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8 Books about Drugs, from Science to Politics

With recent political and science advances, it's time to dive in to nonfiction books about drugs, especially of the recreational variety.

Books for Parents of Substance Abusers and Addicts

These books for parents of substance abusers can help you put on your own oxygen mask and then better understand your child's struggles.

Fiction, Funerals, and the Opioid Epidemic

A reader reflects on how fiction about the opioid epidemic has helped her say goodbye to those she's lost to addiction.

6 Insightful Books About Addiction

These powerful, personal, and hopeful books about addiction cover a gamut of experiences with alcohol and drug addiction.

11 Gripping Books About Alcoholism and Recovery

Reading these books about alcoholism (memoirs, nonfiction, and fiction) and recommending them to you is part of my personal therapy.

50 Must-Read Memoirs of Mental Illness

These memoirs about mental illness encompass a wide scope of diagnoses, functionality, and experiences as diverse as the spectrum of mental illness.

Fiction About Addiction

Novels that nail the boring, mundane nature of alcohol and drug addiction instead of glamorizing it.