Family Issues
Chemical Dependency - Books
Public libraries can provide these books from their own collections or through Interlibrary Loan.
Addiction is a Choice. 2000. Schaler, Jeffrey A.
Arguments against the prevailing view that substance addiction is a disease.
Alcohol: the World's Favorite Drug. Edwards, Griffith.
A history of alcohol and its place in society and culture.
Alcoholism: the Genetic Inheritance. 2002. Fitzgerald, Kathleen Whalen.
Issues of family, intervention and recovery of alcoholism and drug addiction.
The Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol. 2001. Roza, Greg.
A reference book of more than 250 commonly used and abused legal and illegal drugs--prescription, over-the-counter, and recreational.
Intervention: How to Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help. 1989. Johnson, Vernon E.
A step-by-step guide for families of chemically dependent persons.
It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults. 1991. Black, Claudia A.
Help for children of alcoholic families.
Prescription Drug Abuse: The Hidden Epidemic. 1995. Colvin, Rod.
A guide for coping and understanding the problem of unhealthy use of prescription medication.