Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease

Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease

Herbert Fingarette
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Publication Date: June 21st, 1989
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN:
9780520067547
Pages:
195
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Description

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.

About the Author

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.