Alcohol Problems in the United States
Subtitle: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective (Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, V. 20, No. 3/4) (Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, V. 20, No. 3/4)
Contributors: Thomas F. McGovern (Editor); William L. White (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780789020482
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; therapy; Medical; Health Risk Assessment; Medical / Nursing; United States; Treatment; Neurology - General; Alcoholism; 20th century; History; History of Medicine, 20th Cent.
First sentence: SUMMARY. Although the idea of "illness" helped many early and later members of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) to understand their alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous neither originated nor promulgated the disease concept of alcoholism.