Drinking prototypes, programs and alliances.(Drinking in context: Patterns, Interventions, and Partnerships)(Book review)

Publication: Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education

Publication Date: 01-MAR-07

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Stimson, G., Grant, M., Choquet, M., & Garrison, P. (2007). Drinking in context. Patterns, interventions, and partnerships. New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. [Hardbound; ISBN-10 0-415-95447-9; $ 49.95]

Drinking alcohol is responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality. In the United States, 14 million people are dependent on alcohol and in 1995, 105,000 deaths occurred from alcohol abuse (McGinnis, & Foege, 1999). One study found that approximately 4.8% of all the deaths and 9.7% of all disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in the year 2000 were attributable to drinking (Rehm & Monteiro, 2005). In 2001 binge drinking episodes in the US were found to be 1.5 billion with 7.4 episodes per person per year (Naimi, Brewer, Mokdad, Denny, Serdula, Marks, 2003). It is in this context that a policy book on alcohol is very much needed and this book serves that need.

The book is organized into ten chapters. The first chapter is called new solutions to changing problems and...

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