The ASSIST package, which consists of a brief questionnaire, a guide for health professionals on how to use the questionnaire in detecting and responding to substance use and also a self-help manual for cutting down or stopping substance use, is the result of more than 10-years work by WHO and an international group of researchers in the framework of the WHO ASSIST project. It is WHO’s response to the growing demand for guidance on how to best manage problems of substance use in non specialist health care settings. This approach, quick and easy to learn, useful for all substances including...

This manual introduces the AUDIT, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and describes how to use it to identify persons with hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption. It is distributed with "Brief intervention for hazardous and harmful drinking : a manual for use in primary care" in a folder entitled "Screening and brief intervention for alcohol problems in primary care"

The AUDIT was developed as a simple method of screening for excessive drinking and to assist in brief assessment. It can help identify excessive drinking as the cause of the presenting illness. It...

Background

Harmful alcohol use is more prevalent among sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) than their cisgender/heterosexual counterparts. The reasons for this are complex, incorporating alcohol’s normalization and availability in social settings, its importance to identity construction, and drinking to cope with stigma and discrimination. However, commercial determinants have been underexplored, particularly how alcohol is marketed to SGM communities.

Methods

Scoping review methodology was employed. Searches were conducted in MEDLINE, Web of Science, Google Scholar, CINAHL, ASSIA, PsycInfo...

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the governments of several countries around the world have focused on consumption taxes, which they use from two important points of view – the first point of view is the state budget, where through the increase of the point of consumption tax, revenues to the budget are increased. The second, no less important point of view is health and the environment. These political goals and the structure of consumption taxes as a means of influencing the consumption behavior of the population are, in many ways, the same in OECD countries. However, the difference is in the...

Fondo
Los datos relativos a la conducción bajo los efectos del alcohol (DUIA) se caracterizan con frecuencia por su falta de disponibilidad, precisión o fiabilidad. Esta limitación inherente plantea desafíos en el examen de la influencia de las políticas sobre el alcohol en los resultados del tráfico vial. El estudio perseguía un doble objetivo:

1) delinear las metodologías empleadas en la evaluación de los resultados del tráfico atribuible a las políticas de alcohol en los casos en que los datos de DUIA están ausentes, y

2) examinar el impacto de las políticas de alcohol en condiciones de...

Abstracto

Fondo

Se sabe que el consumo excesivo de alcohol es un factor que contribuye a los daños relacionados con el alcohol, pero su impacto en la inflamación sistémica y hepática no se comprende completamente. Nuestra hipótesis es que los cambios en los marcadores inmunitarios desempeñan un papel central en los efectos adversos de la ingesta aguda de alcohol, especialmente en pacientes con enfermedad hepática temprana.

Objetivo

Investigar los efectos de la intoxicación aguda por alcohol sobre los marcadores relacionados con la inflamación en el plasma venoso hepático y sistémico en...

In this bulletin, data on treated problem alcohol use for the year 2022 are presented, followed by trends for the seven-year period from 2016 to 2022.

The data are from the National Drug Treatment Reporting System (NDTRS), the national surveillance system that records and reports on cases of drug and alcohol treatment in Ireland.

Included in the NDTRS are cases treated in all types of services: outpatient, inpatient, low threshold, general practitioners (GPs), and those treated in prison.