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 2020

Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment, 2nd edition (Series: Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)

CECILIA ESSAU AND PAUL DELFABBRO, eds.

Elsevier Academic Press, 2020. 356 pp, ISBN: 9780128186268 (paperback); ASIN: B085DGQXBD (Kindle)

Alcohol: A Dangerous Love Affair

GEORGE A. F. SEBER AND D. GRAEME WOODFIELD

Wild Side Publishing, 2020, 258 pp, ISBN: 9780473503215 (paperback)

American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century

IDO HARTOGSOHN

MIT Press, 2020, 432 pp, ISBN: 9780262539142 (paperback); (Nook)

**Drug-related Hospital Emergency Presentations in Europe: Update from the Euro-DEN Plus Expert Network

EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION

Publications Office of the European Union, 35 pp, 2020, ISBN: 9789294974648

Drugs Without the Hot Air: Making Sense of Legal and Illegal Drugs, 2nd edition

DAVID J. NUTT

UIT Cambridge, 2020, 448 pp, ISBN: 0857844946 (hardcover); ASIN: B009KCLHXI (Kindle)

Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History

JONATHAN SHEARS

Liverpool University Press, 2020, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781789621198 (hardcover)

Libraries and the Substance Abuse Crisis: Supporting your Community

CINDY GROVE

ALA Editions, 2020, 128 pp, ISBN: 9780838947395 (paperback)

Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

STEVE MURPHY AND JAVIER F. PEÑA

St. Martin's Press, 2019, 352 pp, ISBN: 9781250202888 (hardcover); ASIN: B07P8H7YCQ (Kindle)

**Monitoring and Evaluating Changes in Cannabis Policies: Insights from the Americas

EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION

Publications Office of the European Union, 2020, 76 pp, ISBN: 9789294974617

Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis

BENJAMIN PERRIN

Viking, 2020, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780735237865 (hardcover); ASIN: B07T8TH92Q (Kindle)

Practicing Alcohol Moderation: A Comprehensive Workbook

CYNDI TURNER

Routledge, 2020, 118 pp, ISBN: 9780367217990 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780367218003 (paperback); ASIN: B085SXXQ49 (e-textbook)

Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction (Series: Very Short Instoductions)

W. J. RORABAUGH

Oxford University Press, 2020, 160 pp, ISBN: 9780190280109 (paperback); ASIN: B081JYPSR4 (Kindle)

Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-alcohol Crusade

MICHAEL LEWIS AND RICHARD F. HAMM, eds.

LSU Press, 2020, 192 pp, ISBN: 9780807170380 (hardcover); ASIN: B07Z8GK5Y9 (Kindle)

Say Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High

SUZI GAGE

Hodder & Stoughton, 2000, 352 pp, ISBN: 9781473686229 (hardcover); ASIN: B07QWKNPPB (Kindle)

**Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General

OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL

US Department of Health and Human Services, 2020, 675 pp, (e-Book)

Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids about Drugs and Alcohol, 3rd edition

CLAUDIA BLACK

Central Recovery Press, 2020, 136 pp, ISBN: 9781949481143 (paperback); (Nook)

Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies that Nearly Killed Me: A Memoir

ERIN KHAR

Park Row Books, 2020, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780778309734(hardcover); ASIN: B07PPHDCBF (Kindle)

The Clinician’s Guide to Alcohol Moderation: Alternative Methods and Management Techniques

CYNDI TURNER

Routledge, 2020, 232 pp, ISBN: 9780367217976 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780367217983 (paperback); ASIN: B085Z89VCR (Kindle)

The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth Century India (Series: Library of Economic History)

ROLF BAUER

Brill, 2019, 236 pp, ISBN: 9789004385177 (hardcover)

Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa

MARTIN PROWSE AND PAUL GRASSIN

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 139 pp, ISBN: 9783030339845(hardcover); ASIN: B082MCPRV5 (Kindle)