'I can enthusiastically recommend this book as an essential text in the libraries of academicians, teachers, clinicians, researchers, and policy makers. The quality and scope of the work are groundbreaking.' American Journal of Psychiatry 'Another fine effort in the series which always presents authoritative reviews by leading researchers and clinicians in the field of alcoholism.' Journal of Studies on Alcohol 'The contributors to this volume, world authorities in their subject, review the state of biomedical science and clinical practices in alcoholism. The research tools described are spectacular, and progress seems to remarkable...a tightly written and extensively annotated text. This amount of authoritative, cutting-edge information is available in no other single source.' READINGS (March 1999)