Alcohol Use And Treatment

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Alcohol Update 17 November 2008

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Alcohol Use and Treatment Alcohol (November 2008) Increased mortality among women who drank alcohol during pregnancy Behavior Research and Therapy 46 [11] November 2008 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00057967 Drinking without thinking: An implicit measure of alcohol motivation predicts failure to control alcohol use Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health 18 [4] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121412070/abstr act Evaluation of a treatment programme for alcohol-related aggression

Drug and Alcohol Dependence (November 2008) The developmental origin of adolescent alcohol use: Findings from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomes Generalizability of clinical trials for alcohol dependence to community samples Using a factor mixture modeling approach in alcohol dependence in a general population sample Treatment-naive active alcoholics have greater psychiatric comorbidity than normal controls but less than treated abstinent alcoholics Cochrane Collaboration Issue 4 2008 http://www.cochrane.org/ Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care populations Thiamine for Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome in people at risk from alcohol abuse Department of Health New fast track help for areas with severe alcohol problems http://nds.coi.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID= 383301&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False