|Alcoholism: Prevention and Cure by Dr Courtejoie J., MD and
Pierre, B (CPS, 1983, 175 p.)| Increasing alcohol consumption as
a world problem according to the World Health Organization
Alcohol is more easily produced and more widely available than
many other substances whose effects on mood, perception or
behaviour have been used for recreational or ritualistic
purposes. A new phenomenon in the world is the rapid increase in
the production of alcoholic beverages, their increasingly wide
distribution and the more general availability of money to buy
them. So, for 20 years the consumption of alcohol has been
constantly increasing. With this increase has come a
corresponding rise in the frequency of the various undesirable
sequelae of alcoholism, such as death due to cirrhosis of the
liver, hospitalizing, road accidents, inefficiency and
absenteeism resulting from a high alcohol consumption. In many
countries, problems related to alcohol rank among the major
public health problems, and constitute in many parts o