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 2020

A History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959

KAWAL DEEP KOUR

Routledge, 2019, 320 pp, ISBN: 9780367417703 (hardcover); ASIN: B07X442THM (Kindle)

A Public Health Guide to Ending the Opioid Epidemic

MICHAEL R. FRASER AND JAY C. BUTLER, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2019, 352 pp, ISBN: 9780190056810 (paperback); ASIN: B07YDX7HS5 (Kindle)

Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

MARTHA POSTLETHWAITE

Fortress Press, 2019, 152 pp, ISBN: 9781506434292 (paperback); ASIN: B07HHHQQ5D (Kindle)

Alcohol, Power and Public Health: A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy (Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy)

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

Routledge, 2019, 224 pp, ISBN: 9780367224110 (paperback)

Beyond the Primal Addiction: Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet, Shopping and Work

NINA SAVELLE-ROCKLIN AND SALMAN AKHTAR, eds.

Routledge, 2019, 195 pp, ISBN: 9780367150693 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780367150723(paperback); ASIN: B07PDNN3QM (Kindle)

Breath and Smoke: Tobacco Use Among the Maya

JENNIFER A. LOUGHMILLER-CARDINAL, KEITH EPPICH, AND JOHN E. STALLER, eds.

University of New Mexico Press, 2019, 280 pp, ISBN: 9780826360922 (hardcover)

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation: A Scientifically Informed Intervention

JOSEPH P. GREEN AND STEVEN J. LYNN

Wiley Blackwell, 2019, 252 pp, ISBN: 9781119139638 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781119139645 (paperback); ASIN: B07H1SW335 (Kindle)

Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction: Emerging Pathological Constructs

PIETRO COTTONE, CATHERINE F. MOORE, VALENTINA SABINO AND GEORGE F. KOOB, eds.

Elsevier, 2019, 496 pp, ISBN: 9780128162071(hardcover); ASIN: B07YRPZK8Q (Kindle)

Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

DAVID R. FABER

Cambridge University Press, 2019, 222 pp, ISBN: 9781108425278 (hardcover); ASIN: B07VCTGH3N (Kindle)

Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth Century Germany

JAMES ROBERTS

Routledge, 2019, 172 pp, ISBN: 9780367248321(hardcover); ASIN: B07S3X9HMX (Kindle)

Drug Addiction Recovery

RUDOLPH E. TANZI DINES

Sheldon Press, 2019, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781847094940 (paperback); ASIN: B07PKRS3CH (Kindle)

Drug Wars: The Terrifying Inside Story of Britain's Drug Trade

NEIL WOODS AND J. S. RAFAELI

Ebury Press, 2018, 336 pp, ISBN: 9781785037443 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781785037467 (paperback)

Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices

ROBIN FELDMAN

Cambridge University Press, 2019, 196 pp, ISBN: 9781108482455(hardcover); ASIN: B07NXSN2M5 (Kindle)

Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture

DEREK SANDHAUS

University of Nebraska Press, 2019, 320 pp, ISBN: 9781640120976(hardcover); ASIN: B07Q3JJ4HY (Kindle)

Egypt's Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State

OMAR D. FODA

University of Texas Press, 2019, 296 pp, ISBN: 9781477319543 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781477319550 (paperback); ASIN: B07QZ4S3MN (Kindle)

Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State

KERWIN KAYE

Columbia University Press, 2019, 368 pp, ISBN: 9780231172882 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780231172899 (paperback); ASIN: B07L9HYY5Z (Kindle)

** European Prevention Curriculum: A Handbook for Decision-makers, Opinion-makers and Policy-makers in Science-based Prevention of Substance Use

EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION

Publications Office of the European Union, 2019, 172 pp, ISBN: 9789294974167 (e-book)

Gambling Addiction in Ireland: Causes, Consequences and Recovery

COLIN O’GARA

Veritas, 2019, 192 pp, ISBN: 9781847308863 (paperback)

Gambling Advertising: Nature, Effects and Regulation

BARRIE GUNTER

Emerald Publishing, 2019, 208 pp, ISBN: 9781787699243 (hardcover); ASIN: B07JG3RWP8 (Kindle)

Gambling Under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany

ROBERT M. JARVIS

Carolina Academic Press, 2019, 208 pp, ISBN: 9781531012526 (hardcover); ASIN: B07R75TJ4F (Kindle)

Good Girls on Bad Drugs: Addiction Nonfiction in a Revised Edition

MARK MATHEW BRAUNSTEIN

Panacea Press, 2019, 250 pp, ISBN: 9780963566348 (paperback); ASIN: B07MQTCFMR (Kindle)

Icarus: Anthropology of Addiction

SYLVIA CAVANAUGH

Water's Edge Press, 2019, 42 pp, ISBN: 9780999219447 (paperback)

Intemperate Spirits: Economic Adaptation During Prohibition

ALICE LOUISE KASSENS

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 165 pp, ISBN: 9783030253271 (hardcover); ASIN: B07VYWTM1B (Kindle)

Leadership in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Insights from Long-term Advocates

DAVID S. ANDERSON, ed.

