Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix: Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Interventions
EFFECTIVENESS OF SCREENING AND BRIEF INTERVENTIONS
First instalment of a fortnightly course on the evidence for alcohol treatment and related topics. This instalment selects, explains and explores seminal and key research on the effectiveness of screening and brief interventions, intended to reduce harm across a population of heavy but not dependent drinkers. Highlights the SIPS studies, the most significant to date in the UK, and helps develop evidence-informed understandings of four key questions:
Do the SIPS results mean, ‘Just do the minimum’?
How ‘real world’ are supposedly real...