Alcohol Problems: Reviews, Research and Recommendations

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-13
Alcohol and Culture....Pages 15-21
Three Centuries of Alcohol in Britain....Pages 22-30
Drinking Schools....Pages 31-38
Changes in Skid Row Life....Pages 39-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-49
Functions and Dysfunctions of Alcohol....Pages 51-55
Alcoholism is an Illness. Right? Wrong!....Pages 56-62
The Alcohologist’s Addiction....Pages 63-73
Bad Habits are not Diseases....Pages 74-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-80
Teenage Drinking and Sociability....Pages 81-87
Teenage Drinking: A Summary of Research Findings....Pages 88-92
A Perspective on Teenage Drinking....Pages 93-100
Teenagers and Alcohol: Recommendations for Action....Pages 101-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-111
The Woman Alcoholic: A Review....Pages 113-120
Women and Problem Drinking: Notes on Beliefs and Facts....Pages 121-126
The Effects of Drinking on Offspring....Pages 127-135
The Alcoholic’s Wife and her Conflicting Roles....Pages 136-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-148
Drunken Sailors and Others....Pages 149-156
The Alcoholic Doctor....Pages 157-161
The Troubled Employee Approach....Pages 162-171
Front Matter....Pages 147-148
Social Aspects of Industrial Alcoholism Programmes....Pages 172-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-180
Normal Drinking and Normal Driving....Pages 181-187
Drinking and Driving after it’s Legal to Drink at 18. Is the Problem Real?....Pages 188-194
Teenage Driver Fatalities Following Reduction in the Legal Drinking Age....Pages 195-202
Alcohol Safety Action Project and the Courts....Pages 203-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-216
The Prevention of Alcoholism....Pages 217-226
Alcohol Control Policies....Pages 227-231
Effects of Liberalising Alcohol Control Measures....Pages 232-240
Alcoholism Treatment in Antiquity and Utopia....Pages 241-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-254