ABSTRACT
The AAETPs were expected to “upgrade the qualifications of personnel in alcoholism education and treatment, promote alcohol education and training among service providers, increase public's awareness of alcoholism in order to facilitate early identification of problem drinkers, and identify the special education needs of target populations such as high risk, low income, and minority groups”. NIAAA and state of California have supported a training program for clergy interested in alcohol and other drug problems at Berkeley Center for Alcohol Studies at the Pacific School of Religion, which lays claim to giving the first masters degree in alcohol studies in world. Terms like “modern” and “dynamic” described the clearing-house. Respectful credit was given to Rutgers with one hand and taken away with the other. On the other hand, the Clearinghouse was a new experiment whose scope of purpose and future were largely unknown, with a potential audience of hundreds of thousands, having a broad public/popular as well as technical information focus.
