Alcohol: The Prevention Debate
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Alcohol: The Prevention Debate

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Alcohol: The Prevention Debate

About this book

In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best be prevented. Many different strategies were put forward as solutions but some were in competition with each other, while some were actually incompatible.

Originally published in 1983, what this book does is to draw together a cross section of these different and competing voices so as to give a sense of the quality and direction of the great alcohol debate at the time. After setting into context some of the basic questions to do with the prevention of alcohol problems, the authors knit together and juxtapose short contributions from a very wide variety of experts from around the world. Clinicians, educators, sociologists, advertisers, marketing men, economists, philosophers, geneticists and international civil servants present different points of view on health education, the media, advertising, trade, the law, the environment and on the ethical basis of the debate itself. The authors bravely attempt to pull some general sense out of this profusion of what the way ahead is likely to be.

It should be noted that this reissue very much reflects the context of the times in which it was written and that the contributors were participating in a debate where differences of opinion were actively encouraged.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Dedication
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. Why is Alcohol A Problem?
  13. 2. What Problems Are Preventible?
  14. 3. What Can Be Achieved Through Prohibition?
  15. 4. What Can Be Achieved Through Treatment?
  16. 5. What Can Be Done To Influence Children and Adolescents?
  17. 6. What Can Be Done To Influence Adults?
  18. 7. How Far Can Social, Political and Economic Factors Influence Drinking?
  19. 8. What State of Which Art?
  20. 9. The Schools Education Debate
  21. 10. The Health Education Debate
  22. 11. The Media Debate
  23. 12. The Advertising Debate
  24. 13. The Trade Debate
  25. 14. The Environment Debate
  26. 15. The Fiscal and Legislative Debate
  27. 16. The Ethical Debate
  28. 17. The Way Ahead
  29. References
  30. Index