Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy (Oxford Medical Publications)

Babor, Thomas F.

ISBN 10: 0199551146 / ISBN 13: 9780199551149

Published by Oxford University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy (Oxford Medical Publications)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199551146
• ISBN 13: 9780199551149
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

From a public health perspective, alcohol is no ordinary consumer product. On a global level, it is a major contributor to disease, disability, premature mortality, and impacts upon social life. This is a new edition of a hugely successful book that looks at research in this unique field, and also the public policy that derives from this research.

About the Author

Thomas Babor is a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He holds the University's Physicians Health Service endowed chair in Public Health and Community Medicine. Dr. Babor received his doctoral degree in social psychology from the University of Arizona in 1971. He spent several years in postdoctoral research training in social psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and subsequently served as head of social science research at McLean Hospital's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center in Belmont, Massachusetts. Since 1997 he has been chairman of the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief as well as Regional Editor of the international journal, Addiction. His research interests include screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation, as well as cultural and policy issues to alcohol and drug problems.