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.
Drink: An Economic and Social Study
1st Edition
By Hermann Levy
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1951, this title was the last book by Hermann Levy who died in 1949 before it was finished. Completed by his friend and fellow academic Rolf P. Lynton, this title looks alcohol as a drink, both economically and socially. Divided into three parts – in brief: what is the drink...
Economics and Alcohol: Consumption and Controls
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Grant, Martin Plant, Alan Williams
December 01, 2025
During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, general levels of alcohol consumption had risen considerably in all parts of the world. In association with this, there was a proliferation of alcohol-related problems such as liver disease, drunkenness offences, marital disharmony and employment difficulties. ...
Educating Young Drinkers
1st Edition
By Gellisse Bagnall
December 01, 2025
Young people are regarded as vulnerable by the media – often exaggeratedly so. In the early 1990s they had become the focus of public concern regarding alcohol misuse. But attempts to educate teenagers into using alcohol sensibly have often been counterproductive. What kind of approach should ...
Helping the Problem Drinker: New Initiatives in Community Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Stockwell, Sue Clement
December 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, Helping the Problem Drinker addressed the realisation that only a small proportion of problem drinkers ever contacted existing treatment agencies, and that therefore a more comprehensive community-oriented approach should be developed. This included training of primary...
Responding to Drinking Problems
1st Edition
By Stan Shaw, Alan Cartwright, Terry Spratley, Judith Harwin
December 01, 2025
In the 1970s family doctors, social workers, researchers and administrators had been aware of the inadequacy of the response to drinking problems for some time. However, there had been no systematic examination of why such agents felt negatively about drinkers and disinclined to respond to them. ...
The Misuse of Alcohol: Crucial Issues in Dependence Treatment and Prevention
1st Edition
Edited
By Nick Heather, Ian H. Robertson, Phil Davies
December 01, 2025
In the 1980s the study of alcoholism was in a period of rapid change, this book, originally published in 1985, identifies and explores the three most controversial contemporary issues: changes at the basic explanatory level in our concept of harmful drinking; the undermining of our confidence that ...
Vagrant Alcoholics
1st Edition
By Tim Cook
December 01, 2025
In the 1970s the vagrant alcoholic was not a new problem, and for the previous two hundred years people had asked: What can be done to help them? Why not lock them up? Why don’t they get jobs? Tim Cook had worked for many years with homeless men and in this book, originally published in 1975, he ...
Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism: 19 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various
December 01, 2023
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 ...