| Description |
x, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Harm Minimisation and Alcohol / Martin Plant, Eric Single and Tim Stockwell -- 2. Alcohol Control in Historical Perspective / David F. Musto -- 3. Can Tax be Used to Minimise Harm? A Health Economist's Perspective / Christine Godfrey -- 4. Local Control to Prevent Problems of Alcohol Availability: Experience in California Communities / Friedner D. Wittman -- 5. Prevention Where Alcohol is Sold and Consumed: Server Intervention and Responsible Beverage Service / Robert F. Saltz -- 6. Standard Unit Labelling of Alcohol Containers / Tim Stockwell and Eric Single -- 7. Warning Labels: Evidence on Harm Reduction from Long-Term American Surveys / Tom K. Greenfield -- 8. Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol / Kathryn Stewart and Barry M. Sweedler -- 9. Interventions to Reduce College Student Drinking and Related Health and Social Problems / Ralph Hingson, James Berson and Katie Dowley -- 10. Creating Safer Bars / Kathryn Graham and Ross Homel |
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11. Alcohol Education and Harm Minimisation / Martin Plant and Moira Plant -- 12. Local Regulation and Enforcement Strategies for Licensed Premises / Philip Rydon and Tim Stockwell -- 13. Keeping the Customer Satisfied: Harm Minimisation in Clinical Practice / Douglas Cameron -- 14. Measuring Harm: Implications for Alcohol Epidemiology / Jurgen Rehm and Benedikt Fischer -- 15. Implications and Priorities for the Future / Martin Plant, Eric Single and Tim Stockwell |
| Summary |
Alcohol: Minimising the Harm presents a non ideological and pragmatic review of the effectiveness of key strategies designed to achieve a significant reduction in levels of problem drinking. These strategies are described and critically assessed by some of the world's leading authorities on the use of alcohol and its related problems. Alcohol: Minimising the Harm is wide-ranging and international in scope, including evidence from non-industrial societies. The evidence is considered within the context of the history of alcohol control policies and the ongoing polemic concerning the harm minimisation approach to problems associated not only with alcohol but also tobacco and illicit drugs. Strategies and policies are critically and pragmatically assessed in the light of the question, 'What works?' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Alcohol -- Social aspects.
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Alcoholism -- Prevention.
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Alcoholism -- Social aspects.
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Alcoholism -- Treatment.
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Alcoholism.
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Alcoholism [MESH]
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Alcoholism -- prevention & control [MESH]
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Alcoholism -- prevention & control.
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Alcoholism -- psychology.
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Alcoholism -- therapy.
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Alcoholism -- prevention & control.
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Alcoholism.
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| Author |
Plant, Martin A.
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Single, Eric.
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Stockwell, Tim.
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| LC no. |
97192285 |
| ISBN |
1853433586 |
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1853433594 (paperback) |
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