Citation

Christie B. BMJ 2017; 357: j3079.

Affiliation

Edinburgh.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.j3079

PMID

28652276

Abstract

GPs in Scotland have an important role in helping patients curb excessive alcohol consumption, but lessons need to be learnt on the best way to support interventions, say two research reports.12

Scotland introduced a national programme of delivering alcohol brief interventions for heavy drinkers in 2008. From then till 2015 more than 560 000 such interventions were delivered, more than half of them in primary care.

The evidence based interventions, comprising short, structured conversations, aimed to motivate people to change their drinking habits. The two new reports, funded by Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems …

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