US experts recommend alcohol tax rises as an important public health measure
The review which led a national US task force to recommend alcohol tax rises as an important public health measure to curb excessive alcohol use and related harms. US and UK politicians remain wary for...
View ArticleChoosing abstinence versus other drinking goals makes little difference to...
Data from Britain’s largest alcohol treatment trial is used to address possibly the most contentious issue in the field – whether services should offer moderation as well as abstinence goals to...
View ArticleAsk heavy drinkers to make plans to drink less … and they do!
All this British study did was ask people out shopping, working or relaxing to complete a brief written survey about their drinking which ended with an injunction to make concrete plans to drink...
View ArticlePrice rises cut alcohol-related death and morbidity
For what seems the first time, this analysis combined results from relevant studies to test whether low tax/price levels on alcohol result in poorer health and higher death rates. It found the expected...
View ArticleProblem drinking curbed by EU-funded drug education curriculum
The largest European drug education trial ever conducted tested whether US-style social influence programmes would prove effective in Europe. Among the successes were the reductions in problem drinking...
View ArticleParent-child intervention prevents heavy drinking in Dutch teens
In this Dutch study, promoting parental rule setting and classroom alcohol education together nearly halved the proportion of adolescents who went on to drink heavily. Rarely have such strong and...
View ArticleYoung Swiss binge drinkers cut back after just 16 minutes alcohol advice
Binge drinkers among young Swiss men being conscripted in to the army responded to around 16 minutes of alcohol advice by on average cutting their intake 20% more than recruits whose drinking was...
View ArticleLargest analysis to date offers practice insights in to motivational...
Better than ‘treatment as usual’ but not than other specific therapies are the headlines from the most comprehensive synthesis of motivational interviewing studies to date. Along the way are insights...
View ArticleLimited impacts in seven-nation European drug education trial
The largest European drug education trial ever conducted tested whether US-style social influence programmes would prove effective in Europe. There were probably some real successes, but these were...
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