In the early 1980s teenage drinking had become one of the many foci for expressions of
concern about young peoples' morals, health and discipline. Yet we knew very little about …

Originally published in 1993, Adolescent Drinking and Family Life portrays teenage drinking,
not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the …

A significant minority of 1990s youth are drinking more alcohol, smoking more tobacco
and/or using more illicit drugs despite a decade of major political and policy initiatives …

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

THE period since the Second World War has seen adolescence and young adulthood
established as stages in the life cycle during which individuals ex-perience novel forms of …

The liquor control school of thought of the 1890s–1930s offered a clear alternative to alcohol
prohibition, much as today some strands of harm-reduction thinking are an alternative to …

In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their
prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best …

Studies of Australian teenagers' drinking patterns, beliefs and attitudes toward the use of
beverage alcohol are reviewed and discussed. In a culture where alcohol use is widespread …

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative effort by an international group of
addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It …

Drinkers derive both pleasure and pain from drinking, but harm may come also to others.
Through religious or secular rules, societies have sought to limit these “externalities” of …