Past Issue:  July-August 2006

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Assessments and Interventions:

• Combining Medication With Specialist Behavioral Intervention for Alcoholism: the COMBINE Study
• Acamprosate May Work Only When Abstinence Is the Goal
• Most Medical Inpatients With Unhealthy Alcohol Use Have Dependence
• Another Single-Item Screening Question?
• Intensive Referral to 12-Step Groups Improves Outcomes
• Help Seeking Quadruples the Likelihood of Abstinence
• Should Screening for Colorectal Cancer Start Earlier for Drinkers and Smokers?

Alcohol and Health Outcomes:

• Is Drinking Unsafe for Patients on Warfarin or Statins?
• Alcohol and the Risk of Injury
• Lifetime Drinking, Confounders, and Breast Cancer Risk
• Discrimination Against People With Alcoholism
• Lifetime Drinking and the Metabolic Syndrome