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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders
Forget about cocaine concealed in false-bottomed suitcases or swallowed in ovules resistant to gastric juices. When entire national economies are kept afloat by the money from cocaine smuggling, the quantities these tactics represent are meaningless. When a commodity like cocaine becomes a mainstay of the international...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.
4) Blow
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of George Jung. This is an uncompromising look at the rise and fall of the man who became the largest importer of Colombia cocaine to the United States in the 1970's.
5) Black Out
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
If Guy Ritchie made THE HANGOVER in Amsterdam, it might look something like Black Out, an audacious crime thriller laced with colorful lowlifes, tough femmes fatales, corrupt cops, and outbursts of extreme violence. On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos wakes up next to a murdered man with no recollection of what happened the night before. He soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of...
Publisher
Flatiron Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Swedish
Description
JW, the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back to an honest life. When the former hit man Mrado Slovovic shows up, his presence changes everything. Jorge returns to Sweden to pull off a giant coke deal. Nevertheless, the deal fails terribly and now he has to flee the country with both the police and the Serbian mafia on his tail.
7) Cocaine Bear
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens congregate in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after accidentally ingesting cocaine." --
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cocaine shipment is compromised, a drug cartel's CEO orders his most trusted henchman on a dangerous journey to audit the company's supply chain. As the drugs make their perilous trek across international borders, they are also being tracked by Federal Agents. When they find the problem, it might be too late to keep the cartel satisfied.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles--a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug profits"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), Trans-Europ-Express is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Using sophisticated 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of the three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external...
14) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Kristina Georgia Snow disappears and Bree takes her place, Bree does drugs, gets pregnant, is defiant and is fighting for her life as Kristina.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Español
Description
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka 'Florecita' who after the killing of Pablo Escobar finds himself in the impossible position of having to go undercover for the DEA or go to the very prison where him mortal enemies wait to kill him. Turning states evidence, Florecita, rising through the ranks of the Colombian Cartel finds himself working two sides of the most dangerous battle known to man.
17) Heli
Publisher
Gussi Cinema
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Love story between a young girl and a seventeen-year old boy, both of whom had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This creates a conflict for her family and death for some.
18) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, this time set in Miami, Florida, in the 1980s, after the Mariel boatlift brought thousands of Cuban refugees to the United States. Tony Montana is the new Scarface, finding wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams. He loved The American Dream, with a vengeance. In the spring of 1980, the port of Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey's exacting work exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today-a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When...
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