This page brings together free pdf books about drug and alcohol abuse. Our collection covers dozens of topics related to clinical studies, public health reports, family guidance materials, and counseling text records exploring addiction, prevention, public policy, and the social impacts of substance dependency. Materials range from older public domain works for free download to best modern books.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Clicking our topics usually works better than searching Internet Archive directly.
A section below Topics provides links to modern Open Access books. See that section for more information.
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The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to pdf books on global addiction therapy, pharmaceutical research, and community-based support programs. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable eBooks and textbooks. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by years of publication, language, or specific subjects.
- Addiction Therapy
- Addictions
- Adolescents
- Alcoholism
- Alcoholism Therapy
- Cannabis
- Chemical Dependency
- Cocaine
- Community Action
- Compulsive Behavior
- Compulsive Hoarding
- Counseling Effectiveness
- Crack (Drug)
- Detection
- Drug Abuse
- Drug Abuse – Social Aspects
- Drug Abuse Counseling
- Drug Addiction
- Drug Education
- Family Involvement
- Federal Legislation
- Fentanyl
- Gender Differences
- Hashish
- Heroin
- Intervention
- Marijuana
- Marijuana Abuse
- Marijuana Smoking
- Medication Abuse
- Mental Health
- Morphine
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Opiates
- Opioids
- Outcomes of Treatment
- Patients — Counseling of
- Patients – Family Relationships
- Prevention
- Program Effectiveness
- Psychological Aspects
- Psychotropic Drugs
Open Access Substance Abuse Textbooks & Scholarly Resources
The Open Access materials below are modern books and other works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other nonprofit organizations. Open Access collections usually include pdf textbooks, online courses, classroom lesson plans, and recent academic books that reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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