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: 9783319544243
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-54424-3
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.05.2017
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2017
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 2838 g
- Seiten: 124
- Format (B x H): 148 x 210 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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