The UK drug and alcohol research bank Findings has released the bulletin
'Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world'.
According to the Findings bulletin:
'The researchers concluded that the featured study had shown that the benefits established by the randomised controlled trial would be sustained when the intervention was made routinely and generally available to the public.
The expected throughput of 3000 Drinking
Less programme users a year would amount to nearly 3% of the
country's problem drinkers who would otherwise not have received
professional help. Probably because they require the drinker to take the
initiative and visit the site, such interventions reach people who,
compared to the totality of problem drinkers, are more likely to be
women, employed, highly educated, and motivated to change their
drinking.
Given its low cost per user, this type of intervention seems to have a worthwhile place in a public health approach to reducing alcohol-related problems.'
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