Book list


Addiction publishes new book lists five times per year, both in print and on this website. Items are alphabetised by author within each list. Entry in this list neither precludes nor guarantees later review. Note that entries with ** in front of citation are government documents and ++ denotes non-English language publications.

Compiled by Andrea L. Mitchell, SALIS: Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists.

Email: amitchell@salis.org


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Previous Issue - April 2015

A Clinician's Guide to Working with Problem Gamblers

HENRIETTA BOWDEN-JONES AND SANJU GEORGE, eds.

Routledge, 2015, 264 pp, ISBN: 9780415732833 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780415732857 (paperback)

Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business

CHRISTIAN HAGESETH AND JOSEPH D'AGNESE

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781137280008 (hardcover); ASIN: B00O0EKBLU (Kindle)

Drug Addiction in Australia

JOHN SHERMAN AND TOM VALENTA

Michelle Anderson Publishing, 2015, 290 pp, ISBN: 9780855724405(paperback); 235 pp, ASIN: B00S7OFEAM (Kindle)

Drugs and Society

ANDREW D. HATHAWAY

OUP Canada, 2015, 248 pp, ISBN: 9780199007882 (paperback)

Drugs and Society, 12th edition

GLEN HANSON, PETER J. VENTURELLI, AND ANNETTE E. FLECKENSTEIN

Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2015, 663 pp, ISBN: 9781284054781 (paperback)

Drugs, Crime, and Justice

STEVEN R. BELENKO AND CASSIA SPOHN

Sage, 2015, 344 pp, ISBN: 9781452277080 (paperback)

Drugs, Power, and Politics: Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy

CARL BOGGS

Paradigm Publishers, 2015, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781612058702 (hardcover)

Drugs, Society, & Human Behavior, 16th edition

CARL L. HUNT AND CHARLES KSIR

McGraw-Hill Education, 2014, 480 pp, ISBN: 9780078028649 (paperback)

From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy, 2nd edition

SUSAN C. BOYD

Carolina Academic Press, 2015, 412 pp, ISBN: 9781611636260 (paperback)

Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society, 2cd edition

WILLIAM NORMAN THOMPSON

ABC-CLIO, 2015, 505 pp, ISBN: 9781610699792 (hardcover); ASIN: B00SG8L2OG (Kindle)

Gambling in the Nineteenth-century English Novel: 'A Leprosy Is O'er the Land'

MICHAEL FLAVIN

Sussex Academic Press, 2015, 254 pp, ISBN: 9781845192112 (paperback)

Gambling, Society and the Evolution of Risk-taking

PETER HARVEY, DAVID SMITH, AND SUE BERTOSSA, eds.

Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015, 202 pp, ISBN: 9781634638074 (hardcover)

Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Puts America at Risk

WILLIAM J. BENNETT AND ROBERT A WHITE

Center Street, 2015, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781455560738 (hardcover)

Heroin Addiction: Prevalence, Treatment Approaches and Health Consequences (Series: Substance Abuse Assessment, Interventions and Treatment)

AYMAN M. FAREED

Nova Science Publishers, 2015, 156 pp, ISBN: 978163463212 (hardcover)

Hijacked Brains: The Experience and Science of Chronic Addiction

HENRIETTA ROBIN BARNES

Dartmouth College Press, 2015, 216 pp, ISBN: 9781611686746 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781611686753 (paperback); ASIN: B00PM8H32S (Kindle)

Internet Addiction in Psychotherapy (Series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology)

DARIA J. KUSS AND MARK D. GRIFFITHS

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 138 pp, ISBN: 9781137465061 (hardcover); ASIN: B00QZEA424 (Kindle)

Internet and Social Media Addiction (Series: Compact Research: Addictions)

ANDREA C. NAKAYA

ReferencePoint Press, 2015, 96 pp, ISBN: 9781601527608 (hardcover)

Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses

MIMI NICHTER

NYU Press, 2015, 272 pp. ISBN-10: 081475838X, ISBN-13: 978-0814758380 (hardcover); ISBN-10: 0814758398, ISBN-13: 978-0814758397 (paperback); 1390 KB, ASIN: B00RLTA4D6 (Kindle)

Loosening the Grip: A Handbook of Alcohol Information, 11th edition

JEAN KINNEY AND STUART COPANS

McGraw-Hill Education, 2015, 704 pp, ISBN: 9780078028557 (paperback)

Performance-enhancing Drugs (Series: Opposing Viewpoints Series)

ROMAN C. ESPEJO, ed.

