Herbert Fingarette, a distinguished professor at the University of California, has been a consultant on alcoholism and addiction to the World Health Organization, and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. His work has had a significant influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, state supreme courts, and current national policy makers on substance abuse.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONWhat Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn'tPART 1The Classic Disease Concept of AlcoholismCHAPTER 1Where Did We Get the Idea That AlcoholismIs a Disease?CHAPTER 2Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?CHAPTER 3What Causes Alcoholism?CHAPTER 4Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?PART 2New Approaches to Heavy DrinkingCHAPTER 5Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of LifeCHAPTER 6Helping the Heavy DrinkerCHAPTER 7Social Policies to Prevent and ControlHeavy DrinkingAFTERWORDWORKS CITEDINDEX

Herbert Fingarette, a distinguished professor at the University of California, has been a consultant on alcoholism and addiction to the World Health Organization, and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. His work has had a significant influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, state supreme courts, and current national policy makers on substance abuse.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONWhat Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn'tPART 1The Classic Disease Concept of AlcoholismCHAPTER 1Where Did We Get the Idea That AlcoholismIs a Disease?CHAPTER 2Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?CHAPTER 3What Causes Alcoholism?CHAPTER 4Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?PART 2New Approaches to Heavy DrinkingCHAPTER 5Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of LifeCHAPTER 6Helping the Heavy DrinkerCHAPTER 7Social Policies to Prevent and ControlHeavy DrinkingAFTERWORDWORKS CITEDINDEX