ABSTRACT Background. The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that
clinicians screen all adults for alcohol misuse and provide brief counseling to those …

Abstract Background and Aims Since its market release, gabapentin has been presumed to
have no abuse potential and subsequently has been prescribed widely off‐label, despite …

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

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 …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

The “style of life is the unique way in which individuals try to realize their fictional final goal
and meet or avoid the three main tasks of life: work, community, love”(Alfred Adler, founder …

The Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11) was formally
published in May 2019. Alcohol use disorders form a key part of the section of Disorders due …

The language used to describe health conditions reflects and influences our attitudes and
approaches to addressing them, even to the extent of suggesting that a health condition is a …

Background: Excessive drinking is a major problem in Western countries. AUDIT (Alcohol
Use Disorders Identification Test) is a 10‐item questionnaire developed as a transcultural …

Methods We conducted systematic electronic database searches to include randomized
controlled trials of AUD screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment (SBIRT), from …