Changes in Patient-Reported Alcohol-Related Advice Following Veterans Health Administration Implementation of Brief Alcohol Interventions

Brief interventions and alcohol use.

Brief interventions for alcohol misuse.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ 1 As the burden of alcohol misuse — in terms of disease, trauma and social problems — grows in Canada, increased access to brief interventions is recommended. Such access forms part of a comprehensive two-tiered response involving population-level changes, such as regulating the marketing, pricing and availability of alcohol, and more focused prac...

Brief interventions for alcohol problems: factors that facilitate implementation.

Brief interventions are gaining favor as a means of addressing the problems associated with hazardous and harmful drinking. Brief interventions commonly target people whose levels or patterns of use are not diagnosable as alcohol abuse or dependence. These interventions usually are delivered by professionals who do not specialize in alcoholism treatment, and they include treatment elements desi...

International Health Problems Related to Alcohol Abuse

The harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. Given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. It has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...

Brief Interventions Implementation on Alcohol from the European Health Systems Perspective

Alcohol-related health problems are important public health issues and alcohol remains one of the leading risk factors of chronic health conditions. In addition, only a small proportion of those who need treatment access it, with figures ranging from 1 in 25 to 1 in 7. In this context, screening and brief interventions (SBI) have proven to be effective in reducing alcohol consumption and alcoho...