Alcohol in America : drinking practices and problems /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1991. |
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| Description: | xi, 380 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in new social studies on alcohol and drugs |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1257538 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- Part II. Methods
- 2. Some Comments on Methods
- 3. Measuring Alcohol Consumption in the U.S.: Methods and Rationales
- 4. A Note on Measuring Drinking Problems in the 1984 National Alcohol Survey
- Part III. Overview
- 5. The Demographic Distribution of Drinking Patterns in 1984
- 6. The Demographic Distribution of Drinking Problems in 1984
- Part IV. Trends
- 7. Changes in American Drinking Patterns and Problems, 1967 - 1984
- 8. Trends in U.S. Drinking Patterns: Further Evidence from the Past Twenty Years
- 9. Trends in Drinking Problems and Attitudes in the U.S., 1979 - 1984
- 10. Cultural Changes in Drinking and Trends in Alcohol Problems Indicators: Recent U.S. Experience
- Part V. Problems
- 11. Conceptions of Alcohol Problems
- 12. The U.S. General Population's Experiences with Responses to Alcohol Problems
- 13. Demographic Characteristics and the Frequency of Heavey Drinking as Predictors of Self-Reported Drinking Problems
- 14. The Effect of Average Daily Consumption and Frequency of Intoxication on the Occurrence of Dependence Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Problems
- 15. Higher and Lower Levels of Self-Reported Problems among Heavy Drinkers
- Part VI. Contexts
- 16. Introduction to Drinking Contexts
- 17. Regional Diversity in U.S. Drinking Practices
- 18. The Presence of Alcohol in Four Social Situations: Survey Results from 1964 and 1984
- Part VII. Blacks And Hispanics
- 19. Findings from the 1984 National Survey of Alcohol Use among U.S. Hispanics
- 20. Drinking Patterns in the Black Populations
- Appendix
- 21. One Approach to Oversampling Blacks and Hispanics: The National Alcohol Survey
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index