This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details alcohol’s status as a psychoactive drug; he notes, however, that in contrast to other psychoactive drugs, alcohol has been widely culturally accepted in Western countries and legally available, except in isolated incidents for a short period of time. Joshua considers which policies are being correctly utilised so as to reduce the abuse of alcohol, and how these policies may operate on a supply and demand model. Whereas programs of prevention and treatment operate on the demand side of alcohol abuse, legislation is directed at the supply side of alcohol; that is, dealing with marketing – product, promotion, point of sales and price.
This is the second title in a four volume series ‘The Economics of Addictive Behaviours’, consisting of three additional volumes on smoking, illicit drug abuse and overeating.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783030104214
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-030-10421-4
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 11.12.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2017
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Previously published in hardcover
- Gewicht: 187 g
- Seiten: 124
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 8 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt