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.
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
What Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn't
PART 1
The Classic Disease Concept of Alcoholism
CHAPTER 1
Where Did We Get the Idea That Alcoholism
Is a Disease?
CHAPTER 2
Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?
CHAPTER 3
What Causes Alcoholism?
CHAPTER 4
Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?
PART 2
New Approaches to Heavy Drinking
CHAPTER 5
Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of Life
CHAPTER 6
Helping the Heavy Drinker
CHAPTER 7
Social Policies to Prevent and Control
Heavy Drinking
AFTERWORD
WORKS CITED
INDEX
