The argument of this book is that problem drinking should not be regarded as a disease, but as a learned, behavioural disorder. Since the first edition was published the traditional notion that problem drinking is a disease has regained ground in the USA and elsewhere, in the face of evidence to the contrary. Effective approaches to people with less severe alcohol problems in particular are becoming difficult to sustain because of the changing climate of opinion. The authors aim to fill the gap between popular accounts of the subject and a scientific, medical and psychological understanding of alcohol problems.
- ISBN10 0192618741
- ISBN13 9780192618740
- Publish Date 1 November 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 366
- Language English