Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism
About the Book Series
This 19-volume set has titles originally published between 1951 and 1991. The books examine alcohol in a variety of ways, particularly the debates around, and the progression in, treatment for alcoholism through the 1970s and 1980s, but also in the wider social and economic sense. Still a concern today, it also includes titles that focus on young drinkers and health education. This collection will be of interest to all those interested in alcohol and its impact on both the individual and society.
Alcohol Education: A Handbook for Health and Welfare Professionals
1st Edition
By Barbara Howe
December 01, 2025
Alcohol education in the 1980s was receiving greater emphasis in the training and practice of a wide range of health and welfare professionals. As we became more aware of the risks associated with excessive drinking, this practical, straightforward guide, originally published in 1989, would have ...
Alcohol Problems and Alcohol Control in Europe
1st Edition
By Phil Davies, Dermot Walsh
December 01, 2025
The nature of alcohol problems is very diverse and the strategies adopted for minimising these vary even more. Thinking in the study of alcohol problems in the 1970s and early 1980s had focused on the public health perspective, seeking not only to lessen alcohol problems by controlling the ...
Alcohol Problems in Employment
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian D. Hore, Martin Plant
December 01, 2025
The majority of problem-drinkers are not unemployed derelicts but are employed persons often with senior positions in commerce, the professions and industry. Furthermore, it is well-known that alcohol causes widespread absenteeism, inefficiency and accidents at work. Originally published in 1981, ...
Alcohol and Aggression
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul F. Brain
December 01, 2025
In the 1980s the relationship between alcohol and aggression and violence was a controversial one. Much of previous thinking had been based on anecdotal evidence. In contrast this book, originally published in 1986, is based upon recent scientific evidence from a broad range of studies from animal ...
Alcohol, Youth and the State: Drinking Practices, Controls and Health Education
1st Edition
By Nicholas Dorn
December 01, 2025
In the early 1980s teenage drinking had become one of the many foci for expressions of concern about young peoples’ morals, health and discipline. Yet we knew very little about how most young people drink – the qualitative aspects of youthful drinking. The research emphasis had hitherto been upon ...
Alcohol: The Prevention Debate
1st Edition
By Marcus Grant, Bruce Ritson
December 01, 2025
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, ...
Alcoholic Beverages
1st Edition
By John Cavanagh, Frederick F. Clairmonte
December 01, 2025
For most of the post-war period, alcohol problems had been viewed primarily as individual problems. During the 1970s and 1980s, research highlighted the importance of larger socio-economic factors in shaping drinking levels, patterns and problems. However, it largely ignored a paramount force which...
Alcoholism: New Knowledge and New Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Griffith Edwards, Marcus Grant
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1977, alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world. It is a complex disorder with psychiatric, physical, psychological and social aspects, having far reaching harmful effects on the family and society, as well as on physical and ...
Alcoholism Treatment in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Griffith Edwards, Marcus Grant
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980, the purpose of this book was to aid a process of rethinking alcoholism treatment. Such a process was already underway in many parts of the world at the time. It was hoped that this volume would be useful in the modest role of abetting such a rethinking. Alcoholism ...
Alcoholism in Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Grant, Paul Gwinner
December 01, 2025
In the 1970s, an important change of emphasis had occurred in the field of alcoholism. Instead of seeing alcoholism as an ‘all or none phenomenon’ it was now recognised that a continuum of alcohol problems existed so that individual cases could show different degrees of dependence and different ...
Controlled Drinking
1st Edition
By Nick Heather, Ian Robertson
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981 and revised in 1983, Controlled Drinking was the first scholarly review of the literature on a controversial but increasingly practiced approach to the treatment of alcoholism. Nick Heather and Ian Robertson analyse all the pertinent questions that controlled drinking ...
Counselling Problem Drinkers
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Davidson, Stephen Rollnick, Ian MacEwan
December 01, 2025
How far should counselling be tailored to an individual’s needs? What intervention is most effective for which kind of problem drinker? How can the counsellor successfully guide the client through the process of deciding to change? Originally published in 1991, Counselling Problem Drinkers provides...