This book is a practical guide for nurses and doctors in primary care about preventing and managing alcohol problems. It provides information on how to determine how much patients drink, how to assess the social, psychological and physical harm the alcohol may be causing, and what practical and effective advice to offer on how to stop drinking.
Peter Anderson hails from South Africa, but currently resides in Texas, where he is an associate professor of English. The author of a previous collection of poems, Vanishing Ground, his work in fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and has been anthologized in both America and South Africa. The Unspeakable is his first novel.