Books in the Sage Library of Health and Social Welfare Series series

This Major Work compiles literature demonstrating the different lessons that have been learned in this vast area of important research, pulling out common elements, where possible, and helping to clarify the nature of the differences.

Detailing historical and scientific perspectives, this set identifies important turning points in research and practice, and indicates key challenges for the future of global health.

This is the first multi volume reference work to explore drugs and alcohol from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions are drawn from an international field of excellence and draw on a wide range of approaches, including: psychology; sociology; psychiatry; anthropology; criminology and economics.

This Major Work collection takes a comparative approach, looking both historically and internationally at this very important subject area, including a comprehensive introduction to the whole work as well as introductions to each of the volumes.