Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician's Guide

This updated guide presents the same approach to alcohol screening and intervention as in the original 2005 Guide. It provides two methods for alcohol screening: a single question (about heavy drinking days) to use during a clinical interview and a written self-report.

The updates to this guide include a new medications management program that consists of brief, structured outpatient sessions designed for easy use in non-specialty outpatient settings by physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals; a new handout with strategies to help patients cut down on drinking or quit; a new page on the NIAAA web site devoted to the Guide and supporting resources for clinicians and patients; and information about a newly approved, injectable drug to treat alcohol dependence.

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Practitioner/CliniciansGuide2005/guide.pdf

Publication Year: 2007

Publisher

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9304

Bethesda, md 20892

Phone: 301-443-3885

Website: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/