Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery

The 30-day sobriety solution: how to cut back or quit drinking in the privacy of your own home. Jack Canfield, Dave Andrews. 616.861 CAN
Addiction & recovery for dummies. Brian F. Shaw. 362.29 SHA
Alcohol 101: an overview for teens. Margaret O. Hyde, John F. Setaro. 362.292 HYD
Alcohol: what’s a parent to believe? Stephen G. Biddulph. 362.292 BID
Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism. 362.292 ALC
All about heroin. Ben Sonder. 362.293 SON
American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America’s deadliest drug epidemic. John Temple. 362.29 TEM
The A-Z of drugs. Corinne Naden. 362.29 NAD
Beyond addiction: how science and kindness help people change. Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke. 616.86 FOO, CD 616.86 FOO
Buzzed: the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy. Cynthia Kuhn. 615.78 KUH, Y 615.78 KUH
Chasing the scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs. Johann Hari. 363.45 HAR
Chemical dependency: opposing viewpoints. 362.29 CHE
Chicken soup for the recovering soul. 616.861 CHI
Cocaine nation: how the white trade took over the world. Tom Feiling. 362.298 FEI
The complete ACOA sourcebook: adult children of alcoholics at home, at work, and in love. Janet G. Woititz. 362.292 WOI
The corner: a year in the life of an inner-city neighborhood. David Simon. 364.177 SIM
Dreamland: the true tale of America’s opiate epidemic. Sam Quinones. 362.293 QUI
Drink: the intimate relationship between women and alcohol. Ann Dowsett Johnston. 362.292 JOH
Drug dependence to treatment. Lorrie Klosterman. 362.29 KLO
Drugs and society. Joan Axelrod-Contrada. 362.29 AXE
Drugs and the body. Lorrie Klosterman. 362.29 KLO
Drugs 101: an overview for teens. Margaret O. Hyde, John F. Setaro. 362.29 HYD
Ecstasy and other designer drug dangers. Myra Weatherly. 362.29 WEA
Forces of habit: drugs and the making of the modern world. David T. Courtwright. 362.29 COU
Game of shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports. Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams. 362.29 FAI
Get your loved one sober. Robert J. Meyers, Brenda L. Wolfe. 362.292 MEY
Getting sober: a practical guide to making it through the first 30 days. Kelly Madigan Erlandson. 362.292 ERL
Going to pot: why the rush to legalize marijuana is harming America. William J. Bennett, Robert A. White. 362.295 BEN
Grass roots: the rise and fall and rise of marijuana in America. Emily Dufton. 362.295 DUF
Hallucinogens. 615.788 HAL
Her best-kept secret: why women drink–and how they can regain control. Gabrielle Glaser. 362.292 GLA
How to stop screwing up: 12 steps to a real life and a pretty good time. Martha Woodroof. 158.1 WOO
Inside rehab: the surprising truth about addiction treatment: and how to get help that works. Anne M. Fletcher. 362.29 FLE
It will never happen to me: growing up with addiction as youngsters, adolescents, adults. Claudia Black. 362.292 BLA, Spanish Lang. 362.292 BLA
Just say know: talking with kids about drugs and alcohol. Cynthia Kuhn. 362.29 KUH
The little red book for women. 362.292 LIT
Love first: a family’s guide to intervention. Jeff Jay, Debra Jay. 362.292 JAY
Loving our addicted daughters back to life: a guidebook for parents. Linda Dahl. 362.29 DAH
LSD and other hallucinogens. Suzanna Drew-Edwards. 362.294 DRE
Many roads, one journey: moving beyond the twelve steps. Charlotte Davis Kasl. 616.86 KAS
Marijuana: what’s a parent to believe? Timmen L. Cermak. 362.295 CER
Methamphetamine. Randi Mehling. 616.864 MEH
Methland: the death and life of an American small town. Nick Reding. 362.299 RED
The mindful path to addiction recovery: a practical guide to regaining control over your life. Lawrence Peltz. 362.29 PEL
Mommy doesn’t drink here anymore: getting through the first year of sobriety. Rachael Brownell. 362.292 BRO
Narcotics Anonymous. 362.293 NAR
Not my child: a progressive and proactive approach for healing addicted teenagers and their families. Frank Lawlis. 616.86 LAW
Out of the wreck I rise: a literary companion to recovery. Neil Steinberg, Sara Bader. 362.292 STE
Perfect daughters: adult daughters of alcoholics. Robert J. Ackerman. 362.292 ACK
Reality gap: alcohol, drugs, and sex — what parents don’t know and teens aren’t telling. Stephen Wallace. 362.29 WAL
Recover to live: kick any habit, manage any addiction: your self-treatment guide to alcohol, drugs, eating disorders, gambling, hoarding, smoking, sex and porn. Christopher Kennedy Lawford. 362.29 LAW
Recovering joy: a mindful life after addiction. Kevin Griffin. 294.3444 GRI
Refuge recovery: a Buddhist path to recovering from addiction. Noah Levine. 294.4444 LEV
Safe medicine for sober people: how to avoid relapsing on pain, sleep, cold or any other medication. Jeffrey Weisberg, Gene Hawes. 362.29 HAW
7 tools to beat addiction. Stanton Peele. 616.86 PEE
The small book: a revolutionary alternative for overcoming alcohol and drug dependence. Jack Trimpey. 362.29 TRI
Sober siblings: how to help your alcoholic brother or sister–and not lose yourself. Patricia Olsen, Petros Levounis. 362.292 OLS
Thinking simply about addiction: a handbook for recovery. Richard S. Sandor. 362.29 SAN
Undrunk: a skeptic’s guide to AA. A.J. Adams. 362.292 ADA
What’s wrong with my kid?: when drugs or alcohol might be a problem and what to do about it. George E. Leary, Jr. 649.48 LEA
When winning costs too much: steroids, supplements, and scandal in today’s sports. John McCloskey, Julian Bailes. 362.29 MACC
When your friend has a drug problem. Carlienne A. Frisch. 362.29 FRI

BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR

The adventures of Grandmaster Flash: my life, my beats. Grandmaster Flash. 782.4216 GRA
Alice Cooper, golf monster: a rock ‘n’ roller’s 12 steps to becoming a golf addict. Alice Cooper. B Cooper
All is grace: a ragamuffin memoir. Brennan Manning. B Manning
America anonymous: eight addicts in search of a life. Benoit Denizet-Lewis. 616.86 DEN
Beautiful boy: a father’s journey through his son’s addiction. David Sheff. 362.299 SHE, Spanish Lang. 362.299 SHE, CD 362.299 SHE
Between breaths: a memoir of panic and addiction. Elizabeth Vargas. 362.292 VAR
The big fight: my life in and out of the ring. Sugar Ray Leonard. B Leonard
Blackout: remembering the things I drank to forget. Sarah Hepola. 362.292 HEP
Breaking night: a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard. Liz Murray. B Murray
Broken: my story of addiction and redemption. William Cope Moyers. 362.298 MOY
By some miracle I made it out of there: a memoir. Tom Sizemore. B Sizemore
Carry on, warrior: thoughts on life unarmed. Glennon Doyle Melton. B Melton
Cat daddy: what the world’s most incorrigible cat taught me about life, love, and coming clean. Jackson Galaxy. 636.8 GAL
Chasing the high: a firsthand account of one young person’s experience with substance abuse. Kyle Keegan. 362.29 KEE
The Chris Farley show: a biography in three acts. Tom Farley, Jr. B Farley
Cocaine’s son: a memoir. Dave Itzkoff. 362.298 ITZ
Comeback: a mother and daughter’s journey through hell and back. Claire Fontaine, Mia Fontaine. 306.874 FON
Coming clean: a story of faith. Seth Haines. 248.862 HAI
A common struggle: a personal journey through the past and future of mental illness and addiction. Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried. B Kennedy
Cracked: putting broken lives together again: a doctor’s story. Drew Pinsky. 362.29 PIN
Doc: a memoir. Dwight Gooden. B Gooden
Double double: a dual memoir of addiction. Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes. B Grimes
Down these mean streets. Piri Thomas. B Thomas, Spanish Lang. B Thomas
Dreaming: hard luck and good times in America. Carolyn See. B See
Drinking: a love story. Caroline Knapp. 362.292 KNA
A drinking life: a memoir. Pete Hamill. B Hamill
Dry. Augusten Burroughs. B Burroughs, EAudiobook
Elizabeth. J. Randy Taraborrelli. B Taylor, Large Type B Taylor
Every love story is a ghost story: a life of David Foster Wallace. D.T. Max. B Wallace
Fall to pieces: a memoir of drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and mental illness. Mary Forsberg Weiland. 362.29 WEI
Fiction ruined my family. Jeanne Darst. B Darst
From Harvard to hell…and back: a Doctor’s journey through addiction to recovery. Sylvester “Skip” Sviokla III. 362.29 SVI
The gilded razor: a memoir. Sam Lansky. B Lansky
Girl walks out of a bar. Lisa F. Smith. B Smith
Guts: the endless follies and tiny triumphs of a giant disaster. Kristen Johnston. B Johnston
Healing & hope: six women from the Betty Ford Center share their powerful journeys of addiction and recovery. Betty Ford. 362.29 FOR
Heat: my life on and off the diamond. Dwight Gooden. B Gooden
Here’s the story: surviving Marcia Brady and finding my true voice. Maureen McCormick. B McCormick
