ACAP Pathfinder: Addiction

This guide has been designed to help you get started finding resources on addiction. You will find these resources helpful for most of the units in Social Work and for some units in Counselling and Psychology. You can find more information about finding ebooks and journal articles, referencing and other research skills from libguides.navitas.com/learn.

Having trouble finding relevant resources for your assessment tasks? Use the Search Assistant tab to create a search for your topic, which you can copy and paste into MultiSearch or any of the library databases to retrieve better results.

A good place to start if you need definitions, history, trends or overviews of a topic, is to search the set of GALE Encyclopedias.

Find addiction resources in these formats:

• Find books
• Find ebooks
• Find eVideos

Find resources (books, articles, ebooks) on these topics.  Use these live searches to begin your own search for resources on these topics and others. 

• Gambling
• Social Media
• Hoarding
• Food
• Shopping
• Alcohol
• Drug/Substance Abuse
• Gaming