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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Current List - July 2023

Addiction: A Very Short Introduction (Series: Very Short Introductions)

KEITH HUMPHREYS

Oxford University Press, 2023, 144 pp, ISBN: 9780199557233 (paperback)

Addiction Counseling: A Practical Approach

ALAN CAVAIOLA, AMANDA L. GIORDANO, AND NEDELJKO GOLUBOVIC

Springer Publishing, 2022, 426 pp, ISBN: 9780826135858 (paperback); ASIN: ‎B09BC6938L (Kindle)

Addiction Recovery at Texas Tech University: Where It All Began

CARL ANDERSEN

Texas Tech University Press, 2022, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781682831427 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B09KT9RP8G (Kindle)

Addiction Therapy and Treatment: A Systems Approach

LARRY FRITZLAN WITH AVIS RUMNEY

McFarland & Company, 2022, 339 pp, ISBN: 9781476688145 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0BSS8Y3KV Kindle)

Adolescent Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

KEN C. WINTERS AND ANN INGWALSON, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2023, 488 pp, ISBN: 9780190678487 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0B9C9FB1L (Kindle)

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society)

DOROTHY NEWBURY-BIRCH AND JENNIFER FERGUSON

Routledge, 2023, 128 pp, ISBN: 9780367771058 (hardcover); ISBN: 9780367771034 (paperback)

American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

SCOTT HIGHAM AND SARI HORWITZ

Twelve, 2022, 416 pp, ISBN: 9781538737200 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B09G2RWCB2 (Kindle)

An Introduction to Testing for Drugs of Abuse

WILLIAM E. SCHREIBER

Wiley Blackwell, 2022, 208 pp, ISBN: 9781119794059 (paperback); ASIN: ‎B09V6LWKQX (Kindle)

Behavior Analysis and Substance Dependence: Theory, Research and Intervention

SIMONE MARTIN OLIANI, RICHARD ALECSANDER REICHERT AND ROBERTO ALVES BANACO, eds.

Springer, 2022, 302 pp, ISBN: 9783030759636 (paperback)

Bizarro: The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured

JORDAN S. RUBIN

University of California Press, 2023, 278 pp, ISBN: 9780520387959 (hardback); ASIN: B0BT9RBNBD (Kindle)

Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 3rd edition

PETER ANDREAS

Cornell University Press, 2022, 210 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781501765773 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B09SNCJHBH (Kindle)

Breaking Free: How to Stop Gambling (A Workbook)

HENRIETTA BOWDEN-JONES AND VENETIA LEONIDAKE

Cambridge University Press, 2022, 158 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781911623922 (paperback); ASIN: B0B2JZQ6T4 (Kindle)

Buzz Kill: The Corporatization of Cannabis

MICHAEL R. DEVILLAER

Black Rose Books, 2023, 450 pp, ISBN: 9781551647975 (hardcover); ISBN: 9781551647951 (paperback); ISBN: 9781551647999 (PDF e-Book)

Cocaine Hoppers: Nigerian International Cocaine Trafficking

JUDE ROYS OBOH

Lexington Books, 2023, 374 pp, ISBN: 9781793637291 (paperback); ASIN: B09F9L76JY (Kindle)

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy of Addictive Disorders

BRUCE S. LIESE AND AARON T. BECK

Guilford Press, 2022, 292 pp, ISBN: ‎9781462548842 (hardback); ASIN: B09PRQK8JG (Kindle)

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

DAVID FARBER

Cambridge University Press, 2022, 308 pp, ISBN: 9781108444064 (paperback), originally published 2019

Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America (Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics)

JONATHAN D. ROSEN AND HANNA SAMIR KASSAB

Routledge, 2022, 156 pp, ISBN: 9780367529451 (paperback); originally published 2020

Decrim: How We Decriminalized Drugs in British Columbia

KENNEDY STEWART

Harbour Publishing, 2023, 224 pp, ISBN: 9781990776304 (paperback)

Democracies at War Against Drugs: The Military Mystique in Brazil and Mexico (Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy)

ANAÍS MEDEIROS PASSOS

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 311 pp, ISBN: 9783031113260 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0BD1C2YL7 (Kindle)

Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction: Ending the Stalemate (Series: Routledge Studies in Policing and Society)

MATTHEW BACON AND JACK SPICER, eds.

