Author: Susana P Leng
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781665589109
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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This is NOT a how-to get HIM back book. It's NOT a how-to make HIM crazy book either. The title speaks for itself. The love we feel for ourselves heals us and transforms us. No one can build you like YOU can. You are a weapon of mass destruction and you don't know it. This book also talks about the power of genuine friendship. The love between friends. How we strengthen each other, encourage one another, and stand together.
Author: Michael N. Roels
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535536578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Turning Pain into Love is a book about the power of God working through someone to transform their suffering into a lifelong blessing. So often the trials and tribulations of our life can make us feel hopeless and confused about who we are in this world. I believe, with the belief in something greater than ourselves, a positive attitude and the intention to make a difference in the world a person can turn anything into a gift. Anytime someone has been through an experience they now have the ability to help someone else that is going through the experience for the first time. Years ago when I was living in Santa Monica, California I came across a Reader's Digest. As I was flipping through the magazine I saw a quote, "I am not sure what Enlightenment is but I think it has something to do with turning pain into love". That phrase resonated with me and it has stuck with me ever since.
Author: Barry Meier
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781579546380
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Examines OxyContin, the so-called miracle prescription drug that swept the nation but led to overdoes and addiction, providing a look at the multi-billion-dollar pain managment business, its excesses and its abuses.
Author: Janice Moss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517770402
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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In love In Pain reveals the strange, but so true correlation between love and pain. Being in love is associated with happiness and joy in the normal scheme of things. But in reality, there is often times so much pain associated with loving someone unconditionally. This book addresses the many sources of pain associated with loving. The pain of lies, deceit, disappointment, discovery, and the very harsh pain of being forced to accept reality instead of the perfect fantasy relationships we dream up for ourselves.In Love in Pain is a study of how women behave in relationships. It takes a candid look at the destructive behaviors women adopt while trying to find and maintain love. It is the rational mind in touch with the emotions of a woman. It is a candid look at how willing they are to give away parts of themselves to keep or attract men that if women truly are healthy they would not tolerate. The book reads like a suspense/romance novel style. But can serve as an personal examination and inventory that each woman can use to evaluate her life. Each story is a fictionalized depletion of a real life scenario. Where a woman finds herself faced with important decisions that will affect and effect her life and relationships. The stories of In Love In Pain are not designed to focus on men and how they treat women, but on how the woman's behavior, the woman's decisions and response to the stimuli created by love or obsession affects her life and her relationships. Each woman in the stories had to make decisions about how she would pilot her own life and how she would determine when it was appropriate for her to cut her losses and come to grips with a relationship where the love is overshadowed by the pain. The primary focus: how each woman responds to what she perceives as love and how she behaves in order to try to keep that love. In Love In Pain reveals the hard part of relationships and how women in love will put themselves in physical, emotional, spiritual and physical danger to keep the facade of a relationship that is not nourishing, supportive or fulfilling. Caitlyn, Dedra, Yasmine, Marva and Sherese are in love. Each one has some heavy decisions regarding that love. Can love conquer all things? Will Caitlyn's love be able to overcome her husband's second family? Is Dedra's love enough to endure a prison term? Will Yasmine's love be enough for her and her husband? Will Marva and Sherese's love overcome a con artist and lazy man? These women are faced with hard decisions but they don't have to face them alone.Each character has a pot on the stove boiling and it's about to boil over. Caitlyn finds out that everything she thought was her own is not, Dedra realizes that if loving her baby daddy is wrong she finally wants to be right. Yasmine understands that love must be a two-way street, while Marva's heart unfortunately cashes a check one too many times for her husband and Sherese can't see the gift in her situation.If the truth be known, what many if not most of the characters are looking for is not love, but rather, an in-love experience and that is exactly what they got. But they stayed too long and that experience turned to pain.Women when you finish reading it. Conveniently lay it around so that your man will pick it up. This book holds a very special message for men and women.I recently read this book and I would recommend this book to anyone who has loved someone too much only to find out they were not worthy of you. I went away from this book with a sense of hope and understanding of why people stay. The characters are people we know and love and in the best of trying to be there can be difficult and painful to watch. The author manages to give realistic outcomes for her characters. My hope is when you read this book you will know that you are not alone and there is help out there if you are willing to ask and accept it.
Author: Susana P. Leng
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665589116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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This is NOT a how-to get HIM back book. It’s NOT a how-to make HIM crazy book either. The title speaks for itself. The love we feel for ourselves heals us and transforms us. No one can build you like YOU can. You are a weapon of mass destruction and you don’t know it. This book also talks about the power of genuine friendship. The love between friends. How we strengthen each other, encourage one another, and stand together.
