Publishing addiction science

The Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies (CAS) was a pioneer in publishing both scholarly and lay literature related to the use and misuse of alcohol. The home of the oldest substance-related journal published in the United States, established in 1940 as the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, now called the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, the Center also published books, bibliographies, pamphlets, fact sheets, posters, and more. 

A large number of books and other publications were published directly by the Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies, or by affiliate publishing institutions, including the world's most frequently cited book on the topic of alcoholism and substance use, The disease concept of alcoholism written by E. M. Jellinek (1960).

Spearheaded by Mark Keller, the Publication Division was a trailblazer in collecting, organizing, and disseminating all kinds of literature related to alcohol studies. Publication catalogs in the Digital Alcohol Studies Collection demonstrate the breadth of the Center’s activity, including academic and "non-technical" or "popular" publications. 

• Browse available Publication catalogs in the Digital Alcohol Studies Collection (1956-1992)

The Lay Supplements series consists of fourteen standalone pamphlets of 10-25 pages on fourteen distinct topics.  Launched in 1941, titles 1-12 were not published in order during 1941-1944. However, they were incredibly popular. The first twelve titles  were printed a total of 101 times. Lay Supplement 10, The drinker and the drunkard, was the most popular with 12 editions. 

There is no author attribution on the title page, however, the first 12 of the series were attributed to E. M. Jellinek by the CAAAL bibliographers in the first published bibliography of E. M. Jellinek in 1966. The last two Lay Supplements were published in 1955, authored by Mark Keller.

The original plan, according to Jellinek, was to provide “a suitable reading list of reliable works for those who are interested in studying the subject beyond the scope of the Supplements.”

Some of the Supplements were updated and also republished in other formats, such as pamphlets. Republished titles in the series contained minor updates to the “selected reading” lists on the back covers. Listed in the Publications catalogs over the years, titles in the Lay Supplements were available for purchase from the Publications Division of the Center.

The Lay Supplements were bound as a single volume, which was assigned a Library of Congress call number (RC565.Q3), as shown on the title’s spine.

• Browse the Lay Supplement series in RUcore

The Monograph Series were published by the Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies at Yale and Rutgers under the editorship of Mark Keller, long-time editor at the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Most of these books were distributed by College & University Press, New Haven, CT. 

Books in the Monograph Series report the results of alcohol-related research conducted mostly at Rutgers. Standing out thanks to their easily recognizable cover art, these volumes were staples in many substance use library collections. Titles is the series were listed on the back cover of each volume. A few of them have been digitized by the Center of Alcohol Studies Library. Others are available in the Internet Archive or from HathiTrust.

Some of the texts published as books by the Center of Alcohol Studies in the series had previously appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol or served as educational material for the Summer School of Alcohol Studies.

• Visit the page of the Monograph Series in the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives to see what items are available online