Routledge, 2019, 366 pp, ISBN: 9781138588417 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138588424 (paperback); ASIN: B07S1PQRJ8 (Kindle)

Mascara Boy: Bullied, Assaulted & Near Death: Surviving Trauma and Addiction

BRANDON LEE

Rock Bottom Media, 2019, 244 pp, ISBN: 9781733858700 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781733858717 (paperback); ASIN: B07SKLB7CL (Kindle)

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives

NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE

National Academies Press, 2019, 174 pp, ISBN: 9780309486484 (paperback)

Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs

JAVIER GUERRERO C.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 98 pp, ISBN: 9789811390227 (hardcover); ASIN: B07YG2W2YL (Kindle)

Pathways to Recovery and Desistance: The Role of the Social Contagion of Hope

DAVID BEST

Policy Press, 2019, 232 pp, ISBN: 9781447349303 (paperback); ASIN: B07XB2YTVW (Kindle)

Persian Pleasures: How Iranians Relaxed Through the Centuries with Food, Drink and Drugs

WILLEM M. FLOOR AND HASAN JAVADI

Mage Publishers, 2019, 676 pp, ISBN: 9781949445060 (hardcover); ASIN: B07WZDW64N (Kindle)

Psychiatric Aspects of Opiate Dependence (Series: Routledge Revivals)

ALBERT A. KURLAND

CRC Press, 2019, 274 pp, ISBN: 9780367249106 (hardcover); ASIN: B07WK76JKP (Kindle); 2021, ISBN: 9780367249120 (paperback); originally published 1978

Recovering

RICHIE SADLIER

Gill Books, 2019, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780717184545 (hardcover); ASIN: B07YF615SS (Kindle)

++Roucos e sufocados: A indústria do cigarro está viva, e matando

JOÃO PERES AND MORITI NETO

Editora Elefante; 2018, 308 pp, ISBN: 9788593115165 (paperback)

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients

DAMON M. CONSTANTINIDES, SHANNON L SENNOTT, AND DAVIS CHANDLER

Routledge, 2019, 278 pp, ISBN: 9781138671805 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138671812 (paperback); ASIN: B07KFJR54L (Kindle)

Strengths-based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use: From Drugs and Crime to Desistance and Recovery

DAVID BEST AND CHARLOTTE COLMAN, eds.

Routledge, 2019, 326 pp, ISBN: 9781138288737(hardcover); ISBN: 9781138288744 (paperback); ASIN: B07YJ58BQM (Kindle)

Substance Abuse and the Family, 2nd edition

MICHAEL D. REITER

Routledge, 2019, 444 pp, ISBN: 9781138625877(hardcover); ISBN: 9781138625976 (paperback); ASIN: B07SH159K4 (Kindle)

The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade

BENJAMIN BREEN

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780812251784 (hardcover)

The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition

JASON PINE

University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 200 pp, ISBN: 9781517907709 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781517907716 (paperback)

The Ambivalent State: Police-criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins

JAVIER AUYERO AND KATHERINE SOBERING

Oxford University Press, 2019, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780190915537 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780190915544 (paperback); ASIN: B07XVPLXQM (Kindle)

The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius

BOB BATCHELOR

Diversion Books, 2019, 400 pp, ISBN: 9781635765861 (hardcover); ASIN: B07T92HL9F (Kindle)

The Disease of Addiction: A Twenty-first Century Understanding and Beyond

JOSEPH CARAVELLA

Hazelden, 2019, 54 pp, ISBN: 9781733110709 (paperback); ASIN: B07SJNB1DD (Kindle)

The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids

BRYCE PARDO, JIRKA TAYLOR, JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, BEAU KILMER, PETER REUTER, AND BRADLEY D. STEIN

RAND Corporation, 2019, 232 pp, ISBN: 9781977403384 (paperback)

The Gambling Establishment: Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and its Allies

JIM ORFORD

Routledge, 2019, 204 pp, ISBN: 9780367085681 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780367085704 (paperback); ASIN: B07V9GBB27 (Kindle)

The Phone Addiction Workbook: How to Identify Smartphone Dependency, Stop Compulsive Behavior and Develop a Healthy Relationship with Your Devices

HILDA BURKE

Ulysses Press, 2019, 144 pp, ISBN: 9781612439037 (paperback); ASIN: B07P2H1J2H (Kindle)

The Politics of Marijuana A New Paradigm

TIMOTHY MCGETTIGAN, ed.

Peter Lang Publishing, 2019, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781433156243 (hardcover)

The Vaping Controversy

LAURIE COLLIER HILLSTROM

ABC-CLIO, 2019, 151 pp, ISBN: 9781440871108 (hardcover); ASIN: B07WCQ722Z (Kindle)

The War on Drugs and Anglo-American Relations: Lessons from Afghanistan, 2001-2011

PHILIP A. BERRY

Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781474421089 (hardcover)

The War on Drugs in the Americas

CHRISTOPHER M. WHITE

Routledge, 2019, 198 pp, ISBN: 9781138952089 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138952096 (paperback); ASIN: B07XF5ND21 (Kindle)

Youth and Their Families: A Guide to Treating Adolescent Substance Use Through Family Systems Therapy

JULIE ANNE LASER-MAIRA, DAVID BLAIR, JAMIE BLAIR ECHEVARRIA, DARIN WALLIS, ORION CASTRO, AND JASON CONGER

Oxford University Press, 2019, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780190079406 (paperback); ASIN: B07X5D6JW6 (Kindle)