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 …

INTRODUCTION A main focus of economic studies of alcohol is to examine the price
sensitivity of the demand for alcoholic beverages. Similar to other empirical demand …

Background: There is growing evidence for recent declines in adolescent alcohol use in the
Western world. While these changes have been subject to scientific debate, the reasons for …

Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this
hardhitting exposè of US efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a …

The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist
around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the …

What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The
answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives …

This paper describes the evolution of efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease, from
individual health education approaches to broader community education efforts and, finally …

This book reflects the influence of my mentor, Dr. Ephraim H. Mizruchi of Syracuse
University, who has had a major impact on my intellectual development. Also more important …

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by
the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others–from alcohol and tobacco …

Social problems have careers that ebb and flow independent of the" objective" incidence of
the behaviors thought to constitute them. Th is nowhere more amply illustrated than in the …