Maristela Monteiro

TL;DR: This manual introduces the AUDIT, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and describes how to use it to identify persons with hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption.

TL;DR: The ASSIST items are reliable and feasible to use as part of an international screening test and can serve as the basis for more extensive validation research.

TL;DR: While average volume of consumption was related to all disease and injury categories under consideration, pattern of drinking was found to be an additional influencing factor for CHD and injury, and Alcohol is related to many major disease outcomes, mainly in a detrimental fashion.

TL;DR: The findings demonstrated that the ASSIST is a valid screening test for identifying psychoactive substance use in individuals who use a number of substances and have varying degrees of substance use.

TL;DR: Although exposure to alcohol varies considerably between regions, the overall exposure by volume is quite high and patterns are relatively detrimental, both with respect to average volume and to patterns of drinking.