The Definitive List of Opioid Epidemic, Addiction Medicine, and Harm Reduction Books
1. 
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
by:
Gabor Maté
4.31 avg rating — 31,741 ratings 2. 
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by:
Gabor Maté
4.49 avg rating — 22,304 ratings 3. 
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
by:
Ben Westhoff
4.01 avg rating — 3,270 ratings 4. 
Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic
by:
Billy Jensen
3.90 avg rating — 549 ratings 5. 
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by:
Eric Eyre
4.07 avg rating — 2,283 ratings 6. 
The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
by:
Evan Hughes
4.05 avg rating — 1,470 ratings 7. 
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by:
Chris McGreal
4.14 avg rating — 2,161 ratings 8. 
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
by:
Barry Meier
4.02 avg rating — 2,773 ratings 9. 
American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
by:
Scott Higham
4.12 avg rating — 858 ratings 10. 
If You Love Me: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction
by:
Maureen Cavanagh
4.20 avg rating — 1,016 ratings 11. 
American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
by:
Ryan Hampton
3.58 avg rating — 352 ratings 12. 
Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
by:
Peter Canning
4.21 avg rating — 261 ratings 13. 
American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis
by:
John McMillian
4.19 avg rating — 72 ratings 14. 
Overdose: Heartbreak And Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis
by:
Benjamin Perrin
4.31 avg rating — 649 ratings 15. 
Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State
by:
Amy C. Sullivan
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 16. 
Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis
by:
Jack Riley
3.80 avg rating — 376 ratings 
18. 
The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs
by:
Lloyd Sederer
3.57 avg rating — 149 ratings 19. 
One by One: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the Shadows of Opioid America
by:
Nicholas Bush
3.62 avg rating — 159 ratings 
22. 
The Opioid Fix: America's Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don't Want You to Have 4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings
24. 
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
by:
Maia Szalavitz
4.51 avg rating — 959 ratings 25. 
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
by:
Shira Hassan
4.49 avg rating — 271 ratings 26. 
Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol
by:
Patt Denning
4.14 avg rating — 148 ratings 
28. 
Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking & Screaming: Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-Step World
by:
Dee-Dee Stout
4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings 29. 
The Drug Users Bible: Harm Reduction, Risk Mitigation, Personal Safety 4.43 avg rating — 108 ratings
30. 
Harm Reduction: National and International Perspectives it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
33. 
Light Up the Night: America's Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival
by:
Travis Lupick
3.92 avg rating — 50 ratings 34. 
Ending the Crisis: Mayo Clinic’s Guide to Opioid Addiction and Safe Opioid Use
by:
Dr. Holly Geyer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 35. 
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by:
Sam Quinones
4.23 avg rating — 31,636 ratings 36. 
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic
by:
John Temple
4.26 avg rating — 2,453 ratings 
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
by:
Maia Szalavitz
4.17 avg rating — 2,212 ratings 
41. 
We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
by:
Nic Sheff
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,689 ratings 42. 
High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction
by:
David Sheff
3.85 avg rating — 547 ratings 43. 
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by:
David Sheff
4.17 avg rating — 102,377 ratings 44. 
This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
by:
Jack Shuler
4.18 avg rating — 133 ratings 45. 
Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis
by:
Ryan Hampton
3.88 avg rating — 138 ratings 46. 
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis
by:
Beth Macy
4.01 avg rating — 1,949 ratings 47. 
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
by:
Anna Lembke
3.90 avg rating — 72,962 ratings 
50. 
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by:
Ryan Grim
3.69 avg rating — 436 ratings 
52. 
The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
by:
David Poses
4.20 avg rating — 2,280 ratings 53. 
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by:
Carl L. Hart
4.02 avg rating — 4,582 ratings 54. 
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
by:
Carl L. Hart
4.13 avg rating — 3,002 ratings 55. 
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
by:
Johann Hari
4.50 avg rating — 21,096 ratings 56. 
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction
by:
Travis Lupick
4.44 avg rating — 359 ratings 57. 
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
by:
Leana Wen
4.24 avg rating — 945 ratings 
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My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
by:
Susan Cheever
4.12 avg rating — 677 ratings 62. 
A Second Chance in a Syringe: How Harm Reduction is Reinventing Drug Addiction
by:
Pratham Parmar
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 63. 
Harm Reduction, Second Edition: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing High-Risk Behaviors
by:
G Alan Marlatt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 64. 
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
by:
Sam Quinones
4.36 avg rating — 3,623 ratings 65. 
Outsmart Your Addiction: Learn the Powerful System Developed by a Doctor to Conquer his own Fentanyl Habit
by:
Jason Giles
4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings 66. 
The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here’s How We Take it Back
by:
Dave Chase
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings 67. 
Canary in a Coal Mine: How a Rural Town and Its Only Doctor Alerted the Nation to a Catastrophic Opioid Crisis
by:
William Cooke
3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings 68. 
Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
by:
Benjamin Perrin
4.70 avg rating — 20 ratings 69. 
The Opioid Epidemic Of America: What You Need Know About The Opiate and Opioid Crisis... And How We Can Heal From It
by:
D.W. Graeme
3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 70. 
The Preventable Epidemic: A Frontline Doctor’s Experience and Recommendations to Resolve America’s Opioid Crisis
by:
Arun Gupta MD PC
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 71. 
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The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts 4.06 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
by:
James P. Gray
4.35 avg rating — 138 ratings 
75. 
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy 3.76 avg rating — 246 ratings
76. 
Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity: Real Solutions for Long-term Recovery from Opiate Addiction
by:
Joani Gammill RN
3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings 77. 
Through an Addict's Eyes: Options for Opiate Addiction from an Addict Who has Tried Them All
by:
Justin Wiles
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 78. 
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us: The Opiate Education of a Vermont Doctor
by:
Beach Conger
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 
80. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,039 ratings
81. 
Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms
by:
Jane Winstone
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 82. 
The West Coast Crisis: Drugs, Homelessness, and Despair in Modern America
by:
Kyle Combs
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 83. 
From Hopkins To Homeless: My True Story Of Prescription Drug Addiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Appalachia and its Discontents: The Opioid Crisis, Appalachia, and the Church
by:
Kevin Fisher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 85. 
Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio (Trillium Books)
by:
Daniel Skinner
3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings 86. 
Something Dangerous: Emergent and Changing Illicit Drug Use and Community Health
by:
Merrill Singer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 87. 
Drugs, Crime and Public Health: The Political Economy of Drug Policy
by:
Alex Stevens
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
89. 
From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis: Healthcare Providers Discuss Opioids, Meth and Recovery (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies Book 50)
by:
Wendy Welch
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 90. 
A Public Health Guide to Ending the Opioid Epidemic
by:
Michael R Fraser
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 91. 
Rewired: A Bold New Approach To Addiction and Recovery
by:
Erica Spiegelman
3.84 avg rating — 450 ratings 92. 
Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program 3.87 avg rating — 298 ratings
93. 
Addict in the House: A No-Nonsense Family Guide Through Addiction and Recovery
by:
Robin Barnett
4.22 avg rating — 236 ratings 94. 
Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery 3.91 avg rating — 285 ratings
95. 
Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America
by:
William L. White
4.30 avg rating — 99 ratings 96. 
Down the Rabbit Hole: A Memoir of Abuse, Addiction and Recovery
by:
Kate Russell
4.04 avg rating — 89 ratings 97. 
How to Get Successful by F*cking Up Your Life: Essays on Addiction and Recovery
by:
Anna David
3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings 