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 2016

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, 3rd revised edition

LORNA CROZIER AND PARICK LANE, eds.

Greystone Books, 2016, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781771641869 (paper); ASIN: B01BO2IUVS (Kindle)

Addiction and Its Consequences in Jewish Law

WALTER JACOB, ed.

Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah, 2015, 145 pp, ISBN: 9780929699264

Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space (Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology, 163)

CHRISTOPHER B. R. SMITH

Routledge, 2016, 252 pp, ISBN: 9781138796539 (hardcover); ASIN: B0187PHASO (Kindle)

Alcohol Abuse and Liver Disease

JAMES NEUBERGER AND ANDREA DIMARTINI, eds.

John Wiley & Sons, 2016, 264 pp, ISBN: 9781118887288 (hardcover); ASIN: B01DAWQLG6 (Kindle)

Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America

DOUGLAS OSTO

Columbia University Press, 2016, 328 pp, ISBN: 9780231177306 (hardcover)

Assessment and Treatment of the DWI Offender

BRUCE CARRUTH, CHARLES WUTHLAND, AND ALAN A, CAVAIOLA

Routledge, 2016, 287 pp, ASIN: B01B7QYVWI (Kindle)

Brewing, Beer and Pubs: A Global Perspective

IGNAZIO CABRAS, DAVID HIGGINS AND DAVID PREECE, eds.

Palgrave, 2016, 326 pp, ISBN: 9781137466174 (hardcover)

Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders, 4th edition

AVRAM H. MACK, KATHLEEN T. BRADY, SHELDON I. MILLER, AND RICHARD J. FRANCES, eds.

Guilford Press, 2016, 730 pp, ISBN: 9781462521692 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781462521685 (paperback)

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place

MATILDA HELLMAN, VIRGINIA BERRIDGE, KAREN DUKE, AND ALEX MOLD, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2016, 256 pp, ISBN: 9780198737797 (paperback); ASIN: B01C7EIEP4 (Kindle)

Essentials of Chemical Dependency Counseling, 4th edition

GARY LAWSON, ANN W. LAWSON, AND ERIK E. SCHOEN

Pro-Ed, 2016, 456 pp, ISBN: 9781416406914 (paperback)

Examining the Relationship between Trauma and Addiction

SHELLY A. WEICHELT AND SHULAMITH LALA ASHENBERG STRAUSSNER, eds.

Routledge, 2016, 158 pp, ISBN: 9781138937086 (hardcover)

Getting High: Marijuana through the Ages

JOHN CHARLES CHASTEEN

Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 168 pp, ISBN: 9781442254695 (hardcover); ASIN: B0185HENBQ (Kindle)

Handbook of Cannabis (Series: Handbooks in Psychopharmacology)

ROGER G. PERTWEE, ed.

Oxford University Press, 2014, 768 pp, ISBN: 9780199662685 (hardback); ASIN: B00OKPCR98 (Kindle)

How I Became My Father ... A Drunk

WILLIAM G. BORCHERT

Story Merchant, 2015, 328 pp, ISBN: 978-0996368926 (paperback); ASIN: B016V6PFRE (Kindle)

Human Rights and Drug Control: The False Dichotomy (Series: Studies in International Law)

SAUL TAKAHASHI

Hart Publishing, 2016, 192 pp, ISBN: 9781849467063 (hardcover)

Integrated Approaches to Drug and Alcohol Problems: Action on Addiction

WILLM MISTRAL, ed.

Routledge, 2016, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781138854376 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138854383 (paperback)

Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse, 5th edition

STEVEN B. KARCH AND OLAF H. DRUMMER

CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, 906 pp, ISBN: 9781439861462 (hardback); ASIN: B015PNEW4G (Kindle)

Marijuana and Health (Series: Issues in Society)

JUSTIN HEALEY, ed.

Spinney Press, 2016, ISBN: 9781925339024

Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2cd edition

JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, BEAU KILMER, AND MARK KLEIMAN

Oxford University Press, 2016, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780190262419 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780190262402 (paperback)

Marijuana: Medical Uses, Regulations and Legal Issues

MARGIE VASQUEZ

Nova Science Publishers, 2016, 119 pp, ISBN: 9781634844093 (hardcover)

Mind-body Workbook for Addiction: Effective Tools for Substance-abuse Recovery & Relapse Prevention

STANLEY H. BLOCK, CAROLYN BRYANT BLOCK, AND GUY DU PLESSIS

New Harbinger Publications, 2016, 200 pp, ISBN: 9781626254114 (eBook)

Moral Jeopardy: Risks of Accepting Money from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Industries (Series: International Research Monographs in the Addictions)

PETER J. ADAMS

Cambridge University Press, 2016, 304 pp, ISBN: 9781107091207 (hardcover)

Neurobiology of Addiction

ALAN C. SWANN, F. GERARD MOELLER AND MARIJN LIJFFIJT, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2016, 380 pp, ISBN: 9780199367894 (paperback)

Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine: From Prevention to Rehabilitation: Constructs and Drugs (Series: Progress in Brain Research)

HAMED EKHTIARI AND MARTIN PAULUS, eds.

