alcohol

COVID-19 et alcool

5 August 2020

Canada

Quelles quantités d’alcool sont bues pendant le confinement lié à la pandémie de COVID-19? Les Canadiens boivent-ils plus d’alcool qu’à l’habitude et, si oui, le font-ils plus souvent? Les présentateurs ont abordé la consommation d’alcool pendant la pandémie et ont notamment discuté des résultats de sondages commandés par le CCDUS au printemps 2020.

‘Bedside’ Manner Matters. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell B3

Book

22 July 2020

‘BEDSIDE’ MANNER MATTERS The previous cell of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix looked mainly at the medications clinicians prescribe. Now we look at the clinicians themselves, and discover that for this ‘disease’, bedside manner is not just a...

Doctors and Drugs; Medical Treatment of Dependent Drinking. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell A3

Book

8 July 2020

DOCTORS AND DRUGS; MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DEPENDENT DRINKING Seminal and key research selected, explained and explored. First cell of row three enters the domain of doctors and drugs, starting with the study from 1970s London bold enough to...

Chronic Alcohol Consumption Alters Extracellular Space Geometry and Transmitter Diffusion in the Brain

Scientific article

24 June 2020

Abstract Already moderate alcohol consumption has detrimental long-term effects on brain function. However, how alcohol produces its potent addictive effects despite being a weak reinforcer is a poorly understood conundrum that likely...

Fundamentals of Alcohol Treatment: Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 2

Book

24 June 2020

FUNDAMENTALS OF ALCOHOL TREATMENT Time to extract lessons from the five instalments of row 2 of the matrix, exploring key research on the shared elements of effective treatment. Driven by the ‘negative’ findings of a huge US trial, a...

Reducing Risky Alcohol Use via Smartphone App Skills Training Among Adult Internet Help-Seekers: A Randomized Pilot Trial

Scientific article

27 May 2020

Alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for global disease burden and overconsumption leads to a wide variety of negative consequences in everyday life. Digital interventions have shown small positive effects in contributing to...

WHO Management of Alcohol Withdrawal

Scientific article

Alcohol withdrawal can be uncomfortable and occasionally life threatening. Pharmacological management of alcohol withdrawal is an essential component of alcohol dependence. Benzodiazepines (BZDs), nonsedating anticonvulsants and...

Did Payment-By-Results Really Make Things Worse? Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix cell E2

Book

17 June 2020

DID PAYMENT-BY-RESULTS REALLY MAKE THINGS WORSE? Payment-by-results was the UK government’s favoured commissioning mechanism for improving the performance of substance use treatment services - but according to their own yardstick of success...

Alcohol Marketing and Public Health: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

Video and audio recordings

15 April 2020

Alcohol is the leading risk factor for death and disability for persons aged 15-49 throughout the world. Recent summaries of the research literature have concluded that exposure to alcohol marketing plays a causal role in whether and how...