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Brief counselling by a doctor can reduce drinking

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION A new systematic review and meta-analysis has found that alcohol-targeted brief interventions (short, structured, one-to-one conversations about drinking designed to motivate changes in risky behaviour) delivered in doctors’ offices and similar medical settings can produce small but useful reductions in drinking.  Published in the scientific journal Addiction, this review synthesized...