Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ninety-seven percent of participants randomly assigned to intervention received a brief intervention and 47% ...

Richard Saitz, M.D., of the Boston University School of Public Health, and colleagues tested the effectiveness of two brief counseling interventions for unhealthy drug use (any illicit drug use or ...

A single conversation can make the difference: brief, structured interventions after a person has attempted suicide significantly reduce the risk of a renewed attempt, according to an international ...

Doctors have long questioned whether a single, short discussion with patients about their drinking could have significant effects on alcohol-related problems. Research shows five minutes of straight ...

See related research article by Haller and colleagues on page E263 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.131301 Haller and colleagues hypothesized that they ...

A few minutes of counseling in a primary care setting could be an effective tool in steering people away from risky drug use, and possibly full-fledged addiction, a new report suggests. The ...

AAFP releases manual for alcohol screenings The AAFP has created an alcohol screening practice manual to help family physicians prevent alcohol misuse. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) ...

Brief interventions - ’having a word’ at the right time - can be effective in making people reconsider their drinking behaviour and cut their alcohol intake significantly Abstract Alcohol consumption ...

People who have already attempted suicide once are at much greater risk of making further. At the same time, only around a third of them receive any follow-up treatment after they have attempted to ...

A randomized trial found that a brief behavioral intervention drastically lowered intrusive memory frequency and reduced PTSD-related symptoms in healthcare workers exposed to trauma during the ...