The following are paperback books that we routinely recommend to patients who are in treatment for various forms of substance use problems. This is not meant to be an exclusive list, and neither are such books intended to replace treatment.

• Willpower’s Not Enough (Washton)
• Sex, Drugs, Gambling, and Chocolate (Horvath)
• Stop The Chaos (Tighe)
• Addict in the Family (Conyers)
• The Addictive Personality (Nakken)
• Kill the Craving (Santoro, Deletis & Bergman)
• The Staying Sober Workbook: A Serious Solution For The Problem Of Relapse (Gorski)
• Staying Sober (Gorski)
• The Heart of Addiction (Dodes)
• Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast (Crozier & Lane)
• Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception (Twerski)
• More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (Wurtzel)
• It Will Never Happen To Me (Black)
• First Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything (Kettelhack)
• Managing Your Drug or Alcohol Problems Client Workbook (Daley & Marlatt)
• The Alcoholism & Addiction Cure-A Holistic Approach (Prentiss)
• Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem Workbook (Daley & Marlatt)
• Substance-Abusing High Achievers: Addiction as an Equal Opportunity Destroyer (Twerski)
• Addiction : Why Can't They Just Stop (Hoffman & Froemke)
• 100 Questions & Answers About Alcoholism (Herrick & Herrick)