Alcoholism in North America, Europe, and Asia

In the early 1980s, the National Institutes of Mental Health sponsored the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) survey, the largest psychiatric, epidemiologic study ever done in the US. The diagnostic instrument developed for this survey, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), has now received numerous translations and is being used for clinical and epidemiologic work throughout the world.

This volume reviews population survey findings for alcoholism across cultural regions in North America, Europe and Asia. The book carefully descirbes the background of the various surveys and the methods of analysis and comparison.