{"product_id":"current-issues-in-alcoholdrug-studies-9780866569651","title":"Current Issues in AlcoholDrug Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 issues of current interest and controversy. Is alcoholism a “disease” or is it not? Should federal bans on drugs like heroin and cocaine be removed and will that solve, modify, or exacerbate the problem? Can the risk for alcoholism really be predicted?Professionals from a very wide variety of disciplines--medicine and biochemistry, psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, anthropology, law, social work, and journalism--present their very differing points of view on the perception of alcoholism as a disease and on public policy issues like proposed legislative controls \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents \u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Perils of Powell: In Search of a Factual Foundation for the “Disease Concept of Alcoholism” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Heritability of Alcoholism: Science and Social Policy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Is Risk for Alcoholism Predictable? A Probabilistic Approach to a Developmental Problem \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Problems of Nosology in Alcoholism Treatment and Research \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e On Terms Used and Abused: The Concept of “Codependency” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Adult Children of Alcoholics: Is It Really a Separate Field for Study? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The New Temperance Movement: Through the Looking-Glass \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Public Policy on Alcohol and Illicit Drugs \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e THE GREAT DRUG DEBATE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Taking Drugs Seriously \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Don’t Legalize Drugs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090758824279,"sku":"9780866569651","price":71.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780866569651.jpg?v=1762273345","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/current-issues-in-alcoholdrug-studies-9780866569651","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}