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 2017

Addiction and Brain Damage (Series: Routledge Library Editions: Addictions)

DEREK RICHTER

Routledge, 2016, 308 pp, ISBN: 9781138210882 (hardcover); ASIN: B01MA3Y1KJ (Kindle); originally published 1980

Alcohol, Drugs, Genes and Clinical Laboratory: An Overview for Healthcare and Safety Professionals

AMITAVA DASGUPTA

Academic Press, 2016, 226 pp, ISBN: 9780128054550 (paperback); ASIN: B01M4LY37S (Kindle)

Alcohol, Power and Public Health: A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

SHANE BUTLER, KAREN ELMELAND, BETSY THOM, AND JAMES NICHOLLS

Routledge, 2017, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780415637466 (hardcover)

Analytical Assessment of E-cigarettes: From Contents to Chemical and Particle Exposure Profiles

KONSTANTINOS E. FARSALINOS

Elsevier, 2017, 162 pp, ISBN: 9780128112410 (paperback); ASIN: B01NBAHAXD (Kindle)

Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III

ROBERT GREENFIELD

Thomas Dunne Books, 2016, 288 pp, ISBN: 9781250081216 (hardcover); ASIN: B01B1MWKFS (Kindle)

Chemical Dependency Counseling: A Practical Guide, 5th edition

ROBERT R. PERKINSON

SAGE, 2017, 880 pp, ASIN: B01L2ZWJJG (Kindle)

Clinician's Guide to Evidence-based Practices: Behavioral Health and Addictions, 2cd edition

JOHN C. NORCROSS, THOMAS P. HOGAN, AND GERALD P. KOOCHER

Oxford University Press, 2017, 336 pp, ISBN: 9780190621933 (paperback)

Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why It Matters

MARTIN L. KUTSCHER

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017, 144 pp, ISBN: 9781785927126 (paperback); ASIN: B01HYLPFZ2 (Kindle)

Double Jeopardy: Chronic Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders (Series: Routledge Library Editions, Addictions)

ANTHONY F. LEHMAN AND LISA B. DIXON

Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 9781138681712 (hardcover); originally published 1995

Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History

PAMELA DONOVAN

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 294 pp, ISBN: 9781137575166 (hardcover); ASIN: B01HXI90WK (kindle)

Drug Abuse and Antisocial Behavior: A Biosocial Life Course Approach

CHRISTOPHER P. SALAS-WRIGHT, MICHAEL G, VAUGHN, AND JENNIDER M. REINGLE

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 220 pp, ISBN: 9781137558169 (hardcover)

**Drug and Alcohol Intoxication and Subsequent Harm in Night-time Entertainment Districts (DASHED)

PETER MILLER, RAIMONDO BRUNO, ANTHONY MORGAN, RICHELLE MAYSHACK, ELISE COX, KERRI COOMBER, NICOLAS DROSTE, NICHOLAS TAYLOR, NICOLETTE DIMITROVSKI, AMY PEACOCK, HAYLEY BOXALL, AND ISABELLA VOCE

National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, 2016, 250 pp, ISSN: 1449-7476 (monograph)

Drug Use - A Medical, Anthropological and Psychosocial Phenomenon

ADINA BRÎNDUŞA BACIU

Shaker, 2017, 130 pp, ISBN: 9783844050011 (paperback)

Drug Use in Australian Society, 2nd edition

ALISON RITTER, TREVOR KING, AND MARGARET HAMILTON, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9780190306458

Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy

GEOFFREY HUNT, MAITENA MILHET, AND HENRI BERGERON, eds.

Routledge, 2016, 301 pp, ISBN: 9781315578200 (e-book), originally published 2011

Empire of Booze: British History through the Bottom of a Glass

HENRY JEFFREYS

Random House, 2016, 288 pp, ISBN: 9781783522248 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781783525157 (paperback); ASIN: B01BI3CDMK (Kindle)

European Drug Policies: The Ways of Reform

RENAUD COLSON AND HENRI BERGERON, eds.

Routledge, 2017, 320 pp, ISBN: 9781138915206 (hardcover); ASIN: B01NBYW7YM (Kindle)

From a Dark Place: How a Family Coped with Drug Addiction

TONY HUSBAND AND PAUL HUSBAND

Robinson, 2017, 72 pp, ISBN: 9781472137128 (flexibound)

Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders: Multiple Identities, Multiple Challenges

MICHAEL SHELTON

Harrington Park Press, 2017, 352 pp, ISBN: 9781939594129 (hardcover); ASIN: B01M7WLPLV (Kindle)

Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court

MONA PAULINE LYNCH

Russell Sage Foundation, 2016, 192 pp, ISBN: 9780871545114 (paperback); ASIN: B01LZ0EH4J (Kindle)

Inside the Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

KAY PARLEY

University of Regina Press, 2016, 158 pp, ISBN: 9780889774117 (hardcover); ASIN: B01G9JI8AY (Kindle)

Internet Addiction: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Health Effects

MARGARET E. ADAMS, ed.

