Alcohol: The Prevention Debate

In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best be prevented. Many different strategies were put forward as solutions but some were in competition with each other, while some were actually incompatible.

Originally published in 1983, what this book does is to draw together a cross section of these different and competing voices so as to give a sense of the qual...