Books

Harold E. Doweiko, Concepts of Chemical Dependency . London: Brook/Cole Thomson Learning, 2002. Explains how drugs cause addiction and what steps can be taken to treat it.

Mike Gray, Drug Crazy . New York: Random House, 1998. A history of opium and cocaine use in the United States.

Glen Hanson, Peter Venturelli, and Annette Fleckenstein, Drugs and Society . Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 2002. An excellent textbook on drugs of abuse that includes scientific and social perspectives.

Elizabeth Connell Henderson, Understanding Addiction . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Designed for the friends and families of addicts, this book explains all aspects of addiction in nonmedical terms.

Jill Jones, Hep Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams. New York: Scribner, 1996. Through a collection of essays, Jones describes the history of cocaine use and abuse in the United States.

Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, and Wilkie Wilson, Buzzed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. An excellent resource on...