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Encyclopedias
Specialized subject encyclopedias can be useful to identify names, dates, issues, legislation and agencies relating to your topic.
- SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new windowSAGE Knowledge offers subject encyclopedias and reference works, mainly in the social sciences and business management.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowScholarly encyclopedias and reference works on a wide variety of topics: business, ASCD publications in education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, sciences, and the social sciences. Formerly named Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL).
- Addiction: a Reference EncyclopediaA single-volume encyclopedia and guide covering addiction science, neurochemistry, the history of government controls, and a selection of primary source documents.
- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive BehaviorAn online equivalent of the 2009 reference work that "explores the social, medical, legal and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated behaviors."
- Encyclopedia of drug policyThe encyclopedia has two volumes of approximately 450 articles in an A-to-Z format.
- The A-Z Encyclopedia of Alcohol and Drug AbuseProduced in cooperation with the International Council on Alcohol and Addiction, with 30,000 brief entries this tome is really more of a dictionary than an encyclopedia.
- Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: an International EncyclopediaA multifaceted two-volume encyclopedia that examines commercial and cultural facets of alcohol usage as well as legal, medical, and historical aspects.
- Encyclopedia of Smoking and TobaccoFeatures nearly 600 entries on the history, manufacture and use of all forms of tobacco.
Handbooks, Guidebooks, etc.
- Physicians' Desk Reference: PDRThe most complete and authoritative reference work on prescription drugs sold in the United States, including all FDA-approved labeling.
- Handbook of Drug Use Etiology: Theory, Methods and Empirical FindingsA summary of recent research from the American Psychological Association.
- Drug Policy and the Public Good"An overview of data on the global dimensions of drug misuse, as well as a critical review of the scientific evidence relating to drug policy at the the local, national, and international levels" sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
- Women and Addiction: a Comprehensive HandbookExamines recent findings on sex and gender differences in substance use disorders.
- Praeger International Collection on the AddictionsAn online equivalent to the 4 volume reference work published in 2009, featuring international experts addressing a wide array of physical and behavioral addictions from a multicultural perspective.
- Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription DrugsSummary guide to legal drugs, including generic drugs in the United States and Canada.
- Handbook of the Medical Consequences of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (2nd ed.)Summarizes research on the pathophysiology of illegal and legal substances, including over-the-counter medications.
- Therapist's Guide to Evidence-Based Relapse PreventionTherapeutic interventions to prevent relapse with substance abuse, mental illness, and other chronic behavioral dysfunctions.