alcohol

For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment

Scientific article

30 November 2014

For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...

2017 WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours

26 June 2017

Geneva

Switzerland

The World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse organizes, for the first time, the Global Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours (FADAB) with a primary goal to enhance public health actions in these areas by strengthening partnerships and collaboration among public health oriented organizations, networks and institutions in

Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol-Related Harm: What's the Link?

Scientific article

1 June 2017

New research published in The Lancet Public Health has examined the link between alcohol-related health effects and socioeconomic status. The study suggests that the less affluent a person is, the less likely they are to suffer from alcohol...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?

Book

31 May 2017

A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...

SHAAP/IAS Seminar Series: Women, Alcohol, and Stigma

7 June 2017

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) are co-hosting a four part seminar series to discuss issues relating to women and alcohol.

The second seminar in the series, 'Women, Alcohol, and Stigma' will be held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh on Friday, 9th June, 2017 between 2-4pm.

Parental Absence in Early Childhood and Onset of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption before Adolescence

Scientific article

10 October 2016

Abstract Background: Parental absence, due to death or separation from a parent, has been associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental absence in...

More Treatments on Deck for Alcohol Use Disorder

News

Thirteen years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last approved a new medication to help the nation’s millions of people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) stop or moderate their drinking. Only 3 such formulations...

Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe

Scientific article

24 August 2016

Background Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due to...

"Does Red Bull Give Vodka Wings?"

Scientific article

17 May 2017

New research that will be published in the new edition of the Journal of Consumer Psychology sets out to answer the question: ‘Does Red Bull Give Wings to Vodka?’ "Red Bull has long used the slogan 'Red Bull gives you wings,' but our study...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community

Book

17 May 2017

The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...