Greenhaven Press, 2015, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780737772807 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780737772814 (paperback)

Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism

TERESITA A. LEVY

Rutgers University Press, 2015, 200 pp, ISBN: 9780813571331; ASIN: B00QLEZ9Z0 (Kindle)

Recovery - Twelve Simple Steps to a Life Beyond Addiction: A Contemporary Recovery Handbook for Users and Practitioners (Series: Addiction Recovery Series)

LYNDEN FINLAY

Accent Press, 2015, 332 pp, ISBN: 9781783752973 (paperback)

Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory

CATHERINE HOLDER SPUDE

University of Oklahoma Press, 2015, 344 pp, ISBN: 9780806146607 (hardcover)

Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America (Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

LAURA D. HIRSHBEIN

Rutgers University Press, 2015, 228 pp, ISBN: 9780813563978 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780813563961 (paperback)

Stemming the Tide of Alcohol: Liquor Licensing and the Public Interest

ELIZABETH MANSON, ROBIN ROOM, AND MICHAEL THORN, eds.

Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education, 2014, 449 pp, ISBN: 9780734049315 (paperback); ASIN: B00N1ZLUGO (Kindle)

Substance Abuse and the Family

MICHAEL D. REITER

Routledge, 2015, 286 pp, ISBN: 9781138795068 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138795075 (paperback); ASIN: B00NWE4V74 (Kindle)

Substance Use and Older People (Series: Addiction Press)

ILANA B. CROME, LI-TZY WU, RAGUL (TONY) RAO, AND PETER CROME, eds.

John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015, 424 pp, ISBN: 9781119975380 (hardcover)

The American Drug Scene: An Anthology, 7th edition

JAMES A. INCIARD AND KAREN MCELRATH, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2015, 576 pp, ISBN: 9780199362080 (paperback)

The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco (Series: American Experience in Archaeological Pespective)

GEORGIA LYNNE FOX AND MICHAEL S. NASSANEY

University Press of Florida, 2015, 192 pp, ISBN: 9780813060415 (hardcover)

The Brewers Tale: A History of the World According to Beer

WILLIAM BOSTWICK

W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, 304 pp. ISBN: 9780393239140 (hardcover); 2015, ISBN: 9780393351996 (paperback); ASIN: B00J8R3GRA (Kindle)

The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism

EDWARD FOLLIS

Gotham, 2015, 288 pp, ISBN: 9781592408931 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781922247698 (paperback); ASIN: B00INIXP62 (Kindle)

The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World

CHARLOTTE COSNER

Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 232 pp, ISBN: 9780826520326 (hardcover)

The Tobacco Epidemic, 2cd edition (Series: Progress in Respiratory Research)

ROBERT LODDENKEMPER AND MICHAEL KREUTER, eds.

Karger, 2015, 280 pp, ISBN: 9783318026566 (hardcover)

The Truth about Exercise Addiction: Understanding the Dark Side of Thinspiration

KATHERINE SCHREIBER AND HEATHER A. HAUSENBLAS

Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 248 pp, ISBN: 9781442233294 (hardcover)

Tobacco Smoke Exposure Biomarkers

QINGYUAN HU AND HONGWEI HOU

CRC Press, 2015, 288 pp, ISBN: 978149870559 (hardcover)

Treatment Strategies for Substance and Process Addictions

ROBERT L. SMITH

American Counseling Association, 2015, 375 pp, ISBN: 9781556203534 (paperback)

Working with Women's Groups for Problem Gambling: Treating Gambling Addiction through Relationship

ELIZABETH KARTER

Routledge, 2015, 172 pp, ISBN: 9780415859615(hardcover); ISBN: 9780415859622 (paperback); ISBN: 9781315758299 (eBook)

Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, & Life in the Kingdom of Poland

GLENN DYNNER

Oxford University Press, 2014, 272 pp, ISBN: 9780190204143 (paperback); ASIN: B00HFPV39K (Kindle)