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Abstracts & Reviews : Alcohol Problems in the Community edited by Larry Harrison. 1996. London, New York: Routledge. Cloth: $80.95 Canadian, ISBN 0-415- 11043-2, 275 pages. Also available in paperback

The main weakness of the volume is its repetitive content. It seems that the contributors were given a wide degree of freedom to develop their theme without being aware that the same background information was presented by other authors as well. Time and again, the reader comes across the same conclusions, e.g., that pain in the elderly is not different from that in the young. Toward the end of the book, the repetition becomes irritating. Having been so critical, I conclude by emphasizing that the strengths of this volume outweigh its weaknesses. Every clinician who has elderly patients in his care will benefit from a reminder of the diffi-