an efficient method is described for the mild and rapid tetrahydropyranylation of alcohols and phenols using a catalytic amount of n-chlorosaccharin (1 mol %) and 3, 4-dihydro-2h-pyran under solvent-free condition at room temperature. benzylic alcohols and phenols containing electron withdrawing or donating groups in various positions of phenyl ring, cinamyl alcohol, primary, secondary, tertiar...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to examine access to care for people with alcohol use disorders. METHOD An alcohol screening questionnaire was completed by 444 respondents in a community survey. During a designated week, 1009 patients presenting in primary care were assessed by their doctor and 773 of these completed the same questionnaire. Over a six month period 223 people with ...

Alcohol is one of the most common causes of liver disease after the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). 80% of deaths from liver disease, 60% of cirrhosis and 50% of deaths from cirrhosis are alcohol related. In addition, the association between alcoholdependance and HCV infection is the primary cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [4, 5]. With the introduction of new Direct-Acting Antivirals (DDAs) du...

Screening in primary care is widely recommended (e.g. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), and is increasingly targeted for improvement. As health care payers try to influence the implementation and delivery of alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI), some are using provider payment approaches. These include specific reimbursement...

AIMS While laws restrict alcohol access to youth under the age of 16/18 (fermented/distilled beverages) in Switzerland, direct underage accessibility is high. Focusing on underage youth, our study presents an inventory of primary and alternative modes of access to alcohol and investigates associations with youth characteristics. METHODS Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and...

BACKGROUND Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has substantially reduced morbidity and mortality for HIV patients. In South Africa, with the largest ART programme globally, attention is needed not only on the further expansion of ART coverage, but also on factors which undermine its effectiveness, such as alcohol use. OBJECTIVE Given the decentralised approach of nurse-initiated and -sustained ART...

348 ALCOHOL HEALTH & RESEARCH WORLD Numerous studies have demonstrated that many problem drinkers (i.e., people who fulfill the diagnoses of harmful drinking, alcohol abuse, or alcohol dependence) can benefit from brief physician interventions at the time of a clinic visit or from referral for alcoholism treatment (Buchsbaum 1994). To identify problem drinkers in clinical and primary care setti...

An exploration was made of attitudes and practices of general practitioners (GPs) and nurses concerning early identification of, and intervention for, alcohol-related problems. Sixty-five GPs and 141 nurses in 19 primary health centres in a county in southern Sweden answered a 28-item questionnaire before implementation of an intervention programme. The questionnaire covered experiences with pa...

Treatment evaluation for alcohol problem, runaway adolescents and their families is rare. This study recruited primary alcohol problem adolescents (N = 119) and their primary caretakers from two runaway shelters and assigned them to (a) home-based ecologically based family therapy (EBFT), (b) office-based functional family therapy (FFT), or (c) service as usual (SAU) through the shelter. Findin...