Culmination of five years of research and effort by the National Planning Committee on Training in the Addictions Field (NPC), a Working Group of the Federal Provincial Sub-Committee on Alcohol and Other Drug Problems.

The contents alternate monthly: Original articles in odd-numbered months; Current literature in even-numbered months.

Includes sections "Activities of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol" and "Current literature."

Clinical Ethics introduces the four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). Each of the four chapters represents one of the topics. In each chapter, the authors discuss cases and provide comments and recommendations. The four-topics method is an organizational process by which clinicians can begin to understand the complexities involved in ethical cases and can proceed to find a solution for each case.