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Americans' relationship with alcohol has had a checkered history. Initially, alcohol was valued for its healthy-giving properties, but later it was seen as the root cause of the country's economic and social problems. This point of view gained momentum and culminated in the Prohibition Amendment of 1920 that made the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol illegal in the United States. Prohibition only exacerbated the country's problems, and the Prohibition Amendment was repealed in 1933.

After Prohibition, with the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and the ascension of the disease model of alcoholism, alcohol problems were seen as lying within diseased individuals rather than with alcohol itself. The only solution was for people with the disease to remain abstinent from alcohol. When alcohol researchers demonstrated that individuals with an alcohol use disorder could be trained to drink alcohol in moderation, some clinicians reacted with disbelief, but other clinicians and researchers readily accepted the validity and feasibility of controlled drinking for some excessive drinkers. In the United Kingdom, the situation has been quite different.

Clinicians there have always been more ready to accept controlled drinking as a viable treatment goal than clinicians in the United States. At one point, scientists in both countries believed that drinking in moderation was healthy, especially for the cardiovascular system. By contrast, the current view is that any consumption of alcohol is detrimental to optimal health and functioning.

Referent: Prof. W. Miles Cox
Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom, specializing in the cognitive-motivational determinants of alcohol use and misuse
E-Mail: m.cox@bangor.ac.uk

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