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Friday, May 7, 2010

MEETING THE CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE FOR BRIEF ALCOHOL INTERVENTION



Nilsen’s excellent essay [1] on remaining challenges in implementing brief intervention (BI) for hazardous and harmful drinkers calls for efforts to consider the context in which BIs occur, particularly at the organizational level, and to expand BI’s targets and reach. Here we note promising examples of steps toward meeting these challenges. . . . . . .

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