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 ...

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 new study from the University of Missouri has found that a brief intervention, sometimes as little as 30 minutes, can help put students back on the right track to a healthy lifestyle -- a change ...

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 ...

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) ...

This issue of CMAJ features the updated Canadian guideline on screening for high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, ...

Brief Focused Intervention by nurses in emergency departments significantly reduces alcohol-related mild traumatic brain injuries and improves patient recovery and post-discharge outcomes A study ...

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 ...

This project is designed to test the efficacy of two brief parenting programs, Brief Primary Care Triple P (Level 2) and Play Nicely, and to examine the influence of social contexts on their efficacy ...