Section 1. Positioning alcohol use and misuse 1. Contemplating the micro and macro of alcohol use and misuse to enable meta-understandingsIan P. Albery and Daniel Frings 2. The world's favorite drug: What we have learned about alcohol from over 500,000 respondents to the Global Drug SurveyEmma L. Davies, Cheneal Puljevic, Dean Connolly, Ahnjili Zhuparris, Jason A. Ferris and Adam R. Winstock 3. Transparency and replication in alcohol researchKatie Drax and Marcus R. MunafoSection 2. Within the body and mind 4. Alcohol and mental health: Co-occurring alcohol use and mental health disordersRaffaella Margherita Milani and Luisa Perrino 5. The pharmacological understandings of alcohol use and misuseAbigail Rose and Andrew Jones 6. Learning from the dead: How death provides insights into alcohol-related harmShane Darke Section 3. The individual 7. Levels of cognitive understanding: Reflective and impulsive cognition in alcohol use and misuseDinkar Sharma and James Cane 8. Social cognition in severe alcohol use disorderFabien D'Hondt, Benjamin Rolland and Pierre Maurage 9. Metacognitive therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: Theoretical foundations and treatment principlesGiovanni Mansueto, Gabriele Caselli and Marcantonio M. Spada 10. Promoting problem recognition amongst harmful drinkers: A conceptual model for problem framing factorsJames Morris, Ian P. Albery, Antony C. Moss and Nick Heather 11. A psychological-systems goal-theory model of alcohol consumption and treatmentW. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger 12. Alcohol consumption in context: The effect of psych-socio-environmental driversRebecca Monk and Derek HeimSection 4. The group 13. I can keep up with the best: The role of social norms in alcohol consumption and their use in interventionsSandra Kuntsche, Robin Room and Emmanuel Kuntsche 14. Alcohol consumption and group decision makingHirotaka Imada, Tim Hopthrow and Dominic Abrams 15. An identity-based explanatory framework for alcohol use and misuseDaniel Frings and Ian P. AlberySection 5. Cultural questions 16. Alcohol consumption and cultural systems: Global similarities and differencesMiyuki Fukushima Tedor 17. Alcohol and the legal system: Effects of alcohol on eyewitness testimonyJulie Gawrylowicz and Georgina Bartlett 18. Spiritual and religious influencesParamabandhu Groves 19. Alcohol use in adolescence across U.S. race/ethnicity: Considering cultural factors in prevention and interventionsLeah M. Bouchard, Sunny H. Shin and Karen G. Chartier 20. Alcohol use and misuse: Perspectives from seldom heard voicesTran H. Le, Anthony M. Foster, Phoenix R. Crane and Amelia E. TalleySection 6. Taking it into practice 21. Theory-driven interventions: How social cognition can helpKristen P. Lindgren, Angelo M. DiBello, Kirsten P. Peterson and Clayton Neighbors 22. Taking social identity into practiceGenevieve A. Dingle, Isabella Ingram, Catherine Haslam and Peter J. Kelly 23. Working together: Opportunities and barriers to evidence-based practiceJan Larkin and Daniel Donkor 24. Transdermal alcohol monitors: Research, applications, and future directionsCatharine E. Fairbairn and Dahyeon Kang 25. Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives from behavioral economics, psychology, and decision modelingAmber Copeland, Tom Stafford and Matt FieldSection 7. Future directions 26. Alcohol addiction: A disorder of self-regulation but not a disease of the brainNick Heather

Alcohol use is complex and multifaceted. Our understanding must be also. Alcohol use, both problematic and not, can be understood at many levels - from basic biological systems through to global public health interventions. To provide the multi-level perspective needed to address this complexity, the Handbook of Alcohol Use draws together an eclectic set of authors, including both researchers and practitioners, to examine the causes, processes and effects of alcohol consumption. Specifically, this book approaches the topic from biological, individual cognition, small group/systems, and domestic/global population perspectives. Each examines alcohol use differently and each offers its own ways to combat problematic behavior. While these alternative viewpoints are sometimes construed as incompatible or antagonistic, the current volume also explores how they can be complimentary.In summary, the Handbook of Alcohol Use brings together an international group of experts to explore how alcohol use can be understood from various perspectives and how these conceptualizations relate. In doing so, it allows us to understand alcohol consumption, and our responses to it, more from an account which spans `from synapse to society'.

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