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 - January 2017
A Concise Guide to Alcohol and Drug Research: Implications for Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
DANIEL L. YALISOVE AND DANIELLE BARRY
CreateSpace, 2016, 490 pp, ISBN: 9781523274178 (paperback); ASIN: B01BSUGFMM (Kindle)
Addiction, Behavioural Change and Social Identity: The Path to Resilience and Recovery
SARAH A. BUCKINGHAM AND DAVID BEST, eds.
Routledge, 2017, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781138934078 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138934085 (paperback)
Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)orderly Spaces
MARK JAYNE, GILL VALENTINE, AND SARAH L. HOLLOWAY
Routledge, 2016, 168 pp, ISBN: 9781138253278 (paperback); ASIN: B009UWTSA2 (Kindle); originally published 2011
Bars, Blues, and Booze: Stories from the Drink House
EMILY D. EDWARDS
University Press of Mississippi, 2016, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781496806390 (hardcover); ASIN: B01DFI36SQ (Kindle)
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
NORMAN OHLER
Alan Lane, 2016, 368 pp, ISBN: 9780241256992 (hardcover)
Cannabinoids and the Brain
LINDA PARKER
MIT Press, 2017, 248 pp, ISBN: 9780262035798 (hardcover)
Drinking with the Democrats: The Party Animal's History of Liberal Libations
MARK WILL-WEBER
Regnery Publishing, 2016, 112 pp, ISBN: 9781621574835 (hardcover); ASIN: B01D7V4JU0 (Kindle)
Drinking with the Republicans: The Politically Incorrect History of Conservative Concoctions
MARK WILL-WEBER
Regnery Publishing, 2016, 112 pp, ISBN: 9781621574828 (hardcover); ASIN: B01D7V5FKI (Kindle)
Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)
HAROLD R. JOHNSON
University of Regina Press, 2016, 180 pp, ISBN: 9780889774377 (paperback); ASIN: B01M7PXH4L (Kindle)
Global Anti-vice Activism, 1880-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs and 'Immorality'
JESSICA R. PILLEY, ROBERT KRAMM, AND HARALD FISHER-TINE, eds.
Cambridge University Press, 2016, 366 pp, ISBN: 9781107102668 (hardcover); ASIN: B01HTT8X9Y (Kindle)
Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic
EUGENE A. RAIKHEL
Cornell University Press, 2016, 248 pp, ISBN: 978-1501703126 (hardcover); ISBN: 978-1501703133 (paperback)
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
FRANCES WILSON
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016, 397 pp, ISBN: 9780374167301 (hardcover)
Habitus and Drug Using Environments: Health, Place and Lived-experience
STEPHEN GEORGE PARKIN
Routledge, 2016, 296 pp, ISBN: 9781315586052 (eBook); originally published 2013
Heroin User's Handbook
FRANCIS MORAES
Ronin, 2016, 260 pp, ISBN: 9781579512293 (paperback) ASIN: B01EEQ9B50 (Kindle)
Illegal Drug Use Through the Lifecourse: A Study of 'Hidden' Older Users
DAVID MOXON AND JAIME WATERS
Routledge, 2017, 192 pp, ISBN: 9781472461568 (hardcover); ASIN: B01M1C4UC7 (Kindle)
Imaging the Addicted Brain
NATALIE M. ZAHR AND ERIC T. PETERSON, eds.
Elsevier, 2016, 250 pp, ISBN: 9780128039144 (hardcover); ASIN: B01K39RA6Y (Kindle)
Innovations in the Treatment of Substance Addiction
ANDRÉ LUIZ MONEZI ANDRADE AND DENISE DE MICHELI, eds.
