This third edition represents the further development of a highly successful clinical text which has been acclaimed internationally. Two new authors bring strong additional expertise to the writing team, and the unique feature of this book remains its ability to address the realities of the clinical world directly while offering an authoritative review of the research literature. Extensively revised throughout, of particular note are completely new chapters covering alcohol as a drug, causes of excessive drinking, drinking problems and the life course, and a new look at both the physical complications associated with alcoholism and the organisation of treatment services. The authors adeptly address the everyday needs of the clinical front-line through presentations which are enlivened through personal clinical experience and illustrated by case vignette. A classic text in its field, this comprehensive and timely new edition will ensure its continued popularity.

The Treatment of Drinking Problems: A Guide for the Helping Professionals

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Edwards, Griffith

Addiction & Recovery

McGraw=Hill

Drug problems in Britain: A review of ten years

Politics & Social Sciences

Busch, Carol (eds.)

Social Sciences

Academic Press

Griffith Edwards's survey deploys history and science to explore the whole issue of alcohol. Why do different people behave differently when drunk? Is alcoholism a disease? What is 'safe drinking'? Is alcohol good for the heart? Does treatment work? Does Alcoholics Anonymous have the answer? Can alcoholics ever go back to social drinking? How for the future might society better handle this ambiguous drug? This book will be of interest to everyone who likes to drink, who is happy or worried about their drinking, or who chooses personally to abstain.

Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug

Penguin Group USA

Written by seventeen of the world's leading researchers on alcohol problems, and produced in collaboration with WHO, this book presents a critical and highly informed perspective on alcoholism and its management. It provides an appraisal of the nature and extent of society's alcohol problems and then explores how scientific findings assist in the design of more effective policy responses. Topics covered include international trends in alcohol consumption, understanding the relationships between alcohol consumption and multiple types of harm, both as regards individual drinking and population consumption. With the epidemiological evidence established, the text turns to a view of the efficacy of different types of prevention strategy, including pricing, licensing and control of access, drunk driving counter-measures, public education, and the treatment contribution. A final chapter succinctly outlines how these analyses are to assist in the making of informed policy choices.

Alcohol Policy and the Public Good

Anderson, Peter

Babor, Thomas F.

Casswell, Sally

Ferrence, Roberta

Giesbrecht, Norman

Godfrey, Christine

Holder, Harold D.

Lemmens, Paul H. M. M.

Room, Robin

Mäkelä, Klaus

Österberg, Esa

Midanik, Lorraine T.

Simpura, Jussi

Skog, Ole-Jørgen

Norström, Thor

Romelsjö, Anders

Oxford University Press

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Alcohol can be an item of diet, a medicine, sometimes an element in religious ritual. It is a valued object for the connoisseur, a traded commodity and a symbol of national pride (wine for instance in France, whisky in Scotland). The range of social and medical problems associated with alcohol and the history of related treatment methods (including the temperance movement, prohibition, AA and a range of contemporary approaches) are considered here. Already considered a classic in the field in England, Alcohol has proved to be fascinating reading for drinkers and nondrinkers alike.

Thomas Dunne Books

Alcohol is everywhere. Walk down any street in the western world and before long your feet will kick against an empty beer can, or your attention will be captured by an alluring advertisement that suggests that alcohol can magically transform your life. Its use is integral to many aspects of popular culture, but it is also a substance that has at times been preached against and even prohibited.
In this book, Griffith Edwards uses both history and chemistry to explore the whole issue of alcohol. Is it medicine, a delightful potion, poison, or a mysterious combination of all three? What part has alcohol played in various cultures and religions? Why do different people behave differently when drunk? What cures for habitual inebriation were popular in the past? Why is alcoholism considered a disease? What is "safe drinking"? Is alcohol good for the heart? Do current treatments work? Does Alcoholics Anonymous have the answer?
Armed with the best solid information science, history, and sociology have to offer, Edwards asks how, in the light of this knowledge, society might in the future better handle this pleasure-giving, somewhat dangerous drug. Can society get its pleasure out of alcohol without the inevitable suffering that accompanies misuse? If so, what steps should we take to protect ourselves and others? 
Already considered in England to be a classic in the field, Alcohol will prove to be fascinating reading for the drinker and nondrinker alike.

Mental Health

St. Martin's: Griffin

Why do people, countries, and centuries experience the same drug differently--and how should this affect the choices we make on drug control? Matters of Substance presents a new and lucid approach to the much-debated questions of drug control around the world. Griffith Edwards argues for a consideration of all drugs--from caffeine to crack--as more than the sum of their chemical structure. He shows that the effect of a drug is just as dependent on the social setting, historical legacy, and psychology of an individual as it is on any inherent quality of the drug. Attitudes about and control of drugs across the world are explored--from the use of marijuana in Amsterdam to cigarette smoking in the bars of New York. Various uses and abuses of drugs are examined within the web of ideas we hold about personal freedom, the right to pleasure, the responsibilites of government, and the impact of globalization. Authoritative and wide ranging, this book will inform and enlighten all future debates on drugs in society.

Matters of Substance: Drugs--and Why Everyone's a User

This book explores the pervasive influence of drugs around the world--from marijuana to nicotine, caffeine, opiates, and other licit and illicit substances. It positions the various uses and abuses of drugs within the web of ideas held worldwide about personal freedom, pleasure, and globalization. Authoritative and wide ranging, Matters of Substance is an essential reference in the ongoing debate about drug use.

Picador

Internationally acclaimed and translated into six languages over the past twenty years, this text is the most authoritative source book available on the treatment of alcohol problems for professionals encountering them. The thoroughly revised new edition includes the latest evidence on the psychiatric comorbidities which often accompany drinking problems. It also covers modern trends relating to psychological and pharmacological interventions and reappraises the role of self-help groups. Previous Edition Hb (1997): 0-521-49696-9 Previous Edition Pb (1997): 0-521-49793-0

The Treatment of Drinking Problems: A Guide for the Helping Professions

Marshall, E. Jane

Cook, Christopher C.H.

Cambridge University Press

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