The Book of Drugs is a 2012 memoir by the musician and songwriter Mike Doughty.

The book was noted for its acerbic take on Doughty's Soul Coughing bandmates,[1] as well as its unflinching look at the damage caused by addiction.

[2] The book covers Doughty's experiences growing up in a military family, his education, first experiences with drugs such as alcohol, his friendship with Jeff Buckley, and his antagonism with his (unnamed) fellow Soul Coughing band members.

The book received a generally positive reception for its unflinching narrative and engaging writing.

The Village Voice review called it a "quickly paced, finely observed, and often mordantly funny read"—though some reviewers wondered, as Jay Trachtenberg of the Austin Chronicle did, why "...if the atmosphere was so rancid, Doughty stuck around.