Edited By Sandra Shaw and Thomasina Borkman
 
Social Model Alcohol Recovery: An Environmental Approach breaks new group in the understanding of alcoholism, alcoholics, and recovery. The social model approach described here removes healing from the professional marketplace, dramatically reducing costs without compromising results. It has proven itself effective through an impressive track record of public programs which have existed in California since the 1970’s.
 
This singular dynamic collection of essays brings together for the first time the writings of several pioneers in the field of social model recovery. Through these essays, the various perspectives of social model emerge. The applications for social model spark the imagination, and the evolution of the model into a community public health movement gives hope for broader societal change.