Preventing Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol, Culture, and Control

by David J. Hanson

Book Overview

The prevailing neo-prohibitionist approach to reducing alcohol problems is generally ineffective, often counter-productive, and is doomed to failure. This work is to promote an effective alternative strategy to reducing the incidence of alcohol problems. The thesis is that a socio-cultural approach would be effective, and therefore, that public policy should promote this approach. This work is expected to be controversial, and is hoped to form a pattern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275949265
• ISBN13: 9780275949266
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"