) - “I really enjoyed it, ... in the bizarre tradition of Virgil Partch, Gary Larson, and Jerry Van Amerongen.” For many years, Les Taha’s single panel humorous cartoons have appeared in small community newspapers, college papers, and magazines throughout the U.S. and Canada. More than likely you have seen them somewhere. His new book, “Off My Meds” is a collection of nearly 500 of his very best cartoons. They have often been compared to Gary Larson’s, “The Far Side”. The subject matter of his humor is all over the place. His targets are politicians, animals, the workplace, healthcare, fables, insects, monsters, and more. The humor is intelligent, bizarre, poignant, sick, insightful, and silly. Taha’s cartoons are so crazy and bizarre that many have suggested (and even ordered him) to get back on his meds. So for all of you sick fans who have been suffering from, “The Far Side” withdrawals, at last there is a cure. “Off My Meds” is just what the doctor ordered.

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2017-09-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309459575

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Child Support

Child Support
Author: Amour
Publisher: Urban Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622861361

Ever felt like someone was trying to keep you away from something that was rightfully yours? They played you for a fool and thought they would get the last laugh? Well, not in Angel's world. Meet Angel Jacobs, a chick who will get what's hers at all costs, even if it might cost someone else's life. The State of Illinois is trying to label her as a serial killer, but will her previous diagnosis of mental illness save Angel from living the remainder of her life in a six by six jail cell? In Angel's eyes, whether she wins or loses the case, she's still going to come out on top. Become entangled in the web Angel weaves, where it's not always easy to know what's real and what's a product of her twisted mind. It's unlike any other urban tale. Don't be surprised if, just like some of Angel's victims, you get caught up!

Making Medicines Affordable

Making Medicines Affordable
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309468086

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.

Scout's Honor

Scout's Honor
Author: Lily Anderson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250246741

*A PRINTZ HONOR BOOK *FOUR STARRED REVIEWS Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monsters and the weight of her legacy in Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson, a YA paranormal perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs—interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers, at least until they graduate to axes and swords. Three years ago, Prue’s best friend was killed during a hunt, so she kissed the Scouts goodbye, preferring the company of her punkish friends lovingly dubbed the Criminal Element much to her mother and Tía Lo’s disappointment. However, unable to move on from her guilt and trauma, Prue devises a risky plan to infiltrate the Ladybirds in order to swipe the Tea of Forgetting, a restricted tincture laced with a powerful amnesia spell. But old monster-slaying habits die hard and Prue finds herself falling back into the fold, growing close with the junior scouts that she trains to fight the creatures she can’t face. When her town is hit with a mysterious wave of demons, Prue knows it’s time to confront the most powerful monster of all: her past.

Bottle of Lies

Bottle of Lies
Author: Katherine Eban
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0063054108

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019 New York Public Library Best Books of 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Health and Science Books of 2019 Science Friday Best Books of 2019 New postscript by the author From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true? Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing—and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant, companies routinely falsify data, and executives circumvent almost every principle of safe manufacturing to minimize cost and maximize profit, confident in their ability to fool inspectors. Meanwhile, patients unwittingly consume medicine with unpredictable and dangerous effects. The story of generic drugs is truly global. It connects middle America to China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, and represents the ultimate litmus test of globalization: what are the risks of moving drug manufacturing offshore, and are they worth the savings? A decade-long investigation with international sweep, high-stakes brinkmanship and big money at its core, Bottle of Lies reveals how the world’s greatest public-health innovation has become one of its most astonishing swindles.

Overdosed America

Overdosed America
Author: John Abramson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2005-06-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0060568534

Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdo$ed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself. Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised our health. The good news is that the best scientific evidence shows that reclaiming responsibility for your own health is often far more effective than taking the latest blockbuster drug. You -- and your doctor -- will be stunned by this unflinching exposé of American medicine.

The Grim

The Grim
Author: Raynetta J. Stocks
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-03
Genre:
ISBN: 1457509989

Sweet Treats & Dirty Heat

Sweet Treats & Dirty Heat
Author: Julie Morgan
Publisher: Nicole Garcia
Total Pages: 2526
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

*ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO KULTURE CITY, AN ORGANIZATION AIMED TO RAISE AUTISM AWARENESS AND SUPPORT ACCEPTANCE. This anthology includes 20 stories from 21 of your favorite bestselling authors, ranging from so sweet to velvety hot. Julie Morgan, USA Today Bestselling Author Playing Her Body When shy meets wild, keys will be played. Nicole Garcia, New York Times Bestselling Author Decadent Dreams Opposites don’t always attract. Sometimes they ignite with a burning desire so deep, nothing can extinguish the flame except for the one person you are trying so desperately to stay away from. Claudy Conn, NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Runaway Heart Chelsea takes on the London beau monde…but the one beau she falls in love with, belongs to her aunt! What is she to do? Taryn Elliott & Cari Quinn, USA Today Bestselling Authors Painkiller All it takes is one night to fall far too deep. Teri Riggs, USA Today Bestselling Author Sex in the Crazy Zone With four children, two large dogs, and extremely busy lives, is it possible for Ben and Angie to find time for sex in the crazy zone? C.L. Pardington, Amazon Bestselling Author In the Midst of a Hurricane Amid tragedy and disaster, will Remy and Davina find the courage to recapture the love they lost? Lily-Ann Johnson, Amazon Bestselling Blondie's Hero (Heart of Teufel Hundens 1) Bar Owner Mary-Alice Roberts needs a hero. Recently dumped and in need of an experienced bartender. Will Retired Marine SSgt Jake Peterson be the Hero the Blondie needs? Cassandra Carr, Amazon Bestselling Author Two on One Breakaway Will Haley take a chance at happy-ever-after with Ian and Derek on this Valentine's Day or miss her chance forever? Cherime MacFarlane, Award-Winning Author Deidre of the Sorrows She killed his father, must she get rid of Daniel too? A.J. Matthews Come Undone Mac is desperately in love with his best friend Trini—but is afraid his autism will keep her from ever loving him. Can a spur-of-the-moment road trip to find Trini’s dad bring them together—or will it tear them apart forever? Summer Graystone A Different KInd of Pain Could this crazy plan really work though? Would Luka be able give Maisy this one last wish, something more profound, more precious than he ever deserved? Anna Edwards Misguided Control In love, sometimes there is no escape. Kim Loraine Until the Stars Fade One wrong turn can lead you in the right direction. J.M. Maurer Seeking Love She's not ready to open her heart. He holds the key. Tuesday Embers Liberating Mr. Gable Anson Gable wasn't looking to stay, but when he met Etta, he found he didn't want to leave. Jamallah Bergman Are You Lonesome Tonight Like daughter, like mother, life tends to parallel through the years. Dylan Allen Leap She wants to take a leap of faith for love, but will he catch her when she falls? J.A. LaFrance From Sweet to Tart With her self-confidence at an all-time low, will a trip to the club help her build it back up, or will she be left more confused than before? Beth Fred The Other Marlowe Girl Help comes in many forms--even a gorgeous stranger. Mary Rogers Spring Fling Did she truly steal his magic all those years ago? Or was the real theft his heart?