ABSTRACT
A variety of tests have been used to assess the effects of alcohol on relevant functions. Besides habituation a number of other variables may also affect performances under alcohol. Company managements and trade union organisations in Britain indeed behave over alcoholism in some ways rather like the alcoholic: because of the social and moral stigmata associated with alcoholism, they vigorously deny the problem and are reluctant to take corrective action. From 1966 to 1972 more alcoholism programmes were introduced there than in the previous twenty-five years. In Great Britain, apart from a handful of programmes, such programmes are generally non-existent. The incidence of alcoholism in England is half that of the USA.
