A brief intervention reduces hazardous and harmful drinking in emergency department patients.

TL;DR: In the United States, emergency department-initiated buprenorphine intervention for patients with opioid dependence provides high value compared with referral to community-based treatment or combined brief intervention and referral.

TL;DR: An interactive text-message intervention was more effective than self-monitoring or controls in reducing alcohol consumption and alcohol-related injury prevalence up to 6 months after intervention completion, suggesting a scalable approach to help achieve sustained reductions in binge drinking and accompanying injuries among young adults.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the effects of a brief intervention with telephone boosters (BI-B) with those of screening, assessment, and referral to treatment (SAR) and minimal screening only (MSO) among drug-using ED patients.

TL;DR: Social emergency medicine is an approach to the authors' specialty that emphasizes, enriches, and creates a framework for emergency medicine as society’s medical and social safety net.

TL;DR: This manual introduces the AUDIT, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and describes how to use it to identify persons with hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption.

TL;DR: Concerns about how best to measure drinking patterns and problems date back to at least 1926, when Pearl stressed the importance of separating steady daily drinkers from occasional heavy drinkers.

TL;DR: Brief interventions consistently produced reductions in alcohol consumption, and the effect was clear in men at one year of follow up, but unproven in women.