ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2015
Harm Reduction as "Continuum Care" in Alcohol Abuse Disorder.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Drinking Risk Level Reductions Associated with Improvements in Physical Health and Quality of Life Among Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Trial
- The search for an elusive cutoff remains: Problems of binary classification of heavy drinking as an endpoint for alcohol clinical trials.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Trial
- Clinical Validation of Reduced Alcohol Consumption After Treatment for Alcohol Dependence Using the World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017Trial
- Regaining control over alcohol intake but not abstinence on disulfiram medication, as a harm reduction approach: 2 case reports.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2024Article
- 'But … Would I Be Able to Toast With Friends?' When Service Users Ask for New Care Pathways.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Testing support models for implementing an evidence-based digital intervention for alcohol use disorder: results of a pragmatic hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial.Research square · 2024Article
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- Externalizing personality characteristics define clinically relevant subgroups of alcohol use disorder.PloS one · 2022Article
- Associations of alcohol use disorder, alcohol use, housing, and service use in a homeless sample of 255 individuals followed over 2 years.Substance abuse · 2018Article
- How Much Is Too Much? Patterns of Drinking During Alcohol Treatment and Associations With Post-Treatment Outcomes Across Three Alcohol Clinical Trials.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Article
- Outcomes Among Sober Living House Residents Who Relapse: Role of Recovery Capital.Journal of psychoactive drugsArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Alcohol abuse is one of the most important risk factors for health and is a major cause of death and morbidity. Despite this, only about one-tenth of individuals with alcohol abuse disorders receive therapeutic intervention and specific rehabilitation. Among the various dichotomies that limit an effective approach to the problem of alcohol use disorder treatment, one of the most prominent is integrated treatment versus harm reduction. For years, these two divergent strategies have been considered to be opposite poles of different philosophies of intervention. One is bound to the search for methods that aim to lead the subject to complete abstinence; the other prioritizes a progressive decline in substance use, with maximum reduction in the damage that is correlated with curtailing that use. Reduction of alcohol intake does not require any particular setting, but does require close collaboration between the general practitioner, specialized services for addiction, alcohology services and psychiatry. In patients who reach that target, significant savings in terms of health and social costs can be achieved. Harm reduction is a desirable target, even from an economic point of view. At the present state of neuroscientific knowledge, it is possible to go one step further in the logic that led to the integration of psychosocial and pharmacological approaches, by attempting to remove the shadows of social judgment that, at present, are aiming for a course of treatment that is directed towards absolute abstention.
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