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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

Tobacco: Science, policy and public health

By Peter Boyle (Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy), Nigel Gray (Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia), Jack Henningfield (Professor, Behavioral Biology and Director, Innovator...

Full Disclosure

By Garrett, Camryn

Packing it in the Easy Way

By Allen Carr

Irresistible: Why You are Addicted to Technology and how to Set Yourself Free

By Adam Alter

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

By Russell Brand

A History of the World in Six Plagues

By Edna Bonhomme

Forbidden Drugs

By Philip Robson

Drugs and Pastoral Care

By Kenneth Leech

Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers

By Aaron Pycroft

Covid's Metamorphoses: A Cartoon Lockdown Diary

By Lancaster, Steve

PARTY'S OVER LIVING WITHOUT LEA

Mr Nice

By Howard Marks, Marks, Howard

Drug Policy and the Public Good

By Thomas F. Babor (Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA), Jonathan P. Caulkins (Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Heinz Sc...

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...

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)

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...

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....

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...

Social Work with Drug and Substance Misusers

By Anthony Goodman