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Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician's Guide
Clinician's Guide and Related Professional Support Resources
This updated guide presents the same approach to alcohol screening and intervention as in the original 2005 Guide. It provides two methods for alcohol screening: a single question (about heavy drinking days) to use during a clinical interview and a written self-report.
The updates to this guide include a new medications management program that consists of brief, structured outpatient sessions designed for easy use in non-specialty outpatient settings by physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals; a new handout with strategies to help patients cut down on drinking or quit; a new page on the NIAAA web site devoted to the Guide with video case studies and supporting resources for clinicians and patients; and information about a newly approved, injectable drug to treat alcohol dependence.
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/EducationTrainingMaterials/guide.htm
Publication Year: 2007
Publisher National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9304 Bethesda, md 20892 Phone: 301-443-3885 Website: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
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Boston University School of Public Health 