Author: Barry Meier
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525511091
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid epidemic and the secretive world of the Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma, Pain Killer is the celebrated landmark story of corporate greed and government negligence that inspired an upcoming Netflix series. “This is the book that started it all. Barry Meier is a heroic reporter and Pain Killer is a muckraking classic.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink. Meanwhile, the drugmaker’s owners, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, whose names adorn museums worldwide, made enormous fortunes from the commercial success of OxyContin. In Pain Killer, Barry Meier tells the story of how Purdue turned OxyContin into a billion-dollar blockbuster. Powerful narcotic painkillers, or opioids, were once used as drugs of last resort for pain sufferers. But Purdue launched an unprecedented marketing campaign claiming that the drug’s long-acting formulation made it safer to use than traditional painkillers for many types of pain. That illusion was quickly shattered as drug abusers learned that crushing an Oxy could release its narcotic payload all at once. Even in its prescribed form, Oxy proved fiercely addictive. As OxyContin’s use and abuse grew, Purdue concealed what it knew from regulators, doctors, and patients. Here are the people who profited from the crisis and those who paid the price, those who plotted in boardrooms and those who tried to sound alarm bells. A country doctor in rural Virginia, Art Van Zee, took on Purdue and warned officials about OxyContin abuse. An ebullient high school cheerleader, Lindsey Myers, was reduced to stealing from her parents to feed her escalating Oxy habit. A hard-charging DEA official, Laura Nagel, tried to hold Purdue executives to account. In Pain Killer, Barry Meier breaks new ground in his decades-long investigation into the opioid epidemic. He takes readers inside Purdue to show how long the company withheld information about the abuse of OxyContin and gives a shocking account of the Justice Department’s failure to alter the trajectory of the opioid epidemic and protect thousands of lives. Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story, and business exposé, Pain Killer is a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the gateway drug to a national tragedy.
Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219723X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns -- literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity, his love for his cats -- permeate the book. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most personal work Burroughs has ever written, a final reckoning with his life and regrets, and his reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. It is a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process -- one that never quit, not even in the shadow of death.
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 038554569X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
Author: Joanna Bourke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199689423
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life and you wouldn't suffer in the next one'. Submission to pain was required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought'. Focusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? And what about medical professionals: should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.
Author: Brantt Myhres
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735239436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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#1 BESTSELLER "This book is at times startling, yet very real and down to earth . . . I saw [Brantt] in all phases of his life and his career. I consider him a friend and an ally. Pain Killer sends a strong message." --Darryl Sutter, former NHL player, coach, and GM From the only player to be banned for life from the NHL, a harrowing tale of addiction, and an astonishing path to recovery. Brantt Myhres wasn't around for the birth of his daughter. Myhres had played for seven different NHL teams, and had made millions. But he'd been suspended four times, all for drug use, and he had partied his way out of the league. By the time his daughter was born, he was penniless, sleeping on a friend's couch. He'd just been released from police custody. He had a choice between sticking around for the birth, or showing up for league-mandated rehab. He went to rehab. For the fifth time. This is his story, in his own words, of how he fought his way out of minor hockey into the big league, but never left behind the ghosts of a bleak and troubled childhood. He tells the story of discovering booze as a way of handling the anxiety of fighting, and of the thrill of cocaine. In the raw language of the locker room, he tells of how substance abuse poisoned the love he had in his life and sabotaged a great career. Full of stories of week-long benders, stripper-filled hot tubs, motorcycle crashes, and barroom brawls, Pain Killer is at its most powerful when Myhres acknowledges how he let himself down, and betrayed those who trusted him. Again and again, he fools the executives and doctors who gave him a second chance, then a third, then a fourth, and with each betrayal, he spirals further downward. But finally, on the eve of his daughter's birth, when all the money was gone, every bridge burnt, and every opportunity squandered, he was given a last chance. And this time, it worked. It worked so well, that not only has he been around for his daughter for the past eleven years, in 2015 he was signed by the LA Kings as a "sober coach": a guy who'd been there, a guy who could recognize and help solve problems before they ruined lives and made headlines (as the Kings had seen happen three times that season). Not only did Myhres save himself, he saved others. Unpolished, unpretentious, and unflinching, Myhres tells it like it is, acknowledging every mistake, and painting a portrait of an angry, violent, dangerous man caught in the vice of something he couldn't control, and didn't understand. If Brantt Myhres can pull himself together, anyone can. And he does, convincingly, and inspiringly.
