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Controlling Alcohol Abuse in Australia: from Treatment to Prevention
Author(s) -
Grichting Wolfgang L.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1983.tb02480.x
Subject(s) - per capita , intervention (counseling) , alcohol abuse , social support , environmental health , control (management) , alcohol consumption , consumption (sociology) , action (physics) , psychology , substance abuse , public economics , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , alcohol , economics , sociology , social science , population , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , management , quantum mechanics
Summary This article rests on the assumption that effective intervention into alcohol abuse and alcoholism in Australia (and elsewhere) requires greater emphasis on prevention through balanced social policy measures rather than on individual treatment through medically oriented programmes. By means of a household survey of the 12th largest city in Australia (the country with the highest per capita alcohol consumption among all English speaking countries) the pattern of support for various intervention alternatives is analysed. Next, groups which provide or withhold support for these strategies are identified. Finally the support for such hypothetical controls is compared with actual support for existing control measures in other realms of social life. On this basis specific action recommendations are offered.