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 - August 2020

A Comprehensive Guide to Addiction Theory and Counseling Techniques

ALAN A. CAVAIOLA AND MARGARET SMITH

Routledge, 2020, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780367245665 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780367252724 (paperback)

A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders

DENNIS C. DALEY AND ANTOINE B. DOUAIHY

Oxford University Press, 2020, 152 pp, ISBN: 9780190926632 (paperback); ASIN: B07V9HW7WK (Kindle)

Addiction, 2cd edition

CHRISTOPHER R. PIERCE, ELLEN M. UNTERWALD, AND PAUL J. KENNY, eds.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2020, 300 pp, ISBN: 9781621823506 (hardcover)

Addiction Reimagined: Challenging Views of an Enduring Social Problem

LEONARD A. STEVERSON

Vernon Press, 2020, 208 pp, ISBN: 9781622738274 (hardcover)

Alcohol and Tobacco: Medical and Sociological Aspects of Use, Abuse and Addiction, 2cd edition

OTTO-MICHAEL LESCH, HENRIETTE WALTER, CHRISTIAN WETSCHKA, MICHIE N. HESSELBROCK, VICTOR HESSELBROCK AND SAMUEL POMBO

Springer, 2020, 415 pp, ISBN: 9783030419400 (hardcover); ASIN: B087ZXV6S1 (Kindle)

An Existential Phenomenology of Addiction

ANNA WESTIN

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781350114227 (hardcover); ASIN: B082M5QQRP (Kindle)

Ancient Psychoactive Substances

SCOTT M. FITZPATRICK, ed.

University Press of Florida, 2018, 340 pp, ISBN: 9780813056708 (hardcover); 2020, 340 pp, ISBN: 9780813068183 (paperback); ASIN: B085JYHGB6 (Kindle)

As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction

DAN PERES

HarperCollins, 2020, 256 pp, ISBN: 9780062693464 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780062693471 (paperback); ASIN: B078R3PLP1 (Kindle)

Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Reference Guide

LOUIS A. PAGLIARO AND ANN M. PAGLIARO

Routledge, 2020, 654 pp, ISBN: 9781138542143 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781138542150 (paperback); ASIN: B07ZWDLXJ3 (Kindle)

Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction

AHMED A. MOUSTAFA

Academic Press, 2020, 340 pp, ISBN: 9780128169797 (paperback); ASIN: B083R58XGH (Kindle)

Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America

JONATHAN D. ROSEN AND HANNA SAMIR KASSAB

Routledge, 2020, 152 pp, ISBN: 9780367529468 (hardcover)

Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

ERIC EYRE

Scribner, 2020, 304 pp, ISBN: 9781982105310 (hardcover); ASIN: B07THF7R53 (Kindle)

Digital Diseases: Symptoms of the Internet Era

GÖKMEN H. KARADAĞ, ed.

Peter Lang AG, 2020, 234 pp, ISBN: 9783631805534 (paperback); ASIN: B086ZY7C6F (Kindle)

Drunk at the State Department: A Memoir

WILLIAM V. P. NEWLIN

Four Winds Press, 2019, 288 pp, ISBN: 9781940423142 (paperback); ASIN: B07PGCYMW9 (Kindle)

Drunk Japan: Law and Alcohol in Japanese Society

MARK D. WEST

Oxford University Press, 2020, 240 pp, ISBN: 9780190070847 (hardcover); ASIN: B085JZDXPP (Kindle)

El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzmán

ALAN FEUER

Flatiron Books, 2020, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781250254504 (hardcover); ASIN: B07YRL79LG (Kindle)

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction and Drug Peddling/Trafficking

ADAM FELMAN

Amiga Press, 2020, 232 pp, ISBN: 9789384533632 (hardcover)

