When I first started reading about addiction, I bought up a whole bunch of books. I have this one, but haven't read it yet. I found it interesting because it talks about many of the current methods of treatment. And at the time that was what I was interested in learning about.
I dont know if you have seen this post by Marshmallow, but it has a link to an hour movie on the concept of choice vs disease. It goes into a lot of detail about brain function. Going well beyond a simplistic explanation, but its still easy to understand.
It also talks about the broken system, and about how many addicts are in prison, and well its all along the lines of what I think the book is about.
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...sure-pain.html