Alcohol
Subtitle: the world's favorite drug
By: Griffith Edwards.
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Alcoholism; Alcoholism -- Treatment; Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History; Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects
Notes: Originally published: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Note; title: Alcohol, what is it?; title: Alcohol, myths and metaphors; title: Short history of drunkenness; title: Thomas Nashe's menagerie; title: Alcohol is a drug of dependence; title: American Prohibition experiment; title: Calling alcoholism a disease; title: Alcoholics Anonymous; title: In the name of treatment; title: Mysterious essences of treatment; title: Once an alcoholic...; title: Molecule as medicine; title: Drinker's dilemma; title: Ambiguous futures.