Past Issue:  July-August 2005

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Alcohol and Health Outcomes:

• Risky Drinking Limits: National Recommendations Make Sense
• Cautions in Interpreting the Cardiovascular Effects of Moderate Drinking
• Changes in Alcohol Intake and Subsequent Health Outcomes
• Alcohol Increases the Urge to Smoke

Assessments and Interventions:

• Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use With 1 or 2 Questions
• Talking With Patients Resistant to Changing Their Drinking
• Monthly Injectable Naltrexone Is Efficacious for Treating Alcohol Dependence
• Computerized Brief Intervention Decreases Drinking and Consequences

Special Populations:

• Cost Savings from Alcohol Intervention for Trauma Patients
• Early Drinking Increases Later Risky Behaviors in Urban Youth
• Drinking May Increase Coronary Calcification in Blacks and Binge Drinkers
• Inherited Differences in Metabolism Influence Risk of Alcohol Dependence
• Does Brief Intervention Reduce Drinking in Pregnant Women?