Drinking : alcohol in American society, issues and current research / editors, John A. Ewing, Beatrice A. Rouse.

Chicago : Nelson-Hall, [1978], ©1978.

xi, 443 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Drinks, drinkers, and drinking / John A. Ewing & Beatrice A. Rouse -- 5,000 years of drinking / Archer Tongue -- 200 years of drinking in the United States : evolution of the disease concept / Richard W. Howland & Joe W. Howland -- Medical complications of excessive drinking / Harold J. Fallon & Henry R. Lesesne -- The medical examiner looks at drinking / Page Hudson -- Social and psychiatric considerations of drinking / John A. Ewing -- Drinking and highway safety / Patricia F. Waller -- How risky is drinking? / John A. Ewing -- Formal and informal social controls over drinking / Ira H. Cisin --Prohibition norms and teenage drinking / Gerald Globetti -- College drinking and other drug use / Beatrice A. Rouse & John A. Ewing -- Does your moderate drinking indicate psychologial dependence on alcohol? / Kenneth C. Mills -- Relationship of state law to per capita drinking / Ben F. Loeb, Jr. -- Government control measures to prevent hazardous drinking / Robert Popham, Wolfgang Schmidt, & Jan de Ling -- Evaluating the effect of drinking laws on drinking / Robin Room --Drinking laws in the Commonwealth of Virginia / Wayne W. Womer -- Legal controls of drinking, public drunkenness, and alcoholism treatment / Frank Grad -- An overview of drinking behaviors and social policies / Beatrice A. Rouse & John A. Ewing