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August 05, 2025 - USPSTF Draft Recommendation: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol … This recommendation focuses on screening and counseling for unhealthy alcohol use. … who are
seeking help for unhealthy alcohol use. … not drink any alcohol … Alcohol (Medline Plus)
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August 05, 2025 - No level of alcohol consumption is known to be safe. … adolescent’s alcohol use as well as their friend’s alcohol use. 1 BSTAD and another screening instrument … Age at first alcohol use as a possible risk factor for adolescent acute alcohol intoxication hospital … https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-alcohol-use/index.html 9. … https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-topics/alcohol-facts-and-statistics/alcohol-use-disorder-aud-united-states-age-groups-and-demographic-characteristics
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May 16, 2024 - Does primary care screening for unhealthy alcohol use in adolescents and adults reduce alcohol use or … Do counseling interventions to reduce unhealthy alcohol use reduce alcohol use or improve other risky … What is the association between reduced alcohol use and health outcomes? … See “Condition” for the definition of unhealthy alcohol use. … Interventions may address other substances in addition to alcohol, but alcohol use reduction must be
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Unhealthy Alcohol … Does primary care screening for unhealthy alcohol use in adolescents and adults reduce alcohol use or … What are the harms of screening for unhealthy alcohol use in adolescents and adults? 4. a. … Do counseling interventions to reduce unhealthy alcohol use reduce alcohol use or improve other risky … What is the association between reduced alcohol use and health outcomes?
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October 20, 2016 - , reduce alcohol use or improve other risky behaviors? … Do counseling interventions to reduce unhealthy alcohol use, with or without referral, reduce alcohol … What is the association between reduced alcohol use and health outcomes? … Test (ASSIST) (for accuracy of detecting alcohol use only)
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Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care to Reduce Alcohol Misuse: Clinical … Summary
SCREENING AND BEHAVIORAL COUNSELING INTERVENTIONS IN PRIMARY CARE TO REDUCE ALCOHOL MISUSE … Grade: I statement
Screening Tests
Numerous screening instruments can detect alcohol misuse … The USPSTF prefers the
following tools for alcohol misuse screening in the primary care setting:
1 … The evidence on alcohol misuse screening and brief behavioral
counseling interventions in the primary
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August 05, 2025 - Force Issues Draft Recommendation Statement on Screening and Behavioral Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol … Learn more here
Unhealthy alcohol use can range from risky or hazardous
drinking, which is drinking … There is no level of alcohol consumption that is known to be safe, and
pregnant women and adolescents … should not drink any alcohol. … Counseling includes healthcare
professionals discussing patients’ alcohol use and their readiness to
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hol use (for example, harmful alcohol use and alcohol
abuse or dependence). … on alcohol, maintaining limits on days and hours of
the sale of alcohol, and regulating alcohol outlet … Alcohol use in pregnancy is
linked to a pattern of developmental abnormalities known
as the fetal alcohol … National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Rethinking Drinking:
Alcohol and Your Health. … Alcohol Survey.
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Clinical Summary: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in … Adults
Clinical Summary: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol … Population Adults, including pregnant women Adolescents
Recommendation
Screen for unhealthy alcohol … insufficient evidence)
Screening Tests
Numerous brief screening instruments can detect unhealthy alcohol … One- to 3-item screening instruments have the best accuracy for assessing unhealthy alcohol use in adults