About the Newsletter
Alcohol, Other Drugs,
and Health: Current Evidence is
a free online newsletter that summarizes the latest clinically
relevant research on alcohol, illicit drugs, and health. Through its summaries
and other features, the newsletter aims to highlight alcohol and other drug
issues and provide valuable information that can be applied in
clinical teaching, practice, and research.
Published every
two months, the newsletter includes the following features:
- Succinct
and timely summaries of important alcohol and other drug research published
in peer-reviewed journals;
these summaries, which include commentary relevant to primary
care practice, are written by physicians with
clinical, research, and educational expertise in alcohol- and drug-related
issues
- PowerPoint
slide presentations that can be downloaded and used as teaching
tools:
- Update
on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health, a "grand-rounds-like" presentation
of the research summaries in the newsletter
- Journal Club, which critically appraises a study highlighted in the newsletter using the User's Guides to the Medical Literature
- Free Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits
The newsletter, a project of the Boston Medical Center, is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and is produced in cooperation with the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. From May 2004 to May 2007, the newsletter was titled Alcohol and Health: Current Evidence, located at www.alcoholandhealth.org, and focused solely on alcohol issues. To learn more about the original newsletter, visit www.actproject.org.
