Butler, Shane. <br/><br/>
Alcohol, drugs and health promotion in modern Ireland / 
Shane Butler. 
 - Dublin :  Institute of Public Administration,  2002. 
 - ix, 255 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781902448770 (pbk.) :  £15.80 9781902448770 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003427549 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Health promotion--Ireland<br/>Drug abuse--Treatment--Ireland<br/>Alcoholism--Treatment--Ireland<br/>Alcoholism--Prevention--Ireland<br/>Drug abuse--Prevention--Ireland<br/>Health promotion--History--Ireland--20th century<br/>Health and Wellbeing.<br/>Illness & addiction: social aspects<br/>Health systems & services
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV5000.I73 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.2909417 BUT