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Heavy Drinking
The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease
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English
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1988
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Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, including new methods of helping heavy drinkers and social policies for preventing heavy drinking and the harms associated with it.
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Fingarette Herbert :
Herbert Fingarette, a distinguished professor at the University of California, has been a consultant on alcoholism and addiction to the World Health Organization, and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. His work has had a significant influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, state supreme courts, and current national policy makers on substance abuse.
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION. What Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn't
1 - PART 1 The Classic Disease Concept of Alcoholism
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CHAPTER 1 Where Did We Get the Idea That Alcoholism Is a Disease?
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CHAPTER 2 Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?
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CHAPTER 3 What Causes Alcoholism?
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CHAPTER 4 Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?
70 - PART 2 New Approaches to Heavy Drinking
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CHAPTER 5 Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of Life
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CHAPTER 6 Helping the Heavy Drinker
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CHAPTER 7 Social Policies to Prevent and Control Heavy Drinking
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AFTERWORD
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WORKS CITED
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INDEX
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February 9, 1988
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9780520909564
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Keywords for this book
alcoholism; alcohol; disease; alcoholics; alcoholism treatments; addiction; heavy drinker; alcohol treatment; alcoholism recovery; healthcare delivery; medicine; drinking; public health; healthcare; health and wellness; public knowledge; heavy drinking; social policy; compassion; behavioral sciences; health policy; medical field; single disease; constructive approaches; harms; social ills; dealing with addiction; dealing with alcoholism; booze; health; science
