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Physician offices and urgent care centers provide the best opportunity to screen patients for alcohol problems, but research shows that even patients with classic alcohol abuse symptoms are screened only 30 percent of the time in busy health-care settings. Although hundreds of alcohol screening tests are available, including some elaborate ones with up to 100 questions, short screening tests with only a few questions have been developed to encourage diagnosis in primary and emergency health-care situations. The shorter tests may not be as accurate or sensitive as the longer ones, but they serve well to screen harmful drinking or ...
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Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS)
Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) is a preventive intervention program to reduce drinking and enhance awareness about alcohol-related issues. BASICS targets college students who are considered at risk because of heavy drinking behaviors. The brief intervention relies primarily on a motivational interview to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and insight into the consequences of drinking. Studies have evaluated various applications of BASICS and found promising results. One such evaluation found that the BASICS intervention had an impact on various drinking behaviors, ...
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The Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP) is a mental health and alcohol screening and referral program. It was designed for military families and service members affected by deployment and recruitment. This voluntary and anonymous program is offered online, by phone, and through special events held at installations and reserve units. Anonymous, self-assessments are available to help people with various problems and conditions. Some conditions they help veterans, soldiers and their families with are the following: Depression Bipolar disorder Alcohol abuse or using alcohol to cope ... Read More
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which is intended to educate people and communities about the consequences of alcohol-related problems. There are over 18 million individuals or 8.5% of Americans who suffer from alcohol-use disorders. In addition, there are millions of individuals who experience the devastating effects of the alcohol problem of someone in their life. In fact, 25% of U.S. children are exposed to alcohol-use disorders in their family. April 9th was National Alcohol Screening Day and an important part of Alcohol Awareness month. This day is intended to help individuals who may not know how much is too much to drink or if the amount that they drink ...
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65 April
2005 Screening
for disease has become a mainstay of today’s preventive health care, with
roots in medical practice that extend back to the 1930s and 1940s (1). As screening’s
effectiveness continues to be demonstrated, the demand for these assessments also
has increased. The result is double-edged. Increased screening enables clinicians
to step in early to prevent and treat a wide range of public health problems before
they become too serious. But the time available for conducting ...
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Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are not only adult problems--they also
affect a significant number of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12
and 20, even though drinking under the age of 21 is illegal in every State. Alcohol
use for some adolescents can lead to an abusive and addictive pattern that requires
intervention. Diagnosis and treatment of alcohol abuse and dependence are more
important because alcohol-related problems can have an enormous impact on the
adolescent’s future. 1 In SAMHSA’s Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), data indicate that about 80
percent of adult respondents receiving ...
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The psychosocial flags system can help occupational health practitioners create suitable rehabilitation plans for employees. Heather Watson explains how it works in practice. In recent years, occupational health (OH) practitioners will have come across the concept of 'flags' in helping employees return to work after sickness absence, but there is still some confusion about how flags are used in practice. This article aims to help clarify the place of one category - psychosocial flags - in the rehabilitation process, and how flag assessment can be used in an OH adviser's clinical work. Flags are used in a variety ...
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When a volunteer firefighter got lost after drinking into Saturday morning at St. Gabriel's Lodge in West Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, he got mad and started setting fires along his path, authorities said. When local firefighters arrived to hose down the flames at a neighbor's shed, Charles Sluzenski , who had found his way back to his mother's house, dashed drunkenly forth in full firefighting gear and asked to help A volunteer firefighter was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for setting a fire that killed a mother and three of her children, an arson that prosecutors said was the firefighter's attempt to ...
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useful in the screening as well as assessment and treatment of alcohol abusers. This controversy over self-reports has been discussed in greater ...
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NATIONAL ALCOHOL SCREENING DAY ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE DEPARTMENT
COLLABORATION
RELEASE DATE: August 1, 2003
RFA Number: RFA-AA-04-001
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
( http://www.niaaa.nih.gov )
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
( http://www.cdc.gov )
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
( http://www.samhsa.gov )
CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE NUMBER: 93.273
APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE: October 14, 2003
LETTER OF INTENT RECEIPT DATE: September 15, 2003
THIS RFA CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
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Screening Instrument for Self-Assessment for Faculty, Staff, and
Students of the University of Maine Sponsored by the Employee
Assistance Program The following alcohol screening instrument is designed to assist you
in understanding your use of alcohol. No one has access to your
results; it is for your purposes only. The instrument itself is a
composite of two alcohol screening instruments: The Alcohol Use
Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) developed by the World Health
Organization and the CAGE questionnaire ...
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For the last two years, UMass Amherst has engaged in a "social norms" campaign to remind students that binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse are not the actual norm at its campus. This Boston Globe story outlines the campaign--and some of its critics: http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/08/25/umass_ tackles_alcohol_abuse/ ---------------------- For years, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has labored under the stereotype of a party school with a deeply entrenched drinking culture. Deserved or not, the "Zoo Mass" reputation fueled a self-perpetuating problem, ...
Hello. I am a 37 year old, physically fit, attractive female. I do sniff cocaine, and drink alcohol in moderation. (The amount I do is pretty small. People laugh at the amount I do sometimes.) I have a full time job, and handle all my responsibilities with no problems. I've been doing this off & on since around the mid 1980's. I never over do the cocaine or alcohol. I can't anyway. After a while I don't want it anymore, even when someone offers more to me, and during the week, I'm in bed by a decent time. I can't enjoy myself if I know I don't go to work, or take care of things in my ...
