… This may be a prelude to brief intervention to reduce alcohol- … Part of the assessment may
focus on these issues and a … rigorous research of peer support groups to date, there remains …

… of new evidence into practice is an ongoing challenge. The … remaining articles were primarily
excluded due to no use of a clinical champion, or no use of intervention in drug and alcohol …

… The remaining primary care based studies in Table 1 used computer simulation to estimate
the … Challenges applying alcohol brief intervention in diverse practice settings: populations, …

… Rates of alcohol and cannabis use remain perniciously high … Reference lists of available
clinical practice guidelines and … Examples included wait lists or pamphlets regarding issues …

… separately for outcomes measured at short, medium, and … ; in the remaining study the
intervention was started during … from lifestyle issues of excess consumption of alcohol, obesity, and …

… to have longer inpatient stays and that longer inpatient stays are … presenting with more severe
clinical issues.6 For example, in their … In summary, several forms of empirically supported …

… even if ongoing drinking falls short of traditional definitions of … prevalence than in earlier
cohorts, with risk remaining high … Conducting this kind of research is challenging because it …

… have only included alcohol interventions within their review. … Each of the reference lists of
the remaining papers were … sizes, assessment times, summary of statistical evidence, effect …

… ) and low in the remaining studies. Performance bias (blinding of … Given how challenging it
is to find differences in clinical … Thus, a relatively brief clinical intervention (AA/TSF) can help …

… In summary, different factors seem important to recovery at … we must remain alert to the
limitations of our alcohol treatment … This chapter will discuss some issues which have not yet had …