Alcohol, drugs and health promotion in modern Ireland / Shane Butler.
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TextPublication details: Dublin : Institute of Public Administration, 2002.Description: ix, 255 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781902448770 (pbk.) :
- 9781902448770
- Health promotion -- Ireland
- Drug abuse -- Treatment -- Ireland
- Alcoholism -- Treatment -- Ireland
- Alcoholism -- Ireland -- Prevention
- Drug abuse -- Ireland -- Prevention
- Health promotion -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
- Health and Wellbeing
- Illness & addiction: social aspects
- Health systems & services
- 362.2909417 BUT
- HV5000.I73
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
1.Alcohol, drugs and health promotion: introduction -- 2.Alcoholism: the disease concept in the ascendant 1954-1972 -- 3.Conflicting paradigms: the disease concept and the public health perspective on alcohol in Ireland 1973-1988 -- 4.Formulating a national alcohol policy 1988-1996 -- 5.Health policy and illicit drug use in Ireland: the early years 1966-1979 -- 6.Policy responses to Dublin\'s opiate epidemic, 1980-1985 -- 7.Coping with \'the virus\' 1986-1996: Irish drug policy in the age of HIV -- 8.Alcohol, drugs and health promotion in modern Ireland: a conclusion.
Using a health promotion framework, this work traces the evolution of Irish health policy on alcohol and illicit drugs over a fifty year period, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1990s.