Routledge, 2023, 330 pp, ISBN:‎ 9780367722692 (hardcover); ISBN:‎ 9780367722708 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0BN9B8CBH (Kindle)

Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Soviet-style Health Management (Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health)

MUYASSAR TURAEVA

Springer Nature, 2022, 124 pp, ISBN: 9783031097027 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0BC5D7PT4 (Kindle)

Drugs, Identity and Stigma

MICHELLE ADDISON, WILLIAM MCGOVERN AND RUTH MCGOVERN, eds.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 294 pp, ISBN: 9783030982850 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0B6HBPSCP (Kindle)

Drugs in American Society, 11th edition

ERICH GOODE

McGraw-Hill, 2022, 528 pp, ISBN: 9781264299782 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B09RYN48JS (Kindle)

Ending the Crisis: Mayo Clinic's Guide to Opioid Addiction and Safe Opioid Use

HOLLY L. GEYER

Mayo Clinic Press, 2023, 208 pp, ISBN: ‎9781945564567; ASIN:‎ B0BCYVK2R2 (Kindle)

Gangs, Drugs and Youth Adversity: Continuity and Change

ROSS DEUCHAR, ROBERT MCLEAN AND CHRIS HOLLIGAN

Bristol University Press, 2022, 190 pp, ISBN: 9781529210569 (hardcover); ASIN: B09MR3WW6J (Kindle)

Genetics of Substance Use: Research and Clinical Aspects

MICHAEL M. VANYUKOV, ed.

Springer, 2022, 242 pp, ISBN: 9783030953492 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B09WMFCN3Q (Kindle)

Harm Reduction Treatment for Substance Use (Series: Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence-based Practice)

SUSAN E. COLLINS AND SEEMA L. CLIFASEFI

Hogrefe Publishing, 2023, 88 pp, ISBN: ‎9780889375079 (paperback)

Harvesting Labour: Tobacco and the Global Making of Canada's Agricultural Workforce (Series: Rethinking Canada in the World)

EDWARD DUNSWORTH

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, 368 pp, ISBN: 9780228011231 (hardback); ISBN:‎ 9780228011248 (paperback); ASIN: ‎ B0B9FKV9HT (Kindle)

Heroin: An Illustrated History

SUSAN BOYD

Fernwood Publishing, 2022, 256 pp, ISBN: 9781773635163 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B09XJ28CJR (Kindle)

Killing Pain: Understanding the Opioid Pandemic and the American Obsession with Oxycontin, Heroin, and Other Painkillers

ROBERT HAYWARD

Covenant Books, 2022, 324 pp, ISBN: 9781638149583 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0B8THZLGN (Kindle)

L'chaim!: The Torah View on Wine, Alcohol, and Intoxicants

DOVID PAGE

Israel Bookshop, 2022, 227 pp, ISBN: 9781600919398 (hardback)

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa (Series: Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice)

ANNA VERSFELD

Rutgers University Press, 2023, 190 pp, ISBN: 9781978822481 (hardcover); ISBN:‎ 9781978822474 (paperback); ASIN: B0BGMSJZX4 (Kindle)

Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury

KEVIN MCCARRON

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 248 pp, ISBN: ‎9783030884604 (hardback); ISBN: ‎9783030884635 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B09PMXGWJN (Kindle)

Neurocircuitry of Addiction

NICHOLAS W. GILPIN, ed.

Academic Press, 2023, 558 pp, ISBN: 9780128234532 (paperback)

Opium's Orphans: The 200-year History of the War on Drugs

P. E. CAQUET

Reaktion Books, 2022, 440 pp, ISBN: 9781789145588 (hardback); ASIN: ‎B0B394XMZ7 (Kindle)

Participatory Community Inquiry in the Opioid Epidemic: A New Approach for Communities in Crisis (Series: Routledge Focus on Communication Studies)

CRAIG T. MAIER

Routledge, 2022, 118 pp, ISBN: 9781032152332 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B09JGCZ1RX (Kindle)

Pocket Addiction Medicine (Series: Pocket Notebook)

SARAH E. WAKEMAN, JOSHUA D. LEE AND ANIKA A.H. ALVANZO, eds.

Wolters Kluwer, 2022, 200 pp, ISBN: 9781975166359 (spiral-bound); ASIN:‎ B09VYCJG3N (Kindle)

Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

WENDY A. BACH

Cambridge University Press, 2022, 300 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781108474832 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0BBMLXDZF (Kindle)

Psychology of Substance Abuse: Psychotherapy, Clinical Management and Social Intervention

ANDRÉ LUIZ MONEZI ANDRADE, DENISE DE MICHELI, EROY APARECIDA DA SILVA, FERNANDA MACHADO LOPES, BRUNO DE OLIVEIRA PINHEIRO, AND RICHARD ALECSANDER REICHERT, eds.

