What is it about?
Growing number of retired workers will present alcohol and drug misuse. Bamberger & Bacharach showed their research on aging and retirement in relation to substance use and how to deal with it.
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Why is it important?
This timely book shows that there are several trajectories of alcohol and drug use among retired people.
Perspectives
Retirement is a normal transitional stage of one's occupational life. Unprepared people tend to engage in problematic drinking patterns.
Dr Yuan-Pang Wang
Universidade de Sao Paulo Campus da Capital
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This page is a summary of: Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic: the Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse-and What To Do About it by Peter A.Bamberger & Samuel B.Bacharach Oxford University Press, New York NY, 2014, 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-937412-0 (hard, Addiction, April 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/add.12927.
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