The Treatment of Drinking Problems

Preface; A note on the fifth edition; Introduction; Part I. Background to Understanding: 1. Definitions of drinking problems; 2. Alcohol as a drug; 3. Causes of drinking problems; 4. Social complications and consequences; 5. Physical complications of excessive drinking; 6. Drinking problems and psychiatric co-morbidity; 7. Alcohol and other drugs; 8. Various clinical presentations; Part II. Screening, Assessment and Treatment: 9. Introduction, settings and roles; 10. Non-specialist settings; 11. Assessment as the beginning of therapy; 12. Withdrawal states and treatment of withdrawal; 13. The basic work of treatment; 14. Specialist treatment and pharmacotherapy; 15. Alcoholics Anonymous and alternatives; 16. Spiritual and religious issues in treatment; 17. Working towards normal drinking; 18. When things go wrong and putting them right; Index.