Alcohol

The Prevention Debate

Marcus Grant, Bruce Ritson

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Routledge
01 December 2023

Psychotherapy; Addiction & therapy

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism

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.

By: Marcus Grant, Bruce Ritson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 571g
ISBN: 9781032639864
ISBN 10: 1032639865
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 01 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Why is Alcohol a Problem? 2. What Problems are Preventable? 3. What Can Be Achieved Through Prohibition? 4. What Can Be Achieved Through Treatment? 5. What Can Be Done to Influence Children and Adolescents? 6. What Can Be Done to Influence Adults? 7. How Far Can Social, Political and Economic Factors Influence Drinking? 8. What State of Which Art? 9. The Schools Education Debate 10. The Health Education Debate 11. The Media Debate 12. The Advertising Debate 13. The Trade Debate 14. The Environment Debate 15. The Fiscal and Legislative Debate 16. The Ethical Debate 17. The Way Ahead. References. Index.

Marcus Grant and Bruce Ritson