Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs - Peter dAbbs Nicole Hewlett Kartoniert (TB)

This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social economic and health-related disadvantage both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations such as Canada the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have continui ng relevance to all those concerned with dealing with alcohol-related harms among Aboriginal peoples These are contextualised in original chapters that recount key events ideas and programs. The book is a practical resource for all people and groups concerned with addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol-related harms both at the community level and at the level of policy-making and administration.