ALCOHOLISM AND SOCIAL SERVICE.

[Alcoholism as a psychiatric and social problem].

Alcoholism effects on social migration and neighborhood effects on alcoholism over the course of 12 years.

BACKGROUND Although a short-term effect of neighborhood characteristics on individual alcohol abuse has been demonstrated by a quasi-experimental residential mobility study, the obversed effect of alcohol problem involvement on place of residence and residential character has not been studied. We test the alcoholism effect on place of residence, and we also attempt to replicate the neighborhood...

Alcoholism in social classes and occupations in Sweden.

BACKGROUND A number of studies have shown variations in the occurrence of alcoholism between different socioeconomic groups and occupations, but it has not been clear to what extent this is related to the average alcohol consumption in the same socioeconomic groups or occupations. METHODS The relationship between socioeconomic group and occupation and hospital discharge 1981-1983 due to 'diag...

Day treatment for alcoholism in a general hospital psychiatric service.

In this paper a time limited, cost effective day treatment program for alcoholics, and characteristics of patients entering this treatment program, are described. The advantages of this day treatment program are discussed with special emphasis on its relationship with other community service agencies, with the community at large and, with a General Hospital Mental Health service, of which it is...

SOCIAL THOUGHT, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ALCOHOLISM: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF AA's LINKAGE WITH OTHER ENTITIES

Social thought on alcoholism can be classified into various traditions, all of which have ignored the literature on social movements. In the instance of what is known as the disease model, critics claim the approach blames the alcoholic. The argument is presented that the social movement perspective suggests that the victim of what passes as the politics of social policy formation will be the o...