Alcohol Findings
Mike Ashton editor of our partner site Findings comments on a list of current hot topics in the alcohol field, and links to the original articles:
Internet-based alcohol advice helps risky drinkers cut back
January 18, 2012
Internet programs which offer feedback to drinkers on the risks they may be running can lead to reductions of the same order as face-to-face advice.
Probation resources too stretched to adequately tackle huge drink problem
January 12, 2012
Probation services grappling with a huge offender alcohol problem, but their efforts are undermined by lack of evidence and by under-resourcing.
Best evidence yet for web-based alcohol self-help
January 5, 2012
Studies of the Dutch Drinking Less programme have gone further than any others to establish the beneficial impacts of web-based alcohol self-help interventions.
Limited impacts in seven-nation European drug education trial
December 22, 2011
After the disappointment of the English Blueprint trial come results from a seven-nation drug education trial. EU-Dap probably registered some real successes, but these were few and small and may have been artefacts of the implementation and analysis of the study.
Largest analysis to date offers practice insights in to motivational interviewing
December 16, 2011
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 in to the equivocal value of manuals and of feeding back assessment results to patients.
Alcohol Insights
Short, easily accessible summaries of projects funded by Alcohol Research UK or the former AERC, with links to the full academic reports:
Gender, alcohol and interventions
May 4, 2012
How do gender attributes and attitudes affect young men’s and women’s alcohol use? Are different health promotion interventions required for young men and women?
Identifying promising approaches and initiatives to reducing alcohol related harm
March 16, 2012
This study aimed to identify promising approaches that could be included in multi-component programmes (MCPs) to reduce alcohol related harm at local level.
White Cider and Street Drinkers
February 1, 2012
Workers with homeless and dependent street drinkers express concerns that cheap white cider has a particularly damaging effect on the health and behaviour of the people they work with.
An on-product self-affirmation intervention to promote alcohol consumption within government recommended guidelines: A pilot study
January 27, 2012
This study indicates that a short self-affirmation message on an alcohol label could reduce alcohol consumption for harmful and hazardous drinkers
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