This page brings together free online books, topic searches, and Open Access resources related to addiction, alcoholism, narcotics, treatment, recovery, prevention, public health, and social effects of drug and alcohol abuse. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
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. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
A section below Topics provides links to related modern Open Access books. See that section for more information.
Topics – Substance Abuse Books – Addiction Books PDF – Treatment – Recovery
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to alcohol and substance abuse. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. 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 year, language, or related 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 Download Free PDF Substance and Drug Abuse Books
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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