Springer-Verlag, 2016, 238 pp, ISBN: 9783319431703 (hardcover); ASIN: B01LX4V4RX (Kindle)
It's Not About Us: The Secret to Transforming the Mental Health and Addiction System in Canada
TODD LEADER
Cathydia Press, 2016, 274 pp, ISBN: 9780993817335 (paperback)
++L'Alcool en Côte d'Ivoire: Histoire, usage et signification
DENIS BROU KONAN
L'Harmattan, 2016, 212 pp, ISBN: 9782343097008 (paperback)
++La Rrivoluzione del Bere: L'alcol come Esperienza Culturale (Series: Biblioteca di testi e studi)
FRANCA BECCARIA
Carocci, 2016, 119 pp, ISBN: 9788843078547 (paperback)
Marijuana: A Short History
JOHN HUDAK
Brookings Institution Press, 2016, 224 pp, ISBN: 9780815729068 (paperback); ASIN: B01L2HPV94 (Kindle)
Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power
TRAVIS LINNEMANN
New York University Press, 2016, 304 pp, ISBN: 9781479878697 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781479800025 (paperback); ASIN: B01LW7PNF5 (Kindle)
No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing
WAVERLY DUCK
University of Chicago Press, 2016, 198 pp, ISBN: 9780226298061 (paperback); ASIN: B014A8VDGC (Kindle)
Order! Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking
BEN WRIGHT
Duckworth Overlook, 2016, 361 pp, ISBN: 9780715650639 (hardcover)
Prohibition in South Dakota: Astride the White Mule
CHUCK CECIL
The History Press, 2016, 160 pp, ISBN: 9781467137126 (paperback); ASIN: B01KBCK1KK (Kindle)
Regulating Alcohol around the World: Policy Cocktails
TIFFANY BERGIN
Routledge, 2016, 166 pp, ISBN: 9781409445258 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138255142 (paperback); ASIN: B00EUE2BEU (Kindle)
Responsible Sales, Service and Marketing of Alcohol for the Tourism, Hospitality and Retail Industries
JAMES MURPHY
Goodfellow Publishers, 2015, 225 pp, IBSN: 9781910158203 (hardcover); 2016, ISBN: 9781910158203 (e-Book)
Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures
STEVEN YALE SUSSMAN
Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781107100350 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781107495913 (paperback)
Substance Use and Quality of Life of Patients at an Addiction Centre
AISHATU YUSHA'U ARMIYA'U
Saarbrücken Scholars' Press, 2016, 140 pp, ISBN: 9783659840197 (paperback)
Substance Use Disorders and Addictions
KEITH MORGEN
SAGE, 2017, 298 pp, ISBN: 9781483370569 (paperback); ASIN: B01L2ZWJIM (Kindle)
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
JAMES A. BENN
University of Hawaii Press, 2015, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780824839642 (paperback); ASIN: B013E0JC0Q (Kindle)
The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies: Social Science Approaches
TORSTEN KOLIND, BETSY THOM, AND GEOFFREY HUNT, eds.
SAGE, 2016, 742 pp, ISBN: 978-1446298664 (hardcover); ASIN: B01JZ7IST8 (Kindle)
++Tolerancia y Prohibición; Aproximaciones a la Historia Social y Cultural de las Drogas en México 1840-1940
RICARDO PÉREZ MONTFORT
Debate, 2016, ASIN: B0183FDDRU (Kindle)
Walk the Talk with Step 12: Staying Sober through Service
GARY K.
Hazelden Publishing, 2016, 200 pp, ISBN: 9781616496593 (paperback); ASIN: B01LYGBHN3 (Kindle)
Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience
EMMA CASEY
Routledge, 2016, 156 pp, ISBN: 9781138266926 (paperback); ASIN: B01BWNXHKS (Kindle); originally published 2008
World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control
TOM DECORTE, GARY W. POTTER AND MARTIN BOUCHARD, eds.
Routledge, 2016, ASIN: B01BNUXTX0 (Kindle); originally published 2011
Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World: Alcohol, Social Media and Cultures of Intoxication
ANTONIA C. LYONS, IAN GOODWIN AND HELEN MOEWAKA BARNES,eds.
Routledge, 2017, 262 pp, ISBN: 9781138959040 (hardcover)