Books

Alcoholics Anonymous. 3rd ed. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1976. The book that helped introduce AA to the world and explains its twelve-step program of recovery.

David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

A scholarly look at how drugs spread around the world and helped shape its development.

J. C. Furnas, The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum. New York: J. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. An amusing but insightful study of the Temperance Movement.

Kathlyn Gay and Martin K. Gay, Encylopedia of North American Eating and Drinking Traditions, Customs and Rituals . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996. It explains the social aspects that have grown up around eating and drinking.

Mark S. Gold, The Facts About Drugs and Alcohol . 3rd ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. A basic explanation of alcohol, other drugs, and addiction...