Nick Heather & Tim Stockwell 
The Essential Handbook of Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol Problems [PDF ebook] 

About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
PART I: TREATMENT AND RECOVERY (Editor: Nick
Heather).
Editor’s Introduction.
Chapter 1: The Effectiveness of Treatment (Janice M. Brown).
Chapter 2: Assessment for Brief Intervention and Treatment
(Malissa Yang & Harvey Skinner).
Chapter 3: Alcohol Withdrawal and Detoxification (Duncan
Raistrick).
Chapter 4: Pharmacological Treatments (Jonathan Chick).
Chapter 5: Cognitive-behavioural Alcohol Treatment (George A.
Parks, G. Alan Marlatt & Britt K. Anderson).
Chapter 6: Relapse Prevention Therapy (George A. Parks, Britt K.
Anderson & G. Alan Marlatt).
Chapter 7: Motivational Interviewing (Stephen Rollnick &
Jeff Allison).
Chapter 8: Brief Interventions (Nick Heather).
Chapter 9: Treating Comorbidity of Alcohol Problems and
Psychiatric Disorder (Kim T. Mueser & David Kavanagh).
Chapter 10: Natural Recovery from Alcohol Problems (Harald K.-H.
Klingemann).
Chapter 11: Alcoholics Anonymous and Other Mutual Aid Groups
(Chad Emrick).
PART II: PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL PROBLEMS (Editor: Tim
Stockwell).
Editor’s Introduction.
Chapter 12: Effects of Price and Taxation (Esa
Österberg).
Chapter 13: Controls on the Physical Availability of Alcohol
(Tim Stockwell & Paul Gruenewald).
Chapter 14: Creating Safer Drinking Environments (Ross Homel,
Gillian Mc Ilwain & Russell Carvolth).
Chapter 15: Prevention of Alcohol-related Road Crashes (A. James
Mc Knight & Robert B. Voas).
Chapter 16: Prevention at the Local Level (Andrew J. Treno &
Harold D. Holder).
Chapter 17: Alcohol Education in Schools (Richard Midford &
Nyanda Mc Bride).
Chapter 18: Mass Media Marketing and Advocacy to Reduce
Alcohol-related Harm (Kevin Boots & Richard Midford).
Chapter 19: Alcohol Advertising and Sponsorship: Commercial
Freedom or Control in the Public Interest? (Linda Hill & Sally
Casswell).
Author Index.
Subject Index.

After working for ten years as a clinical psychologist in the UK
National Health Service, in 1979 Nick Heather developed and
led the Addictive Behaviours Research Group at the University of
Dundee. In 1987 he became founding Director of the National Drug
and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South
Wales, Australia. He returned to the UK at the beginning of 1994 and
is now Emeritus Professor of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies at
Northumbria University. He has published many scientific articles,
books, book chapters and other publications, mostly in the area of
addictions and with an emphasis on the treatment of alcohol
problems.
Tim Stockwell has been Director of the National Drug
Research Institute, Curtin University, Western Australia (formerly
the National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse)
since June 1996 and served as Deputy Director for seven years prior
to that. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University,
obtained a Ph D at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of
London, and is a qualified clinical psychologist. He served as
Regional Editor for Australasia of the journal Addiction for
6 years and has published over 140 research papers, book chapters
and monographs, plus several books on prevention and treatment
issues. His current interests include alcohol taxation, liquor
licensing legislation and the assessment of alcohol consumption and
related problems at the community, regional and national levels. He
has worked as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the
United Nations Drug Control Program.