 Fingarette also influentially applied his work in moral psychology to pressing social and legal issues, particularly those surrounding addiction.In his 1988 book "Heavy Drinking", Fingarette gainsays the disease theory of alcoholism popularized by groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous.Fingarette's arguments were famously employed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1988 decision to deny VA educational benefits to two alcoholic American veterans.