AAFP releases manual for alcohol screenings The AAFP has created an alcohol screening practice manual to help family physicians prevent alcohol misuse. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) ...

Short one-on-one discussions about alcohol consumption in a doctor’s office may reduce patients' drinking levels, according to a study. Findings published in the Addiction journal indicated that brief ...

Next Step addiction treatment specialists walk family and friends through the intervention process from beginning to end. It important to customize the meeting strategy to the addicted individual’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An intervention designed to enhance the management of unhealthy alcohol use in primary care improved prevention ...

January 7, 2010 — Individual-only interventions have larger effect sizes than those that are family based in reducing adolescent alcohol abuse, according to results from a new meta-analysis. In ...

Heavy drinking among university students appears to be a universal problem. Although most universities have alcohol policies, it is unclear which interventions can effectively reduce alcohol ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A brief intervention reduced the frequency of alcohol use by 40% among high-risk teens with chronic medical ...

More than 90 percent of those who have been the subject of an intervention agree to seek treatment for their addiction. Back when Marc Hertz started making his living as an intervention specialist, ...

There are many ideas as well as misconceptions about being an addiction interventionist. I sat down with Dan Lynch, a Board Registered Interventionist and Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. Lynch is ...