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Broadening the base of treatment for alcohol problems
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This article is published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.The article was published on 1991-01-01. It has received 659 citations till now.read more
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Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption-II
TL;DR: The AUDIT provides a simple method of early detection of hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary health care settings and is the first instrument of its type to be derived on the basis of a cross-national study.
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Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol Dependence: The COMBINE Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Raymond F. Anton,Stephanie S. O'Malley,Domenic A. Ciraulo,Ron A. Cisler,David Couper,Dennis M. Donovan,David R. Gastfriend,James D. Hosking,Bankole A. Johnson,Joseph S. LoCastro,Richard Longabaugh,Barbara J. Mason,Margaret E. Mattson,William R. Miller,Helen M. Pettinati,Carrie L. Randall,Robert M. Swift,Roger D. Weiss,Lauren D. Williams,Allen Zweben +19 more
TL;DR: Patients receiving medical management with naltrexone, CBI, or both fared better on drinking outcomes, whereas acamprosate showed no evidence of efficacy, with or without CBI.
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The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): validation of a screening instrument for use in medical settings.
TL;DR: The AUDIT Core Instrument is useful for early detection of hazardous or harmful drinking, while the AUDIT Clinical Instrument is better applied to identification and/or confirmation of cases of alcohol dependence.
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Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): Toward a Public Health Approach to the Management of Substance Abuse.
Thomas F. Babor,Bonnie McRee,Patricia A. Kassebaum,Paul L. Grimaldi,Kazi Ahmed,Jeremy W. Bray +5 more
TL;DR: The results of these efforts demonstrate the cumulative benefit of translational research on health care delivery systems and substance abuse policy and that SBIRT yields short-term improvements in individuals' health is irrefutable.
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Gender differences in risk factors and consequences for alcohol use and problems.
TL;DR: Women drink less alcohol and have fewer alcohol-related problems than men, and are more likely to have certain protective factors against these problems, while consequences of heavy alcohol use, or alcohol use disorders, appear to be more negative for women than men.