Springer, 2022, 425 pp, ISBN:‎ 9783030621056 (hardback); ISBN:‎ 9783030621087 (paperback); ASIN: ‎B092QB3GBB(Kindle)

Quit Smoking: Weapons of Mass Distraction (Series: Public and Social Policy Series)

SIMON CHAPMAN

Sydney University Press, 2022, 396 pp, ISBN: 9781743328538 (paperback); ASIN: B09X9KD9NV (Kindle)

Recovering Assemblages: Unfolding Sociomaterial Relations of Drug Use and Recovery

AYSEL SULTAN

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 299 pp, ISBN: 9789811912344 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0BCNQCVCK (Kindle)

Remedicalizing Cannabis: Science, Industry, and Drug Policy (Series: Intoxicating Histories)

SUZANNE TAYLOR

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780228011408 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0B17S7LKB (Kindle)

Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Perspectives, 4th edition

RICK CSIERNIK, WILLIAM S. ROWE AND GABRIELA NOVOTNA, eds.

Canadian Scholars' Press, 2023, 385 pp, ISBN: 9781773383422 (paperback)

Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic: Deaths of Despair in America (Series: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric)

TIARA K. GOOD

Lexington Books, 2022, 150 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781793626196 (hardcover); ASIN: ‎B09KG5HCHN (Kindle)

Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth about Marijuana

PETER GRINSPOON

Prometheus Books, 2023, 442 pp, ISBN: 9781633888463 (hardcover); ASIN: B0BP9SZP6K (Kindle)

Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico (Series: Transforming Capitalism)

ALKE JENSS

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023, 298 pp, ISBN: 9781538151099 (hardcover); ASIN: B0BXBPZRQK (Kindle)

Smoker Beyond the Sea: The Story of Puerto Rican Tobacco

JUAN JOSÉ BALDRICH

University Press of Mississippi, 2022, 290 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781496842107 (hardcover); ASIN: ‎ B0BGYDDJBM (Kindle)

Smoking Environments in China: Challenges for Tobacco Control (Series: Global Perspectives on Health Geography)

ROSS BARNETT, TINGZHONG YANG AND XIAOZHAO Y. YANG, eds.

Springer Nature, 2022, 363 pp, ISBN:‎ 9783030761455 (paperback)

Sobriety Workbook for Women: Practical Strategies to Live and Thrive without Alcohol

JENNIFER LEUPP

Rockridge Press, 2022, 168 pp, ISBN: 9781638782971 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B09RQYDJTH (Kindle)

Struggling with Substance Use: Supporting Students' Social Emotional Learning

DEBORAH LYNCH

Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 232 pp, ISBN: 9781475866094 (hardcover); ASIN: B0BK2ZT152 (Kindle)

Substance Use and Addiction Research: Methodology, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics

ALAN DAVID KAYE, RICHARD D. URMAN, ELYSE M. CORNETT AND AMBER N. EDINOFF, eds.

Academic Press, 2023, 446 pp, ISBN: 9780323988148 (paperback); ASIN: ‎B0BVQWZWP6 (Kindle)

Substance Use and Family Violence (Series: Cognella Series on Family and Gender-based Violence)

MARGARET CAMPE, KATHI HARP AND CARRIE OSER, eds.

Cognella Academic Publishing, 2023, 190 pp, ISBN: 9781516578849 (hardback); ISBN: 9781516548613 (paperback)

Substance Use Disorder in Healthcare Professionals: When Caregivers Need Care and Treatment

KRISTIN WAITE-LABOTT

Springer, 2022, 138 pp, ISBN: 9783031099892 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0BF4H8C18 (Kindle)

Substance Use Disorder: New Research Perspectives in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

PATRICIA SAMPEDRO-PIQUERO, ROMÁN DARÍO MORENO FERNÁNDEZ AND CLARA ZANCADA-MENÉNDEZ, eds.