High: confessions of an international drug smuggler. Brian O’Dea. 364.135 ODE
I dreamed I was a very clean tramp: an autobiography. Richard Hell. B Hell
If only you people could follow directions: a memoir. Jessica Hendry Nelson. 362.33 NEL
I’ll scream later. Marlee Matlin. B Matlin
The interventionist. Joani Gammill. 362.29 GAM
It’s so easy: and other lies. Duff McKagan. B McKagan
Jadlow: on the rebound. Todd Jadlow, Tom Brew. B Jadlow
Jeannie out of the bottle. Barbara Eden. B Eden
Juiced: wild times, rampant ‘roids, smash hits, and how baseball got big. Jose Canseco. 796.357 CAN, Spanish Lang. 796.357 CAN
Leaving dirty Jersey: a crystal meth memoir. James Salant. 362.299 SAL
Life itself: a memoir. Roger Ebert. B Ebert, Large Type B Ebert
A list of things that didn’t kill me: a memoir. Jason Schmidt. Y 362.1969 SCH
Lit: a memoir. Mary Karr. B Karr
A long stone’s throw. Alphie McCourt. B McCourt
Loss of innocence: a daughter’s addiction. a father’s fight to save her. Ronald B. Clem, Carren LeAnn Clem. Y 362.298 CLE
LT over the edge: tackling quarterbacks, drugs, and a world beyond football. Lawrence Taylor. 796.332 TAY
Magnificent desolation: the long journey home from the moon. Buzz Aldrin. B Aldrin
Memoirs of an addicted brain: a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs. Marc Lewis. 362.29 LEW
A million little pieces. James Frey. 362.29 FRE, Spanish Lang. 362.29 FRE
My friend Leonard. James Frey. 362.29 FRE
My name is Bill: Bill Wilson: his life and the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Susan Cheever. B W.
The night of the gun: a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own. David Carr. B Carr
Ninety days: a memoir of recovery. Bill Clegg. 362.29 CLE
Not dead yet: the memoir. Phil Collins. B Collins, CD B Collins
Opium fiend: a 21st century slave to a 19th century addiction: a memoir. Steven Martin. 362.293 MAR
Out came the sun: overcoming the legacy of mental illness, addiction, and suicide in my family. Mariel Hemingway. B Hemingway
A paper life. Tatum O’Neal. B O’Neal
Portrait of an addict as a young man: a memoir. Bill Clegg. 362.29 CLE
S Street rising: crack, murder, and redemption in D.C. Ruben Castaneda. 070.92 CAS
Save me from myself: how I found God, quit Korn, kicked drugs, and lived to tell my story. Brian “Head” Welch. B Welch
Shards: a young vice cop investigates her darkest case of meth addiction–her own. Allison Moore. 363.2092 MOO
The sky isn’t visible from here. Felicia C. Sullivan. B Sullivan
Sober stick figure: a memoir. Amber Tozer. 362.292 TOZ
Stay close: a mother’s story of her son’s addiction. Libby Cataldi. 362.29 CAT
Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption. Christopher Kennedy Lawford. B Lawford
Terry: my daughter’s life-and-death struggle with alcoholism. George McGovern. B McGovern
Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines. Nic Sheff. Y 362.299 SHE, Large Type 362.299 SHE
Untied: a memoir of family, fame, and floundering. Meredith Baxter. B Baxter
Unwasted: my lush sobriety. Sacha Z. Scoblic. 362.292 SCO
Wishful drinking. Carrie Fisher. B Fisher, CD B Fisher
With or without you: a memoir. Domenica Ruta. B Ruta

