Books like Undoing Drugs by Maia Szalavitz

The Power of Habit shows how tiny habits shape our lives and how they can be transformed to achieve personal and organizational success.

A father’s heartbreaking memoir of his son Nic’s crystal‑meth addiction and their fight for recovery, capturing the emotional toll and relentless search for treatment.

Sam Quinones traces a 15‑year chain of events in which sugar‑cane farmers in western Mexico develop a network that delivers cheap, highly potent black‑tar heroin to users across the United States.

Investigative travel memoir tracing the history and human cost of the U.S. war on drugs, from the Harrison Act to global repercussions, and exploring paths toward drug decriminalization and a more humane future.

340 pages ; 21 cm1080L Lexile

Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science -- not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment system, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, has helped some, but it has failed to help many more, and David Sheff explains why. He spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families to learn how addiction works and what can effectively treat it. Clean offers clear, cogent counsel for parents and others who want to prevent drug problems and for addicts and their loved ones no matter what stage of the illness they're in. But it is also a book for all of us -- a powerful rethinking of the greatest public health challenge of our time. - Author website.