Product Description: Throughout history, and across cultures, alcohol has affected the fabric of society through abuse and addiction, contributed to violence and accidents, and caused injuries and health issues. In Alcohol: Its History, Pharmacology, and Treatment, part of Hazelden's Library of Addictive Drugs series, Cheryl Cherpitel, Dr...read more

Product Description: A controversial and persuasive analysis of addictionA tour de force, a spectacular effort of research and understanding. This book gives us the courage to bypass disease notions to deal with intrapsychic, family system, and social and cultural dynamics in addiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Joseph R. Gusfield has been for decades the most creative, penetrating, and far-sighted sociologist of alcohols ambiguous place in American society. Combining the perspectives and methods of historian, anthopologist, and sociologist, Gusfield brings together in this volume many of his most important articles from a span of twenty years, as well as several fascinating but little-known ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a previously unpublished study of court-mandated programs for convicted drinking-drivers...read more

Product Description: Drawing from socio-cultural and social psychological theories and using the social learning perspective as the unifying perspective of the book, Akers helps students gain a deeper understanding of drugs and alcohol as social phenomena. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Challenges the myth that alcoholism and drug use are biochemical diseases necessitating medical treatment, treatment that has become big business, and emphasizes our strength and capacity to change by choice

Product Description: These 22 essays address social and cultural factors affecting the use and abuse of alcohol and other substances in various sub-populations. These include: adolescents, the elderly, women, physicians, nurses, the poor, the upper-middle-classes, Mexican-Americans, oriental Jews and black students...read more

An investigative report on the effects of social drinking sorts out all the available information pertaining to the amount of alcoholic beverages drank by Americans in social settings