A heavily fact-based information book on drinking, its history, how the various kinds of alcohol are made, the affects of advertising and peer pressure, how alcoholism affects the health service, how and why we are exposed to it in everyday life, legal matters, and treatment and counselling. There is a range of organisations and counselling services listed, as well as a bibliography of further reading, a glossary and an index. Useful for project work in schools as well as a means of convincing youngsters to be moderate in their drinking.