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 - June 2015
An Integral Guide to Recovery: Twelve Steps and Beyond
GUY DU PLESSIS
Integral Publishers, 2015, 256 pp, ISBN: 9780990441953 (paperback); ASIN: B00UCF3WH6 (Kindle)
Anabolic Steroid Abuse in Public Safety Personnel: A Forensic Manual
BRENT E. TURVEY AND STAN CROWDER
Academic Press, 2015, 158 pp, ISBN: 9780128028254 (paperback)
At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969
SUZANNE MORTON
University of Toronto Press, 2015, 296 pp, ISBN: 9780802084415 (paperback), originally published 2003
Co-occurring Addictive and Psychiatric Disorders: A Practice-Based Handbook from a European Perspective
GEERT DOM AND FRANZ MOGGI, eds.
Springer, 2015, 389 pp, ISBN: 9783642453748 (hardcover); ASIN: B00S161PO0 (Kindle)
Drugs, Behaviour, and Modern Society
CHARLES F. LEVINTHAL AND TREVOR HAMILTON
Pearson Education Canada, 2015, 456 pp, ISBN: 9780205968251 (paperback)
Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts and Control, 7th edition
MICHAEL LYMAN
Anderson Publishing, 2015, 520 pp, ISBN: 9781455731879 (paperback); ASIN: B00FW1B5RE (Kindle)
Fundamentals of Addiction: A Practical Guide for Counsellors, 4th edition
MARILYN HERIE AND W.J. WAYNE SKINNER, eds.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 2014, 791 pp, ISBN: 9781771141475; ISBN 9781771141505 (ebook)
Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream
AARON M. DUNCAN
Routledge, 2015, 190 pp, ISBN: 9781138857995 (hardcover); ASIN: B00U90IJFY (Kindle)
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
PAMELA G. ERICKSON, DIANE M. RILE, YUET W. CHEUNG, AND PAT A. O'HARE, eds.
University of Toronto Press, 2015, 476 pp, ISBN: 9781442657533 (ebook); ASIN: B00T9ZI5N6 (Kindle), originally published 1997
Helping Children Affected by Parental Substance Abuse: Activities and Photocopiable Worksheets
TONIA CASELMAN
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015, 160 pp, ISBN: 9781849057608 (paperback)
If You Work It, It Works!: The Science Behind 12 Step Recovery
JOSEPH NOWINSKI
Hazelden, 2015, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781616495718 (paperback), ASIN: B00THMCGL8 (Kindle)
Impaired Driving in Canada, 4th edition
JOSEPH F. KENKEL
LexisNexis Canada, 2015, ISBN: 9780433479543 (hardcover)
Internet Addiction: Neuroscientific Approaches and Therapeutical Interventions
CHRISTIAN MONTAG AND MARTIN REUTER, eds.
Springer, 2015, 246 pp, ISBN: 9783319072418 (hardcover); ISBN: 9783319072425, 3319072420 (ebook)
Interpreting the Prohibition Era at Museums and Historic Sites
JASON S. LANTZER
Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 116 pp, ISBN: 9780759124318 (hardcover); 140 pp, ISBN: 9780759124325 (paperback); ASIN: B00Q69807Y (Kindle)
Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961
CATHERINE CARSTAIRS
University of Toronto Press, 2006, 240 pp, ISBN: 978-0802093721 (paperback); Canadian Electronic Library, 2015, ASIN: B00T9ZHT2O (Kindle)
Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy
ELLEN MUTARI AND DEBORAH M. FIGART
Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 280 pp, ISBN: 978-1442236677 (hardcover); ASIN: B00T1D4AX0 (Kindle)
Ketamine: Use and Abuse
D.T.W. YEW
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, 415 pp, ISBN: 9781466583399 (hardcover)
Key Concepts in Substance Misuse (Series: SAGE Key Concepts)
AARON PYCROFT, ed.
