The most popular addiction books of 2024

Books about addiction tell stories of dependence on alcohol, drugs, gambling and more. They show the pull of the habit, the damage to family and work, and the hard road of recovery. Novels and memoirs here are unsparing and often deeply hopeful, written by people who know. This list shows the ones first published in 2024.

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Cannabis Cultures and Markets
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Cannabis Cultures and Markets

Sveinung Sandberg, Ruken Macit, Hakan Gülerce, Michał Wanke

Published 2024

126 pages

Desert Echoes
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Desert Echoes

Abdi Nazemian

Published 2024

313 pages

Oxford Handbook of Addiction Medicine
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Oxford Handbook of Addiction Medicine

Susumu Higuchi, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Saxon Andrew, Professor and Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine John Saunders, Professor of Psychopharmacology David Nutt, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction Wim Van Den Brink, Consultant Physician in Addiction Medicine and Adolescent Medicine Yvonne Bonomo, Head of the Alcohol Drugs and Addictive Behaviours Unit Vladimir Poznyak, Director of the National Addiction Centre John Strang

Published 2024

864 pages

Addiction
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Addiction

Suzette Glasner

Published 2024

212 pages

Oxford Handbook of Addiction Medicine
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Oxford Handbook of Addiction Medicine

John Saunders, David Nutt, Susumu Higuchi, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Wim Van

Published 2024

624 pages