Elsevier, 2016, 348 pp, ISBN: 978-0444635457 (hardcover); ASIN: B01AZ8TABQ (Kindle)

Not as Prescribed: Recognizing and Facing Alcohol and Drug Misuse in Older Adults

HARRY L. HAROUTUNIAN

Hazelden, 2016, 250 pp, ISBN: 9781616496272 (paperback)

Online Health and Safety: From Cyberbullying to Internet Addiction

BERNADETTE H. SCHELL

Greenwood, 2016, 343 pp, ISBN: 978-1440838965 (hardcover)

Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment (Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS

W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, 496 pp, ISBN: 9780393709025 (hardcover); ASIN: B015QSEMNQ (Kindle)

Substance Abuse: From Principles to Practice

DAVID M. MCDOWELL AND HENRY I. SPITZ

Routledge, 2016, 300 pp, ASIN: B019P2LCIW (Kindle)

Substance Use and Abuse: Everything Matters, 2nd edition

RICK CSIERNIK

Canadian Scholars' Press, 2016, 485 pp, ISBN: 9781551308913

Substance Use Problems, 2nd edition (Series: Advances in Psychotherapy Evidence-based Practice)

MITCH EARLEYWINE

Hogrefe, 2016, 114 pp, ISBN: 978-0889374164 (paperback)

Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball

NATHAN MICHAEL CORZINE

University of Illinois Press, 2016, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780252039799 (hardcover); ASIN: B01B8RJMM0 (Kindle)

The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis: Quality Assessment, Assurance, and Regulation of Medicinal Marijuana and Cannabinoid Preparations

BRIAN F. THOMAS AND MAHMOUD A. ELSOHLY

Elsevier/RTI International, 2016, 132 pp, ISBN: 9780128046463 (paperback); ASIN: B019HB51D8 (Kindle)

The Anatomy of Addiction: What Science and Research Tell Us about the True Causes, Best Preventive Techniques, and Most Successful Treatments

AKIKUR MOHAMMAD

Perigee, 2016, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781101981832(hardcover); ASIN: B00X593B36 (Kindle)

The Coming of Southern Prohibition: The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915

MICHAEL LEWIS

Louisiana State University Press, 2016, 328 pp, ISBN: 9780807162989 (hardcover)

The Law of Gambling and Regulated Gaming: Cases and Materials, 2cd edition

ANTHONY N. CABOT AND KEITH C. MILLER

Carolina Academic Press, 2016, 766 pp, ISBN: 9781611638516 (hardcover)

The Legalization of Marijuana (Series: Opposing Viewpoints)

NOËL MERINO

Greenhaven Press, 2016, 224 pp, ISBN: 9780737775563 (hardcover); ISBN: 978-0737775570 (paperback)

The Molecular Basis of Drug Addiction

SHAFIQUR RAHMAN

Elsevier, 2016, 277 pp, ISBN: 9780128037867 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780128038680 (eBook)

The Staying Sober Handbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Long-term Recovery from Addiction

HOWARD P. GOODMAN

Strandline Press, 2016, 320 pp, ISBN: 9780996744904 (paperback); ASIN: B01BXTZAWE (Kindle)

Treating Women with Substance Use Disorders: The Women's Recovery Group Manual

SHELLY F. GREENFIELD

Guilford Press, 2016, 324 pp, ISBN: 9781462525768 (paperback)

Twelve More Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery: Navigating Common Pitfalls on Your Sobriety Journey

ALLEN BERGER

Hazelden Publishing, 2016, 136 pp, ISBN: 9781592854868 (paperback); ASIN: B00BS0299G (Kindle)

Understanding the U.S. Illicit Tobacco Market: Characteristics, Policy Context, and Lessons from International Experiences

PETER REUTER AND MALAY KIRAN MAJMUNDAR

National Academies Press, 2015, 226 pp, ISBN: 9780309317122 (paperback); ASIN: B00YPQACEO (Kindle)

What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours?

LUCY GELL, GERHARD BÜHRINGER, JANE MCLEOD, SARAH FORBERGER, JOHN HOLMES, ANNE LINGFORD-HUGHES, AND PETRA S. MEIER, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2016, 224 pp, ISBN: 9780198746683 (paperback), ASIN: B01DO5VWFO (Kindle)