IntechOpen, 2023, 140 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781803562759 (hardcover)

Substance Use Disorders Treatment in Therapeutic Communities: A Cross-cultural Approach

MIROSLAV HORÁK AND NAHANGA VERTER

Springer, 2022, 490 pp, ISBN: 9783031164583 (hardcover) ASIN:‎ B0BJJW2Y2Y (Kindle)

Textbook of Clinical Management of Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances: NEPTUNE Clinical Guidance

DIMA ABDULRAHIM AND OWEN BOWDEN-JONES

Cambridge University Press, 2022, 348 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781009182133 (paperback); ASIN: ‎B0BG8YZ9W5 (Kindle)

The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Client Workbook, 4th edition

ROBERT R. PERKINSON

Sage, 2022, 184 pp, ISBN: 9781544362403 (paperback) ASIN:‎ B09J2RXSK3 (Kindle)

The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940 (Series: Studies in Theatre History and Culture)

MAX SHULMAN

University of Iowa Press, 2022, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781609388454 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0B2KVFZYF (Kindle)

The Body in the Mind: Exercise Addiction, Body Image and the Use of Enhancement Drugs

ORNELLA CORAZZA AND ARTEMISA ROCHA DORES, eds.

Cambridge University Press, 2023, 192 pp, ISBN: 9781911623724 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0BW45JBRN (Kindle)

The Cannabis Social Club

MAFARDA PARDAL, ed.

Routledge, 2022, 262 pp, ISBN: 9780367519063 (hardback); ISBN: 9781003055679 (ebook)

The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction

LAURA PETRACEK

‎Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023, 176 pp, ISBN: 9781839972522 (paperback)

The Desistance Journey: Into Recovery and Out of Chaos

GRAHAM CAMBRIDGE, ORLA LYNCH AND JAMES WINDLE

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 179 pp, ISBN: 9783031112683 (hardcover); ASIN: ‎B0BG4BH79V (Kindle)

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

HERNÁN FLOM

Cambridge University Press, 2022, 300 pp, ISBN: 9781009170727 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0B7JT11WN (Kindle)

The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic

MARK D. SULLIVAN AND JANE C. BALLANTYNE

Oxford University Press, 2023, 304 pp, ISBN: 9780197615720 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0BNW1Y4QB (Kindle)

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors (Series: Routledge International Handbooks)

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

Routledge, 2022, 664 pp, ISBN:‎ 9781032336619 (paperback)

Tobacco Dependence: A Comprehensive Guide to Prevention and Treatment (Series: Respiratory Medicine)

MICHELLE N. EAKIN AND HASMEENA KATHURIA, eds.

Springer, 2023, 309 pp, ISBN: 9783031249136 (hardback); ASIN: B0BS8LN5DB (Kindle)

Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other (Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology)

ALEKSANDRA BARTOSZKO

Routledge, 2023, 162 pp, ISBN:‎ 9780367655556 (paperback)

Treatment Program Evaluation: Public Health Perspectives on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

ALLYSON KELLEY

Routledge, 2022, 252 pp, ISBN: ‎9781032269689 (hardcover); ASIN: B09XP41K8W (Kindle)

Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade

R. V. GUNDUR

Cornell University Press, 2022, 330 pp, ISBN: ‎9781501764462 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B09J32691B (Kindle)

Unhooked: Tackling Opioid Addiction and Behavioral Health Conditions Through a Population Health Model

CHRIS POWELL AND JILL S. WARRINGTON

Advantage, 2022, 272 pp, ISBN: 9781642251715 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B09YVVJ4CF (Kindle)

Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice

AKWASI OWUSU-BEMPAH AND TAHIRA REHMATULLAH

MIT Press, 2023, 256 pp, ISBN: 9780262047685 (paperback); ASIN:‎ B0B6B3SX8H (Kindle)

War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy

ALFRED W. MCCOY AND ALAN A. BLOCK, eds.

Routledge, 2022, 372 pp, ISBN: ‎9780367217280 (paperback); ASIN: B09JM3RFY5 (Kindle)

Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy

JAY WEXLER

University of California Press, 2023, 288 pp, ISBN: 9780520343924 (hardcover); ASIN:‎ B0BPM76NPP (Kindle)

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

HELENA HANSEN, JULES NETHERLAND, AND DAVID HERZBERG

University of California Press, 2023, 384 pp, ISBN: 9780520384057 (hardback); ASIN:‎ B0BN6KVS2D (Kindle)

Why People Drink; How People Change: A Guide to Alcohol and People's Motivation for Drinking It

W. MILES COX AND ERIC KLINGER

Springer, 2023, 119 pp, ISBN: 9783030939274 (hardback); ISBN: 9783030939304 (paperback)

Young People at Risk: Is Prevention Possible?

ELI GINZBERG, HOWARD S. BERLINER AND MIRIAM OSTOW

Routledge, 2022, 150 pp, ISBN: 9780367213886 (hardcover); ISBN:‎ 9780367216696 (paperback); ASIN: B09J31QMMJ (Kindle); originally published 1988