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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This provocative and controversial book challenges a number of widely held ideas in the alcohol/drug field by critically evaluating the bases of these ideas. The field of alcohol/drug studies is fraught with conflict and controversy, and each generation of researchers and practitioners seems to have its own special areas of conflict. In this new volume, experts focus on a number of important... Read more
Contents, Foreword
- The Perils of Powell: In Search of a Factual Foundation for the “Disease Concept of Alcoholism”
- The Heritability of Alcoholism: Science and Social Policy
- Is Risk for Alcoholism Predictable? A Probabilistic Approach to a Developmental Problem
- The Problems of Nosology in Alcoholism Treatment and Research
- On Terms Used and Abused: The Concept of “Codependency”
- Adult Children of Alcoholics: Is It Really a Separate Field for Study?
- The New Temperance Movement: Through the Looking-Glass
- Public Policy on Alcohol and Illicit Drugs
- THE GREAT DRUG DEBATE
- Taking Drugs Seriously
- Don’t Legalize Drugs
Biography
Edith F. Gomberg
