Published in:
01-07-2016 | Editorial
Evidence-Based Care for People with Unhealthy Alcohol Use—Still Elusive
Authors:
Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD, MSHP, Katharine A. Bradley, MD, MPH
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 7/2016
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Excerpt
In 1982, the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a multi-year, multi-country
Collaborative Project on Identification and Treatment of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption.
1 The project reflected a major shift in thinking at the time, and was followed in 1990 by a seminal Institute of Medicine report that came to the same conclusion.
2 Recognizing the considerable morbidity and mortality caused by alcohol, the new vision was to reduce unhealthy drinking at the population level. Instead of only addressing alcohol use through specialty treatment facilities, the
WHO Collaborative Project sought to develop tools to screen for unhealthy drinking, and brief interventions to reduce it, among general medical patients. …
