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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 17, Issue 30) Peer-ReviewedALCOHOL MISUSE and abuse continues to place a significant burden not only on health services in the UK, but on families and individuals who have to live with the consequences. This chronic problem is associated with...
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From:Addiction Professional (Vol. 5, Issue 4)This is the fourth in a series of six articles designed to provide you with the latest information on the use of medications in alcohol dependence. treatment. Medications (pharmacotherapy) used as adjuncts to counseling...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 63, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective: Randomized trials are widely acknowledged to be the most rigorous method to estimate the comparative efficacy of treatments. Concerns have been raised, however, about the generalizability of findings from...
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From:Alcohol Health & Research World (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970, also known as the Hughes Act, created the NIAAA. The NIAAA is dedicated to preventing and treating alcohol-related...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 34, Issue 8)NEW ORLEANS -- A brief intervention designed to reduce drinking during a second pregnancy not only improved developmental outcomes for those infants, but for their older siblings as well, Janet R. Hankin, Ph.D., said in...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 39, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedEvery physician is well aware of the importance of preventing or stopping tobacco use among young patients and parents, yet the perceived obstacles to providing such counseling are daunting--so much so that many...
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From:Alcohol Research: Current Reviews (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHeavy drinking causes significant morbidity, premature mortality, and other social and economic burdens on society, prompting numerous prevention and treatment efforts to avoid or ameliorate the prevalence of heavy...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 326, Issue 7400) Peer-ReviewedThe abuse of alcohol is unquestionably a most pernicious thing, but mere abstinence from alcohol does not constitute temperance. It has often indeed been found that if the devil of alcohol is driven out his place may be...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective: This study examines the impact of marketing strategies on the dissemination of a brief alcohol intervention program to general practitioners (GPs). The marketing strategy was tested to determine the most...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Vol. 68, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective: This is the second of two articles in this issue on participant reactivity to alcohol treatment research assessment protocols. In the first article, Clifford et al. presented experimental evidence that the...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Vol. 68, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective: The purpose of this study was to identify the situations most commonly linked with increased drinking for different life periods and for nonproblem and problem drinkers. Method: A community sample of older...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 32, Issue 24)BOSTON -- In a study of 789 extremely heavy drinkers, sustained reduction of alcohol consumption to a moderate level was achieved with a brief intervention technique that stressed reduction rather than abstinence....
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 65, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective: This study seeks to refine the analysis of the effects of alcoholism treatment on subsequent use of medical care by examining components of the latter. Method: Claims and encounter data of 29,122 adults (mean...
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From:Re:view (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) significantly affect the lives of the individuals who experience them. Although there is no clear agreement about the extent of the AODA problem in the United States, Regier et al....
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To determine whether older patients with alcohol use disorders receive equitable treatment in community residential facilities. Method: Older male veterans with alcohol use disorders who were treated in 63...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 66, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective: The aim of the current study was to evaluate the role of beliefs about alcohol use and craving on predicting relapse as stated in Beck's cognitive theory of alcoholism in detoxified alcohol-dependent...
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From:Alcohol Health & Research World (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlcoholic employees and their family members contribute to higher health-care costs, regardless of whether or not they are treated. Research shows that alcoholism-treatment programs can help lower employers' health-care...
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From:Alcohol Health & Research World (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChafetz, the first director of the NIAAA, admits that he was prejudiced against alcoholics at first, but that he later began to enjoy working in the field of alcohol. Gordis, the current director, believes that research...
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From:Alcohol Health & Research World (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe workplace can influence employees' alcohol-consumption behavior. Work-related risk factors for alcohol abuse include stress, alienation of employees, management-labor conflicts and hostile takeovers. The workplace...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 35, Issue 22)The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has released its 2005 Clinician's Guide: "Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much." The NIAAA defines heavy drinking as having more than 5 drinks per day or 15 drinks...