FICTION

The alcoholic. Jonathan Ames. Graphic Fic AME
Cost. Roxana Robinson. Fic ROB
Crank. Ellen Hopkins. Y Fic HOP
Crystal lies. Melody Carlson. Rel. Fic CAR
Death will get you sober. Elizabeth Zelvin. Mystery ZEL
DJ rising. Love Maia. Y Fic MAI
Dope. Sara Gran. Fic GRA
A drop of the hard stuff: a Matthew Scudder novel. Lawrence Block. Mystery BLO
Far from you. Tess Sharpe. Y Fic SHA
Glass. Ellen Hopkins. Y Fic HOP
The good house. Ann Leary. Fic LEA
Imperfect birds. Anne Lamott. Fic LAM, Large Type Fic LAM, CD Fic LAM
More confessions of a Hollywood starlet. Lola Douglas. Y Fic DOU
Paula Spencer. Roddy Doyle. Fic DOY
The private lives of Pippa Lee. Rebecca Miller. Large Type Fic MIL
A private sorcery. Lisa Gornick. Fic GOR
Road trip. Melody Carlson. Rel. Fic CAR, Y Fic
Rush. Kim Wozencraft. Fic WOZ
Smack. Melvin Burgess. Y Fic BUR
Stoner & Spaz. Ron Koertge. Y Fic KOE
The taste of salt. Martha Southgate. Fic SOU
Vicious cycle: an intervention novel. Terri Blackstock. Rel. Fic BLA, Large Type Fic BLA
The year of my miraculous reappearance. Catherine Ryan Hyde. Y Fic HYD

REFERENCE

Addictions & substance abuse. R 362.29 ADD
Alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. R 300.7 INF
The encyclopedia of addictive drugs. R 615.78 MIL
The encyclopedia of drug abuse. R 616.86 GWI

DVDS & VIDEOS

Drug abuse: altered states. VIDEO 613.8
Finding hope in recovery: families living with addiction. DVD 362.29
The lost weekend. DVD Drama L
My name is Bill W. DVD Drama M
Ray. DVD Drama R, VIDEO Descriptive R
El rey de los coleaderos = The king of rodeo. DVD Foreign R

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Abusing prescription drugs. Philip Wolny. J 613.8 WOL
Alcohol and your liver: the incredibly disgusting story. Theresa Anne Booley. J 613.81 BOO
Avoiding drugs. Patricia J. Murphy. J 362.29 MUR
Cocaine. Michael A. Sommers. J 613.84 SOM
Crack and your circulatory system: the incredibly disgusting story. Claudia B. Manley. J 613.84 MAN
Crystal meth. Jeremy Harrow. J 613.84 HAR
The dangers of herbal stimulants. Meish Goldish. J 362.29 GOL
Downers. Jason Porterfield. J 613.8 POR
Ecstasy. Tamra B. Orr. J 613.84 ORR
Hallucinogens and your neurons: the incredibly disgusting story. Holly Cefrey. J 613.83 CEF
Heroin and your veins. Allan Cobb. J 613.83 COB
Inhalant abuse. Matthew Robinson. J 613.8 ROB
Marijuana. Jeanne Nagle. J 613.83 NAG
My dad. Niki Daly. Pic DAL
OxyContin abuse. Suzanne Slade. J 613.83 SLA
Speed. Edward Willett. J 613.84 WIL
Steroids. Doretta Lau. J 613.8 LAU
Uppers. Corona Brezina. J 613.84 BRE

INTERNET RESOURCES

National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month

ACERCA DE RECUPERACIÓN DE ALCOHOLISMO Y ADICCIONES EN ESPAÑOL

El cuaderno de Maya. Isabel Allende. Spanish Lang. Fic ALL
Cómo mantener sobrio a tu ser querido: guía para ayudar a las personas que sufren adicciones, sin pelear, suplicar ni amenazar. Robert J. Meyers, Brenda L. Wolfe. Spanish Lang. 362.292 MEY
La cura del alcoholismo y otras adicciones. Chris Prentiss. Spanish Lang. 362.292 PRE
En mil pedazos. James Frey. Spanish Lang. 362.29 FRE
Eso no me sucedera: hijos adultos de padres alcoholicos. Claudia Black. Spanish Lang. 362.292 BLA
Girando en un tacon. Regina Kuri. Spanish Lang. 362.29 KUR
El hombre quimico. Jose Canseco. Spanish Lang. 796.357 CAN
Mi hijo precioso: el viaje de un padre a traves de la adiccion de su hijo. David Sheff. Spanish Lang. 362.299 SHE
Por estas calles bravas. Piri Thomas. Spanish Lang. B Thomas