Hooked on Heroin: Drugs and Drifters in a Globalized World

PHILIP LALANDER

Routledge, 2020, ASIN: B088VWWRWK (Kindle), orig. pub. 2003

Hope in the Age of Addiction: How to Find Freedom and Restore Your Relationships

CHIP DODD AND STEPHEN JAMES

Revell, 2020, 208 pp, ISBN: 9780800729400 (paperback); ASIN: B0821Q16W6 (Kindle)

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

HELEN KNOTT

University of Regina Press, 2019, 366 pp, ISBN: 9780889776449 (hardcover); 304 pp, ISBN: 9780889777316 (paperback); ASIN: B07ZS2NGP4 (Kindle)

Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society

VAUGHN SCRIBNER

NYU Press, 2019, 280 pp, ISBN: 9781479864928 (hardcover); ASIN: B07J2P5VMS (Kindle)

Ketamine: From Abused Drug to Rapid-acting Antidepressant

KENJI HASHIMOTO, SOICHIRO IDE, AND KAZUTAKA IKEDA, eds.

Springer, 2020, 194 pp, ISBN: 9789811529016 (hardcover); ASIN: B085KVX6F1 (Kindle)

Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels--from the Jungles to the Streets

TOBY MUSE

William Morrow, 2020, 320 pp, ISBN: 9780062905291 (hardcover); ASIN: B07TD59HVR (Kindle)

Managing Workplace Substance Misuse: A Manager's Guide

TREVOR HALL

Routledge, 2020, 254 pp, ISBN: 9780367243593 (hardcover) ASIN: B07YBCR989 (Kindle)

Mindful and Compassionate Solutions to Internet Gaming Addiction: A Guide for Parents and Therapists (and Gamers, if you Dare!)

BRUCE KILLEN

Balboa Press, 2020, 118 pp, ISBN: 9781982240882 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781982240868 (paperback); ASIN: B083W7JJ1B (Kindle)

New Research on Tobacco

UTA DREHER, ed.

Nova Science, 2020, 140 pp, ISBN: 9781536170771 (paperback)

Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World

TOM ACITELLI

Chicago Review Press, 2020, 304 pp, ISBN: 9781641601825 (paperback); ASIN: B07XSMWTGT (Kindle)

Quit Vaping: Your Four-step, 28-day Program to Stop Smoking E-cigarettes

BRAD LAMM

Penguin Books, 2020, 256 pp, ISBN: 9780143135876 (paperback); ASIN: B081M86GRX (Kindle)

Spiritual Paradox of Addiction: The Call for the Transcendent, 2nd edition

ASHOK BEDI AND JOSEPH PEREIRA

Nicolas Hays, 2020, 232 pp, ISBN: 9780892541928 (paperback)

Taking the Pledge: The Temperance Movement in Bristol, 1830-1914

ALAN CLARKE

ALHA Books, 2019, 40 pp, ISBN: 9781911592303 (paperback)

The Cannabis Story: The Health, Wealth & the Law on Marijuana

JOHN OCHOLA

Cannabis Research Society Press, 2019, 131 pp, ISBN: 9789966130129

The Earps Invade Southern California: Bootlegging Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and the Old Soldiers' Home

DONALD CHAPUT AND DAVID D. DE HAAS

University of North Texas Press, 2020, 304 pp, ISBN: 9781574418095 (hardcover)

The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema

THOMAS WOLMAN

Phoenix Publishing House, 2020, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781912691272 (paperback)

The Milk of Lions: A History of Alcohol in the Middle East

JOSEPH EL-ASMAR

Gilgamesh Publishing, 2020, 200 pp, ISBN: 9781908531933 (hardcover)

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors

AUDREY L. BEGUN AND MARGARET M. MURRAY, eds.

Routledge, 2020, 662 pp, ISBN: 9780367195540 (hardcover); ASIN: B086WN4PLY (Kindle)

Weedopedia: An A to Z Guide to All Things Marijuana

ADAMS MEDIA

Adams Media, 2020, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781507212882 (hardcover); ASIN: B07WHDSZ7F (Kindle)