… was seen as prima facie evidence that alcohol or drinking did not cause alcoholism.” … In
dealing with the politics of the social problem of alcohol use, and focusing on the growth of this …

… and state revenue encouraged alcohol and drug consumption until rising social costs forced
… Or so I argued in Forces of Habit, a 2001 book on the history of alcohol and drugs. Yet, even …

… will allow us to make a balanced appraisal of the commitment to alcohol control and
alcohol-related … This measure tells us nothing about illicitly produced alcohol, legal sales that are …

… international social alcohol research society ‘the KBS’—the Kettil Bruun … The history of
alcoholic beverages shows that drinking has served many purposes for the individual and society. …

… community agents' by which we mean agents operating in the community who do not
specialize in responding to drinking … The earliest evidence of man shows alcoholic beverages …

… in the United States. Those drugs that depress brain activity are discussed in the following
chapters: • Chapter 6 Alcohol use from a pharmacological perspective and from a social …

… For at least the last 200 years in US history, substance misuse (primarily alcohol) has been
viewed as an immoral or sinful activity and addiction as a somewhat mysterious, or at least …

… One recent study shows that people with a family history of alcohol-use disorders get a
bigger dopamine rush when they anticipate a drink than do people without that family …

… When he exclaimed, “Another tragedy of the public drinking cup!” I eagerly met his remark
with the assurance that I did not use public drinking cups, that I had used my own cup for years…

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and
television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology…