Current Issues in Alcohol/drug Studies

Professionals from a very wide variety of disciplines-medicine and biochemistry, psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, anthropology, law, social work, and journalism-present their very differing points of view on the perception of alcoholism as a disease and on public policy issues like proposed legislative controls over alcoholic beverages.

List of contents

Contents, Foreword

• The Perils of Powell: In Search of a Factual Foundation for the “Disease Concept of Alcoholism”
• The Heritability of Alcoholism: Science and Social Policy
• Is Risk for Alcoholism Predictable? A Probabilistic Approach to a Developmental Problem
• The Problems of Nosology in Alcoholism Treatment and Research
• On Terms Used and Abused: The Concept of “Codependency”
• Adult Children of Alcoholics: Is It Really a Separate Field for Study?
• The New Temperance Movement: Through the Looking-Glass
• Public Policy on Alcohol and Illicit Drugs
• THE GREAT DRUG DEBATE
• Taking Drugs Seriously
• Don’t Legalize Drugs

Summary

Professionals from a very wide variety of disciplines—medicine and biochemistry, psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, anthropology, law, social work, and journalism—present their very differing points of view on the perception of alcoholism as a disease and on public policy issues like proposed legislative controls over alcoholic beverages.

Product details

• Authors: Edith S Gomberg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138881815
• ISBN: 978-1-138-88181-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Psychiatry, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy