Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b…
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1. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
By: Bill Clegg
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
2. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
By: Sarah Schulman
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- psychology
3. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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- history
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- science
4. The Medium (Emily Chambers Spirit Medium #1)
By: C.J. Archer
3.94
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
This is an alternate cover edition for Seventeen year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a prob… read more
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5. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- science
- health
- counselling
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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7. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
8. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
10. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
- audiobook
11. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
13. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
14. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
15. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
16. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
By: Sam Quinones
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more
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- history
- health
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- science
17. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
18. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
19. Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker
By: Jessica Pryce
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow , a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed inves… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- social justice
- mental health
20. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
21. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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- politics
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
22. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
23. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
By: Jennifer Mullan
4.48
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more
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- counselling
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
24. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- counselling
- politics
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
25. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
26. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
By: Carl L. Hart
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
27. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
28. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
29. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
By: Kim Kelly
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
30. Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
By: Shira Hassan
4.53
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilatio… read more
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- health
- politics
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
31. The Harm Reduction Gap
By: Sheila P. Vakharia
4.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use… read more
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