Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease

Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease by Fingarette, Herbert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520062900.

Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, including new methods of helping heavy drinkers and social policies for preventing heavy drinking and the harms associated with it.