Addiction — G.H. Ephron

HE FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE ULTIMATE CURE?
It seems a simple request for forensic psychologist Peter Zak of the Pearce Psychiatric Institute. A close colleague, Channing Temple, needs help in finding the root of her daughter's self-destructive behavior. Instead, Peter discovers his longtime friend with a bullet in her head--and her daughter Olivia holding the gun...

HOW MUCH WOULD YOU RISK?
To Boston authorities, Olivia is the prime suspect in a cold-blooded murder. To Peter, she's the link to something more insidious. But the young girl's connection to her mother's controversial drug experiments is only part of the puzzle. As Peter's investigation takes him into the shadows of his own institute, he uncovers a conspiratorial world that plays with the lives of the innocent. For Peter, saving Olivia means confronting his worst fears about the deadly boundaries of science--and the extremes some will indulge in to cross it...