Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a DiseaseHeavy 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. |
Contents
What Science Now Knows but the Public Doesnt | 1 |
The Classic Disease Concept of Alcoholism | 11 |
Where Did We Get the Idea That Alcoholism Is a Disease? | 13 |
Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking? | 31 |
What Causes Alcoholism? | 48 |
Have Alcoholism Treatments Really Worked? | 70 |
New Approaches to Heavy Drinking | 97 |
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