Addressing Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care

1. Unhealthy Alcohol Use: What is it? What Can and Should We be Doing About it in Primary Care Settings?
Richard Saitz

2. Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Katharine Bradley, Douglas Berger

3. Assessment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care
Hillary Kunins, Chinazo Cunningham

4. Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Richard Saitz

5. Alcohol Pharmacotherapies
Dylan Brock, Babak Tofighi, Joshua D. Lee, Judd Fastenberg

6. Making Effective Referrals to Specialty Care
Darius A. Rastegar

7. Making Effective Referrals to Alcoholics Anonymous and Other 12-step Programs
Maryann Amodeo, Luz Marilis López

8. Management of Patients with Alcohol Dependence in Recovery: Options for Maintenance and Anticipating and Managing Relapse in Primary Care
Thomas J. Doyle, Peter D. Friedmann, William H. Zywiak

9. Managing Pain in the Context of Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Erik W. Gunderson, Daniel P. Alford

10. Medical Consequences of Unhealthy Alcohol
Adam J. Gordon, Joanne M. Gordon, Lauren Matukaitis Broyles

11. Psychiatric Comorbidity
Amy Harrington

12. Other Drug Use
Jennifer McNeely, Joshua D Lee, Ellie Grossman

13. To Drink or Not to Drink? “Moderate” Alcohol Consumption in a Clinical Context
Timothy S. Naimi

14. Electronic and Other Self-Help Materials for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care
Steven J. Ondersma, Golfo K. Tzilos

15. Screening and Brief Intervention Practice Systems and Implementation
John Muench

16. Confidentiality
Richard Saitz

17. Choices for Patients and Clinicians: Ethics and Legal Issues
Michael Weaver

18. Hospital Management
Richard D. Blondell, Mohammadreza Azadfard

19. Perioperative Management
Daniel P. Alford

20. Physicians with Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Luis T. Sanchez

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology