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Teenage Depression and Drugs

By John Chiles

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS

By Helen Epstein

Blaming Others: Racial and Ethnic Aspects of AIDS

By Renee Sabatier, Tade Aina, Jon Tinker

Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching

By Adam Alter

What Dementia Teaches Us About Love

By Nicci Gerrard

Street Drugs

By Andrew Tyler

Social Work and Mental Health: A Guide for the Approved Social Worker

By M.Rolf Olsen

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By Beth Macy

Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health

By James Tabery

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By John Green

Group Therapy with Alcoholics: Outpatient and Inpatient Approaches

By Baruch G. Levine, Virginia G. Gallogly

Sense and Nonsense About Drugs: A Policy Guide

By Samuel Walker

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

By Cynthia Kuhn (Duke University School of Medicine), Scott Swartzwelder (Duke University School of Medicine), Wilkie Wilson (Duke University), Jeremy Foster, Leigh Heather Wilson

O Brother

By John Niven

The 36-Hour Day, sixth edition: The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

By Mace, Nancy L., Rabins, Peter V.

Why People Grow Drugs: Narcotics and Development in the Third World

By Michael Smith, etc., Charunee Normita Thongtham

Tails I Lose: The compulsive gambler who lost his shirt for good

By Justyn Rees Larcombe

Criminological Connections, Directions, Horizons: Essays in Honour of Nigel South

By Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex, UK), Anna Di Ronco (University of Essex

Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa: An Optimistic Guide to Understanding and Healing

By Alexander R. Lucas (Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Medical School, USA)

The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control

By David F. Musto (Professor of Child Psychiatry and History of Medicine, Professor of Child Psychiatry and History of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine)

RETURN OF DANGEROUS CLASS CL

By Diana R. Gordon

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

By Patrick J Carnes

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By Patrick Radden Keefe

Managing for Health

By David J. Hunter (Durham University, UK)

New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours

By Peter Anderson (Professor of Substance Use, Policy and Practice, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK, Professor of Substance Use, and Professor of Alc...

Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being

By Peter Anderson (Professor of Substance Use, Policy and Practice and Professor of Alcohol and Health, Professor of Substance Use, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK and Facu...

Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention

By Danuta Wasserman (Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology at the Karolinska Institute. Head of the Swedish National Prevention of Suicide and Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), Camilla Wasserman (Scientific Project Di...

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place

By Matilda Hellman (Adjunct Professor and Research Coordinator, Adjunct Professor and Research Coordinator, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland), Virginia Berridge (Professor of History and Director, Professor of History and Direct...

Drug Policy and the Public Good

By Thomas Babor (Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, Health Net, Inc., Endowed Chair in Community Medicine and Public Health, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of Ame...

Setting Limits: Gambling, Science and Public Policy

By Pekka Sulkunen (Director, Director, Finnish Centre for Research on Addiction, Control, and Governance (CEAGG), University of Helsinki, Finland), Thomas F. Babor (Chairman, Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut School of..., University of Connecticut School of....