ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2017
Who achieves low risk drinking during alcohol treatment? An analysis of patients in three alcohol clinical trials.
Article in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Engagement in alcohol-free activities, community-level economic disadvantage, and heavy drinking following alcohol treatment.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Trial
- Predictors of treatment outcome for individuals with alcohol use disorder with a goal of controlled drinking.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2024Trial
- Social network moderators of brief alcohol intervention impact.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2022Trial
- Optimizing the length and reliability of measures of mechanisms of change to support measurement-based care in alcohol use disorder treatment.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
- World Health Organization risk drinking level reductions are associated with improved functioning and are sustained among patients with mild, moderate and severe alcohol dependence in clinical trials in the United States and United Kingdom.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Trial
- Abstinence and low risk drinking during treatment: Association with psychosocial functioning, alcohol use, and alcohol problems 3 years following treatment.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Trial
- Clinical characteristics and drinking patterns among treatment-seeking patients with alcohol use disorder in Japan from the ALPS-J nationwide prospective cohort study.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Article
- Reductions in World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels as a Primary Efficacy End Point for Alcohol Clinical Trials: A Review.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Review
- Community characteristics and substance-free activity and service access predict membership in alcohol use disorder risk profiles.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Recovery Capital Is Associated with a Greater Likelihood of NIAAA-Defined Recovery for Adults with Prior Alcohol Problems.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Modeling the dynamics of addiction relapse via the double-well potential system.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Predictors of National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Alcohol Recovery among Individuals in Alcohol Treatment: Implications for Social Work.Social work research · 2024Article
- Assessing NIAAA's Definition of Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder: A Latent Class Analysis of a Heterogeneous Online Sample.Alcoholism treatment quarterly · 2024Article
- Examining differential responses to theAddictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- Prevalence and characteristics of alcohol consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in rural China.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Comparison of social and sociodemographic characteristics and treatment goals of persons with alcohol versus drug use disorders: Result from a national census of inpatients in specialized treatment for substance use.Addictive behaviors reports · 2021Article
- Can Alcohol Use Disorder Recovery Include Some Heavy Drinking? A Replication and Extension up to 9 Years Following Treatment.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- Reduction in World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels and Cardiovascular Disease.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- Sex and Gender Effects in Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorder.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2020Article
- Prevention, screening, and treatment for heavy drinking and alcohol use disorder.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsThere is evidence that low-risk drinking is possible during the course of alcohol treatment and can be maintained following treatment. Our aim was to identify characteristics associated with low-risk drinking during treatment in a large sample of individuals as they received treatment for alcohol dependence.
designIntegrated analysis of data from the Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Intervention (COMBINE) study, Project MATCH (Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity) and the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT) using repeated-measures latent class analysis to identify patterns of drinking and predictors of low-risk drinking patterns during treatment.
settingUnited States and United Kingdom.
participantsPatients (n = 3589) with alcohol dependence receiving treatment in an alcohol clinical trial were primarily male (73.0%), white (82.0%) and non-married (41.7%), with an average age of 42.0 (standard deviation = 10.7). MEASUREMENTS: Self-reported weekly alcohol consumption during treatment was assessed using the Form-90 and validated with biological verification or collateral informants.
findingsSeven patterns of drinking during treatment were identified: persistent heavy drinking (18.7% of the sample), increasing heavy drinking (9.6%), heavy and low-risk drinking (6.7%), heavy drinking alternating with abstinence (7.9%), low-risk drinking (6.8%), increasing low-risk drinking (10.5%) and abstinence (39.8%). Lower alcohol dependence severity and fewer drinks per day at baseline significantly predicted low-risk drinking patterns [e.g. each additional drink prior to baseline predicted a 27% increase in the odds of expected classification in heavy drinking versus low-risk drinking patterns; odds ratio = 1.27 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.10, 1.47, P = 0.002]. Greater negative mood and more heavy drinkers in the social network were significant predictors of expected membership in heavier drinking patterns.
conclusionsLow-risk drinking is achievable for some individuals as they undergo treatment for alcohol dependence. Individuals with lower dependence severity, less baseline drinking, fewer negative mood symptoms and fewer heavy drinkers in their social networks have a higher probability of achieving low-risk drinking during treatment.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.