Brief Intervention: At Risk Alcohol Use – This video depicts a primary care physician conducting a brief intervention on alcohol use. For more substance abuse resources and information, please visit our website: www.sbirt.umaryland.edu. The University of Maryland, Baltimore’s MD3 SBIRT Medical Residency Training Initiative is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

 

Matters of record for Feb. 13, 2013

Filed under: alcohol intervention

Cory R. Gill, 42, 8221 Vinland St., Duluth, disorderly conduct, fined $ 50 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on two years probation with conditions including Domestic Abuse Intervention Program; driving while under the influence of alcohol …
Read more on Budgeteer

 

New tack targets patrons, prostitutes

Filed under: alcohol intervention

Linda Lopez and Tim Keller are sponsoring a proposal to divert first-time offenders – prostitutes and those who patronize them – to an education and intervention program. Those who successfully … The bill would require the Department of Health and …
Read more on Albuquerque Journal (subscription)

 

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Paul Gascoigne?

Filed under: alcohol intervention

As a fellow addict, I have been struggling to read the ongoing coverage about the resurgence of Paul Gascoigne's alcoholism; perhaps the most difficult thing of all is to see well-meaning people staging what might be an entirely pointless intervention.
Read more on Huffington Post UK (blog)