Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is a comprehensive and
integrated approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services through …

Issues. Although screening and brief intervention (BI) in the primary‐care setting reduces
unhealthy alcohol use, its efficacy among patients with dependence has not been …

Objective: Hospital discharge may be an opportunity to intervene among patients with
substance use disorders to reduce subsequent hospital utilization. This study determined …

Background: The efficacy of brief intervention in reducing alcohol consumption is well
established for selected outpatients but not for medical inpatients. Objective: To determine …

Alcohol is the most commonly used and misused substance in the United States (US)(Table
1). 1 More than 50% of the US population report past month alcohol use and more than 85 …

Alcoholic liver cirrhosis is usually preceded by many years of heavy drinking, in which
cessation in drinking could prevent the disease. Alcohol problems are not consistently …

Background Alcohol consumption is commonly used as a primary outcome in randomized
alcohol treatment studies. The distribution of alcohol consumption is highly skewed …

Background General medical hospitals provide care for a disproportionate share of patients
who misuse substances. Hospitalization provides a unique opportunity to identify and …

We studied whether readiness to change predicts alcohol consumption (drinks per day) 3
months later in 267 medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use. We used 3 readiness to …

Objectives: Cigarette smoking and unhealthy alcohol use are common causes of
preventable morbidity and mortality that frequently result in admission to an intensive care …