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MG/YA – Dealing with Addiction (Series NF)

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Dealing with Addiction. BrightPoint Press, 2023. 64 p. $33.05 ea. $$165.25 Set of 5. Grades 6-12.

Kaiser, Emma. Smartphone Addiction. 978-1-678-20380-7.
Llanas, Sheila Griffin. Drug and Alcohol Addiction. 978-1-678-20374-0.
Miller, Marie-Therese. Social Media Addiction. 978-1-678-20378-8.
Roberts, Kizzi. Gaming Addiction. 978-1-678-20376-9.
Voss, Elizabeth Hobbs. Vaping Addiction. 978-1-678-20382-5.

This reviewer evaluated Gaming Addiction and Smartphone Addiction. Each title in this series begins with At a Glance which provides readers with a quick, bulleted overview of the topic addressed. Statistics like “Researchers think between 1 and 10 percent of gamers become addicted” (Roberts 4) easily could be incorporated into basic student research or utilized for a lesson on summarizing research. The introduction gives readers an anecdote regarding the topic. In Gaming Addiction, Ben loses interest in activities with his friends, instead opting to beat his high score. Ben’s friends confront changes they’ve noticed in him. In Smartphone Addiction Riley realizes she needs help after hardly hearing her friends while she checks social media notifications on her phone and earning a poor grade on an English essay. Four chapters include What is ___?, The science of ___, The effects of ___, and Treating the ___ (___ = addiction the title addresses). Frequent color photos, charts, text box highlights, and bold-faced vocabulary words make this series highly accessible to secondary researchers. Each book concludes with a glossary, source notes, for further research, and an index.

THOUGHTS: Marketed as hi-lo YA nonfiction, the titles in this series are best suited to middle and high school libraries and would be a great update to addiction collections or for use with health classes.

616.85 Mental Disorders 
616.86 Substance Abuse

YA – Vaping: Considering the Risks

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Dougherty, Terri. Vaping: Considering the Risks. Reference Point Press, 2023. 978-1-6782-0360-3 64 p. $33.05. Grades 7-12.

Dougherty delivers a solid, intense overview of the rise of e-cigarette use and its dangers to users. Although ostensibly begun as a smoking cessation tool for current smokers, vaping quickly made smoking socially acceptable and developed into a billion-dollar industry which increased rates of teen vaping to 25% in 2019. These rates have since decreased to 19.6% in 2020 and 11.3% in 2021, due to the effects of regulations, COVID, or under-reporting by teens. As the U.S. Surgeon General and the FDA responded to vaping’s popularity with warnings and regulations that limited sales to adults, then banned flavors, the industry only shifted to introduce one-use devices, then synthetic tobacco. Stricter regulations continue to be made as calls continue for long-term research on the effects of e-cigarette use, especially as compared to traditional tobacco use. This book makes the risks clear: addiction, damage to lungs, decreased dental health, cancer concerns and even social stigma. The book also gives insight on quitting vaping, with ample resources to support anyone’s efforts to do so. 

THOUGHTS: Considering the fast-paced changes occurring in the vaping industry and legislation, this book is a must-have. Libraries should update their vaping resources, seeking publication dates of 2022 or later to adequately convey the legal and societal changes.     

362.29 Vaping