Sage, 2015, 208 pp, ISBN: 9781446252390 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781446252406 (paperback); ASIN: B00URRT6HE (Kindle)
Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, 4th edition
GERI MILLER
John Wiley & Sons, 2015, 576 pp, ISBN: 9781118721773 (paperback)
Life-course Smoking Behavior: Patterns and National Context in Ten Countries
DEAN R. LILLARD AND REBEKKA CHRISTOPOULOU
Oxford University Press, 2015, 288 pp, ISBN: 9780199389100 (hardcover)
Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World's Most Popular Weed
KEVIN P. HILL
Hazelden, 2015, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781616495596 (paperback); ISBN: 9781616495701 (Nook)
Mental Health in the Digital Age: Grave Dangers, Great Promise
ELIAS ABOUJAOUDE AND VLADAN STARCEVIC
Oxford University Press, 2015, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780199380183 (paperback)
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Penguin Classics, 2015, 289 pp, ISBN: 9780141189765 (paperback)
Neuroimaging and Psychosocial Addiction Treatment: An Integrative Guide for Researchers and Clinicians
SARAH W. FELDSTEIN EWING, KATIE WITKIEWITZ, AND FRANCESCA M. FILBEY, eds.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781137362643 (hardcover)
Psychoneuroplasticity Protocols for Addictions: A Clinical Companion for the Big Book
FRANK LAWLIS AND LAURA MARTINEZ
Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 204 pp, ISBN: 9781442241978 (hardcover); ASIN: B00UMTX65K (Kindle)
Recovery Groups: A Guide to Creating, Leading, and Working with Groups from Addictions and Mental Health Conditions
LINDA FARRIS KURTZ
Oxford University Press, 2015, 204 pp, ISBN: 9780199362974 (paperback)
Sex and Pornography Addictions (Series: Compact Research: Addictions)
CHRISTINE WILCOX
ReferencePoint Press, 2015, 96 pp, ISBN: 9781601527622 (hardcover)
The ASAM Essentials of Addiction Medicine, 2nd edition
ABIGAIL J. HERRON AND TIMOTHY BRENNAN, eds.
Wolters Kluwer, 2015, 707 pp, ISBN: 9781451194463 (paperback); ASIN: B00UVS91MO (Kindle)
The Behavioral Addiction
MICHAEL S. ASCHER AND PETROS LEVOUNIS
American Psychiatric Publishing, 2015, 235 pp, ISBN: 9781585624850 (paperback)
The Chinese Heroin Trade: Cross-border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond
KO-LIN CHIN AND SHELDON ZHANG
New York University Press, 2015, 320 pp, ISBN: 9781479895403 (hardcover)
The Marijuana Law Sourcebook
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
American Bar Association, 2015, 1250 pp, ISBN: 9781634250313 (paperback)
The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America
ANDREW RUSSELL AND ELIZABETH RAHMAN, eds.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781472587541 (hardcover)
The Neurobiology and Genetics of Nicotine and Tobacco
D.J.K. BALFOUR AND MARCUS MUNAFO, eds.
Springer, 2015, 231 pp, ISBN: 9783319136646 (hardcover); ASIN: B00T9091X4 (Kindle)
The Politics of Trade and Tobacco Control
HOLLY JARMAN
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 172 pp, ISBN: 9781137384157 (hardcover); ASIN: B00RTQYF9U (Kindle)
The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
MARKUS HEILIG
Columbia University Press, 2015, 320 pp, ISBN: 978-0231172363 (hardcover)
Transforming Addiction: Gender, Trauma, Transdisciplinarity
LORRAINE GREAVES, NANCY POOLE, AND ELLEXIS BOYLE, eds.
Routledge, 2015, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781138828780 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138828797 (paperback)
Understanding Drugs and Behaviour, 2cd edition
ANDREW PARROTT, ALAN MORINAN, MARK B. MOSS, AND ANDREW SCHOLEY
John Wiley & Sons, 2015, ISBN: 9781118750629 (paperback)
When Tobacco was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont
EVAN P. BENNETT
University Press of Florida, 2014, 162 pp, ISBN: 9780813060149 (hardcover)
Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-exposed Pregnancies
MARY MARDEN VELASQUEZ, LINDA C. SOBELL, MARK B. SOBELL, AND KAREN S. INGERSOLL
Hogrefe, 2015, 84 pp, ISBN: 9780889374010 (paperback)
You Bet Your Life: The Burdens of Gambling
NEIL D. ISAACS
University Press of Kentucky, 2015, 288 pp, ISBN: 9780813157771 (ebook), originally published 2001