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July-August 2006

Interventions and Assessments

  • 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 Test?
  • 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?

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

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