"Helping Patients with Alcohol Problems: A Health Practitioner's Guide"

Format: Booklet
Institute: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

NIAAA has updated and redesigned one of its most requested publications for health practitioners. Helping Patients with Alcohol Problems: A Health Practitioner's Guide incorporates an eye-catching, easy-to-scan graphic format with updated information about effective, brief interventions that primary care physicians and other health practitioners can use to help their patients.

This 22-page publication updates the 1995 Physicians' Guide to Helping Patients with Alcohol Problems. An accompanying pocket guide provides screening and intervention tools and a standard drink chart. The content and design was evaluated and refined through in-depth interviews with nine diverse primary care practitioners from a variety of practice settings.

Next steps:
The booklet will be released in conjunction with National Alcohol Screening Day, April 10, 2003; a full-text version will be available online at www.niaaa.nih.gov or call (301) 443-3860.

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