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Library Catalogue
ALAC has an extensive collection of books, videos, journals, conference reports and proceedings. Use the search box below to find specific items or just browse the collection.
You can borrow items from the Collection through your own public, academic or organisation library via the New Zealand Inter-Library Loan Scheme.
Alcohol control policies in public health perspective
- Authors:
- Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario; Bruun, Kettil; Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies; World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
- Publisher / Year:
- The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, Helsinki, 1975
- Details:
- 106 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Classification:
- 362.2926 BRU
- ISBN:
- 9519191291 (hbk)
This report is presented as a position or 'state of the art' paper rather than as a document which seeks to offer definitive conclusions.
Interfaces between alcoholism and mental health
- Author:
- FREED, Earl X.
- Publisher / Year:
- Publications Division, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, c1982
- Classification:
- 616.861 FRE
- ISBN:
- 0911290508 (pbk)
- ISSN:
- 0147-0515
Beyond alcoholism : alcohol and public health policy
- Author:
- Beauchamp, Dan E.
- Publisher / Year:
- Temple University, Philadelphia, 1980
- Details:
- xi, 222 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Classification:
- 362.292 BEA
- ISBN:
- 0877221898 (pbk)
"This book is about the new order for alcohol that emerged after Prohibition and the set of ideas that evolved to legitimate and sustain that order, while at the same time giving a "modern" account of alcohol problems." -- Preface.
Woman and temperance : the quest for power and liberty, 1873-1900
- Author:
- BORDIN, Ruth
- Publisher / Year:
- Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1981
- Details:
- xviii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Classification:
- 363.41 BOR
- ISBN:
- 087722157X (hbk)
The substance abuse problems
- Author:
- Cohen, Sidney
- Publisher / Year:
- Haworth Press, New York, c1981
- Details:
- xiii, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
- Classification:
- 362.29 COH
- ISBN:
- 0917724224 (pbk)
0917724186 (hbk)
"[This] book has been divided into five main chapters. The first, ... describes the abuse of many legal and illegal drugs and details the effects of that abuse. The second chapter analyzes the trends in drug abuse and related the global nature of the problem. Chapters II and IV describe, respectively, the various diagnoses and treatments of certain abuse problems. Chapter V concludes with a discussion of special situations and special groups involved in the abuse of drugs." -- Introduction.
The rehabilitation of clergy alcoholics : ardent spirits subdued
- Author:
- FICHTER, Joseph H.
- Publisher / Year:
- Human Sciences Press, New York, c1982
- Details:
- 203 p. ; 22 cm.
- Classification:
- 362.2928 FIC
- ISBN:
- 0898850096 (hbk)
"The purpose of this book is to discuss alcoholic clergy who have recovered from their addiction and to investigate the rehabilitation process by which they were restored to the active ministry." -- Introduction.
Addiction and brain damage
- Author:
- RICHTER, Derek
- Publisher / Year:
- Croom Helm, London, c1980
- Classification:
- 616.863 RIC
- ISBN:
- 0709902549
Control over intoxicant use : pharmacological, psychological, and social considerations
- Authors:
- Harding, Wayne M.; Zinberg, Norman E.
- Publisher / Year:
- Human Sciences Press, New York, c1982
- Details:
- 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Classification:
- 362.29 CON
- ISBN:
- 0898850649
"This volume focuses on the interrelationship among formal institutional, informal social, and personal intrapsychic controls." -- Preface.
Broken bottles, broken dreams : understanding and helping the children of alcoholics
- Author:
- Deutsch, Charles
- Publisher / Year:
- Teachers College Press, New York, c1982
- Details:
- xiv, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
- Classification:
- 618.928619 DEU
- ISBN:
- 080772663X (pbk)
The family therapy of drug abuse and addiction
- Authors:
- STANTON, M. Duncan; TODD, Thomas C.
- Publisher / Year:
- Guilford, New York, c1982
- Classification:
- 616.863 STA
- ISBN:
- 0898620376
The encyclopedia of alcoholism
- Authors:
- Chafetz, Morris E.; O'Brien, Robert, 1932-
- Publisher / Year:
- Facts on File, New York, c1982
- Details:
- xviii, 378 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Classification:
- REF 362.292 OBR
- ISBN:
- 0871966239
Alcoholism and aging : advances in research
- Authors:
- ELIAS, Merrill F.; WOOD, W. Gibson
- Publisher / Year:
- CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, c1982
- Classification:
- 618.9768 WOO
- ISBN:
- 0849358329 (hbk)
Alcoholism and clinical psychiatry
- Author:
- Solomon, Joel
- Publisher / Year:
- Plenum Medical Book Co., New York, c1982
- Details:
- xii, 238 p.
- Classification:
- 616.861 SOL
- ISBN:
- 0306407949
A handbook for alcohol education : the community approach
- Authors:
- Mills, Kenneth C.; Neal, Edward Max; Peed-Neal, Iola
- Publisher / Year:
- Ballinger, Cambridge, MA, c1983
- Details:
- xx, 273 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Classification:
- 362.2928 MIL
- ISBN:
- 0884107264 (pbk)
"Alcohol abuse is a community problem. This handbook provides a community solution - one that can be implemented without extra funding or manpower. Using a problem-specific approach, the authors show how to identify high risk environments, events, and groups so that communities and institutions can then devise prevention - rather than prohobition - strategies." -- Book Jacket.
Addictive drinking : the road to recovery for problem drinkers and those who love them
- Author:
- VAUGHAN, Clark
- Publisher / Year:
- Viking Press, New York, 1982
- Classification:
- 616.861 VAU
- ISBN:
- 0670104795
A dictionary of words about alcohol
- Authors:
- EFRON, Vera; KELLER, Mark; McCORMICK, Mairi
- Publisher / Year:
- Publications Division, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, c1982
- Classification:
- REF 362.292 KEL
- ISBN:
- 0911290125 (hbk)
Just so it's healthy : drinking and drugs can harm your unborn baby
- Author:
- Robe, Lucy Barry
- Publisher / Year:
- CompCare Publications, Minneapolis, Minn., 1982
- Details:
- 165 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Classification:
- 618.3268 ROB
- ISBN:
- 0896380629
"This ... updated edition ... contains the latest information on drugs and alcohol used during pregnancy." -- Book Jacket.
How to control your drinking
- Authors:
- MILLER, William R.; MUNOZ, Ricardo F.
- Publisher / Year:
- University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, c1982
- Classification:
- 616.861 MIL
- ISBN:
- 082630611X
Alcoholism & homosexuality
- Authors:
- Mongeon, John E.; Ziebold, Thomas O.
- Publisher / Year:
- Haworth, New York, c1982
- Details:
- 107 p. ; 24 cm
- Classification:
- 362.29208664 ALC
- ISBN:
- 0917724933 (hbk)
The clinical management of alcoholism
- Author:
- ZIMBERG, Sheldon
- Publisher / Year:
- Brunner/Mazel, New York, c1982
- Classification:
- 616.861 ZIM
- ISBN:
- 0876303076