Nova Science, 2017, 130 pp, ISBN: 9781536104363 (hardcover)

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

ADAM L. ALTER

Penguin Press, 2017, 368 pp, ISBN: 9781594206641 (hardcover); ASIN: B01HNJIK70 (Kindle)

Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East (Series: Advances in Mental Health and Addiction)

RICHARD ISRALOWITZ AND PATRICIA A. FINDLEY, eds.

Springer, 2016, 194 pp, ISBN: 9783319415543 (hardcover); ASIN: B01MSQO95N (Kindle)

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

J.D. CHANDLER AND THERESA GRIFFIN KENNEDY

The History Press, 2016, 158 pp, ISBN: 9781467119535 (paperback); ASIN: B01AYN1VX2 (Kindle)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China

FRANK DIKÖTTER, LARS PETER LAAMANN AND XUN ZHOU

C. Hurst & Co., 2016, 298 pp, ISBN: 9781849044721 (paperback); originally published 2004

Negative Affective States and Cognitive Impairments in Nicotine Dependence

F. SCOTT HALL, JARED W. YOUNG, AND ANDRE DER-AVAKIAN, eds.

Academic Press, 2017, 362 pp, ISBN: 97801280257419 (hardcover); ASIN: B01KO1K4W8 (Kindle)

Paradoxes of Gambling Behaviour (Series: Routledge Library Editions, Addictions)

WILLEM ALBERT WAGENAAR

Routledge, 2017, 136 pp, ISBN: 9781134879298 (e-Book)

Politics of Sin: Drugs, Alcohol, and Public Policy

KENNETH J. MEIER

Taylor and Francis, 2016, ISBN: 9781315287294 (eBook); originally published 1994

Psychosocial Constructs of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (Series: Routledge Library Editions, Addictions)

BARRY STIMMEL, ed.

Routledge, 2016, ISBN: 9781138693616 (hardcover); ASIN: B01MDM8TZT (Kindle)

Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Perspectives, 3rd edition

RICK CSIERNIK AND WILLIAM S. ROWE, eds.

Canadian Scholars' Press, 2017, 520 pp, ISBN: 9781551309330 (paperback); e-book

Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths

ANN TAVES

Princeton University Press, 2017, 384 pp, ISBN: 9780691131016 (hardcover); ASIN: B01LDVKEFA (Kindle)

Rum-runners and Mobsters: Prohibition's 100th Anniversary in Newfoundland

JACK FITZGERALD

Creative Publishers, 2017, 250 pp, ISBN: 9781771030984 (paperback)

Smoking Geographies: Space, Place and Tobacco

ROSS BARNETT, GRAHAM MOON, JAMIE PEARCE, LEE THOMPSON AND LIZ TWIGG

John Wiley & Sons, 2017, 312 pp, ISBN: 9781444361926 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781444361919 (paperback)

Social Science of the Syringe: A Sociology of Injecting Drug Use

NICOLE VITELLONE

Routledge, 2017, 160 pp, ISBN: 9781138655140 (hardcover)

Staying Sober: Tips for Working a Twelve Step Program of Recovery

MEREDITH GOULD

Hazelden, 2017, ISBN: 9781616497569 (e-book)

Suppressing Illicit Opium Production: Successful Intervention in Asia and the Middle East

JAMES WINDLE

I.B. Tauris, 2016, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781784535810 (hardcover); ASIN: B01MXS6EJ7 (Kindle)

The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Client Workbook, 3rd edition

ROBERT R. PERKINSON

SAGE, 2017, 152 pp, ISBN: 9781506307428 (paperback) ASIN: B01KPFD9XY (Kindle)

The Big Fix: Hope after Heroin

TRACEY HELTON MITCHELL

Seal Press, 2016, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781580056038 (hardcover); ASIN: B017QL9QSM (Kindle)

The Drinking Woman Revisited

EDITH LYNN HORNIK-BEER

Open Road Integrated Media, 2016, 228 pp, ASIN: B01NBMIAWT (Kindle); originally published 1977

The Outrun

AMY LIPTROT

Canongate, 2016, 304 pp, ISBN: 9781782115472 (hardcover); ISBN: 97882115489 (paperback)

The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies, Volume 2, Biological Approaches

KIM WOLFF, JASON WHITE, AND STEVEN B. KARCH

SAGE, 2016, 578 pp, ISBN: 9781446298671 (hardcover)

**World Drug Report 2016

UNITED NATIONAL OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME

United Nations, 2016, 172 pp, ISBN: 9789211482867 (paperback)