Front Cover; Title page; Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1_Drinking in the UK; 2_Alcohol: Health and Social Consequences; 3_Pricing Alchol; 4_Controlling the Drinking Environment; 5_Change and Recovery: Whatever It Takes; 6_Alcohol Brief Interventions; 7_Specialist Treatment/Interventions; References; Index; Back Cover
Summary
In the first comprehensive study of the practice and policy issues surrounding alcohol in the UK to be published for many years, Ken Barrie considers alcohol use and problems in a contemporary context, in the UK, taking account of mounting concerns about health and antisocial behaviour in the early years of the 21st century. These concerns are set against the decreasing price of alcohol and increasing consumption over the past four decades
