Opioid analgesics are among the most beneficial medications for pain management but are associated with serious and increasing public health problems, including addiction, abuse, and death from overdose. Presently, there is an opioid epidemic in the United States with the rate of prescription opioid-related overdose deaths quadrupling in the last
Comprehensively updated based on recent scholarship and recent events, American Government: Power and Purpose, Core 15th Edition, (PDF) remains the gold standard for teaching a political science perspective on American government. A thorough examination of the 2018 midterm elections and the first years of the Trump presidency make this revision
Complex Systems is a new domain of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interrelates with its environment. Ecological Sustainability, (PDF) examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability and explores the technologies involved to help lessen
Today most people agree that no business is purely domestic and that even the smallest local firms are affected by global competition and world events. International Business And Its Legal Environment 9th edition (PDF) is designed to deliver comprehensive, yet accessible, coverage of the legal implications and ramifications of doing
Following in the tradition of the first 8 editions, the goal of this issues-based successful textbook, Chemistry in Context 9th edition (PDF), is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing